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TCB Debriefing 9/14/23: Henry Sugar, Adam Sandler Tour, Diffidate delle Imitazioni, Murray Hill, Big Mouth, Mr & Mrs Smith, Our Flag Means Death

September 14, 2023
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1. It shouldn’t really come as a surprise that a Wes Anderson film adapted from a Roald Dahl book would seem to be an utter delight and yet another colorful addition to Anderson’s storied filmography. We’re thrilled that it was only a few short months ago that Asteroid City came out and we’re now treated to another helping of Wes Anderson so soon. So, without further adieu, take your first gander at The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar starring Benedict Cumberbatch, due out on Netflix on Sept. 27th.

2. Adam Sandler is going back on tour from Oct. 12th-Dec. 12th (Billboard). His last tour and special were some of Sandler’s most cherished work to date, especially outside of things like Uncut Gems.

3. Diffidate delle Imitazioni (literally translated as Beware of Imitations, but will be called Fake Show in English) is a brand new Italian comedy game show, ordered by Rai, where Italian celebrities will improvise based off of suggestions and prompts generated by AI (Deadline). Though it might try, AI will not best Clive Anderson as an improv show host.

4. Frequent scene stealer Murray Hill (Live & Beth and Somebody Somewhere) is coming out with his very first memoir, Showbiz! My Unexpected Life as a Middle-Aged Man, which appears to have more than just a story of making it in the Big Apple. It’s set for 2025 release, but we’re sure we’ll get tid bits and morsels leading up to that day.

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5. Just a little more than a month of waiting before you get Big Mouth season 7 (specifically, Oct. 20th on Netflix).

6. The premiere of Donald Glover and Maya Erskine‘s Mr. and Mrs. Smith is delayed due to the ongoing strike and its prohibition of promoting certain big time movies and TV series (THR). If the studios do end up going rogue from the streamers and tech giants, we might have to wait even longer to see this.

7. This full length trailer for season 2 of Our Flag Means Death almost makes you want to go back in time to make piracy more like it is between Taika Waititi and Rhys Darby. Season 2 sets sail on Thurs. Oct. 5th.

8. Nothing Bill Maher does on this writer-less return of Real Time will top Conan O’Brien spinning his wedding ring.

TCB Debriefing 8/24/23: Wes Anderson/Henry Sugar, Rick and Morty, Cat Person, VonViddy

August 24, 2023
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1. Normally, you’d have to wait quite some time between the works of art that comedy auteur extraordinaire Wes Anderson puts out. Anderson’s latest The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar just happens to buck that trend (and also be a short rather than a feature length film) by announcing a Sept. 27th premiere on Netflix (Pitchfork). Those wanting more Roald Dahl in the world ought to be thrilled as well that this premiere is less than a month away.

2. Season 7 of Rick and Morty is set to premiere on Sun. Oct. 15th at 11PM ET/PT on Adult Swim. Adult Swim’s press release made no mention of Justin Roiland, which makes us wonder if they’re going to make fun of it in future episodes a la Solar Opposites or just going to leave their parting ways all in the past.

3. It takes a lot for short story to captivate the Internet, but that is what Cat Person by Kristen Roupenian, published in the New Yorker, achieved. For such a feat, it’s now going to be a genre-bending feature length film that’s part comedy (especially with Geraldine Viswanathan and Nicholas Braun), thriller, social satire, and low key Black Mirror episode. Take a gander for yourself with the trailer here.

4. R.I.P. Joe Muchlinski AKA VonViddy, a popular TikTok comedian that took his own life at the age of 32 (People). Even though mental health is taken seriously these days, there’s obviously still a very long road to go before any of us have it all figured out.

5. It’s kind of criminal that the strikes have lasted to the point where Greg Gutfeld is the only late night host on air when the first GOP POTUS debates just happened.

TCB Debriefing 8/7/23: Reservation Dogs, Barbie, Wes Anderson, TCA Awards, Stand

August 7, 2023
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1. Just a friendly reminder that the third and final season of Reservation Dogs is starting off with a bang and might be the strangest, most beautiful, most heartfelt, funny, and, of course, best yet (Spirit William Knifeman really shines brighter than he has before). They are just a few episodes in with new ones dropping on Wednesday on FX/Hulu.

