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"The death of their father sends three brothers on a journey through India. The brothers believe their father has been reborn as an albino leopard, and trace their mother to a convent where she teaches poor children. The train they travel by is The Darjeeling Limited, and they are on a search for their father/Leopard."

Trailer: http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox_searchlight/thedarjeelinglimited/trailerb/

[Edited on July 25, 2007 at 2:36 AM. Reason : grrrr]

7/25/2007 2:36:36 AM

<----- so excited

7/25/2007 2:53:39 AM

Hopefully it won't suck like the life acquatic

7/25/2007 2:58:43 AM

i'm masturbating furiously.

7/25/2007 7:56:14 AM

looks great... I'm liking the combination of lead actors. When I first heard about this, I thought A. Brody was a bad choice, but my fears have been resolved by the trailer.

7/25/2007 8:25:16 AM

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"Hopefully it won't suck like the life acquatic"

looks kinda the same to me, except instead of a boat they got a train and instead of an ocean, they got india

7/25/2007 8:30:21 AM

i can see that being a major problem if it weren't for the fact the life aquatic was wonderful

7/25/2007 9:17:28 AM

Wes Anderson needs to write a film about an eccentric millionaire zeppelin enthusiast.

^ Second

[Edited on July 25, 2007 at 9:19 AM. Reason : asdf]

7/25/2007 9:18:29 AM

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"Hopefully it won't suck like the life acquatic "

wtf? are you retarded? that movie was great in so many ways

and Bill Murray at his best

WONDERFUL soundtrack

damn, just damn, i will never listen to anyone's opinion on anything that says otherwise

7/25/2007 9:21:26 AM

clarify: i like life aquatic very much

7/25/2007 9:27:32 AM

i'm so excited

I'M SO SCARED

...

but seriously, i want to see it

still haven't seen The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou yet though...

7/25/2007 10:07:26 AM

while i don't think life aquatic sucked, it was wes andesron's worst movie to date.

7/25/2007 10:21:41 AM

veeery interesting

7/25/2007 12:02:42 PM

i almost have to say that this movie looks to be too wes anderson-ish

haha

if there is such a thing.

7/25/2007 12:27:14 PM

yeah i was like "i wonder if this movie's gonna deal with father issu----"

opened the thread...

first sentence

7/25/2007 12:29:06 PM

What's up with Wes Anderson casting people with weird noses?

7/25/2007 12:44:31 PM

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"i'm masturbating furiously."

7/25/2007 12:47:31 PM

I'm psyched. I haven't sen life aquatic yet. But I really enjoyed The Royal Tenenbaums, and Rushmore is my fave.

7/25/2007 12:53:20 PM

What is it with Wes Anderson and dudes with huge noses?

Also, I wish I could find the clip of Dr. Cameron pronouncing "darjeeling" at the spelling bee.

I go back and forth on Life Aquatic...I think it's his worst movie from top to bottom, but I still like it a lot.

I'm sort of iffy on this one being more blue-green and yellow, but I'm excited.

7/25/2007 12:59:48 PM

I dunno...I think I need a cup of tea.

7/25/2007 1:46:48 PM

I've always liked Life Aquatic, but it's no Rushmore or Tenenbaums of course.

7/25/2007 2:17:48 PM

I didn't like The Life Aquatic when I first saw it. Then I watched it again, and again, and again etc.

It's now my favorite of his films. With anything this guy has done you have to watch it a couple of times to pick up on the subtleties and the small details that make it work better than it should.

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"i almost have to say that this movie looks to be too wes anderson-ish "

That was my first thought too. Can he actually overdo his own style?

7/25/2007 2:25:40 PM

I've seen Life Aquatic at least twenty times, and I still vacillate on it to this day. I'd be a liar if I said I don't love it, but at the same time it's just not as tight as Tenenbaums.

7/25/2007 2:36:54 PM

It's good to see Schwartzman back. I am going to enjoy the SHIT out of this.

7/25/2007 2:39:11 PM

When does this hit Galaxy Cinema?

7/25/2007 2:42:50 PM

^I imagine this would have a wide release. So, you'll probably be enjoying it at Crossroads.

