The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

Charles Albert cfalbert at gmail.com
Sat Mar 22 14:23:41 CDT 2014


Zweig was a fairly prominent, and prolific, writer in the period between
the world wars. Killed himself in despair of the course of history.

love,
cfa


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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