I have posted some trailer captures. Enjoy!
All images (c) 2007 American Empirical Pictures and Fox Searchlight
Darjeeling Trailer is Online!
TDL trailer premieres tomorrow with Sunshine?
Rumor has it that The Darjeeling Limited trailer will show with the film Sunshine, to be released Friday 20 July 2007. Please e-mail edwardappleby @ yankeeracers.org (no spaces) to confirm or deny this rumor.
Update: It’s true! And, the poster has been released. Enjoy!
Variety: The Fox scheduled for 6 November 2009
According to Variety.com, the current release date for The Fantastic Mr. Fox, Wes Anderson’s sixth full-length (and first fully animated) film, is 6 November 2009. They have a good article (URL) about such ‘farsighted’ release planning.
Tidbits from the ‘net.
[deleted]I also came upon an article from the Winter 2007 ed. of Cinema Journal: “La Camera-Crayola: Authorship Comes of Age in the Cinema of Wes Anderson” by Devin Orgeron (NC State Univ.).
Like the semicultish but relatively short-lived electronic frenzy to recreate and sell the Team Zissou Adidas sneaker, the clip [the American Express commercial] has taken on a life of its own on the Internet, become another potentially coveted and collectible Anderson product, a part of the Anderson lifestyle [author’s italics], characterized by the director’s simultaneous self-deprecation and self-aggrandizement. Critical for us, indeed, is the centrality of Anderson himself within the Andersonian mise-en-scène. Directed by Anderson or not, the spot, claiming to advertise the recognizable credit card, ends up as an advertisement for Anderson himself, his cinematic form, his thematic fascination with the individual, and his network of support… Anderson’s installment is particularly interesting, perhaps, because of its fit within a body of work similarly concerned with the delicate production of personal identity, here reduced to an array of identifiable, imitable, and, as a consequence, even laughable stylistic and thematic characteristics (61-62).
URL: Orgeron article
Another outdated recommendation? Why, yes.
As usual, I am rather late with this find… James Mottram’s The Sundance Kids centers on the question (according to the Introduction):
‘Are we returning to an age where formerly independent directors are using studio funds to further their own idiosyncratic vision?’ In other words, is this the dawn of New Hollywood Part II? As the title of this book suggests, many of the contemporary film makers under consideration have been connected to Robert Redford’s Sundance Institute. For most… it is with a film at the festival. Then there is Wes Anderson, whose debut feature began life as a short film showcased there…. Many of them flunked college [not true for Wes] and eschewed film school….’
Has anyone read this? Thoughts?
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Darjeeling out 29 September in NY; 5 October elsewhere
According to Fox Searchlight, The Darjeeling Limited will open September 29, 2007 in New York and starting October 5 in other cities.
Do visit the new Yankee Racers forum at yankeeracers.org!
No news, really…
But, the forum has been a tad slow since the software change-over. The Yankee Racers forum is a fantastic resource for everything about Wes Anderson and his films. Discuss film, music, and politics with like-minded (we dare say ‘awesome’) people, and get the latest news and chatter about the new one!
A little history: The Yankee Racers forum began in 2002 over on the EZBoard site. In 2006, with much hard work, all of the messages were migrated over to the Rushmore Academy server. We like to consider the forum its own independent entity — because it is — though the official forum of this site.
URL: The Yankee Racers
‘Sharper’ Wes? from CHUD
CHUD.com has an article about The Darjeeling Limited. Nothing much new, except this quote from New York Film Festival director Richard Pena:
It represents a big step for Wes. I hate to use the word ‘matured,’ but the humor and whimsy he uses is sharper, better focused and used more effectively.
Some good U.K. news
This is really late notice, but the Cube Microplex Cinema in Bristol is hosting a Wes Anderson Appreciation Society event tonight, June 29, at 8 pm. 2 quid.
Revel in the absurdist widescreen world of WES ANDERSON, the hilarious tragedy and the small joys of conversation and camaraderie. Come as your favourite flawed protagonist. Max Fischer from Rushmore. Any one of the idiosyncraticTenenbaums – Royal, Etheline, Margot, Cha[s], Richie or one of their extended
family, Eli Cash, Raleigh St. Clair, and Pagoda. Or come en mass as TEAM Zissou from [The] Life Aquatic.Savour the speciality cocktails at the bar (Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The RoyalTenenbaum and A Life Aquatic) and let dj’s Raymond Baumbach and Matthew Wilson take you late into the night..
Wildcat… wild… cat… pow…
URL: Cube Cinema