#royal tennenbaums

[esoterichermetic]

I can’t be myself, and I don’t want to talk

[t1nym4u5x2]

Margot Tennenbaum

[jrooc]

Weekly Tag Wednesdayyy

Thanks for the tags @heymacy @mybrainismelted @energievie @lee-ow @mmmichyyy @gallapiech @deedala @crestfallercanyon @spookygingerr you're all beautiful and amazing

name: Jess, Lizardperson

your time zone: EST

favorite food: If I hadddd to choose? Dim Sum, or hand pulled noodles

your eye color: hazel

do you have curly, wavy, or straight hair? wavy but straightish

coffee or tea? Coffee in all formats

you can only listen to one album for the rest of your life. which album is it? Oof asking the hard questions today. Rilo Kiley the Execution of all Things or Bon Iver For Emma

how many countries have you visited? 19 I think...

favorite social media platform (other than tumblr): discord

if you had to be reincarnated as an animal, what animal would you want to be? house cat. I'm cranky but love cuddles.

relationship status: Sadie sadie married lady

did you go to college? if so, what did you study? Yuppers - Political Science and History

you’ve just made a letterboxd account. what are your top 4 films? Empire Records, Pride and Prejudice, The Royal Tennenbaums, Shaun of the Dead

what’s one of your pet peeves? people who take up a whole walking path and/or walk out in front of me when I'm running or cycling. Move over MF.

what’s one of your guilty pleasures? Reading fanfic every night? Eating candy. I feel too old to be doing so but fuck it, I love candy.

and finally, if you could learn any skill, what skill would you want to learn? I'd love to learn to sew! Or take a cool self-defence course (in my mind I picture Miss Congeniality lmao)

tags below the cut bc of the glitch! ✨

@deedala @roryonic @michellemisfit @krysmiss @blue-disco-lights

@mickeysgaymom @solitarycreaturesthey @heymrspatel @astaraels @ardent-fox

@suzy-queued @doshiart @transmickey @stocious @transmurderbug

@ms-moonlight-inn @rayrayor @batty4steddie @sgtmickeyslaughter @guinguin1984 @such-a-barbarian

@palepinkgoat @bawlbrayker @em-harlsnow @creepkinginc

or just waving hi!

[stpauligirl]

movie tag game

tag game: recommend movies based on the following questions, then tag 5 people.

(thanks @mariavlc82 for the taggety-tag)

a film in the IMDB Top 250: The Big Lebowski

an indie film: Before Sunrise

a summer blockbuster: Barbie

a foreign language film: High and Low

a black-and-white film: Pleasantville

an animated film: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

a film released before 1970: Rear Window

a film released after 2010: Moonlight

a film from the year you were born: Superman

a film where the vibes are immaculate: The Royal Tennenbaums

a film whose main genre is Action/Adventure: Romancing the Stone

a film whose main genre is Comedy: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

a film whose main genre is Horror/Thriller: Black Swan

a film whose main genre is Drama: Gran Torino

a film whose main genre is Science Fiction: Interstellar

a film whose main genre is Fantasy: The Green Knight (2021)

a film whose main genre is Romance/Musical: Mamma Mia!

a film whose main genre is Western: True Grit (2010)

a film to feel good/uplifted: Aladdin

a film to feel bad/depressed: The Wolf of Wall Street

tagging: (no pressure) @stars-inthe-sky, @ballroompink, @gardenarcana, @amillcitygirl, @majoris

[yeahiwasintheshit]

watched asteroid city, and man am im getting tired of wes anderson and his wes anderson-ness. style over substance. i got nothing out of it, other than beautiful visuals, wonderful production design and that he knows how to frame and where to place a camera. which brings me to my thoughts on wes andersons later movies... theyre all emotionally hollow.

clearly anderson likes that kind of sort of detached dry performance, because its been in all his movies. like bill murray in all of wes' movies. and i think it can work when other actors play bigger. but now all his characters act like that. so its almost creepy to not see any variation in the performances. like invasion of the body snatchers kind of sameness.

that kind of dry performance can also work juxtaposed against big emotional storylines. you felt the loss the family felt when royal died in the royal tennenbaums, here in asteroid city the mother had died, but its barely a blip, and the family barely reacts to it. they all react in that wes anderson-ness detached way and its just kinda off putting. all 4 children just kind of blindly stare, and you think there will be some emotional catharsis at the end for them. nope. it veers off to something completely stupid i wont spoil. the point is, theres differences in performances in his earlier movies, and now theres this smear of sameness with all the characters. which i find hollow.

also, his earlier movies were rooted in reality, theyre out on a boat in the water in life aquatic and it feels real, but now anderson has built this huge stylistic artificial world his characters are in, which magnifies the hollowness of their performances. he tries and throws sorta big emotional situations at the characters but the world is so artificial, and the performances are dry and detached that all together it just feels like nothing. i get nothing out of the movie... asteroid city and the last one, french dispatch

in asteroid city, theres this framing device where its a television show about a stage play that is being acted on screen, or something idk, but its just another layer of distance from any real emotion of the movie. i just dont get anything other than pretty pictures from these later wes anderson films.

also, i think its supposed to be a comedy, and i didnt laugh once.

