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The Director's Chair => The Director's Chair => Topic started by: lamas on May 30, 2003, 11:48:34 PM

Title: (Wes Anderson) Look at this picture...
Post by: lamas on May 30, 2003, 11:48:34 PM
and please tell me if you can make out any of the books on the shelves.  I need something new to read.  

http://www.wesanderson.org/photos/mag/homme3.jpg
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Post by: MacGuffin on May 30, 2003, 11:56:18 PM
I know on the top shelf, because I have them:

Four Films Of Woody Allen
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls
Spike Lee's Gotta Have It
Do The Right Thing
Sex, Lies And Videotape

Middle shelf:
The Faber & Faber collection of:
Lynch On Lynch
Scorsese On Scorsese, etc..
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Post by: Royal Tenenbaum on May 31, 2003, 10:38:20 AM
There all just porn mags bound in a classy manner.
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Post by: godardian on May 31, 2003, 11:22:44 AM
On the top shelf, farther away: Vince LoBrutto's Kubrick bio.

On the middle shelf: The perennial Projections series of filmmaker profile/interview compilations.
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Post by: Dirk on May 31, 2003, 11:26:51 AM
Bottom shelf: The Royal Tenenbaums  :yabbse-thumbup:
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Post by: Just Withnail on June 08, 2003, 05:07:37 PM
"Boy"
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Post by: Ernie on June 10, 2003, 06:59:04 PM
Is that his house or the Tenenbaum house? Those sound like cool books, I don't why but...I never thought of the idea of Wes liking David Lynch.
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Post by: Pas on June 10, 2003, 09:11:38 PM
Quote from: ebeamanI never thought of the idea of Wes liking David Lynch.

Why wouldn't a great filmmaker like an even greater ? And why do you say that ? Their themes are different ? Tim Burton made Pee Wee's Big Adventure.

Hey man, maybe Audrey Tautou is a big fan of stripping clubs. You can't presume.

Quote from: ebeaman"I was my own best friend. Me and the camera. I just let it watch the clouds go by and the sunset. Boring things for most 10-year-old kids, but something I've always been attracted to."
David Gordon Green

That's the guy who did All the Real Girls ? Oh my god...this is beyond snobism ...do you quote that as a joke?
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Post by: AlguienEstolamiPantalones on June 10, 2003, 09:50:02 PM
" the malcom x i knew" by paw dawber
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Post by: sexterossa on June 11, 2003, 11:15:26 PM
Quote from: Booth
Quote from: ebeamanI never thought of the idea of Wes liking David Lynch.

Why wouldn't a great filmmaker like an even greater ? And why do you say that ? Their themes are different ? Tim Burton made Pee Wee's Big Adventure.

Hey man, maybe Audrey Tautou is a big fan of stripping clubs. You can't presume.


don't be so uptight. wes anderson is a symbol of innocence. david lynch is not. that is why ebeaman found it unexpected.
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Post by: Ernie on June 13, 2003, 12:41:27 PM
Quote from: BoothWhy wouldn't a great filmmaker like an even greater ? And why do you say that ? Their themes are different ? Tim Burton made Pee Wee's Big Adventure.

Hey man, maybe Audrey Tautou is a big fan of stripping clubs. You can't presume.

I don't know man, I just never heard him talk about Lynch and I've read as many interviews as I can just to learn from him. You know, I was getting to know his taste pretty well...just didn't really think Lynch fit. That's awesome though! Don't get me wrong. I think that's fucking awesome if he likes his films. I hope he's influenced by him...it'd be cool to see some Lynch-esque type stuff in some of his films.

Sexterossa pretty much summed everything up already. I didn't get a good look at his (or her?) post before I started babbling. They're just so different in my eyes. They're both great, just different.

QuoteThat's the guy who did All the Real Girls ? Oh my god...this is beyond snobism ...do you quote that as a joke?

No, not really. I guess I can kinda relate to him. I live way out in the sticks like he used to and it's kinda of boring out here sometimes and there's no kids my age, or any kids at all that live around here...so I don't have many friends. I have some that live in the suburbs (which aren't far at all) but very few. I love it out here though, it can be the best place in the world when the weather's nice. I hate a lot of the suburbs, the people are so arrogant and dull that it just depresses me. The city is awesome. I love the two extremes of the state landscape. But I digress, you can't really know for sure if he was just being a snob and lying if you've never lived in rural America. Country kids are weird man...trust me. There's not a lot to do so you grow up finding stuff to do.
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Post by: Gold Trumpet on June 13, 2003, 03:35:23 PM
Booth, how was that quote snobbist (or beyond) anyways? To do that, it seems he likely would have had to say how everyone else's activities at that time were dumb or something.

~rougerum
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Post by: Ernie on June 13, 2003, 05:47:34 PM
Quote from: The Gold TrumpetBooth, how was that quote snobbist (or beyond) anyways? To do that, it seems he likely would have had to say how everyone else's activities at that time were dumb or something.

~rougerum

Yeah, I didn't really see anything the least bit smug about that quote looking at it now as he's made me self concious. It's pretty damn harmless. You gotta know a little more about the guy. I'm not saying I know him but I have an idea of how and why he would do something like that in his childhood, that's all.
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Post by: godardian on June 13, 2003, 05:57:06 PM
Seems both Lynch and Anderson were heavily influenced by Bunuel. It definitely comes across differently in their films, though.