The World of Wes Anderson
The Guardian (U.K.) has revealed that Hotel Chevalier, a 12 minute short film by director Wes Anderson, will serve as a prologue for feature-length The Darjeeling Limited. (URL)
New videos:
Production Diary: Day 39, Jodhpur Desert (Yahoo!)
Behind the Scenes, Clip 1 (AOL)
Fox Searchlight has promised another video “later today” on MTV.com.
The Darjeeling Limited‘s entry on the Internet Movie Database offers some new details on the film (some character names, at least):
URL: TDL at IMDB
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.”
“Pietro” pointed out this link to us over at Yankee Racers. At Moxie Pictures, you can view several of Wes’ commercials, including his terrific American Express ad (as well as ads for Dasani, Ikea, and Avon). Several other prominent film directors, including Cameron Crowe, Rob Marshall, Errol Morris, Kevin Smith, and John Waters, have commercials on the site.
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Ingmar Bergman, one of cinema’s greatest directors, has died.
From the Guardian:
The legendary Swedish film-maker Ingmar Bergman died this morning at his home on the island of Faro. According to his daughter, Eve, the director of The Seventh Seal and Persona died peacefully in his sleep. He was 89.
Having initially trained on the stage, Bergman went on to direct nearly 50 feature films, beginning with Crisis in 1946. His breakthrough came in 1957, courtesy of an extraordinary double-headed triumph of Wild Strawberries and The Seventh Seal. He would go on to win three best foreign language film Oscars, for The Virgin Spring, Through a Glass Darkly and Fanny and Alexander….
A colossus of world cinema, Ingmar Bergman influenced a generation of film-makers who were inspired both by his effortless command of the medium and his high-minded sense of its moral and artistic possibilities. In 1988, Woody Allen hailed him as “probably the greatest artist, all things considered, since the invention of the motion picture camera.”
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A new Wes Anderson short film, Hotel Chevalier, will premiere at the Venice International Film Festival, 29 August-8 September 2007 (URL). The film is a 12-minute “out of competition special event” starring Jason Schwartman and Natalie Portman, according to the site. The Darjeeling Limited will also premiere at the event. More soon… (Thanks to MissPortman.com for this lead).
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).