City - Monday, November 9, 2009 11:03 - 0 Comments
Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach at NYPL Tonight
Super hip director Wes Anderson and co-writer Noah Baumbach will be discussing their new film Fantastic Mr. Fox at the New York Public Library’s Celeste Bartos Forum tonight at 7 p.m. Student admission is $15 (general is $25).
If you’re not quite the Tisch connoisseur, Anderson has directed and written films like The Royal Tenenbaums (nominated for an Academy Award), The Life Aquatic, and The Darjeeling Limited. Plus, he’s the main character in the world’s best American Express commercial. Baumbach also co-wrote The Life Aquatic with Anderson and has directed his own feature films, including The Squid and the Whale.
Adapted from a Roald Dahl novel, Fantastic Mr. Fox is Anderson’s first animated film. The movie is scheduled to release on Nov. 25.
City - Wednesday, November 4, 2009 11:47 - 1 Comment
A Horde of John Cusacks Recreate the Boombox Scene From Say Anything
We all know the iconic scene from the 1989 classic teen-romance film, Say Anything, where Lloyd Dobler (John Cusack) holds his boom box stalwartly above his head as those romantic lyrics of devotion play in the background, “Your Eyes, something something something, Your Eyes.” So, on Tuesday, a bunch of Lloyd Doblers got together, became the Lloyd Dobler Mobler (seriously?), and formed a recreation of this scene all day, in at least five different locations. In fact you may have passed by them if you were in Washington Square around 10:30-11:00 a.m. yesterday morning.
Or perhaps you saw them when they were covered as a fluff piece for “Fox and Friends.” Just kidding, no one watches “Fox and Friends.” When they performed in Times Square, the Mobler consisted of almost twenty guys with trench coats and boomboxes, and one random chubby dude with a bongo. It turns out he was part of the band that got to play, whose singer looked like Mark Wahlberg, and incidentally was not the band Say Anything, which might have actually drawn a crowd larger than the number of Lloyd Doblers present. However, it’s refreshing to see, in such a consumerist society, that people are willing to take a moment out of the day to pay homage to a moment in romance wherein a man refuses to give up on a girl, even after she refuses to answer nine phone calls in a row. In fact, when I asked Max Hambleton why he gave up his Tuesday to imitate such a romantic gesture, he quickly responded, “I was paid to be here.” Video after the jump.
Campus Events, On Campus - Friday, January 23, 2009 15:30 - 1 Comment
Panel on Hispanic Advertising
A subdivision of Tisch, the Kanbar Institute, is having a panel discussion “where Hispanic Market experts will share their experiences creating, producing and directing TV commercials.” The panelists will discuss everything from pitching an ad to choosing a director. Film students, you’re invited to “bring your reel if you think you have what they need.”
The event will take place on Monday, January 26th at 6 PM in the Tisch Building (Broadway and Waverly) in Theater 006 downstairs. To reserve a place, contact Jay Newton at jay.newton@nyu.edu.
Pictured (right) is panelist Simon Brand, a Colombian film director who has worked with artists including Shakira and Enrique Iglesias.
Photo courtesy of Flickr user Poligran, under CC license.
