it can produce a heightened air of unreality in the proceedings but idk "realism" is overrated
― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 17 October 2013 20:22 (ten years ago) link
wes, please stop
― 乒乓, Thursday, October 17, 2013 10:33 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
so far four people in my fb timeline have shared this piece of garbage, guy has sucked so hard since he lost his writing partner owen wilson
― lag∞n, Thursday, 17 October 2013 20:27 (ten years ago) link
? owen's been in all his movies except maybe MK (can't remember)
― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 17 October 2013 20:28 (ten years ago) link
maybe owen just doesn't want to write anymore
WRITING PARTNER
― lag∞n, Thursday, 17 October 2013 20:29 (ten years ago) link
amusing myself w/ picturing Anderson's opening sequence in the Korova Milkbar
OW hasn't had a writing credit since Tenenbaums, and icey is high per usual
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 17 October 2013 20:29 (ten years ago) link
you would have to be high to enjoy any of his post tenebaums movies folks
― lag∞n, Thursday, 17 October 2013 20:30 (ten years ago) link
don't mind if I do!
― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 17 October 2013 20:31 (ten years ago) link
iirc tho i saw the life aquatic high and it was still dumb as hell
― lag∞n, Thursday, 17 October 2013 20:31 (ten years ago) link
many xposts
morbs - totally agree that other people have done "intentionally stilted" and unreal, to me it feels like it's working against him at this point. But generally, I like the look and style of Anderson movies - not a huge sticking point for me.
I don't think the acting in the new Anderson movies is child-like because it's flat exactly - more because it just doesn't feel believable, sounds like people reading lines. lines written to sound like written lines.
anyway - I was asking what you guys like, didn't really want to argue about everything I don't like
― brio, Thursday, 17 October 2013 20:32 (ten years ago) link
and here we are going over the auteur's entire oeuvre for the tenth time 5 months before the film comes out. bye til March.
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 17 October 2013 20:34 (ten years ago) link
all these stiled manchildern, now w added stiled scripts
― lag∞n, Thursday, 17 October 2013 20:34 (ten years ago) link
Can we talk about how Anderson has specially tailored ill-fitting suits, a la Gene Kelly's shirts?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 17 October 2013 20:38 (ten years ago) link
a la pee wee herman
― 乒乓, Thursday, 17 October 2013 20:39 (ten years ago) link
Surprised Reubens hasn't made it to a Anderson movie, tbh.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 17 October 2013 20:40 (ten years ago) link
guy has sucked so hard since he lost his writing partner owen wilson
― lag∞n, Thursday, October 17, 2013 4:27 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark
hah for some reason i had htought darjeeling limited was co-wrote by o.w. - but no, it's fucking jason schwartzmann
i was going to say, maybe noah baumbach is a salve but he has a credit in the life aquatic
apparently this guy now has two writing credits http://i.imgur.com/AApvrJ6.jpg
― 乒乓, Thursday, 17 October 2013 20:45 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/2zXwfIx.jpg
That guy looks like he has murder credits.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 17 October 2013 20:48 (ten years ago) link
His eyebrows look like they got pissed off at each other and started to fight.
― brio, Thursday, 17 October 2013 21:03 (ten years ago) link
Perpetually smelling a bad odor.
― Aimless, Thursday, 17 October 2013 21:18 (ten years ago) link
the scent of CQ
― brio, Thursday, 17 October 2013 21:26 (ten years ago) link
There's something about Anderson that reminds me of Joseph Cornell but I can't put my finger on it
― I can't keep up, I can't keep up, I can't keep up (calstars), Friday, 18 October 2013 00:45 (ten years ago) link
don't put wes in a box
― 乒乓, Friday, 18 October 2013 00:46 (ten years ago) link
i think there's been a steady downward trend after life aquatic, which i like a great deal, but i still have a lot of time for wes anderson. i think the issue is that he stopped being able to tell convincing stories about sympathetic yet insufferable Romantics whose dreams somehow still survive their brutal conflicts with reality.
― Treeship, Friday, 18 October 2013 01:14 (ten years ago) link
swap "convincing" in my previous post for "compelling"
― Treeship, Friday, 18 October 2013 01:15 (ten years ago) link
Fantastic Mr. Fox does all this
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 18 October 2013 01:17 (ten years ago) link
he stopped being able to tell stories, yes
― lag∞n, Friday, 18 October 2013 01:18 (ten years ago) link
the newer ones just seem more emotionally dead than something like rushmore. there is a lot of desperation in a character like max fischer.
― Treeship, Friday, 18 October 2013 01:20 (ten years ago) link
yeah the characters too
― lag∞n, Friday, 18 October 2013 01:21 (ten years ago) link
I liked moonrise kingdom, the end was dumb tho
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 18 October 2013 01:24 (ten years ago) link
like in royal tenenbros the characters are so charismatic and theyve got heart, then putting them in this weird fetishistic dollhouse environment just animates the whole thing
― lag∞n, Friday, 18 October 2013 01:25 (ten years ago) link
I'm mixed on everything between Rushmore and Fox, but I found Moonrise Kingdom very moving with a lot of character "depth" going on, with both the adults and kids. but i only came to this conclusion after becoming sort of obsessed with the blu-ray and watching it about 5 times. it's a masterpiece, imo.
