
Fruit Bats - When U Love Somebody
I think one of you must have put this on a mix that I downloaded at some point because I was able to put it on...
Heartwarming Tearjerker of the Day: Scott Widak has Down syndrome and is terminally ill with liver disease, and he loves to receive mail. So his...
Tiscali: It’s worth noting that many of the cast come from famous or dysfunctional families, a bit like the Tenenbaums.
Wes Anderson: It’s interesting. You know, Ben Stiller, Gwyneth Paltrow, certainly Anjelica Huston, all those families are real achievers, you know, and fame is an issue for their whole families. For Anjelica Huston (daughter of John Huston) I think there’s definitely things for her to relate to in terms of the character that Hackman is playing. Hackman - I didn’t know much of anything about his background, but after we’d finished the movie I saw an episode of Inside The Actors Studio which he did while we were filming. And he talked about his father, and it seemed to really relate to what he’d been playing in the movie - it caught me so much off-guard. You know, there was no dialogue between us about it, but it was clearly something he couldn’t have helped but to tap into.Tiscali: What did he say in the programme?
Wes Anderson: His father left his family when he was 13 or so, and he just described this moment when Hackman and his friends were playing in the street, and his father drove by. And Hackman saw him driving by, and his father kind of waved from the window but didn’t stop the car. And it was the last he saw him for ten years. And Hackman had really choked up when he was telling it. It was very moving. I’d never heard anything about this at all. And he’d been playing this father who abandons his family for years and years. (via)
Another Movie Trailer of the Day: First official trailer for Moonrise Kingdom — the latest installment in Wes Anderson’s storied directorial repertoire.
The film, which stars Anderson vets Bill Murray and Jason Schwartzman alongside Bruce Willis, Ed Norton, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton, and newcomers Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward, is set to open in theaters May 25th.
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The Royal Tenenbaums, Rich Pellegrino
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Fantastic Mr. Fox with a nod to The Royal Tenenbaums
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Gene Hackman, Wes Anderson, Gwyneth Paltrow, Grant Rosenmeyer, and Jonah Meyerson from The Royal Tenenbaums.
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Procrastination Theatre: May 13, 2011
On Friday, my brothers and I watched this together in my new apartment. They hadn’t seen it before. I find that this movie composes a feeling in me unlike any other movie: it’s not entirely sadness, nor sweetness, nor even happiness. It’s the feeling you get if you look at an old photograph of your parents or something - if nostalgia were coupled with the knowledge that these things are happening to you right now, too. Family is always like this. There are so many little things and cuts and undertones that make up the complex web that is how we feel and behave around our family, and I think this movie gets it the best - no outright misery, no outright mushy sentimentality. All sentimentality kept to the set pieces.
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“Whatever happens in the end, I don’t wanna lose you as my friend.”
“I promise, I will never be your friend. No matter what. Ever.”
This is important. And this is correct. I think that this hyper-rational, hyper-reasonable approach to romance is ruining how we treat ourselves. You shouldn’t still be friends with someone you once loved. You should love or hate them, nothing between, no allowing some hybrid almost-wishing state to exist for one person in the friendship. //random.
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Procrastination Theatre: February 4, 2011
What I find interesting about watching the debut films of really definitive directors is that, well, the films are seldom good, but they reveal with like heartbreaking clarity the one thing that that director is most interested in and bound by and drawn to. Because in their first films, their style and finesse hasn’t developed yet, what you get is a crudely administered lunge toward the thing they’ll spend their careers unfolding. Like, watching Pi, which I hated, I still realized that Aronofsky has always and will always be making movies about obsession and addiction, in all and any forms. For Wes Anderson, then, that thing is the particular friendship that passes between Luke and Owen Wilson in Bottle Rocket. His aesthetic will mature as he goes through movies, but this dynamic, I think, is what drives the movies he makes.
Pencil Set, The Royal Tenenbaums
Print Series of the Day: “Wes Anderson’s Bill Murrays” by Derek Eads.
The end result of Eads’s Bill Murray Week. Individual prints available for purchase here.
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For the Boyfriend. His favorite part. If anyone has read The Crossing, you’ll know why wolves are fascinating and terrible and wonderful to us.