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2. Whether she deeply, truly knew it or not, Margot Robbie called Barbie making a $1 billion (Variety). With less than three weeks in release, the Greta Gerwig helmed Robbie-starring Barbie surpassed a $1 billion, far outpacing Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One, and is on track to make way more as the film is officially set for release in Saudi Arabia and U.A.E. (THR).

3. Perhaps, the most celebrated comedy auteur of our time, Wes Anderson, is getting lifetime achievement honors at the Venice Film Festival in the form of the Cartier Glory to the Filmmaker Award (Deadline). This makes us think of how symmetrical Anderson’s award case must be?

4. The Television Critics Association Awards just announced their winners sans pomp and circumstance due to the double strike. Still, kudos to the winners, though What We Do in the Shadows and The Other Two need more awards pronto.

Outstanding Achievement in Comedy: The Bear
Individual Achievement in Comedy: Natasha Lyonne, Poker Face
Outstanding Achievement in Variety, Talk, or Sketch: I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson
Outstanding New Program: The Bear
Outstanding Achievment in Reality: Jury Duty

(Full list of TCA Award Winners here)

4. The big time comedy/variety special Stand Up to Cancer is set to return in less than two weeks on Aug. 19th at 8PM ET/5PM PT with Jack Black, Ben Falcone, Zach Galifianakis, Brad Garrett, Bill Hader, Jon Hamm, Kevin Hart, Ed Helms, Melissa McCarthy, Matthew McConaughey, and many, many other star-studded cameos. You’ll be able to watch it on all major broadcast networks and stream it on multiple platforms as well. Hopefully, like all live specials these days, they’ll put clips on YouTube to encourage people to watch the whole thing later (THR).

5. Is anyone running open mics on the picket line yet? Maybe just for chants?

Go Watch and Delight in Asteroid City, Especially If You’re Sick of Multiplex Big Budget IP Tentpoles

July 6, 2023
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Asteroid City has been out on the festival circuit and in theaters long enough to dissect its exemplary quality as a specimen of comedic auteur Wes Anderson’s body of work. Color palate, symmetry, über-niche props and set dressing with equally complex characters to match, the negative space of pacing, the twee score, an embarrassment of riches of an ensemble cast, etc. all make for the seemingly esoteric charm of a Wes Anderson film. What stands out with Asteroid City is Wes awareness of his own auteur-ship (and the accompanying send-ups of his signature style), then unabashedly embracing his own beautiful ridiculousness in a farcical meta manner; detractors and edgelords be damned.

Again, there are plenty of reviews digging far deeper into these notions and the like whether they walked away from viewing Asteroid City with a big grin on their face (like us) or confounded at what exactly is Wes Anderson up to becoming even more Wes Anderson-y than usual.

Instead, we’d humbly point out that the inevitable bubble of Marvel/comic book/studio tentpole movies is starting to burst as evidenced by projected big box office losses on such marquee titles as The Flash and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. For decades now, the predictability of box office from adapting IP (including anything from a comic book to LEGO) was disturbingly reliable, resulting in the incessant deluge of cinematic universes that we’ve gotten at our local multiplexes. With the disruption of what should have been a “sure thing” for summer movie fare is the general public voting with their feet/dollars.

In that spirit, one could point towards a brighter future with going to see the brightly shining delight that is Asteroid City (already doing quite well in its opening weeks in the speciality box office). If the fatigue with comic book movies is real and people aren’t going to see them, eventually even the most profit driven studios will have to change tactics and focus in on more original stories/visions that folks will go out to see on the big screen rather than wait for it on streaming or not watch at all.

Sure, that might end up resulting in something like a Wes Anderson Cinematic Universe, but isn’t that more charming and aesthetically enthralling than the MCU?