― ryan, Friday, 18 October 2013 01:25 (ten years ago) link
moonrise kingdom is the only one i havet seen, i watched the first few mins and just couldnt do it
― lag∞n, Friday, 18 October 2013 01:27 (ten years ago) link
fmf was ok for a kids movie but p hokey, dont get why everyone was so pumped abt it, maybe cause we all want this dude to be good again so bad
― lag∞n, Friday, 18 October 2013 01:29 (ten years ago) link
it was the cloon
― 乒乓, Friday, 18 October 2013 01:29 (ten years ago) link
cloon is a cool dude
― lag∞n, Friday, 18 October 2013 01:32 (ten years ago) link
Love the coloring work in the trailer, and yeah naturalism a la Vie d'Adele can got to bed, i love this kind of artificiality.
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 18 October 2013 01:36 (ten years ago) link
go to bed. ha.
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 18 October 2013 01:39 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSEzGDzZ1dY
― 乒乓, Monday, 4 November 2013 19:39 (ten years ago) link
http://filmdrunk.uproxx.com/2013/11/wes-anderson-thank-you-letter-to-james-l-brooks
― sktsh, Wednesday, 6 November 2013 11:22 (ten years ago) link
fmf was ok for a kids movie but p hokey
wtf @ this fresh madness
― midwife christless (darraghmac), Wednesday, 6 November 2013 11:44 (ten years ago) link
http://youtu.be/yWnKRJ4c8xY
― Dan I., Thursday, 14 November 2013 18:05 (ten years ago) link
i thought that would automatically https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWnKRJ4c8xY
― Dan I., Thursday, 14 November 2013 18:07 (ten years ago) link
anyway, i suspect this sort of thing might look better when his career is over. it's not quite the same, but i can imagine someone thinking "ugh another Hitchcock thriller?"
otm, except comparing WA to Hitchcock in any way is probably going to ruffle a few feathers.
New one looks cool, last one was fun and great. Yeah i think in 15 or 20 years when there is this body of work it will be easier to look through it and compare stuff and see some kind of development.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 14 November 2013 18:57 (ten years ago) link
http://rymimg.com/lk/f/l/0a44ad03d95fd78484008ca4a665af66/3258002.jpg
Btw i can't find any clips online but I have this record and it is pretty much ground zero for WA-style chamber pop 60s harpsichord instrumental stuff like Mothersbaugh turns out.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 14 November 2013 18:59 (ten years ago) link
initial Berlin reviews
The two primary strengths... are, first, Fiennes’s utterly delightful performance as the non-flamboyantly gay concierge who busies himself with the hotel, Romantic poetry and elderly, rich, insecure and blond women, and second, the set design (and yes, costumes and makeup as well, but primarily the sets). Gustave is a surprisingly complex man, and I say “surprisingly” because everyone else around him, even, to an extent, young Zero, is essentially a cartoon, albeit in the best way, comic sketches straight, as they used to say, out of Central Casting.
As for the sets, the hotel, of course, is the star (though we do visit a bakery, a prison, a museum), both in its heyday, i.e., the period of the equally star-studded Grand Hotel (1932), and in the '80s... Given the enduring nostalgia for the rapidly disappearing monuments of Cold War-era communist architecture and design, such as Berlin’s now long-gone Palast der Republik, it’s hardly surprising that Anderson would eventually pick up on it. He, production designer Adam Stockhausen and art director Stephan O. Gessler have done more than dabble here; the blocky fonts and sleek paneling beneath a sheen of oranges and browns brought to the fading grandeur of the hotel by the communists are just as aesthetically intriguing, albeit more subtly, as the 30s-era pink pastry mit Sahne interiors.
http://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-berlinale-2014-diary-1
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 6 February 2014 22:06 (ten years ago) link
intriguing, didnt realize any of it took place in the 80s. and as a fan of 80s soviet resort design i am now extremely interested!
― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, 6 February 2014 22:41 (ten years ago) link
who among us is not a fan of 80s soviet resort design?
― How dare you tarnish the reputation of Turturro's yodel (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 6 February 2014 23:34 (ten years ago) link
They've all been purged from this board already
― Spaghetti Sauce Shampoo (Moodles), Thursday, 6 February 2014 23:48 (ten years ago) link
― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, February 6, 2014 4:41 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i believe it takes place in three time frames, with a different aspect ratio (!) for each.
― espring (amateurist), Friday, 7 February 2014 01:02 (ten years ago) link
My favorite Ralph Fiennes performance, and he's wonderful in Anderson's Roald Dahl shorts. (Great in Schindler's List and Spider too, but Grand Budapest Hotel is the one I'll be watching most.)
― birdistheword, Friday, 9 February 2024 07:25 (three months ago) link