Wes Anderson’s ‘Moonrise Kingdom’ Short Film Now Online; Plus His Favorite New York Films
As promised last week,Wes Andersonhas released a short companion piece to his latest film,Moonrise Kingdom. It’s a series of six animated sequences from the fictional books Suzy Bishop (Kara Hayward) reads in the film, which is now playing in NY and LA and will open wider throughout the month.
After the jump, watch the film, read more about its conception and find out about Wes Anderson’s favorite New York films. Later today, check back for our one-on-one interview with the director.
According toEntertainment Weekly, Anderson’s initial thought withMoonrise Kingdomwas when Suzy reads her books (a huge part of her character), the film would break into animation. That idea fell by the wayside, though, and it wasn’t until much later that he decided to have people animate short passages from six of the books as an online suppliment. Here’s Anderson:
I wrote passages for the other books that didn’t have any text [read aloud in the film], and we animated that too So we now have this piece where our narrator, Bob Balaban’s character, takes us through these little sections of each of these books.
The video is over at EW but, it’s not embeddable. So click on the below image to head there.
Totally unrelated, save for the Wes Anderson connection, theNew York Daily Newsasked the director what his favorite New York films were andFlavorWirewent ahead and did a little montage of the movies. Check it out below.
And in case you don’t have the patience for a 10 minute video, here are Anderson’s thoughs on each film.
I love that Anderson listsNew Jack Citybut he’s never actually seen it. Hilarious.
What do you think of his list? How about the short film?