 

Revel in The Quirky, Faded Postcard World in Trailer for Wes Anderson’s Latest “Asteroid City”

March 29, 2023
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The coming a Wes Anderson movie is, at this point in the comedy auteur’s career, kind of an event. There’s nothing really like Anderson’s filmography anywhere else in cinema. Wes’ signature quiet, yet exuberant sense of humor lovingly displayed with soothing color palates and masterful symmetry offers a bright highlight to any moment in time that his movies come out.

Cue the release of the trailer for his latest film, Asteroid City.

Per usual, there are the spoils that come with any Wes Anderson film including a massive, glitzy ensemble cast, a cheeky modern reimagining of lands and times in the somewhat recent past, and beautifully wry dialogue. Asteroid City brings together the likes of Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks, Jeffrey Wright, Tilda Swinton, Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, Adrien Brody, Liev Schreiber, Hope Davis, Stephen Park, Maya Hawke, Steve Carell, Matt Dillon, Hong Chau, Willem Dafoe, Margot Robbie, Jake Ryan, Tony Revolori, and Jeff Goldblum and has the alluring feel of a vintage Route 66 postcard, tinged with irony that’s perfect for 2023.

From the looks of trailer, it looks to be exact film that the world would want from Wes after the pandemic. Get your first look/taste of Asteroid City here, then pine for a visit until its release on Jun. 16th.

 

Wes Anderson’s Next Film Will Be Adaptation of Roald Dahl’s The Wonderful Story Henry Sugar & Six More

January 7, 2022
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(via Deadline)

The charming anthology-ish movie The French Dispatch and its winding and intertwined stories seems to have set the new path for Wes Anderson. Anderson has just signed on to adapt Roald Dahl’s The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar & Six More, a collection of short stories from the iconic Dahl, some of which are autobiographical.

Not only will be there a few stories that Wes will be adapting from the book, but the titular story feels particularly at home in oeuvre of Wes Anderson. That particular tale follows Sugar gaining the knowledge of some sort of clairvoyance from stealing a mystical book, winning fortune from gambling, becoming aghast at the concept of money, attempting to give those to more unfortunate, but then having to deal with certain organized criminal elements that he won his money from. We can see all the symmetry and the nuanced precision and specificity of Anderson’s screwball comedy sensibilities in a story such as that one and we can’t wait to see how he brings Henry Sugar (and whatever other stories he chooses) to life. We’ve already been treated to the Anderson treatment of a Dahl story with the stop motion animation adaptation of The Fantastic Mr. Fox.

Perhaps The Boy Who Talked to Animals and Lucky Break will be the other stories? Those seem the most Anderson-ish as well.

Reportedly, Benedict Cumberbatch will play Sugar and this is part of Netflix’s goal of developing projects from The Roald Dahl Story Company, so you’ll be able to stream it (in case going to the movie theater is going to be a precarious activity from now on).

Trailer for Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch Is Everything You Want from a Wes Anderson Movie (Yet Again)

February 12, 2020
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In posting here about the wondrous and delectable trailer for Wes Anderson’s latest offering, The French Dispatch, it seems, to us, rather repetitive to comment on the signature look of a Wes Anderson picture, the routinely glorious and stacked casts within his films, how every frame could be framed and hung in a gallery, how quotable the dialogue is, how cool the soundtrack is, and the sheer dreaminess of his movies. If you have any hint of a notion of Wes Anderson, it’s very likely you already know about all of that.

Also, The French Dispatch very clearly seems to possess all of those Wes Anderson elements.

Instead, we’ll remark on how amazing it is that Wes Anderson has created such a mystique about him as well as delivering on said mystique with every new work that he can (and most likely will) keep making films that are oft described as “so Wes Anderson” or “the most Wes Anderson that Wes Anderson can be” and we all still love it. Any reinvention by Anderson is oh so slight and probably undetectable on a first viewing. It’s the magic trick that we never get tired of and certainly The French Dispatch seems like it will be keeping that streak going and we personally can’t wait for July 24th when it comes out. 

For now, just enjoy watching the trailer for The French Dispatch over and over as you marvel at the small morsels of it that we’re afforded at the moment.