[neveragainfools]

No matter how bad it gets, I know I'm doing better because I'm no longer seventeen and having an emotional breakdown to the Royal Tennenbaums dvd menu soundtrack (which alternates between stuffy classical and cheesy reggae) about a crush that was literally never going to like me back (and even if he did, I was going to end up a lesbian anyway.) Like, I definitely experienced some objectively harder times in college, but even still, I think seventeen and having a breakdown to the Royal Tennenbaums dvd menu music was rock bottom. You just don't feel like that after you get some distance from being a teen. You develop mentally and emotionally in ways that usually even you out a bit. Your opportunities change. Your ability to make decisions for yourself usually grows exponentially. You can get out. You taste freedom and learn to find the people who make you want to Live life. And you build from there.

[beauty-is-terrror]

films for the weekend:

• Melancholia (first time watching)

• her (first time watching)

• Everything Everywhere All At Once (first time watching)

• The Royal Tennenbaums (re-watch)

• The Grand Budapest Hotel (re-watch)

• Darjeeling Limited (first time watching)

[glittter-skeleton]

Watched “Night at the Museum” and “The Royal Tennenbaums” a day apart

[charlottesometimess]

some things about me!!!

☆ i love films and music and reading

☆ my fav artists rn are the cure, elvis, lana (OFCC), sky ferreira, bob dylan, souxie and the banshees, hole, the 1975, stevie nicks, and fiona apple 🩷

☆ my fav films rn are tvs, palo alto, ladybird, mermaids, mysterious skin, the royal tennenbaums, buffalo ‘66, secretary and lost in translation (honourable mention to the queens gambit even though it’s not a film)

☆ my pinterest:

☆ my letterboxd:

https://boxd.it/4JO0n

[mogwai-movie-house]

A Film A Year

Going through an old hard drive today I found this almost-completed list from 2015 in which I'd set myself the task of choosing a single film for each year of the preceding hundred. It was interesting to see in what ways my tastes had changed and just how many more films I'd discovered and fallen in love with in the meantime.

Anyways, I thought I'd finish it off and update it to the present: I very much tried to keep it to just one film per year, but the competition some years was just too high so they've had to share joint first places:

1915 A Night In The Show 1916 The Vagabond 1917 Easy Street 1918 A Dog's Life 1919 Sunnyside 1920 One Week 1921 The Kid 1922 Dr Mabuse, The Gambler 1923 Safety Last / Why Worry? 1924 Sherlock Jr / The Last Laugh 1925 The Gold Rush 1926 The General 1927 Sunrise / Seventh Heaven 1928 The Last Command / Steamboat Jr. / The Man Who Laughs / The Passion of Joan of Arc 1929 The Love Parade / Un Chien Andalou / Lucky Star 1930 All Quiet On The Western Front 1931 City Lights/ The Smiling Lieutenant 1932 Horse Feathers / Love Me Tonight 1933 Duck Soup / The Invisible Man 1934 It Happened One Night 1935 The 39 Steps 1936 My Man Godfrey 1937 Nothing Sacred 1938 Adventures Of Robin Hood / Pygmalion 1939 The Cat And The Canary / The Wizard of Oz / The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1940 His Girl Friday / Pinocchio 1941 Citizen Kane / The Maltese Falcon / Dumbo / Sullivan's Travels 1942 Casablanca 1943 Le Corbeau 1944 Arsenic & Old Lace 1945 Les Enfants du Paradis / And Then There Were None 1946 A Matter of Life and Death 1947 Black Narcissus 1948 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1949 The Third Man / Kind Hearts & Coronets 1950 Sunset Blvd. / La Ronde 1951 A Streetcar Named Desire 1952 Singin' In The Rain / Le Plaisir 1953 Calamity Jane 1954 Hobson's Choice 1955 The Night Of The Hunter /The Ladykillers 1956 The Searchers 1957 The Seventh Seal 1958 Vertigo 1959 North By Northwest / Ballad of A Soldier 1960 Psycho / The Virgin Spring / Two Women 1961 Breakfast At Tiffanys 1962 Le Doulos 1963 The Great Escape / The Birds 1964 Onibaba 1965 For A Few Dollars More 1966 Blow Up 1967 Le Samourai / Cool Hand Luke 1968 2001: A Space Odyssey 1969 Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid 1970 Le Cercle Rouge 1971 Get Carter / Harold & Maude 1972 The Godfather 1973 Don't Look Now 1974 The Godfather Part II / Chinatown 1975 Jaws / The Rocky Horror Picture Show 1976 Network 1977 Star Wars / Annie Hall 1978 Halloween / Superman 1979 Apocalypse Now / Alien / Life Of Brian / Manhattan 1980 Stardust Memories / Raging Bull 1981 Raiders Of The Lost Ark 1982 Blade Runner / The Thing 1983 The Dead Zone / Zelig 1984 Ghostbusters / The Terminator / Blood Simple 1985 Back To The Future 1986 Hannah & Her Sisters / The Fly 1987 Withnail & I / Wings of Desire 1988 Dangerous Liaisons 1989 Crimes & Misdemeanors / Dead Poets Society 1990 Goodfellas 1991 The Silence of The Lambs / Terminator 2 1992 Reservoir Dogs / The Player 1993 Schindler's List / Groundhog Day 1994 Pulp Fiction 1995 Se7en / Casino / The Usual Suspects 1996 Fargo 1997 LA Confidential / Grosse Point Blank / Boogie Nights 1998 The Truman Show / Happiness / Buffalo '66 1999 American Beauty / Magnolia / Being John Malkovich / Fight Club 2000 Memento 2001 Mulholland Drive / The Royal Tennenbaums / The Piano Teacher 2002 Adaptation / The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2003 Lost In Translation 2004 Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind / The Life Aquatic 2005 Me & You & Everyone We Know 2006 The Prestige / Perfume 2007 No Country For Old Men / There Will Be Blood 2008 The Dark Knight / Let The Right One In / Tropic Thunder 2009 Cold Souls / Up / Zombieland 2010 I Saw The Devil / The Ghost Writer 2011 The Hidden Face 2012 The Avengers 2013 Her 2014 The Grand Budapest Hotel / The Winter Soldier 2015 The Survivalist / The Lobster 2016 Like Crazy 2017 Coco 2018 Deadpool 2 2019 The Irishman 2020 Kajillionaire 2021 The French Dispatch 2022 The Banshees of Inisherin

