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

do you think it's intentional, or just sort of leaked into the movie?

the movie is overflowing with houston... it's constantly leaking OUT of the movie.

i'd recently watched predators2 and there's a scene shot in BART which is really dissonant to see if you've ever been on BART, so is it a similar odd feeling when watching Rushmore?

i really liked that about rushmore - it had an interesting sense of place. i was kind of disappointed when he went to new york for tenenbaums, even if his take on it was new, because like, everyone does new york. one of the really cool things about his first 2 was their texanness

it's kinda like when i watch the blob and it's like oh there's the diner i went to in the mornings before high school

I accept Rushmore as a Houston movie because:

• Metro Buses
• HPD officers
• Margaret Yang's map w/Mangum Road and W.34th Street correctly ID'd, which leads to...
• Delmar Stadium (where they fly the kites)
• No matter how much they dressed them up, Rushmore can't help but be St. John's Academy, and Grover Cleveland be Lamar High. IRL the schools are practically next door to each other.
• Channel 13 reference. (Our ABC affiliate, which IIRC at the time called their news "Action 13" like in the film)
• Kind of a minor one, but all of the Alexis Bledel stuff. An area girl, she's an extra in many of the Grover Cleveland scenes, and of course went to Hollywood (and Star's Hollow) not long after.
• Ryan otm about the way it captures Houston in the winter.

its just a p sweet portrait of the houston/dallas upper class private school scene

― turds (Hungry4Ass), Friday, January 18, 2013 12:24 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

do you think it's intentional, or just sort of leaked into the movie?

― Philip Nunez, Friday, January 18, 2013 12:36 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the movie is overflowing with houston... it's constantly leaking OUT of the movie.

― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Friday, January 18, 2013 12:44 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

my best friend from texas went to the same high school as WA/luke/owen ... in DALLAS

feel like I get more of a texas sense from bottle rocket tho

which is still wes boy's finest film. :-}

ha i had no idea rushmore was set in texas, too! was totally referring to bottle rocket in my post.

i like that it doesnt like SAY its set in houston, it just... is

wife's reaction to the reveal that it's set in houston: "but it's snowing in the movie!"

would be awesome if they actually called out the rarity of that

I was in Houston once, all I remember of it was that it was an elevated highway surrounded by ugly buildings. And sideways traffic lights.

i think it is

a) "set in houston" for those in the know

b) set nowhere in particular for everybody else

i mean v few of the actors (aside from wes's school buddies) code as texan anyway

Watched Rushmore when it first came out, in Austin, with people from Houston and it was like watching Brewster McCloud with people from Houston. Had to watch the film over...alone. I am a Texan acquainted with Houston and Dallas but only know Austin and anything south and west of Austin. It didn't seem like it was set in Houston for me. I was not, in the know.

great Moonrise Kingdom thread

you can start a new "what is Houston like, and how would you tell what movies are set there" thread if you want

Are there any Houstony things in moonrise kingdom? That movie is really going to mess with my geographical conceptions of Texas if so.

^^I think HPD used to have Plymouth police wagons like Willis' back in the day.

has WA spoken about researching New England?

Google Earth was used for initial location scouting, according to director Anderson,
We had to figure out where we were shooting this movie—in Canada or Michigan or New England ... ? We started out with "Where is this girl [Suzy’s] house, and where is the naked wildlife we want?" So [after Googling], we traveled around a bit, to Cumberland Island in Georgia, to the Thousand Islands on the New York/Ontario border ... we checked out all these locations.

wife's reaction to the reveal that it's set in houston: "but it's snowing in the movie!"

Did it snow in Rushmore?

iirc, there's some frost, but no snow.

folks, threads drift around a bit, it's one of the nice things about ILX. don't be chumps about it.

Sure, but "The Twits" has this tit for tat rhythm going on. "Fox" is just weirdly incomplete. "Matilda," on the other hand, has too much, an example of a great story almost totally unhinged by his erratic narrative. It's a great book about a smart lonely girl sent to a strict school with only a single kind teacher as parent figure, and then ... out of nowhere he gives her "Carrie"-like telekinetic powers! Much of "The Witches" is just a long description of what witches are, followed by a showdown. "BFG" may be his most solid, followed by "Charlie." Even "James and the Giant Peach" was more slight than I remembered it. "Danny and the Magic Finger" truly reads like it was spontaneously dictated in one sit.

Still love Dahl, though. It's a testament to his gifts that his stories and characters transcend the books that contain then!

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 17 January 2013 23:33 (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

...

Chabon: http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2013/jan/31/wes-anderson-worlds/

can not imagine a less appealing writer-on-filmmaker combination

what about bell hooks on Spike Lee

more appealing

Jane Austen on Samuel Fuller.

i'd hit it

Edith Wharton on Robert Aldrich too.

tao lin on lena dunham

haha I'd read that

be reasonable

Rewatched -- so very fine, witty, generous. "I love you, but you don't know what you're talking about." As you were.

I WILL FIGHT NO MORE FOREVER

was this the gif you were looking for?
http://25.media.tumblr.com/3836be3cafc754229674e4f1a7da0a97/tumblr_mgsjxyM9hs1qlhck1o1_r1_500.gif

found this one, too:
http://24.media.tumblr.com/b49bcc7b0ddd8db3391e143e389264e1/tumblr_mhesthlG6k1rqdwk2o1_500.jpg

David Bordwell w/ a close reading, and engages Richard Brody's assertion “An auteur is not a brand”:

Some people find an inward-turned world like this to be fey, coy, twee, infantile, precious, or self-indulgent. It seems to me, though, that Anderson’s work from The Life Aquatic onward links up with a literary tradition we associate with J. M. Barrie and G. K. Chesterton. These writers employed childhood fantasy in an effort to imagine a richer, livelier realm behind prosaic reality. Another kindred spirit would be Winsor McCay, like Anderson an obsessively meticulous stylist who gives heft and lilt to dream worlds. In cinema we might recall Greenaway’s The Falls (1980), as obsessive and precious a project as can be imagined.

Indeed, why not mention the most famous figure of all? There is a trace of Lewis Carroll in Moonrise Kingdom’s looking-glass world—its strangely safe tree house, its deadpan absurdity, the habit of lawyers talking as if always in court. Like Carroll, Anderson doesn’t shrink from cruelty; the death of Snoopy is as perfunctory as that of the oysters on which the Walrus and the Carpenter tearfully dine.

http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/2014/07/20/moonrise-kingdom-wes-in-wonderland/

Rescreened finite by introducing it to three friends who'd missed it at the time. I think now it's second best after Rushmore. Just beautiful.

I'd never seen this photo until someone posted it on Facebook a few minutes ago.

http://amsterdam-ftv-blog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/gosta-peterson-06.nocrop.w1800.h1330.2x-856x580.jpg

Gösta Peterson, 1965 (same year as the film).

How did Belle & Sebastian miss that for a single/album cover?

Didn't know anything about this guy--photographed Twiggy a lot at the time.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/09/10/gosta-peterson-s-bohemian-rhapsody-unpacking-a-photographer-s-60s-secrets.html

Saw this yesterday. Reminded me of Ozu with the head-on camera and very little movement. Even when the camera does rotate it does it in 90 degree increments.

I am probably the last person in the world to realise this. But then the only other WA film I think I've seen is FMF.

I forgot they kill a dog in this movie wtf

how else would you know that wes anderson is the bad guy

wes anderson's best movie?

imo

Tied with a few others imo but in first