[Edited on July 25, 2007 at 3:44 PM. Reason : ...]

7/25/2007 3:44:03 PM

We did get the posters in about a week ago though and they are very arresting (it's the one that features owen, jason, and brody).

7/26/2007 4:16:35 PM

Who loves The Kinks? Wes Anderson loves The Kinks.

7/30/2007 11:36:54 PM

didn't like life aquatic...hope its more like The Royal Tenennbaums.

7/31/2007 12:22:53 AM

^those two movies differed significantly from one another?

[Edited on July 31, 2007 at 12:44 AM. Reason : ...]

7/31/2007 12:44:32 AM

Rushmore is my favorite.
Tennenbaums was decent.
Life Aquatic was borderline unwatchable to me.

This looks to be somewhere in between Rushmore and Tennenbaums, which means if i'm right, it'll be really good.

7/31/2007 1:33:53 AM

^^that is why i hope its more like Tennenbaums.

7/31/2007 10:38:25 PM

^I think you're missing my point. I'm saying that Life Aquatic and Royal Tennenbaums are not significantly different movies. Stylistically and thematically they traverse similar territory. So, if The Darjeeling Limited is like Tennenbaums then it will equally be like Life Aquatic. Anyways, you obviously meant you hope you like it as much as The Royal Tennenbaums and I'm just being that dick who argues over semantics. Sorry.

7/31/2007 11:02:59 PM

Looks like we will probably be getting this in late October. Get Hype.

9/10/2007 2:29:25 PM

wes anderson needs to make a wwII movie

people getting bombed and not caring

it would blow your minds

i'd pay to see it

9/10/2007 2:49:30 PM

can i have the poster when you're done, cif?

9/10/2007 3:17:43 PM

sinner

9/10/2007 3:28:03 PM

This'll be opening 10/26 at Galaxy Cinema.

We've got free mini-posters if anybody wants 'em.

9/13/2007 2:57:28 PM

yes, please.

9/13/2007 4:02:26 PM

my gf sent this my way:

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"Wes Anderson offers the Web a taste of 'The Darjeeling Limited' 'Hotel Chevalier' Fox Searchlight Pictures Fox plans to offer downloads of "Hotel Chealier" via iTunes. As an introduction to the road comedy, the director is unspooling the short, sexy 'Hotel Chevalier.' By Chris Lee, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer September 24, 2007 Wes Anderson didn't set out to create one of the year's most talked about short films when he wrote, directed and produced the 13-minute "Hotel Chevalier." Instead, the quirky, creative force behind such films as "The Royal Tenenbaums" and "The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou" intended the short as a kind of prequel or "introduction" to his comedic road drama, "The Darjeeling Limited," which lands in theaters Oct. 5. As he envisaged it, "Chevalier" would play out like a piece of short fiction while "Darjeeling" would unspool like a novel. "I like short stories," Anderson said by phone from Paris. "I like the form. And I liked the idea of a short film as a companion piece to a movie." In fact, he shot "Chevalier" in late 2005 -- around the time he had begun drafting the "Darjeeling" screenplay with Jason Schwartzman and his cousin Roman Coppola and nearly a year before that movie went into production -- making the shorter film a kind of working draft for the feature. In both, Schwartzman plays the same lovelorn American abroad character, Jack Whitman. He is the youngest of three estranged brothers who set off on a familial bonding odyssey through India in "Darjeeling" (in which his celluloid siblings are played by Adrien Brody and Owen Wilson). And in "Chevalier," whose action takes place in Paris two weeks before "Darjeeling" unfolds, the character is working through some relationship rough spots with his on-again, off-again girlfriend -- namely, her sexual infidelity and mysterious bruises. Recalling the low-key esprit de corps that prevailed during production, Anderson likes to emphasize the no-frills approach it took to get the job done. Production consisted of just two actors, a few borrowed props and two days' filming in a hotel room. "I was financing it myself, so there was no money to raise," said Anderson. "We got a little crew together -- 15 people -- and shot quickly. We dressed it with stuff from my apartment. It was like making a student film." Of course, not just any student production can land actors such as Oscar nominee Natalie Portman -- doing her first nude love scene for "Chevalier," to the scurrilous delight of fan boys worldwide -- and Schwartzman, the star of Anderson's cultishly popular second feature, "Rushmore." Nor could most student auteurs afford to shoot in expensive Panavision film stock on location in a sumptuous hotel suite in the City of Light. And for that matter, few aspiring Roger Cormans could land such pricey visual touchstones as whimsical handmade luggage by Louis Vuitton and wardrobe courtesy of Marc Jacobs -- especially not for a small passion project shot, essentially, on a whim. Then there's the film's central talking point. Its passionate hotel sex romp comprises the most steamy scenario ever to appear in Anderson's oeuvre. His characters have been known for deadpan humor and childlike whimsy but never libidinous overdrive. Anderson contacted Portman after getting her e-mail address from "Darjeeling" producer Scott Rudin. The director says she was well aware that she'd be taking it all off for the small part but stipulated only one script change. "Smoking. She didn't want to smoke," he remembered. That's why, in the final scene, "we changed it to Jason giving her a toothpick. I think it's better." Taken strictly as a promotional stunt, Portman's part in the five-minute love scene, which, for the record, is handled with admirable restraint, has worked gangbusters, lighting up the blogosphere and capturing headlines as far away as Azerbaijan. "Hotel Chevalier" is being shown in conjunction with "Darjeeling" at film festivals -- the Venice Festival earlier this month, the New York Film Festival on Friday and the London Film Festival in November -- before being rolled out digitally. The short will make its public premiere Tuesday at Apple stores in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and San Francisco. Then on Wednesday, the film will become available for free download on iTunes (and later on the "Darjeeling" DVD). And if Anderson has his way, "Hotel Chevalier" will be added to theatrical showings of the feature after it has run for a few weeks. "We were unsure how this needed to be presented," he said. "We felt they should be connected and searched for how to do that. In the end, I liked the idea that one person could see it in one way, and another could see it in totally another way.""

