I think it's fine to anticipate Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rFlCjTVGkc

there was also a short-lived sitcom where I think he is a therapist?
i liked schwartzman in rushmore, but i'm really perplexed by the idea that he elevates or outshines bad material.

bored to death is pretty funny, but danson kind of steals the show for me.

i want to say bored to death is good/funny despite schwarzman but thats not quite right, maybe its that its good regardless of him, hes fine, sometimes funny, sometimes a drag, but hes not why i liked the show

i really wanted to watch bored to death but schwarzman and his stupid hair kept me away. get a haircut hippie, you're not in the damn Monkees

watched first season of Bored to Death but not really enough going on there to keep me engaged.

would watch Yo Teach tho

i'm 100% certain schwartzman is actually tom cruise in hipster drag

idly curious how they got away with showing two obviously way underage actors engaged in nominally sexual activity... aren't there laws against this kind of thing? like, they couldn't show Kristen Stewart and whatsername kissing in that Runaways movie but somehow this was different/acceptable...?

Dakota Fanning

Schwartzman saying "O, R they?" in Rushmore is one of the funniest things in the world to me.

OK maybe not in the world but you know.

no you right. "O.R. they" is soda-through-nose good

ya thats a classic

it's definitely the funniest line in the movie

altho the thing I laugh hardest at in any WA film is "Whackbat"

Willis steals this.

not much to sell though

Dunno. The beer scene was super.

Also: Norton.

idly curious how they got away with showing two obviously way underage actors engaged in nominally sexual activity... aren't there laws against this kind of thing? like, they couldn't show Kristen Stewart and whatsername kissing in that Runaways movie but somehow this was different/acceptable...?

― the alternate vision continues his vision quest! (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, July 18, 2012 2:30 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

? they don't do much onscreen. i am kind of amazed though that nobody has taken it upon themselves to be professionally outraged by this depiction of pubescent romance. then again "indie" movies seem to fly below those folks' radar, hence people get upset over little things in blockbuster films but films by todd solondz or gregg araki don't generate much controversy.

well I'm not outraged or anything, I just don't understand the laws/regulations that would allow two underage teens to be shown making out in one movie but not in another - like, what weird arbitrary rules are in effect here.

what rules are those?

teen laws

to be fair to the (barf) MPAA, the runaways scene was probably more lascivious.

"What Happens in Indie..."

i think kids are still allowed to kiss

teen laws

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first rule of etc.

Did the MPAA really say that the Fanning-Stewart kiss=NC-17 rating? If not, I figure either Fanning's or Stew's people put the kibosh on the scene.

As for Moonrise..., I was kinda surprised they played a fairly extended scene in their undies. I also recall some folks around me gasping between laughs during the slow dance bit with Suzy telling telling Sam "They'll get bigger" re:her breasts and then particularly "It's hard" which probably wasn't about the ground beneath their feet.

I don't think it's a ratings thing, it's a "you will be charged with child pornography" thing iirc.

Fanning had a parent on-set iirc

I watched leon earlier this year and that was def p uncomfortable at times, a sign of a different era

just saw this. it wasn't good. but it was interesting. i've never felt so implicated in a movie, and i spent a lot of time working on movies.

1) some scenes filmed at the horrible camp i attended (and have blabbed about pretty extensively). my old cabin the was the one in which WA showed the kid jumping on the trampoline.

2) some scenes filmed on the land trust my mom maintains (the field/windmill)

3) some scenes filmed in the church on the island where my father used to be a minister.

4)

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8281/7710012476_62ec191eb8.jpg

vs

http://losmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/jared-gilman-as-sam-in-moonrise-kingdom-2012.jpg

are you saying that's you with the glasses in the first pic?

there's definitely some things to like about this movie. it's not great, but its probably his least-bad since tenenbaums

That's me in the first pic in the location where the movie was filmed

Fuck, I can't remember if there was a montage in this or not!

correspondence montage

its probably his least-bad since tenenbaums

f u

Nothin wrong w/ this at all, prob his 3rd-best behind Rushmore and Fox.

didn't even notice he was sneaking daddy issues in w/ Bruce Willis til he got there.

Pre-teen got dragged out of theater by parent after the breast fondle, shrilly asking "Did it get INAPPROPRIATE?!"

hahahaha

parent prob just worried about Francoise Hardy exposure

"She's singing in French! Who knows what filth is in there!"

This was great, good story, good characters, good film-making. Excessively twee and stylized in some places, but it's full of Zeitgeisty signifiers that you sort of always felt like Anderson should do, and he does them well. I like the long zoom he uses in lots of places. Feels very French New Wave when it's not being Wes Anderson Wave.

Also, I loved loved that ridic play they meet at, with Noah and the psychedelic Ark.

Pretty much all of the actors are good in this imho.

I loved loved that ridic play they meet at, with Noah and the psychedelic Ark.

that would be a benjamin britten opera

The two leads gave very effective and dynamic performances. Maybe people describe the acting as monotone because usually child actors are the opposite of subtle. I thought it was a realistic portrayal of depression/angst that was deep yet not overly cynical or self-obsessed.

the Britten sequence (as noted earlier in this thread) is heavily inspired by John Duigan's Flirting

which seems to be Anderson's Urtext

I'm real glad Hank Williams is making a comeback (again) btw.

Hank was a lot more palatable than the usual 60s pop

Hold on wait, I enjoyed this film a lot. Are you all recommending I should watch Flirting? Is it like an australian MK?

No, but you should see it anyway.