The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

[Charles Albert]

Caught up with this last night. Ralph Fiennes was
incredible.....particularly when contrasted with his role in In Brugges.

love,
cfa


On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 5:26 PM, Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Also, overarchingly, maybe a parody of the GRAND HOTEL genre? ...I mean,
> in the ultimate present of the movie, no one lived there anymore.
>
> Sent from my iPad
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> On Mar 23, 2014, at 4:08 PM, Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Yes, just an.out-of-reach joke ( meaning not a good joke) about the rich
> and interacting with.
>
> BTW, if a  Sunday early showing in suburban Nashville is any indication of
> $$ audience, this looks to be Wes's biggest draw ever, I might guess.
>
> I just saw it, my first full Anderson, I have to confess, and I was
> reminded of slow-Mo  Marx Brothers ( so to,speak) and Coen Brothers the
> most.......And, a surreal mannered comic reality not unlike our beloved
> author ( does that appellation still apply since his last couple books.? )
>   LOTS of parody contained therein....from  WW2 movies, prison movies,
> etc...
>
> SPOILER: Dunno Wes's intention ( and I bet he believes in Empsonian
> ambiguity, so to speak) but that 2nd story shoot-out sure struck me as a
> very fine encapsulation of unthinking escalations of war. ( or the start of
> WW1. Or whatever)
>
>
>
> Sent from my iPad
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> On Mar 23, 2014, at 2:06 PM, <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> No, it's the rarefied work-and-play setting of the hotel that makes the
> sub-genre. I'd almost be tempted to include The Shining (Kubrick's version
> anyway) as belonging.
>
> Laura
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Markekohut
> Sent: Mar 22, 2014 7:09 PM
> To: "kelber at mindspring.com"
> Cc: "pynchon-l at waste.org"
> Subject: Re: The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
>
> Pynchon did! except she was Maxine!
>
> Sent from my iPad
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> On Mar 22, 2014, at 1:33 PM, <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> A little sub-genre of its own - poor young man confronted with excessive
> wealth and loose morals of wealthy guests. I wish Pynchon had tackled it.
>  Un Perm au Casino Hermann Goering might be the closest he gets. Or is
> there something in ATD I'm forgetting?
>
> Laura
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Monte Davis
> Sent: Mar 22, 2014 2:24 PM
> To: kelber
> Cc: "pynchon-l at waste.org"
> Subject: Re: The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
>
> LK>... other young men working in hotels in the early 20th century...
>
> Kafka's Amerika
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 2:04 PM, <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
>
>> Very entertaining, but I preferred Moonrise Kingdom. Certainly wouldn't
>> argue with anyone who thinks this is Anderson's best, though.
>>
>> The movie was at its best when in stayed in the hotel. I loved the cheesy
>> 60s decor in the opening scene. The non-hotel scenes, particularly the
>> skiing sequence, were overly cute and generally weaker.
>>
>> When I first saw the trailer, I wondered if the movie was based on a very
>> obscure but great novel called Temptation, by John Pen (a pen name for
>> Janos Szekeley, aka John Toldy), which is a bout a young bellhop at a hotel
>> in Budapest in the 1930s. But clearly, it's not (credits attribute it to
>> Stefan Zweig, who I haven't read. Anyone?).
>>
>> Two other young men working in hotels in the early 20th century: The
>> Confessions of Felix Krull, by Thomas Mann, and Down and Out in Paris and
>> London, by George Orwell. Both very entertaining.
>>
>> And of course there's the Garbo-Barrymore(J and L)- Crawford classic
>> Grand Hotel (1932).
>>
>> Laura
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> >From: Mike Weaver <mike.weaver at zen.co.uk>
>> >Sent: Mar 22, 2014 10:42 AM
>> >To: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
>> >Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> >Subject: Re: The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
>> >
>> >Thoroughly enjoyable. No great depth, but a gloriously zestful
>> >experience. Will probably go see it at the cinema again.
>> >
>> >On 22/03/2014 13:19, Dave Monroe wrote:
>> >> Comments?
>> >
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