‘Wanna See My View Of Paris?’…so ends Wes Anderson’s prologue to The Darjeeling Limited, a 13-minute short set in Paris’ (fictional?) Hotel Chevalier.
Simple, sweet and poignant…the final shot lingers over the heartbreaking final moments of a relationship; a coda that’s as cold as it is intimate. Nicely crafted Wes 🙂
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{ US viewers can download free from iTunes, while the rest of us pirate from Stage6… }
‘I sometimes get this strange and sort of uncontrollable urge to want to go home…’
Sigur Rós’ forthcoming album Hvarf-Heim is gonna be accompanied by what appears to be a 
magical DVD movie entitled Heima…Icelandic for ‘at home’.
I first heard Sigur in Vanilla Sky…and ever since imagined their work to be ‘widescreen music’…Heima‘s breathtaking vistas look like they’ll give form to Sigur’s fictions…actually it looks a little like Koyaanisqatsi and Powaqqatsi.
Check out the trailer at heimafilm.com…
Wes Anderson, one of my favourite directors, has his latest film premiering in a few weeks; The Darjeeling Limited is the story of three estranged brothers that journey across India together in an attempt to put aside their differences, following the death of their father.
You can find HD trailers at the Quicktime site, as well as on YouTube.
What’s goin on?
I dunno, I guess the train’s lost.
How can a train be lost…it’s on rails?
I’m not sure why a POV shot of a train hurtling down a track makes me chuckle…I guess Anderson doesn’t need Bill Murray to make me laugh 🙂
Yay! There’s a new Batman Dark Knight teaser trailer at Why So Serious? You get to see – um – nothing?
UPDATE: Sounds like 2008’ll also see an anime-style, straight-to-DVD Batman movie set between Batman Begins and The Dark Knight…in the vein of Clone Wars, Dark Fury and Animatrix 🙂
Mark Ronson on The Kaiser Chiefs’ You Can Have It All…
‘It could have been the slow dance song in a John Hughes movie – like Molly Ringwald all bummed and stuff, before the cute guy she’s been secretly in love with comes over and takes her hand.’
I see it too and I want to see that movie, starring John Cusack perhaps? Maybe I’m in an 80s nostalgia mood today after a girl I had a crush on at school friended me on Facebook 🙂
…the fedora’s back – it’s been eighteen years. I can’t wait 🙂
…not some Oakley-esque remix of an iPod, but the Dark Knight‘s new ride. I want one 🙂
More here…
I should like it, but I don’t want to 🙁
Lucasfilm previewed the new Clone Wars TV series at this weekend’s 30th anniversary of Star Wars. It looks great, but why remake Genndy Tartovsky‘s sublimely dark and kinetic better-than-the-movies interpretation? We’ll find out in Summer 2008 🙂
In the meantime, here’s a newly minted fan-made CGI trailer for Tales of the New Republic.
From a review of Michael Moore’s Sicko, at Salon.com…
When Moore interviews Tony Benn, a leading figure on the British left,
his larger concerns come into focus.Benn argues that for-profit
healthcare and the other instruments of the corporate state, like
student loans and bottomless credit-card debt, perform a crucial
function for that state.They undermine democracy by creating a docile
and hardworking population that is addicted to constant debt and an
essentially unsustainable lifestyle, that literally cannot afford to
quit jobs or take time off, that is more interested in maintaining high
incomes than in social or political change.
…and perhaps that an indication of broader civilisational health. Our motivators, measures of success, quality of life – indeed all the metrics of modern civilisation – are economic functions…that cannot be right.
Awesome! Pakistan’s first extreme horror movie has just been BoingBoing-ed and my mind is reeling with punchlines and wisecracks. But, I’m kinda disappointed that the victims are expendable teens and not my home country’s crazy imams, power-hungry generals, CIA agents and the corrupted gentry…now wouldn’t that be subversive…allies in a War On Horror!
Anyways, here’re the goods…
I wonder, do Muslim zombies keep Halal?