The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Peter Mishler
Peter Mishler discusses his debut collection, Fludde, the effect of ritual on poems, and childhood psychology.
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Posts Tagged: Wes Anderson
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #92: Bud Smith
It’s hard to say when I first became aware of Bud Smith’s writing. I’m sure it was online; his work is fairly ubiquitous here—an essay here, a poem there, a short story someplace else. He’s got a few books under his belt to boot, the stellar F-250 and Calm Face, as well as the most […]
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Albums of Our Lives: Ben Folds’s Rockin’ The Suburbs
“Annie Waits” summed me up in ways that I wasn’t consciously aware of at the time and not only because Annie was my childhood nickname.
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This Week in Short Fiction: Thus Were Their Faces by Silvina Ocampo
Probably more than anything else, sheer curiosity propels readers through [Silvina Ocampo’s] stories.
...moreAnderson’s Zweig
Still obsessed with Wes Anderson’s latest film, The Grand Budapest Hotel? Check out this interview with Anderson concerning the influence of author Stefan Zweig on his newest film. Anderson and George Prochnik discuss the form and the themes of Zweig’s work, and the lasting resonance it has today, at the Telegraph.
...moreTraveling with Zweig
Wes Anderson’s latest film The Grand Budapest Hotel acquainted us with the works of Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, to whom Anderson dedicates the film. The New Yorker has an essay examining the zigs and zags of a traveling writer using Zweig’s words as his compass.
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The Rumpus Review of The Grand Budapest Hotel
This may be as close as Wes Anderson gets to making a political film. And he has found a way to make a political statement in his signature style, a style which for years has appeared immune to political statements of any kind.
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Wes Anderson’s Train Love
In Wes Anderson’s latest film, The Grand Budapest Hotel, train travel proves to be a difficult feat for the character Zero (Tony Revolori). Despite Zero’s train travel plight, Anderson himself enjoys a good train ride (the joy of such playing a prominent role in The Darjeeling Limited) and says of this form of travel, “It’s a calm, friendly, […]
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REELINGS #1: MOONRISE KINGDOM
Moonrise Kingdom is set in 1965 on an isolated New England island, at the waning end of summer, which as it turns out is the perfect setting for a Wes Anderson story.
...moreWes Anderson and Noah Baumbach Sit in Chairs
On November 9, 2009, four days before the release of Fantastic Mr. Fox, an animated film by Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach, I attended a live “conversation” between the two directors at the New York Public Library.
...moreCorduroy for Fops and Fly Girls
Today, 11/11, is Corduroy Appreciation Day. In honor of this wonderfully waled fabric, the Corduroy Appreciation Club is holding a Grand Meeting at the Old American Can Factory with keynote speaker author Sloane Crosley. I’m not sure whether corduroy gentleman Wes Anderson will be in attendance. But he and fellow filmmaker Noah Baumbach were in […]
...moreNotable New York, This Week 11/9 – 11/15
This week in New York Ben Marcus and Rivka Galchen at Harper’s Magazine’s The Family Table, Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach talk, Mary Gaitskill, John Turturro, and Eric Bogosian at PEN benefit, Frederick Wiseman’s documentary La Danse, Jeff Lewis and the Wowz! at Cakeshop, The Internet as Playground and Factory conference with n+1 magazine, Performa […]
...moreMorning Coffee
Scientists capture giant squid in the Gulf of Mexico! (via MeFi.) Nicholas Gurewitz (of the completely brilliant Perry Bible Fellowship) has created a soundtrack to the fake Wes Anderson movie The Cloud Photographers. I kind of love the Yes Men. Hamthechimp considers biker gang logos. Breaking News: San Francisco Mission District crime of the 1890s.
...moreTHE EYEBALL: Fake Out
Rumpus blogger Rick Moody posted a comment to my recent post about Lord of the Rings asking whether the special effects of that film still held up. I got to thinking about why we accept some special effects as cool even when we can tell they’re fake while we turn up our noses at other […]
...moreBest Love Scene, Ever?
So, like, what’s your favorite love scene from the movies? I would like to know yours. Mine is this motel seduction sequence from Bottle Rocket. I believe that part of its imperfect perfection lies in the choice of music, “Alone Again Or,” by Love, with its mariachi horns absurdly invoking the allure of Inez. The […]
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