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

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

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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

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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