To launch the new Jim Jarmusch film, Only Lovers Left Alive, which hits cinemas on 11th April and stars Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston, Cinema Paradiso Events are holding an exclusive preview experience on Tuesday April 1st in New York. The evening will start off at 7pm sharp with a screening of Jim Jarmusch’s crypto-vampire love story at the Sunshine Cinema, followed by live performances at Santos Party House where musicians from the film’s soundtrack – White Hills, Jozef Van Wissem, Yasmine Hamdan, Zola Jesus and Jim Jarmusch’s band SQÜRL – will all play live. Guests are encouraged to wear […]
ARTSY: Fan Art Grand Budapest Hotel Posters
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Before Zubrowka Became The Mythical Homeland Of The Grand Budapest Hotel, It Was Polish Vodka
Long before Zubrowka became the fictional Central European republic that’s home to Wes Anderson’s “Grand Budapest Hotel,” it was a vodka made in a non-fictional Central European republic that’s home to kielbasa and Krakow. Zubrowka has been around since the 16th century. It’s rye vodka flavored with grass from a pristine primeval forest in Poland where the buffalo — or more accurately, European bison — roam. A blade of “bison grass” is put in every bottle of this greenish-tinted vodka. How to describe Zubrowka’s taste? A character in Somerset Maugham’s novel The Razor’s Edge says it “smells of freshly […]
NPR 4 THE WES: Anderson Even When You Can’t
Illustration by ALEX FINE FRESH AIR Wes Anderson‘s new film, The Grand Budapest Hotel, begins with an author looking back on his work, explaining how he came to write a book about a hotel. The film has a story within a story within a story — but most of it is set in the late 1930s in the fictional central European country of Zobrowka on the eve of war. Ralph Fiennes stars as the concierge of the elegant resort. He makes sure everything is just so, but as the movie progresses and the plot thickens, his confectionary world is violated […]
Because When You Get Right Down To It Without Bad Dads There Would Be No Wes Anderson Films
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THE LIFE ACOUSTIC: Meet Randall Poster, The Man Who Makes Wes Anderson Soundtracks Sing
EDITOR’S NOTE: This was first published in issue #104 of MAGNET MAGAZINE. BY JONATHAN VALANIA How’s this sound for a dream job description: Sit around all day rolling doobies with Wes Anderson, reading script pages as he pecks them out on a vintage Smith-Corona and then firing up your iPod for the perfect vintage Kinks b-side/deep-cut mid-60’s Stones track/David Bowie song sung in Portuguese to go with each scene. Must have and impeccable ear, a kaleidoscopic mind and an encyclopedic record collection epic in its scope and unknowable vastness. Some time travel required. The bit about smoking doobies and […]
30 YEARS A SLAVE: America’s Longest Serving Death Row Inmate Is Free At Last, Free At Last
ASSOCIATED PRESS: A man who spent nearly 26 years on death row in Louisiana walked free of prison Tuesday, hours after a judge approved the state’s motion to vacate the man’s murder conviction in the 1983 killing of a jeweler. Glenn Ford, 64, had been on death row since August 1988 in connection with the death of 56-year-old Isadore Rozeman, a Shreveport jeweler and watchmaker for whom Ford had done occasional yard work. Ford had always denied killing Rozeman. Ford walked out the maximum security prison at Angola on Tuesday afternoon, said Pam Laborde, a spokeswoman for Louisiana’s Department […]
INCOMING: Something Wicked This Way Comes
Say what you want about her authenticity (whatever that means), her name, her lips, or how, by her own admission, her “pussy tastes like Pepsi,” love her or hater, she is coming to the Skyline Stage @ The Mann Center on May 11th. Resistance is futile. Tickets go on-sale Friday, March 14 at 10am via Ticketmaster.com, 800.745.3000, AEGLive.com, MannCenter.org, or the Mann box office. PHAWKER: Tell me something nobody knows about Lana Del Rey. Why do you think she is such a polarizing figure? WOODKID: You’re definitely fishing for the bold headline of this interview!?Lana has an incredible knowledge […]
MIA: Good Night Mr. Mooney, Wherever You Are
BY BRIEN ERICK EDWARDS A couple weeks ago the boss man at Phawker HQ assigned me to interview comedic legend Mr. Paul Mooney. The boss man said he jumped at the prospect of landing an interview with the controversial writer and comedian because A) controversy is what makes the Internet go round and B) Mooney is a fascinating, if self-sabotaging, figure who has worked with some of the best in the comedic world, including Richard Pryor and Dave Chappelle. So we worked up a bunch of questions that spanned his career, including his work with Pryor and Chappelle, along […]
BETWEEN TWO FERNS: President Barack Obama
Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis: President Barack Obama from President Barack Obama
24 Philly Keystone Pipeline Protesters Arrested
Photo by DUSTIN SLAUGHTER BY DUSTIN SLAUGHTER & KENNETH LIPP More than 100 activists blockaded three entrances of the Federal building at 6th and Market streets today as part of a nationwide campaign to pressure President Obama to block construction of the last leg of Keystone Pipeline construction. The demonstration was mounted by of a coalition of environmental groups including Earth Quaker Action Team, Rising Tide Philadelphia, 350 Philadelphia, and Be the Change. Today’s action resulted in 24 arrests, although 23 were cited on misdemeanor obstruction charges and released. One man faces felony charges for allegedly assaulting a federal officer. […]
CONTEST: Win Tix To See A Special VIP Advance Screening Of Wes Anderson’s Grand Budapest Hotel
To mark the highly anticipated release of The Grand Budapest Hotel in select theaters on March 14th, this is officially WES ANDERSON WEEK on Phawker. We’ll have soundtrack and film score Sound Clouds to share, an in-depth interview about all things Wes Anderson from award-winning New York Magazine critic Matt Zoller Seitz, author of The Wes Anderson Collection AND we’re giving away 40 tickets to a special VIP advance screening tomorrow night, Tuesday March 11th, 7:30 pm at the Ritz 5! Because what’s the point of seeing a Wes Anderson movie if you can’t see it before everyone else […]
NPR 4 THE DEAF: We Hear It Even When You Can’t
FRESH AIR Let’s say you meet a Rockefeller — Clark Rockefeller — and suddenly you have this connection to a world of wealth and privilege. Or so you think, because one day you find out he’s an imposter. And not just an imposter — a murderer. That’s what happened to Walter Kirn, and Kirn’s a smart guy — he’s a journalist and the author of two novels that have been adapted into films, Up In The Air and Thumbsucker. How he was deceived, and what the consequences were, is the subject of Kirn’s new memoir, Blood Will Out. Clark Rockefeller […]