The Darjeeling Limited Press Conference
September 28th, 2007
After thinking about it for a week, seeing the final few minutes again and learning that the prequel short Hotel Chevalier is available for free on iTunes, I love The Darjeeling Limited even better than I already did. At yesterday’s press conference at Lincoln Center’s Walter Reade Theater, Wes Anderson, Jason Schwartzman, Adrien Brody, Roman Coppola, Amara Karan, and Waris Ahluwalia talked about their Indian adventure, Jean Renoir, and badminton rivalries. Here’s my video, chopped into three YouTube-friendly parts. Marcy’s review is up on About.com. The Darjeeling Limited opens today.
- More from the NYFF
- Week One on About.com
- Redacted
- Go Go Tales with video from the press conference
- Blade Runner: The Final Cut
- Married Life
- A Girl Cut in Two
- Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
- Fados
- Seen but not reviewed yet: Flight of the Red Balloon (***), The Axe in the Attic (**), Secret Sunshine (****), and The Orphanage (***). Up next: The Man From London
The Darjeeling Limited
September 19th, 2007
What a relief. After The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, I wasn’t alone in diagnosing Wes Anderson with a damn-near terminal case of arrested development. With this story of three brothers on a spiritual quest through India, the precocious director with a sweet tooth for all things quirky proves that he has found a way forward: The Darjeeling Limited is his best work since Rushmore. With Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody, and Jason Schwartzman. Roman Coppola, director of the underappreciated CQ, co-wrote the screenplay.
The film screens together with a short film, Hotel Chevalier, that serves as a prequel and stars a very naked Natalie Portman. We’ll have a full review and much more from the New York Film Festival on About.com as soon as we get rid of this leaden jetlag. The Darjeeling Limited will open on September 29.
Update: Marcy’s review of The Darjeeling Limited.
Hotel Chevalier. Wes Anderson, 2007. ****
The Darjeeling Limited. Wes Anderson, 2007. ****
The trailer:
“Because I Could:” Marie Antoinette Press Conference
October 14th, 2006
Sofia Coppola, Kirsten Dunst, and Jason Schwartzman at the Marie Antoinette press conference on Friday.
- About.com
- The Reeler (I heartily agree with every word)
- GreenCine
Marie Antoinette
September 19th, 2006
New York Film Festival press screenings started today, so for the next four weeks, I’ll be at the Walter Reade. So far, not so good: Lincoln Center is under construction, the suave and soothing presence of Graham Leggat is painfully absent, the breakfast spread has been scaled back catastrophically, brand-new security guys kept asking me if I had checked in yet, and the first movie was a terrible disappointment. Off the top of my head, I can think of 50 reasons why Sofia Coppola’s poppy Versailles biopic doesn’t work, but for now, let’s just say that it’s every bit as decadent and clueless as its main character.
Update: my About.com review is now online.
Marie Antoinette, Sofia Coppola, 2006. *
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