[yekokataa]

for the film ask: the grand budapest hotel?

rating: whatever

i like wes anderson's visual style, but i realized recently i tend to not really vibe with his plots or emotional themes. i liked the royal tennenbaums a lot but his other movies have all been the kind of thing i want to like but don't actually like all that much.

[thenightlymirror]

It occurs to me that Asteroid City might be an interpretation of how to film life on the internet. I just had the thought sitting in bed, trying to make sense of the strange hypnotic sequences between Jason Schwartzman and Scarlett Johansson talking to each other from one window to the next, tightly bound in frames within frames.

I think I’ve talked before about Wes Anderson and adaptation. The Royal Tennenbaums is structured like a book, essentially an adaptation of Salinger’s Nine Stories. Moonlight Kingdom is similar amalgamation of the work of Benjamin Britten. For me, Anderson’s work is very much about the dialogue between different forms, and showing the mind’s work in interpreting these translations. I feel like as some director’s age, they begin to want to explain themselves a bit, or maybe just defend their work. Like Jim Jarmusch making a “zombie film” in The Dead Don’t Die: all Jim Jarmusch films are zombie films. It’s just a kind of self-deprecating joke. And Astroid City is borrowing the meta-commentary of a director talking about their own work, in what often to me felt like a “final film”, not unlike Twin Peaks: The Return or Once Upon A Time in Hollywood. I suppose the difference is that Astroid City is about young people. It’s the world that’s old and used up. The end is all around them already. And their biggest dream that gets rewarded is a new way of putting advertising on the Moon. Or several different ways to blow up the Earth. And everyone just praying to wake up, which I think we all feel.

So there’s the Nietzschean thing, “When virtue goes to sleep, it will wake up more refreshed.” Which I was reminded of too. That we need to dream ourselves out of the apocalypse. Or forget it for a few seconds, and maybe we’ll finally wake up. I don’t know about that.

[krsonmar]

All I'm saying is

if Lucius doesn't at some point in s2 tap tap tap his wooden finger in a bitchy passive-aggressive way like Margot in The Royal Tennenbaums

I think we should get another whole episode to make up for it. At least.

[robbinggoodfellows]

saw my friend do this so i’m doing it too:

My rankings of every Wes Anderson movie:

Asteroid City

Rushmore

Royal Tennenbaums

Darjeeling Limited

Moonrise Kingdom

Bottle Rocket

Fantastic Mr Fox

Life Aquatic

Grand Budapest Hotel

Isle Of Dogs

French Dispatch

[tangledupinblue8]

Tagged by @sassafras--manson to list 7 comfort films:

- Royal Tennenbaums (2001)

- Harold & Maude (1971)

- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) (I’ve been told repeatedly by Adam that this is not comforting, but it’s my favorite movie, so it comforts me)

- The Little Prince (2016)

- James & the Giant Peach (1996)

- Clerks (1994)

- Before Sunrise (1995)

I tag: @bermudianabroad @rosemarydwelling @monstafaith @wildflowerjelly @takeiteasyjoan @tndrnodez