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

i really really want this to be good

i kind of hope there isnt an dialogue are action or anything but music and elaborate tableaux

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2opbhfNnp1qz6f9yo1_500.jpg

Yeah, this looks like a Wes Anderson film all right.

lol difficult listening hour

so did everybody else notice when the trailer came out that every shot is just bang-on symmetrical with the subject at the center of the frame?

― raw feel vegan (silby), Tuesday, April 10, 2012 7:14 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

have you ever seen a wes anderson movies?

I just... I dunno

:D

Should I watch The Life Aquatic? I have been avoiding it because I heard it was Anderson's worst. I didn't care for Darjeeling but liked the rest of them.

nah, don't do it

i'd say you have to be interested in everything he does (which i am) in order not to be irritated and occasionally quite bored w/ life aquatic.

it's better than the life aquatic, but big step below everything else

lol, better than the darjeeling limited i mean

i actually found life aquatic the most tolerable of his movies thanks to the seu jorge ost

I really like Darjeeling, despite some clunking moments.

Life Aquatic is an unfocussed mess, but there's good stuff in there.

anticipating this for sure, partly for because i kinda love the preciousness of anderson's set designs & set decoration, partly for the tilda, partly for the rhode island locations. it'll be pretty at least.

i think bruce willis is the only casting decision i'm semi-excited about

can't give Life Aquatic a fair shot after I saw it in a packed theater and the fanboys fell out over every single shot even if it wasn't meant to be funny

smh
http://www.teoylamaquinadeideas.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/adidas-zissou.jpg

will not top Addams Family Values summer camp IMO

i just assume i will like this one and at worst there may be some stuff in it that i don't like. unless he has some kind of sudden decline which i doubt.

milo z otm

reviews rolling in. didn't realise how close the US release date was for this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbztK0gjTnQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzGn5DdCYIk

psyched for this.

i find it weird that this dude is so polarizing. i don't actually know many people IRL who hate wes anderson's films, but reading the interwebs (especially some critics i respect) you'd think he were brett ratner or something.

to me it seems partly to do with how much you value the idea of the decorative and the obsessively patterned as values in art, ones that need not be combined with heady themes. i was going to say that critics prefer more obviously "humanist" films but that isn't true, since some of the same folks who dislike anderson's films will go gaga over haneke or dumont.

i mean his films have given me extraordinary pleasure for values that seem essentially decorative (in the gombrich sense, though the fact that the word "decorative" has a negative connotation sort of makes my point), albeit transcendently deocrative. todd mccarthy's review gets this right i think.

of course the film giving me pleasure doesn't really amount to a very mature or convincing defense, since i don't know that i'd entirely buy that argument for some other films (part of me would, but not all of me).

I don't hate him or anything but Rushmore to me was the clear apex of his style for me; every subsequence film has felt like diminishing returns, even the beloved Mr Fox.

Argh too many "me"'s.

rushmore remains my fave but FMF is close, an i don't think there's been a steady downward curve. i liked darjeeling better than the two films that preceded it. so there's no way i'd write him off via law of diminishing returns. IMO

astonishing to me how little love there is these days for Tenenbaums (basically my fave film of the last 12 years or so) compared to the rest of his stuff.
it's like the 'Sgt Pepper's..' of his movies or something.

Oh wow, I said Rushmore when I totally meant Tenenbaums. Rushmore also leaves me cold save for "Oh, are you?"

i think rushmore won when be polled w.a. films, so there.

his weakest feature is... Bottle Rocket. really, with all the shit filmmakers Millennials like....

anticipating.

Clear case of texture over content but still, but I'll still go see it in the theater.

content, wtf

Clear case of texture over content but still, but I'll still go see it in the theater.

― calstars, Saturday, May 19, 2012 8:53 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

can you explain this a bit more?

all style no substance?

ppl upthread are crazy, life aquatic is his best film

it's his best movie with the word aquatic in the title but if you then go on to include all of the movies he has made that do not have that word in the title then it suffers badly by comparison

life aquatic is a fine mess

For all of its surface affectations, Life Aquatic has some of the least affected performances in a Wes Anderson film. It's my favorite latter-day Bill Murray role, and Owen Wilson and Anjelica Huston are good, too. Plus Jeff Goldblum is funny.

all style no substance?

― Fas Ro Duh (Gukbe), Saturday, May 19, 2012 9:13 PM (47 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

but what is "substance"? i'm sure we've had this debate a million times, i just never know what people mean when they say that.

Paintings of horses.

everything post tenenbaums seems a little autistic

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/209224/WES-ANDERSON.jpg

an emotional and/or intellectual engagement beyond "that's pretty" or "that was fun". I think the argument is that Anderson makes very stylistically affected and aesthetically attractive movies that don't really say much about anything or any of its characters beyond the surface story. xposts

Ok one thing's for sure, his films >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> his prose.

i guess this is his "new wave" movie?

I think at this point, I've just come to accept that I just like every movie Anderson has made, even if some of them are kind of hard to defend on many levels. He just has a visual style which really appeals to me. Really good cinematography and set design is enough to make me like a movie.

^^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?
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found this one, too:
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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

better than royal tenenabums but ive heard life aquatic is really good and i really want to see it

so so far i have to say this just might be my favourite of his so far

when does the dog movie come out?

this one and the last were the best.

life aquatic is my second favorite (though there is lots of griping about it upthread)

march 23rd

life aquatic is the only one I have only seen once.

the staring contests between bill murray and owen wilson (with that awful mustache) are some of my favorite moments in film

I love WA’s work in general but « Life Aquatic » might be the only one I found so boring it took me a few times to watch it (although there are some great moments).

if you'll like life aquatic you'll like moonrise kingdom

Budapest > Moonrise > Tenenbaums for my top 3, but god this is the warmest love story.

I thought everyone understood FMF was his best

It's on my rewatch list.

top of my head top 5: Tenenbaums > Rushmore > Fox >> Moonrise >>> Budapest

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