http://tinyurl.com/yurn94

[Edited on September 24, 2007 at 2:52 PM. Reason : tiny]

9/24/2007 2:51:52 PM

so i can download it for free this wednesday?

sweet

9/24/2007 3:03:31 PM

fap fap fap fap

9/24/2007 3:04:24 PM

Why is everyone all like: "I love Wes Anderson and my favorites in order are Rushmore, Tenenbaums, Life Aquatic"

and they always forget the best: Bottle Rocket....

This looks awesome. I think his movies are getting more and more "Wes-like" though, so anyone who didn't like Life Aquatic...watch out. This one looks even more spacy and dry.

9/24/2007 4:13:27 PM

^ I only know a couple people who order them that way.

Besides which, I've never heard anyone else say Bottle Rocket was their favorite.

9/24/2007 9:03:20 PM

I realize this isn't necessary, but all the same, here is my order:

1) Tenenbaums
2) Rushmore
3) Life Aquatic
4) Bottle Rocket

9/24/2007 9:10:46 PM

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"1) Tenenbaums 2) Rushmore 3) Life Aquatic 4) Bottle Rocket"

i dont know what mine would be...

i know they all have similar styles and even teh same actors in most, but i think comparing the movies is like apples and oranges.

i love tenenbaums, rushmore, and life aquatic equally.

9/24/2007 9:19:32 PM

hotel chevalier is up on itunes for free dl. Oh nude portman.

my wes anderson film order:
Rushmore
RT
Bottle Rocket
Life Aquatic

But I love them all

9/26/2007 7:47:21 PM

i completely forgot about it being available today

life aquatic and royal tenenbaums are tied for my favorite with rushmore not far behind

i cant find it on itunes

[Edited on September 26, 2007 at 8:26 PM. Reason : help]

9/26/2007 8:20:54 PM

I can't seem to find it on itunes. searching for hotel chevalier directs me to hotel cavalier and I don't see it under Wes Anderson or itunes freebies

9/26/2007 8:22:37 PM

i gotcha

http://hotelchevalier.com/

9/26/2007 8:23:56 PM