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A few quick notes

Just a quick update for now…

From Hans:

Tea Gschwendner in Chicago is throwing a release party for The Darjeeling Limited, complete with Sitar music, Indian finger foods and darjeeling tea. There will be a $5 cover, although you can get in for free if you can find and bring the ad in the Columbia Chronicle for the event. There will also be raffle prizes which will be given out every 15 minutes (Fox Searchlight Studios is providing a variety of movie goodies to give away). Also, everyone that comes to this party will receive a free ticket to the pre-screening on Oct. 1, at the AMC theater on Illinois St. Dress like your favorite Wes Anderson character. Sat Sept 29th 2007 6-9pm

Men’s Vogue has a great article called “Wonder Boys,” about Owen and Wes. We will post some pictures and text soon.

There are also some new pictures of the new one, which we will also post soon.

Glenn Kenny, at Premiere, positively reviewed The Darjeeling Limited:

A riotously colorful journey . . .

Those who complain about the emotional indirectness of the film, or that
its carefully controlled visual style sterilizes material that would be
better served raw, kind of miss the point. Withholding the prospect of a
direct connection between the viewer and the brothers is evidence of
Anderson’s larger purpose—this movie is as much, if not more, about the
construction of fictions as it is about its ostensible plot.

Last, but certainly not least, The Playlist blog has a great feature called, “If I Were a Wes Anderson Soundtrack.”

Update (9.50 am, September 21): The Louis Vuitton luggage from The Darjeeling Limited is on display at Louis Vuitton on 57th Street and Fifth Avenue through the weekend.

Darjeeling Limited luggage on display at LV, NYC

More details soon… !!!

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Darjeeling Limited tracklist

According to an ABKCO press release, the track list for The Darjeeling Limited soundtrack, out September 25, has been finalized:

01) “Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)” — Peter Sarstedt
02) Title Music from Satyajit Ray’s film Jalshagar — Ustad Vilayat Khan
03) “This Time Tomorrow” — The Kinks
04) Title Music from Satyajit Ray’s film Teen Kanya — Satyajit Ray
05) Title Music from Merchant Ivory’s film The Householder — Jyotitindra Moitra
06) “Ruku’s Room” from Satyajit Ray’s film Joi Baba Felunath — Satyajit Ray
07) “Charu’s Theme” from Satyajit Ray’s film Charulata –Satyajit Ray
08) Title Music from Merchant Ivory’s film Bombay Talkie –Shankar/ Jaikishan
09) “Montage”from Nityananda Datta’s film Baksa Badal — Satyajit Ray
10) “Prayer” — Jodphur Sikh Temple Congregation
11) “Farewell To Earnest” from Merchant Ivory’s film The Householder — Jyotitindra Moitra
12) “The Deserted Ballroom” from Merchant Ivory’s film Shakespeare Wallah — Satyajit Ray
13) Suite Bergamasque: 3. “Clair de Lune” — Alexis Weissenberg
14) “Typewriter Tip, Tip, Tip” from Merchant Ivory’s film Bombay Talkie (Sung by Kishore Kumar & Asha Bhosle) — Shankar/Jaikishan
15) “Memorial” — Narlai Village Troubador
16) “Strangers” — The Kinks
18) “Praise Him” — Udaipur Convent School Nuns and Students
17) Symphony No. 7 in A (Op 92) Allegro con brio — Fritz Reiner, Chicago Symphony Orchestra
19) “Play With Fire” — The Rolling Stones
20) “Arrival In Benaras” from Merchant Ivory’s film The Guru — Ustad Vilayat Khan
21) “Powerman” — The Kinks
22) “Les Champs-Élysées” — Joe Dassin

Click here to pre-order (and support the site):

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URL: Soundtrack thread on Yankee Racers

(alternative Amazon link)

Thanks to The Playlist.

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About Hotel Chevalier

About Hotel Chevalier (credit: NataliePortman.com):

Before the Venice screening of ‘Darjeeling’, Anderson presented a seventeen-minute short film called ‘Hotel Chevalier’, which he originally conceived to play before the main feature, although there’s now talk that it will only be available to see online come the film’s UK release in November. This wistful and maudlin short story offers some background to the main attraction as Schwartzmann and Natalie Portman play a pair of estranged lovers who square up to each other in the sumptuous surroundings of a Parisian hotel room.

Those fifteen minutes are classic Wes Anderson. His camera moves with grace and precision through the room as Schwartzmann, with a sad look on his face and a stark moustache above his lip, waits for Portman to arrive. Sitting on the floor is a beautiful tanned-leather trunk decorated with colourful images of elephants (one of a set crafted especially for the film by Marc Jacobs). On the stereo we hear Peter Sarstedt’s wistful ode to Paris, ‘Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)’, and all around there’s evidence of the same deep orange that characterises Schwartzmann’s hotel dressing-gown, from the thick duvet on the bed to the towels in the bathroom. If there’s one element of ‘Hotel Chevalier’ that’s surprising for Anderson, it’s a strong sense of romance and sexuality: in one shot, Schwartzmann gently pulls off Portman’s clothes to reveal her naked body from behind, and a later shot has Portman, nude, standing still in a doorway, one foot up against the frame. It’s a beautiful shot, and one that’s made even more pertinent by Sarstedt’s melancholic lyrics on the soundtrack. It’s the sexiest thing that Anderson has ever done.

