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Wes and Jarvis in Paris

Another Wes sighting in Paris, this time noted on fashion design team Eley Kishimoto’s blog:

Whilst taking Alexis to see the window on the last night of fashion week Wes Anderson strolled by with a banjo over his arm walking with what looked like a band that consisted of two members I didn’t recognise and Jarvis Cocker. Alexis knees buckled fumbling at her crash helmet, it was a pleasant suprise as when we started we had dinner with Jean and met Wes and discussed it. He stated lets stay 2m and take it in, very sweet, honked the horn and off we road.

Wes in a band? With JC? Sounds like a dream come true…

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Dateline Paris: Wes sighting

Friend of the site Elaine, who is studying living abroad in France for a year, saw Mr. Wes Anderson at fnac this past weekend. She kindly posted some photographs on our Facebook group, which I have stolen reproduced here.

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Vive le Wes!

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New petition: we want TDL on Criterion!

Our last revolutionary struggle was a success (sort of). After many years of petitioning for a Criterion Collection edition of Bottle Rocket, one is now forthcoming. Coincidence? Probably.

Anyway, the struggle is ongoing. We now have a new petition for you to sign, asking for The Darjeeling Limited on Criterion. Please do sign. We also have a ‘supplementary’ petition, about Satyajit Ray’s Apu trilogy.

We are accepting proposals for blogs on this site. E-mail edwardappleby @ yankeeracers.org (no spaces) with your idea or a link to your current blog. Metro Line 13, a blog by Owen Bates (currently under construction), will be our first Rushmore Academy blog.

We are also still offering Google Mail accounts @ yankeeracers.org. E-mail the above e-mail address with your request.

Update: Is anyone good at making WordPress themes? I am not, apparently. E-mail me.

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Reader mail: a missed news tidbit?

From reader Michael:

Ahoy,

I randomly stumbled across this just now, not sure if you’ve seen it…

I’m submitting this because a) I hadn’t seen it before, and I’d up until now been fairly certain I’d read literally every interview Anderson conducted in promoting Darjeeling, and b) I’ve been visiting your website at least once a day since I found it, which was some time a few months before Darjeeling was released.

Here’s the pertinent bit for your convenience:

“Noah [Baumbach] and I started working on a…story for a movie without really realizing we were doing it. It wasn’t ‘The Life Aquatic.’ It was something else that we haven’t even finished writing. Whenever we would go to dinner or something, we’d just start making up scenes for this thing and then we just started writing them down because [we realized] that we’ve got a lot of stuff now.”

Best, and thanks for all the work. It’s a great site, and I appreciate the good writing.

Tally-ho! And, thanks!
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Wes, Jason, and Adrien offer up their own Darjeeling Limited playlists

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Back in October (or thereabouts), Wes Anderson, Jason Schwartzman, and Adrien Brody assembled their own Darjeeling Limited playlists for the iTunes Store. While old news to many, this is new news to us! Thanks to Owen for the lead. Track listings after the break.

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Waris in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead

Waris is in a new film.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead.

Sean Lennon is set to participate in the forthcoming film Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Undead, Billboard.com reports. According to director and writer Jordan Galland, the film is “a vampire comedy involving Shakespeare and the Holy Grail, starring Jake Hoffman [who also has a rather famous father], Devon Aoki, Johnny Ventimiglia, Kris Lemche, Ralph Macchio and Jeremy Sisto, with a cameo from Bijou Phillips.” The indie flick (about an off-Broadway production involving not-so-deceased scriptwriters, no less) will feature music scored by John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s talented kid (Paste).


Higher resolution trailer

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We need a Facebook logo

We need a logo for our Facebook group. We would like you to design it. Send your logo (150 x 150 or so) to edwardappleby@yankeeracers.org. We will pick the best submission as our logo. No deadline, but we will pick one when it strikes us as ‘the one.’

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Wes on fashion blog Sartorialist; “Joke’s on Jacobs”

“On the Street… Wes Anderson, Paris”

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From Forbes:

It looks like advertising agency Hart+Larsson pulled a fast one on the fashion industry.

For the last two days, legions of Internet fashionistas have been abuzz with reports of an online spoof of Marc Jacobs’ Jurgen Teller-shot print advertisements. The Jurgen/Jacobs collaboration recently made news with shots of Victoria Beckham, also known as Posh Spice, in compromising positions.

The Flash images at Thenewenthusiasm.com feature two wigged men dressed in late-1970s-style tennis gear reminiscent of the Richie Tenenbaum character in Wes Anderson’s 2001 film The Royal Tenenbaums. One shot features a man in a floral dress that looks as though it belong in a past Jacobs’ collection.

Yesterday, fashion news blog Fashionista.com wrote a post about the Web site, asking readers for any leads on where it might be coming from. They speculated it may have been a fashion student or Jacobs himself. This morning, fashion trade magazine Women’s Wear Daily said it called Jacobs’ corporate offices and was told the company, owned by French conglomerate LVMH, had nothing to do with the ads.

The domain thenewenthusiasm.com is registered under Thomas Larsson and Greg Hart, a duo of creatives who name MTV, AOL and Olympus (other-otc: OCPNF.PK – news – people ) as clients. Greg Hart told Forbes.com the Web site was simply an experiment. “We’re huge Marc Jacobs fans. And Juergen Teller, too. We aim to flatter.”

Larsson also said that the domain–The New Enthusiasm–is the company’s “platform to challenge tired notions of what is and what is not.”

Fashion industry, meet viral marketing.

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Steve Zissou in the news

From Cotter:

I thought you guys would appreciate this.  I was reading the hard-to-ignore coverage of the Governor Spitzer prostitution situation and was amused to find one of our old friends is Ms. Dupre’s court-appointed legal counsel.  Here’s a quote from the Post:

“If she’s made that much money in that short amount of time, that would certainly make her ineligible for taxpayer-supported legal fees,” defense attorney Steve Zissou said.  “That should be brought to the attention of the judge. Certainly she is capable of paying her own legal fees.”

NY Post, March 15

ZISSOU!

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IFC News Film Podcast

The latest edition of the IFC News Film Podcast tells the story of the brothers Wilson.

(thread at the Yankee Racers)