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[Ishotdanieljohnston]

This is Hotel Chevalier, screened prior to the Vence Film Festival veiwing of Darjeeling Ltd. Starring Jason Schwartzman and Natalie Portman, it marks a dramatic change in Anderson's style and subject matter, though it maintains the distinct quirkiness he's famous for. Enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvHVlJ9jHHE

watch it quick before it's taken off for violating copyright or some such thing.

[Joseph]

I really want to see this.  It is being given for free on the iTunes American store.  But I can't get it in the Canadian one.  It's kind of really annoying me.

[Jimmy the Squid]

For a second I read the thread title as W.S. Anderson who is of course the monster behind movies like Mortal Kombat and Alien vs. Predator. I mean, sure I liked both of them but it's not as if I am unaware that they are both awful, awful films. I couldn't figure out why anyone would be excited about another W.S. Anderson film.

Oop. Already taken down.

[tomselleck69]

Paul WS Anderson is actually just an in-joke among film students, and Event Horizon just exists to confuse people.


Natalie Portman's butt? Natalie Portman's butt.


edit: confuse people in the sense that the worst director in the world had something to do with a film that isn't terrible (at least in my opinion.)

also, with respect to the following post: dammit sam neill why would you do that! that does not help our situation!

[Johnny C]

Paul WS Anderson is actually just an in-joke among film students, and Event Horizon just exists to confuse people.

[Ally]

Guys, you can download Hotel Chevalier on iTunes! It is very very good, I watched it today. Let's use this thread to talk about the Darjeeling Limited, too.

I really like Wes Anderson.

I like how every single one of his shots is very characteristic. People in his movies wear the same clothing all the time, and there are paintings and little things in every room. Like when Natalie Portman is looking through Jack's things, I was like, I have a music box like that! The stuff that he places in his movies is the stuff of real life people, even though he has basically invented his own world (on the Life Aquatic commentary he said "I like that they live in a world where there can be hit documentaries" after Steve Zissou says "we haven't had a hit documentary in ages!" or something). And I like the way that sometimes Wes Anderson doesn't move the camera but people walk in and out of the shot. Or how he'll film something from the top, like how he films Jack's chest (with his initials on it - not chest like part of his body, chest like box) in this short. I also like the music that he chooses.

Basically, more filmmakers need such an eye for detail. I'm so excited for the Darjeeling Limited!

(Did this post even make sense? I just rambled a lot.)

[Johnny C]

Wes Anderson has a very specific style that I know wears thin on some people but I think makes sense. His body of work is incredibly cohesive as a result of it - you can watch it back-to-back and the quality level of the films hardly varies from Bottle Rocket through to The Life Aquatic.

[TheFuriousWombat]

Looks like DL won't be any different if this is any indication. Not that that's really a bad thing, but if he keeps making movies like this it'll get old. I though this was pretty darn good (and Natalie Portman is freakishly gorgeous) so now I'm even more excited for this new one. I hope, though, that after The Fantastic Mr. Fox, Anderson will try something new. Maybe go the route of the Cohen brother's and make some darkly comedic murder mystery or something. He could still have strange/quirky characters but I really think he needs to try his hand at a new genre and experiment a bit stylistically or he'll get stuck in a rut of making the same thing again and again and again (which, to this point, has been OK. But I think it'll lose it's appeal if he keeps doing it).

[Ishotdanieljohnston]

You know i really don't think this will happen. I see his films because they are so distinctly his own, not jus t because he's a good director. The style is so his own, but the subject matter and the emotional weight of each film varies greatly: from terminal illness bringing together a family, to wannabe criminals, to marine explorers, to pathetic school students, to Nathalie Portman sex. Each film is so simultaneously personal and quirky, and as a true testement to his abillity each is sooooooooo intriguing despite the similar style.
he has mastered each element of the film making process. The acting, the music, the directing, the choreography, the photography, the set design are all perfectly tuned to create a cohesive, deeply cinematic whole.
Murder mystery? Maybe, we'll just have to see where his unique mind will take us next.