wife's reaction to the reveal that it's set in houston: "but it's snowing in the movie!"
― da croupier, Friday, 18 January 2013 15:06 (eleven years ago) link
would be awesome if they actually called out the rarity of that
― da croupier, Friday, 18 January 2013 15:08 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― (panda) (gun) (wrapped gift) (silby), Friday, 18 January 2013 21:43 (eleven years ago) link
i think it is
a) "set in houston" for those in the know
b) set nowhere in particular for everybody else
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 19 January 2013 00:41 (eleven years ago) link
i mean v few of the actors (aside from wes's school buddies) code as texan anyway
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 19 January 2013 00:42 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― *tera, Saturday, 19 January 2013 01:07 (eleven years ago) link
great Moonrise Kingdom thread
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 19 January 2013 07:37 (eleven years ago) link
you can start a new "what is Houston like, and how would you tell what movies are set there" thread if you want
― (panda) (gun) (wrapped gift) (silby), Saturday, 19 January 2013 08:03 (eleven years ago) link
Are there any Houstony things in moonrise kingdom? That movie is really going to mess with my geographical conceptions of Texas if so.
― Philip Nunez, Saturday, 19 January 2013 17:35 (eleven years ago) link
^^I think HPD used to have Plymouth police wagons like Willis' back in the day.
― Big Sambola & The Tailspinners (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 19 January 2013 17:44 (eleven years ago) link
has WA spoken about researching New England?
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 19 January 2013 18:02 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Number None, Saturday, 19 January 2013 18:07 (eleven years ago) link
Did it snow in Rushmore?
― Magic Miike (R Baez), Saturday, 19 January 2013 18:14 (eleven years ago) link
iirc, there's some frost, but no snow.
― Big Sambola & The Tailspinners (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 19 January 2013 18:29 (eleven years ago) link
folks, threads drift around a bit, it's one of the nice things about ILX. don't be chumps about it.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 19 January 2013 22:56 (eleven years ago) link
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
...
― attempt to look intentionally nerdy, awkward or (thomp), Saturday, 19 January 2013 23:03 (eleven years ago) link
Chabon: http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2013/jan/31/wes-anderson-worlds/
― Gukbe, Friday, 1 February 2013 19:21 (eleven years ago) link
can not imagine a less appealing writer-on-filmmaker combination
― zero dark (s1ocki), Friday, 1 February 2013 19:44 (eleven years ago) link
what about bell hooks on Spike Lee
― Women, Fire, and Dangerous Zings (silby), Friday, 1 February 2013 19:58 (eleven years ago) link
more appealing
― zero dark (s1ocki), Friday, 1 February 2013 21:08 (eleven years ago) link
Jane Austen on Samuel Fuller.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 1 February 2013 21:09 (eleven years ago) link
i'd hit it
― zero dark (s1ocki), Friday, 1 February 2013 21:09 (eleven years ago) link
Edith Wharton on Robert Aldrich too.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 1 February 2013 21:11 (eleven years ago) link
tao lin on lena dunham
― Mordy, Friday, 1 February 2013 22:46 (eleven years ago) link
haha I'd read that
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Friday, 1 February 2013 22:48 (eleven years ago) link
be reasonable
― Mordy, Friday, 1 February 2013 22:53 (eleven years ago) link
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
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 2 February 2013 13:51 (eleven years ago) link
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
― Philip Nunez, Saturday, 2 February 2013 18:08 (eleven years ago) link
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/
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Monday, 21 July 2014 19:23 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 16 November 2014 09:01 (nine years ago) link
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).
― clemenza, Monday, 27 July 2015 01:21 (eight years ago) link
How did Belle & Sebastian miss that for a single/album cover?
― Love, Wilco (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 27 July 2015 01:24 (eight years ago) link
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
― clemenza, Monday, 27 July 2015 01:27 (eight years ago) link
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.
― koogs, Saturday, 3 September 2016 04:37 (seven years ago) link
I forgot they kill a dog in this movie wtf
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 20 November 2016 01:17 (seven years ago) link
how else would you know that wes anderson is the bad guy
― qualx, Sunday, 20 November 2016 01:21 (seven years ago) link
wes anderson's best movie?
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 22:30 (six years ago) link
imo
― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 22:43 (six years ago) link
Tied with a few others imo but in first
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 22:52 (six years ago) link
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
― infinity (∞), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 23:41 (six years ago) link
when does the dog movie come out?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 23:43 (six years ago) link
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
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 23:44 (six years ago) link
life aquatic is the only one I have only seen once.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 23:48 (six years ago) link
the staring contests between bill murray and owen wilson (with that awful mustache) are some of my favorite moments in film
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 23:53 (six years ago) link
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).
― AlXTC from Paris, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 23:58 (six years ago) link
if you'll like life aquatic you'll like moonrise kingdom
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 3 January 2018 00:14 (six years ago) link
Budapest > Moonrise > Tenenbaums for my top 3, but god this is the warmest love story.
― Irritable Baal (WmC), Wednesday, 22 July 2020 01:50 (three years ago) link
I thought everyone understood FMF was his best
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Wednesday, 22 July 2020 02:05 (three years ago) link
It's on my rewatch list.
― Irritable Baal (WmC), Wednesday, 22 July 2020 02:17 (three years ago) link