Karen Patch talks costume design
Costume designer for Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, and The Royal Tenenbaums, Karen Patch is currently featured in an article on W’s website called “Dressing the Part.”
(Mary Zophres, Jacqueline Durran and Karen Patch, from W)
Rushmore in Louisville; and Mr. Ray Davies of The Kinks
The Louisville Film Society is screening Rushmore on Tuesday, February 19, 7.30 pm at the Actors Theatre. Admission is free, but you must RSVP ahead of time (502.584.1205).
(thanks to the Backseat Sandbar)
Today’s Boston Globe has an article/review on that well-respected man, Ray Davies. M. Davies’ new CD, Working Man’s Cafe, comes out on Tuesday.
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Wes Retrospective at AFI Silver Theater and Amara Karan a Femme Fatale
The AFI Silver Theatre in Silver Spring, MD (suburban Washington, DC) is screening four of Wes Anderson’s films over the next two weeks! The Wes Anderson Retrospective is a really exciting series — an opportunity to see the films of Wes Anderson on the big screen.
Bottle Rocket
Sunday, Dec. 30, 3:00; Monday, Dec. 31, 2:45; Tuesday, Jan. 1, 12:45, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 7:00
Rushmore
Friday, Dec. 28, 7:30; Saturday, Dec. 29, 7:45; Tuesday, Jan. 1, 9:45, Thursday, Jan. 3, 7:00
The Royal Tenenbaums
Friday, Jan. 4, 7:00; Saturday, Jan. 5, 7:00; Thursday, Jan. 10, 7:00
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Sunday, Jan. 6, 12:45; Tuesday, Jan. 8, 9:20; Wednesday, Jan. 9, 9:20
In other news, ION Cinema has chosen Amara Karan (Rita, The Darjeeling Limited) as one of their Top Ten “Foreign Femme Fatales of 2007.”
2007: She played lovely Rita – the damn cute Indian girl poking her head in and outside of the train in Wes Anderson’s The Darjeeling Limited.
2008: It was just released in the U.K and I’ve got no clue if it will make its way here, but she has a role in Barnaby Thompson and Oliver Parker school girls rule/remake called St. Trinian’s. (link)
Some links, for you.
The New York Times Style Magazine has a rather lovely feature on the “smart, beautiful, and real” Natalie Portman called “Screen Goddess.”
Paste Magazine’s “Signs of Life” Best 50 Films of 2007 included The Darjeeling Limited at #26.
Total Film has a great interview with Jason Schwartzman (thanks, David!).
Empire Magazine has a video interview with Wes Anderson. Not much new here, but it is always good to hear from Wes (thanks to Julien).
“Professional weirdo” (Guardian, U.K.)
November 17, 2007, The Guardian
The Darjeeling Limited’s Jason Schwartzman has carved out a career playing freaks and geeks. Andrea Hubert meets the actor recently named ‘the coolest man in Hollywood’
Looking like a stylish, impeccably polite hybrid love child of Cher, Anthony Kiedis and Steve Carell, Jason Schwartzman sits back, one leg casually slung over the table, waiting for the interview to begin. I’ve seen this laid back stance before - on that infamous YouTube clip, where an equally unperturbed Schwartzman sits quietly, one leg on the desk, observing without drama on the set of I Heart Huckabees as director David O Russell goes apeshit on co-star Lily Tomlin. In the “comments” section below, someone remarks “I love the way Jason Schwartzman is just sitting back, chilling”. I kinda like that too.
The Rushmore Academy Gift Guide, #1
Max Fischer
Grover Cleveland High School
A little angst-ridden British Invasion music is in order, but today we saw a great compilation of Unit 4 +2 music (”Concrete and Clay,” from Rushmore):
For that angst-ridden British Invasion fix, what of Creation? (”Making Time,” Rushmore)
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News, Reviews, & Elephant Pins
Darjeeling Limited did gangbusters at the box office this weekend.
“We are extremely excited about it,” Fox Searchlight’s Sheila DeLoach said Sunday. “Wes Anderson’s fans came out in droves.”
Terry Gross interviews Wes and Jason on NPR’s Fresh Air
Bill Murray’s Darjeeling Evening
Interview with Wes, Jason, Adrien on LA.COM
Article on US reaction to Darjeeling from IndieLondon
Glenn Kenny’s night at the Darjeeling premiere
Chicago Sun Times Interview with Wes
Incredibly detailed analysis of the Darjeeling marketing campaign
Interview with Wes in the New Jersey Star Ledger
Jason Schwartzman on The Early Show
Variety has an article on the New York Film Festival, which includes this alarming anecdote:
“John Powers saw an early sneak of ‘Rushmore’ and as I remember the people at Disney had no idea what to do with it. There was some talk of it going straight to video. John called and said, ‘I saw this film, it’s really terrific, can you do anything about it?’ And so I called up Disney and, to make a long story short, by inviting the film, I think we (staged) an intervention in its future.”
That was indeed an elephant pin Bill Murray was wearing, more on that here.
Poster sale
Preface: We have no affiliation with DeepDiscount.com, so we make no profit from this plug.
DeepDiscount.com, a site probably most famous for their free shipping, is having a buy one, get one free sale on posters (mostly 11″ x 17″ reproductions). And, they have a very nice selection of Wes Anderson posters.
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“Underclass Overachiever / Weary Former Success”
I have neglected to post Ed Hardy’s most recent article in his Wes Anderson blog-a-thon, UNDERCLASS OVERACHIEVER/WEARY FORMER SUCCESS: Character Types in the Films of Wes Anderson. Through this admission, I am countering my own act of neglect. Well played.
A little teaser:
The two lead characters in Wes Anderson’s first film, Bottle Rocket (1996), Anthony and Dignan, established two main character types that have been articulated through the remainder of his films. Dignan, played by Owen Wilson, represents the Underclass Overachiever, and Anthony, played by his brother Luke Wilson, represents the Weary Former Success. Depth of character and variety of experience has made for a stunning series of characters throughout Anderons’s films, culminating in Steve Zissou, who is a synthesis of the two main types and is, in many ways, presaged by Royal Tenenbaum.