Wes Anderson’s Latest ‘The French Dispatch’ Release Date Set for July 24th

January 29, 2020
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Wes Anderson’s Latest ‘The French Dispatch’ Release Date Set for July 24th

For all the beauty, symmetry, warmth, candor, humor, delightful peculiarities of a Wes Anderson movie, it’s something that we’d really like to see right now as we enter the thick of an election year.  

We have no doubt that this movie that recounts stories from a fictional American magazine from fictional French city that boasts a cast of Benicio del Toro, Adrien Brody, Tilda Swinton, Lea Seydoux, Frances McDormand, Timothee Chalamet, Lyna Khoudri, Jeffrey Wright, Mathieu Amalric, Stephen Park, Bill Murray and Owen Wilson will be everything that you’re looking for in a Wes Anderson movie. 

Our mind swirls as to what all of these elements together will look and feel like and we almost can’t wait (though we will) for July 24th.

Wes Anderson’s Latest Film “The French Dispatch” to Come Out via Fox Searchlight

September 21, 2019
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Wes Anderson’s Latest Film “The French Dispatch” to Come Out via Fox Searchlight

Three interwoven stories that come from a fictional French magazine, that’s set up by American journalists, and another stacked ensemble cast (to be expected at this point) that includes Timothée Chalemet, Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton, Léa Seydoux are the perfect elements that’ll allow Wes Anderson to bake another perfectly twee, yet bittersweet comedy where every frame could be made into a postcard. 

In fact, we’d bet that, will we know thus far, The French Dispatch might be a frontrunner for Best Production Design for whatever awards season it would be in consideration for. 

As far as Fox Searchlight is concerned, we’re digging that it has both JoJo Rabbit and The French Dispatch on it.

Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs Will Have You Smiling Almost the Whole Way Through

March 23, 2018
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Whether you’re a diehard Wes Anderson aficionado or not, it’s pretty hard to resist a rag tag crew of stop motion animation dogs and a determined young boy pilot trying to save all dog kind in the Isle of Dogs. 

As with all Wes Anderson movies, everything in Isle of Dogs is so unapologetically crafted to the auteur’s signature style and yet done in a way that we never found rote or overdone. Also, seeing a Wes Anderson movie set in Japan, done inclusively and respectfully with Japanese actors voicing Japanese characters and a respected Japanese talent Kunichi Nomura consulting on the look and feel of the movie, is pretty spectacular on its own.

From the opening on, we were smiling for nearly the entire run time and found ourselves indulging in a childlike giggle throughout. Sincerely, as a cynical adult living in the bizarre time in human history that we live in right now, we never thought that was possible again. 

So, go see Isle of Dogs wherever and whenever you can. Get tickets here.

Every Wes Anderson Film Gets The Honest Trailers Treatment All in One Go

March 20, 2018
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Roasting is best when you “roast the ones you love”. That is clearly evident in Screen Junkies’ Honest Trailer of the Wes Anderson filmography, making it one of their loveliest episodes yet.

Watch it here.

March 4, 2018
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As The Oscars tonight, we thought it’d we should give you a heads up on one of the few Oscar nominated comedies over the last several years (tonight’s a little different as Lady Bird, I, Tonya, The Big Sick, The Disaster Artist, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, The Square all scored nominations this year).

So, Wes Anderson Oscar nominated Moonrise Kingdom is playing at The Aero Theatre in Santa Monica a week from now. On top of it being another critically acclaimed part of Wes Anderson’s filmography, it’s also an escapist comedy adventure to a fictional time and place if that’s something you need right now for some reason.

Tickets are $12. Get them and more details here.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, screenings, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.

Enjoy a New Morsel of Wes Anderson’s Latest “Isle of Dogs”

February 8, 2018
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This clip of the highly anticipated Wes Anderson’s stop motion animation dog movie “Isle of Dogs” proudly shows Anderson in his pure auteur form (particularly in regards to symmetry, subtle comic dialogue, cool color palate) that so many have come to love and enjoy (and also do spot-on parodies of due to how iconic his style is).

It also shows stop motion dogs, which should brighten up your day automatically.

Enjoy it here.

Look for Isle of Dogs in theaters come March 23rd.

Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs Looks Unabashedly Like a Beautiful Wes Anderson Dream That Only Wes Anderson Could Come Up With

September 21, 2017
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Talking animals, symmetry, stop motion animation, Bill Murray, Bob Balaban a fascinating color palate, and a premise that is very grounded in its own universe and simultaneously outlandish make for a great recipe for Wes Anderson movie. 

That being said, Wes Anderson is pretty much the only person to put such ingredients together and present something that will put a smile on your face without a touch of irony. 

Such is the case for his latest work, Isle of Dogs, which might be his most adorable movie to date (if that’s even possible).

See for yourself in the trailer here.

Isle of Dogs starts playing in theaters near you on Friday, March 23rd, 2018.

September 3, 2017
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In case you didn’t know, Orange County does have its own cool, arthouse/revival theater: The Frida Cinema.

As you can see above, all September long, they’ll be doing a Wes Anderson Month that you ought to not miss. There’s no doubt in our minds that stepping back into the worlds of Wes Anderson sounds pretty nice right now.

Admission to screenings at Frida are $10 and $7 for members. Get more details and tickets here.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.

In Typical Wes Anderson Fashion, The First Poster for His Animated Dog Movie “Isle of Dogs” Is Charming as Can Be

April 28, 2017
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Next year’s 4/20 might just be a little less about weed and a little more about the color and symmetry coordinated charm of Wes Anderson’s latest work, Isle of Dogs.

The first poster is a pretty strong indication, in our opinion, that’ll happen.

Wes Anderson Is Offering Up a Chance to Voice a Dog ‘Isle of Dogs’ (and a Brief First Look)

December 21, 2016
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Wes Anderson’s latest film, Isle of Dogs, is in the works, and Wes has been gracious enough to give a bit of a taste of what’s to come (with a very Wes Anderson-y cameo by Edward Norton too).

He also has been gracious enough to, in support of film preservation around the world, open an opportunity for a lucky person to go to London and voice a dog in the film. That’s right; you could be in a Wes Anderson movie about dogs.

Watch Wes explain here.

Learn more about possibly voicing a character in Isle of Dogs and the charity being supported here.

Rushmore, Funny Girl, and Putney Swope Just Added to National Historic Registry

December 18, 2016
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Rushmore, Funny Girl, and Putney Swope Just Added to National Historic Registry

Basically, it’s like the federal government’s version of “desert island movies”, but they get to keep adding movies every year.

Specifically, the National Film Preservation Act, adds 25 movies of cultural, historic, or aesthetic importance to the National Historic Registry of the Library of Congress.

This year, that includes vaudeville comedy Beau Brummels (1928), Buster Keaton vehicle Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928), Billy Wilder and Barbara Stanwyck screwball comedy Ball of Fire (1941), Barbara Streisand shining in Funny Girl (1968), the uber-subversive Putney Swope (1969) from Robert Downey Sr., the live action-animation hybrid Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988) and Wes Anderson’s milestone work Rushmore (1998).

Not a bad run of desert island movie, right?

Get the full list of films added to the National Historic Registry at the link above.

Wes Anderson Makes an Adorable Holiday-on-a-Train Short Film “Come Together”

November 28, 2016
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This might be the pretty, well-composed, adorable piece of holiday visual candy and charm that could only come from Wes Anderson that will either get you in the mood for the holiday season or at least make today seem a teensy bit brighter.

Anderson’s latest short film Come Together starring Anderson-go-to Adrien Brody is presented by H&M in the same way Spike Jonze did his uber-fun short film for Kenzo. 

As far as we can see, this auteur-catered ad strategy with the most subtle mention of the products is only going to become more popular. 

Bill Murray Will Be in Wes Anderson’s Stop Motion Animation Dog Movie Because It Would Be a Little Weird If He Wasn’t, Right?

December 8, 2015
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(via Indiewire’s The Playlist)

Per usual, Wes Anderson is rounding up his usual suspects of Hollywood’s most celebrated.

