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At the NYFF, Anderson seems to have a 12-minute short called Hotel Chevalier screening alongside The Darjeeling Limited.

Hotel Chevalier will also screen at Venice and stars Jason Schwartzmann and Natalie Portman. I'm just taking a stab in the dark here, but I imagine it's a expanded "deleted scene" from the film, that opens up the Portman's cameo role a bit more.

souvenir wrote:At the NYFF, Anderson seems to have a 12-minute short called Hotel Chevalier screening alongside The Darjeeling Limited.

This has been referred to in earlier screening reports as a vaguely related prologue attached to the film. I guess he decided to separate it as a short. Hopefully, it will still be attached to the commercial prints when they roll out. I'm pretty sure that those 12 minutes are the extent of Portman's involvement.

Steven H wrote:

David Ehrenstein wrote:All the other critics were horrified by his loucheness. But I couldn't stop laughing.

There's more about that old controversy here.

Thanks for the link. I had never heard of the Anderson/Kael "controversy", so this was an interesting read.

More info on the soundtrack.

I gather that Owen saw an advance screening of this on Saturday.

Ouch!

Damn, Barmy! Way to slice into the guy! Why don't you pour more salt into the wounds!

At the wrist of sounding callous, I thought Barmy's joke was a cut above the rest.

It gets worse. I've heard that the bandages worn by Wilson's character in the film are the result of a botched suicide attempt. If that's true, I wouldn't be surprised to see the film get shelved for awhile.

Nah, it's good publicity.

you gotta be kidding me wrote:Nah, it's good publicity.

Well if they're going to go that route, they should recut the trailer to "Needle in the Hay."

that's not the only thing that needs recutting

Is a thread dedicated to wrist slitting jokes what's really wanted here? Can we shut-up and, I don't know, go on topic?

Mr_sausage wrote:Is a thread dedicated to wrist slitting jokes what's really wanted here? Can we shut-up and, I don't know, go on topic?

Please...

Jeff wrote:It gets worse. I've heard that the bandages worn by Wilson's character in the film are the result of a botched suicide attempt. If that's true, I wouldn't be surprised to see the film get shelved for awhile.

Wow! Talk about awkward. It's all anyone will want to talk about if Anderson or anyone else does promotion for the film.

Jeff wrote:It gets worse. I've heard that the bandages worn by Wilson's character in the film are the result of a botched suicide attempt. If that's true, I wouldn't be surprised to see the film get shelved for awhile.

From a long time ago or recently? If the claims are that he tried to commit suicide previous to filming, and they covered it up with bandages, it seems like a lot of hot air to me. It seems unlikely that Wes Anderson would ignore the health of a longtime friend and collaborator just to shoot a film.

Anyway, I'm a huge Owen Wilson fan and this is pretty sad stuff to hear. I really hope the claims of suicide aren't true. If anything, the signs point to an overdose (Owen is known as quite the partyer) of some kind but perhaps that's just wishful thinking.

He meant Wilson's character tried to commit suicide, not Wilson the actor prior to filming.

That NY Film Festival press conference should be a hoot!

Wrist awareness shouldn't be swept under the carpet, heroes.

tavernier wrote:He meant Wilson's character tried to commit suicide, not Wilson the actor prior to filming.

That NY Film Festival press conference should be a hoot!

Correct. Supposedly, the character's backstory is that he had tried to commit suicide.

Jeff wrote:Supposedly, the character's backstory is that he had tried to commit suicide.

Really? Strange...

Are you sure? Seems like it was the actor, it's also in the BBC

this is like an Abott and Costello routine.

The poster was not saying that Wilson had attempted to commit suicide previously in real life before the filming of the new Anderson film, only after filming was completed. However, the irony is that the character in the film wears bandages because of an attempted suicide.

So, to be clear, Wilson only tried to kill himself once, after the film was completed; the character only tried to kill himself once, inside the film; and so there should be no more confusion from anyone, on the board.

domino harvey wrote:this is like an Abott and Costello routine.

Suicide is the name of the fella that plays first base!

Thanks for clearing up the inexplicable confusion, Domino.