Hoo boy, here we go. 87 degrees, 55% humidity. Can I just…not…wear clothes?
Some dudes with a camera asked Bill Murray for an autograph, and instead of giving them one he offered to shoot a Wes Anderson-style slow motion walk with them.
why…am I laughing so hard…oh god, tears
Oh my god. So great. Bill Murray, you are just too cool for school.
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Richard Brody on What to See This Weekend: Wes Anderson’s “Moonrise Kingdom,” Twice
What makes the film thrillingly different—in content and in affect, in emotional energy and in visual imagination—is its metaphysical and religious element. There’s an expressly transcendent theme in “Moonrise Kingdom” that raises the tender and joyous story of young lovers on the run to a spiritual adventure. The moral vision of the world, which was always implicit and latent in Anderson’s other films, here bursts out as a distinctive, ecstatic, visionary new cinematic dimension. Anderson has always been far more than just an exquisite stylist—his style is an essential part of a consistent spiritual vision. But in “Moonrise Kingdom,” his world view is projected beyond personal experience into a cosmic fantasy. It’s Anderson’s own counter-Scripture, a vision of a moral order, ordained from on high, that challenges the official version instilled by society at large—and he embodies it in images of an apt sublimity (as well as an aptly self-deprecating humor).
Click-through to read the rest of Brody’s review.
arpd:
THIS IS NOT MY BEAUTIFUL HOUSE
THIS IS NOT MY BEAUTIFUL WIFE
And you may as yourself “WELL, HOW DID I GET HERE?”
And you may say to yourself “MY GOD, WHAT HAVE I DONE”
On this day in the year 1453, emperor Constantine Palaiologos XI’s Byzantine army was finally defeated by that of Ottoman sultan Mehmed II. Constantinople was taken and made the capital of the Ottoman Empire, and the Byzantine Empire/Eastern Roman Empire officially ceased to exist. REST IN PEACE, BYZANTIUM :(
This site is a bit weird but useful!
Really interesting episode! I love Radiolab.
