Listen Up Philip, Alex Ross Perry’s third feature-length film will either repulse audiences or seduce them. Wearing an abrasive indie-hipster aesthetic, the film is a hilarious and bleak portrayal of the modern day lit-snob/writer living in New York City. The story follows Philip (a fantastic Jason Schwartzman), a brooding novelist in his 30s and on the brink of his second…
Auteur director Wes Anderson has joined forces with Prada to produce Castello Cavalcanti. The eight minute short film features Wes Anderson regular Jason Schwartzman (Moonrise Kingdom, I Heart Huckabees) in the starring role, and is set to simultaneously premiere at today's Rome Film Festival and Prada's website. Anderson is on writing and directing duties, with Alessandro Casella…
Take yourself back to a time when no one had heard of Wes Anderson, long before The Darjeeling Limited and The Royal Tenenboums, to a time just before the release of comedy-drama Bottle Rocket in 1996. Cinema was pretty much a cavalcade of predictable Bruce Willis and Julia Roberts flicks, cinematic eccentricity had all but…
