Trailer tomorrow.
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Bout time.
"These Marvel movies have gigantic casts!"
Laughs in Wes Anderson.
With Dafoe in the cast and the R-rating for "graphic nudity," I'm guessing we'll get another vision of the ol' fisherman's mast. But they could always throw us a curve ball--Anjelica Huston, come on downnnnnn!
I'm surprised Edward Norton continues to be cast in these films. He seems like a guy that would clash with Wes Anderson.
I lost it when the kitchen caught fire and when the soldiers break through both walls.
I wonder if the B&W sequences will be either the story as reported or the story "as it really happened"--or some similar device.
Yep that's a Wes Anderson movie. Trailer didn't do much for me but ... we'll see.
Very optimistic because The Grand Budapest Hotel's trailer gives off similar pastel-overload, manic vibe, which didn't prepare me for that film's pathos of having fascism descend on those people. I'm guessing by Wes' "love letter to journalists" description that the film's power may come from that newsroom reporting its final issue. After he pulled off TGBH I trust Wes.
I have such a love / hate relationship with the New Yorker. I used to love it and read it a lot, but it screams bougie pseudo intellectual to me now. I have friends that are always forwarding Andy Borowitz pieces on facebook like it's the height of satire and I'm like ... ehhh really? Then of course there are Richard Brody's interesting takes on cinema. If I'm going to read a contrarian, I tend to go more for Armond White in National Review. At least I can have a good laugh.
White should've retired twenty years ago. He was never a brilliant writer to begin with, but his reviews at the National Review are even more lazy, shrill, and atrociously written than his reviews for the short-lived City Arts (copy editing doesn't appear to be a big priority at NR these days, even when its writers are rehashing the zombie conservative myth that university English departments have stopped teaching The Classics in order to make room for inferior works by non-white authors). White endlessly decries the political correctness of liberals while only praising movies he finds amenable to his political beliefs.
Love me some Anderson, but The Royal Tenebaums has yet to be beat.
I don't know why The Grand Budapest Hotel gets so much elite love.
1. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou ★★★★★
2. Rushmore ★★★★★
3. The Royal Tenenbaums ★★★★½
4. Isle of Dogs ★★★★½
5. Fantastic Mr. Fox ★★★★
6. Moonrise Kingdom ★★★½
7. Bottle Rocket ★★★
8. The Darjeeling Limited ★★★
9. The Grand Budapest Hotel ★★½
1. The Royal Tenenbaums
2. The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
3. The Grand Budapest Hotel
4. Rushmore
5. Moonrise Kingdom
6. Bottle Rocket
7. The Darjeeling Limited
8. Fantastic Mr. Fox
9. Isle of Dogs
1. The Grand Budapest Hotel
2. Moonrise Kingdom
3. The Royal Tenenbaums
4. Rushmore
5. Isle of Dogs
6. Fantastic Mr. Fox
7. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Haven't seen Bottle Rocket or The Darjeeling Limited.
1. The Royal Tenenbaums
2. The Grand Budapest Hotel
3. Moonrise Kingdom
4. Rushmore
5. Isle of Dogs
6. Fantastic Mr. Fox
7. Bottle Rocket
8. Darjeeling Limited
9. The Life Aquatic
The last two are the only ones that didn't click for me. Bottle Rocket is fun but a bit of first film jitters and a low budget. I saw Bottle Rocket back in the '90s when it first came out on VHS and wrote him off as yet another Tarantino wannabe but a rewatch revealed his style was there from the beginning and it's better than I remembered it.
As someone that finds certain strands of "liberalism" irritating, I find his takes refreshing, even if I rarely agree with them. I used to be fascinated by what directors he used to like but he's a hard nut to crack sometimes. He loves Once Upon A Time in Hollywood, even if he used to decry Tarantino for the usual complaint of "hipster nihilism." He used to love Spielberg but I can't imagine him sitting through something like The Post w/o wanting to make a beeline to the exit door. He also used to love Mike Leigh, Altman, Jonathan Demme, and Almodovar when I read his stuff about 15 years ago. Not sure if that's still the case.
I like that it's political in the most subtle, wry way. It's a comedy about a Weimar era (or implied Weimar era) pansexual bon vivant and is mostly screwball for about 3/4 of the movie (and very fun) until the other shoe drops and you realize what the movie is really about. It becomes that much more powerful to me w/ the light touch. Wes Anderson is good at that. It's like how you don't realize why Max Fischer is acting out until the end of Rushmore when you realize his mom died, his dad is a working class barber, and he's basically clinging onto his prep school and teacher crush as the only thing positive he has going in his life.
Rushmore - 83
The Darjeeling Limited - 78
Fantastic Mr. Fox - 72
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou - 69
The Royal Tenenbaums - 63
Isle of Dogs - 58
Moonrise Kingdom - 57
The Grand Budapest Hotel - 56
Bottle Rocket - 49