CORRECTION

The Wes Anderson release for THE FANTASTIC MR. FOX is set for 2009. The photo for the post below was taken during filming of THE DARJEELING LIMITED.
I am very sorry for the mixup with the picture and title.

Thank you,

Mike Atala

Wes Anderson: THE FANTASTIC MR. FOX

My film correspondent in Rio de Janeiro just informed me about the 2009 release of Wes Anderson's joint THE FANTASTIC MR. FOX.
Shooting is currently going on in India and CNN had managed to pick up a brief interview with personal friend Owen Wilson. A pillar in Anderson productions Wilson told CNN:
"But I am going to do a movie with my friend Wes [Anderson] in India, and that's not going to be a buddy comedy movie. [I play] one of three brothers, and they go on this journey in India. I haven't really spoken to Wes yet in regards to what I can really talk about."

(Here is a photo of Jason Schwartzman, Owen Wilson, and Adrien Brody on discreet location with a film crew shooting the upcoming Anderson production THE DARJEELING LIMITED: Photo credit Jordan Guard - Jodhpur, Rajasthan)

With a 2009 release "one of busiest filmakers working today" has the stop-motion Roald Dahl adaptation MR. FOX (with animation by the also-awesome HENRY SELICK) under a thousand keys. Special thanks to João Atala and Jonathan Frey for the tips. And extra special thanks to the tourist who just happened to be in the right place and the right time to get that great shot.

Moderate the word: EACHOTHER vol.1 "together" and "arrangement"

From capslock to rocksteady there is something about joining two words into one. A colleague I will call CRASH gave me some insight on this paradox. He said "I don't think the "one" and the "other" can ever merge but they can co-exist." Good enough for me to see that this union of "each" and "other" have a chance in the figurative world. But let me just voice that according to syntax, the Ancient Greek word which itself is a union - (from Ancient Greek συν- syn-, “together”, and τάξις táxis, “arrangement”)- some light shed on this issue. The rules of Syntax are respected by this auteur, but let me remind you that the rules are meant to be broken. The essence of a word coming out of the mouth is the real deal. Us writers are influenced by spoken word. We hear, we write, we document, we destroy. But not without a respectable amount of humiliation. Check this anonymous bloggers all too similar dream.
I am not alone in this petty crusade.
Good thing I have film reviews interwoven in this blog or else you my dear reader would not give two sniffs off a horses ass.

(Header "split" image of Jaco Pastorius and Jimmy Hendrix)

WHEN IT'S TIME:Mise en scène

Stories happen every second. Almost everything is a story and all there is to it is a simple hello, I'm here, I remember you, I forgot you, I feel like I know you from somewhere, I love you, I hate you, I feel you, I can't stand you, kiss me goodbye and let's see where this goes. Of course I'm breaking it down into the prolific girl meets boy world view. And that is what Paris I Love You is telling us.
This film is a collection of shorts ranging in stylistic approach and surrealistic execution. Nothing short of different. I was a bit disappointed twenty minutes into it though later kicked myself because I realized the idea of the film. At first I couldn't help but feel a typical detail oriented French film going nowhere coming on. I have a general idea built around the générateurs cinématographiques d'amour. They captivate, enthrall, possess you and yet still manage to take you nowhere at all. Existential hyperbole aside of course. This film was different. A true cinematic collage where each short carries such mise en scène in itself according to the whole picture. Dripple down love effect I would like to call it.