Monday, October 08, 2007

Wes Anderson is Back!



If, like me, the disappointment of the ill-formed, charmless "Life Aquatic" sent you into weeks-long depression, you'll be glad to hear that Wes Anderson is back in form with "Darjeeling Express". "LA", let's hope, was just a mometary hiccup and not the start of a slide toward irrelevance.

"Darjeeling Express" gives one hope. Go see it! Well, you probably would anyway.

3 comments:

Stoner said...

"Life Aquatic" is not so bad, I'm told, if you just watch it repeatedly.

It only seems ill-formed and charmless the first few viewings.

Right, Marquis?

rocky dennis said...

Sounds like the cinematic version of Stockholm Syndrome.

Correction: Film title is "The Darjeeling Limited"

Bob Kemp said...

It's true that Life Aquatic was a cinematic mess but - by the fifth viewing - only the most jaded movie-goers are dry-eyed when Steve Zissou finally spots the jaguar shark: the sad, misanthropic souls stuffing popcorn down into the hole where their hearts used to be.

That being said, however, I do look forward to Anderson's adaptation of Agatha Christie's masala-murder-mystery, "Darjeeling Express"