Already, Bryan Cranston, Jeff Goldblum, Bob Balaban, and Edward Norton are in Wes Anderson’s latest film, which will be made with stop motion animation and focused in on dogs. If that wasn’t already alluring enough to the Wes Anderson faithful, Bill Murray will be a voicing dog in a story that Murray describes as “Japanese”.

At this point, we’d wager that Wes wouldn’t have to make a trailer for people to see this movie.

Jeff Goldblum, Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, and Bob Balaban Join in on Wes Anderson’s Stop Motion Animation Dog Movie

October 13, 2015
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It would seem that it takes very little time for Wes Anderson to assemble a stellar cast.

Bryan Cranston is being brought into the Wes Anderson fold along with Jeff Goldblum, Bob Balaban, and Edward Norton for Anderson’s latest movie involving dogs and stop motion animation.

Let your imagination run wild with the possibilities of them voicing ultra clever dialogue as dogs. Personally, we’re fixated on imagining them at a poke table like in one of C.M. Coolidge’s famous paintings.

Wes Anderson’s Next Project to Involve Stop Motion Animation and Dogs

October 11, 2015
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(via Indiewire’s The Playlist)

Let your imagination run wild with the possibilities of Wes Anderson, stop motion, and canines. 

The specifics of Wes Anderson’s next film don’t go beyond stop-motion animation dogs. However, the notion that Anderson is heading into territory that most people probably just associate with Gromit from Wallace & Gromit is pretty enticing. 

Get ready for what might be the most adorable and whimsical representation of dogs that has ever been.

Wes Anderson Designed His Own Cafe ‘Bar Luce’ Located Appropriately In Milan

May 23, 2015
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There are pinball machines that are Wes Anderson themed.

For those in love with the colors, symmetry, and worlds of Wes Anderson’s films will be happy to know that they can now go to a real life version of it at Bar Luce in Milan, Italy (a stylish hub in Italy).

Every inch looks as charming and retro as can be with mint green booth and dark wood accents juxtaposed against elaborate pillar patterned wallpaper. A jukebox with songs that you might only know if you actually own soundtracks from Wes Anderson movies and a Steve Zissou pinball machine make it even more charming somehow. 

Get a look at Bar Luce here unless you’re just planning on taking a whirlwind trip to Italy to check it out.

“Birdman” and “Grand Budapest Hotel” Continue To Get Nominated For Almost Everything

January 15, 2015
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The nominations for both The Oscars and The DGA Awards were just recently released and while it isn’t coming as much of a surprise, Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) and The Grand Budapest Hotel have kept on sweeping up honors left and right this awards season.

Already, both films have scored wins at The Golden Globes and have garnered nominations at The SAG Awards.

For The Oscars, Birdman is nominated for Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Best Cinematography, Best Directing, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, Best Original Screenplay.

The Grand Budapest Hotel racked up Best Picture, Best Score, Best Costume Design, Best Film Editing, Best Makeup and Hairstyling, Best Production Design, Best Cinematography, Best Directing, and Best Original Screenplay.

On top of that, Wes Anderson and Alejandro González Iñáritu both were nominated by The DGA Awards for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film.

That’s 9 Oscar nominations each for the pair, which, above all else, should be noteworthy because they both are comedies, especially in contrast to the rest of the nominated fare.  Traditionally, comedy goes generally overlooked during awards season unless it’s in its own category, especially at The Oscars.

Maybe this genre glass ceiling has been broken with two comedy powerhouse frontrunners? We certainly hope so. 

If Wes Anderson Maybe Had Enough Money, He Might Just Build a Theme Park

November 6, 2014
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In a foreword of Mark Mothersbaugh: Myopia, endearing auteur Wes Anderson puts forth the idea that if he secured enough funding, he’d want a theme park to be entirely put together at the direction of Mothersbaugh, who often scores Anderson’s films.

While that’s a sentiment in a foreword, it only makes one’s mind run with abandon in a symmetrically arranged frame.

Given that Mothersbaugh was a member of Devo and scored Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, the prospect of this particular theme park that would undoubtedly aim to be a sort of whimsical that adults and children can both enjoy is worthy of invoking Futurama once more in saying, “Shut up and take my money”.

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