Hotel Chevalier (2007)

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Directed by Wes Anderson.

Starring Natalie Portman, Jason Schwartzman.

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Best Films of 2007: 1-5
by Tenenbaums in Tenenbaums Blog

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"5. The Bourne UltimatumWith the exception of Wes Anderson’s films, few entries in recent cinema have been as exciting to watch as first viewings of the Bourne films. Much has been critically made over the "spy with a conscience" that has already influenced major action films (namely Casino Royale), but the praise is wholly warranted. The only other times that I have been wowed so much by an action sequence was the bridge scene from Mission: Impossible III. For the series' third and final (?) installment, director Paul Greengrass and his crew (especially cinematographer Oliver Wood and editor Christopher Rouse, both so key to the maestro's trademark mixed camera surveillance look) ante up by having three such scenes. Since The Bourne Identity was released in 2002, Matt Damon has elevated himself from “rising star” to a near sure thing and one of the industry’s best. His Bourne is many wonderful things, and as more of his memory has come back ... " [More]

New Releases: Before The Devil ...
by SpoutBlog in SpoutBlog on spout.com

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"Several movies that we’ve covered previously on SpoutBlog are opening in theaters today: Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead, starring Ethan Hawke and Philip Seymour Hoffman, has been widely hailed as a “return to form” for director Sidney Lumet. That’s probably not inaccurate, but the last thing Devil feels like is the work of an old man recycling old tricks. Ballsy and occasionally incredulous in its illustration of extreme, self-manufactured desperation, Devil’s not exactly a masterpiece, but if can roll with its plot contortions, it’s a deeply satisfying bit of pulp melodrama. And it’s got the opening sex scene to end all opening sex scenes. Read my NYFF review here, and listen to Lumet talk about his late-career embrace of digital video here. The Darjeeling Limited expands yet again this weekend, but the real news is the theatrical unveiling of Hotel Chevalier. See a review of the feature here, and coverage of Wes Anderson’s short here, here and here. Saw IV’s opening box off ... " [More]

Hotel Chevalier
by sarcastig in As cool as a Fruitstand

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"I'm never quite sure what to think about Wes Anderson. Oh, he's brilliant, especially visually, there's no debating that; unfortunately, he knows it a little too well. Still, when iTunes was being infuriatingly local last night and I was unable to download Hotel Chevalier due to being outside the US, it ruined my evening.I managed to get a version. Low quality, and I believe the beginning has been chopped off (please tell me, my version starts with Jason Schwartzman opening the door of his room), but I was very happy with it nonetheless.It's a strange little movie. It's unmistakably Anderson, from the way it's shot to the small details in the set decoration, and even in the way the two characters talk. It never quite takes off, but I was left wanting more, and that can't be a bad sign, can it? Unusually enough for Anderson, it doesn't feel like the characters' whole world is contained on screen, like all they ever were and will be is here, it feels like they are fully realized char ... " [More]

"Are you running away from me?" ...
by BigJeffLebowski in BigJeffLebowski Blog

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"If Hotel Chevalier is any indication, Wes Anderson's forthcoming The Darjeeling Limited should be a welcome return to form after the disappointingly flat and oddly uninvolving Life Aquatic. Anderson's stamp is all over the film, from the judicious use of obscure pop music to the ornately framed shots, from the allusions to unseen past events to the precision taken in selecting every prop and piece of wardrobe, and it is a stamp which has regained its credibility and its luster.One of Anderson's myriad stengths is building and sustaining a feeling of emotional repression. The awkward stagey-ness which too many viewers are too quick to criticize works in Chevalier for the the same reasons it worked in The Royal Tenenbaums; there is a sense of history, of a past which is both memorable and regretable. There is arguably no director better at creating those beautiful, heartbreaking moments of both joy and sadness, of both hope and regret, and it is in films like Chevalier ... " [More]

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