URL: TimeOut review

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Attending Venice Int’l Film Festival? / NYFF tickets / TDL soundtrack / new video

If you are attending the Hotel Chevalier/The Darjeeling Limited screening at the Venice International Film Festival, starting at 8.30 p.m. on Monday, September 3, please send your reports and photos to edwardappleby @ yankeeracers.org (no spaces).

Tickets for the New York Film Festival go on sale Sunday, September 9 (box office) and Monday, September 10 (online).

As reported earlier, The Darjeeling Limited soundtrack will be released on September 25th (buy it here). MTV.com also has a new ‘exclusive’ video called “The Streets of The Darjeeling Limited.“

P.S. The Darjeeling Limited film site (@rushmoreacademy.com) has been updated.

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Darjeeling Limited soundtrack out September 25

According to Amazon.com, The Darjeeling Limited soundtrack will be released on September 25th! Click here to pre-order (and support the site):

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Thanks to Yankee Racer akatimo for the lead!

URL: Soundtrack thread on Yankee Racers

(alternative Amazon link)

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Odds and sods

Some links:

We are looking for*:

  • Wes fans attending the Venice International Film Festival, the New York Film Festival, or the London Film Festival, who can take photos and report on the festivities.
  • The owner of the ex-wesanderson.org. ‘mr/ms org,’ as he/she was known, we are looking for you!
  • Site contributors, willing to dig up information and images about Wes and his films on the web, and someone interested in hosting a podcast at this site.

* E-mail webmaster @ rushmoreacademy.com (no spaces).

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Darjeeling Limited soundtrack news

The soundtrack will be released by ABKCO.

Click CONTINUE for a complete soundtrack listing for the film (considered a spoiler, by some!):

Continue reading “Darjeeling Limited soundtrack news”

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Wes sans Mothersbaugh

From our friends over at the Playlist:

Meanwhile, there’s been a lot of speculation (including our own) on the whereabouts of Anderson mainstay and composer Mark Mothersbaugh (who has scored all of Wes film’s up until now). We just heard from our inside source who confirmed that Mothersbaugh, will in fact, not be participating in this new Anderson film. As we’ve noted extensively, the ‘Darjeeling’ will use music from the films of Indian cinema legend Satyajit Ray and Merchant Ivory (whose early films were all set in India). Expect songs from Satyajit Ray himself as he began scoring all his own films after 1961. Our other educated guesses on the music by those aforementioned filmmaker you might hear can be read here.

P.S. Check out Rodrigo’s really fantastic piece “Wes Anderson and the Satyajit Ray Connection.”

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Darjeeling Limited trailer, part trois

The trailer is now available on YouTube as well.
URL: The Darjeeling Limited trailer on YouTube

We continue to discuss the trailer and the film over on the Yankee Racers forum.
URL: “Trailer News” thread

Oh, and the two songs in the trailer are both by the Kinks. “This Time Tomorrow” (from Lola vs. the Powerman and the Money-Go-Round, Part I) and “Strangers” (from the same album).

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Mr. Fox and the Wild Things; new Nick Drake; and Paste!

Danny Leigh has written a good (if skeptical) piece about Mr. Fox and Spike Jonze’s adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are over on the Guardian Unlimited (U.K.) film blog:

Those of us with kids or a childish disposition (put me down for both) may have already noted with some excitement that Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr Fox is being adapted for the screen… optimistic fool that I am, I can’t help feeling there’s something intangibly right about it. In part, it will be refreshing to see Anderson’s baroque sensibility applied not to the overfamiliar features of Bill Murray but to animated wildlife. It will also be a delight simply to witness one of Dahl’s finest yarns – in which the titular hero outwits the brutish farmers Bunce, Boggis and Bean – being transposed to the cinema.

URL: I can’t wait for Fantastic Mr. Fox’s screen debut

Some dug-up tapes of Nick Drake’s music (featured in The Royal Tenenbaums) are being released in a new album called Family Tree (rel. 10 July). According to Paste:

Featuring lo-fi home recordings that predate his haunting 1969 debut, Five Leaves Left, the 28-track Family Tree makes a compelling argument for the continued excavation of Drake’s oeuvre (July 07, pg. 95).

You can pre-order this album (and support this site) at Amazon.com:

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And, speaking of the fine publication Paste, I have discovered that back issues are available for purchase, including…


#13 featuring Wes Anderson

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