A Clean Well-Lighted Space

• His new short film Hotel Chevalier, which just aired at the NY Film Festival before the premiere of The Darjeeling Limited, is available on iTunes, & is very good.
• Here's a sweet little piece he wrote for the NYTimes years ago, about the time he screened Rushmore for Pauline Kael.
• Here's a recent interview with him in New York magazine.  It includes this funny Rushmore-ish moment:

On the trip to Rome, Anderson and company move about the train as if it belongs to them. They abandon the suitcase full of Bill Murray’s money and head to the dining car for pasta, prosciutto and melon, and numerous half-bottles of wine...Coppola and Furches decide to kill some time by completing the Times crossword puzzle; they are soon stumped, and turn to Anderson, an amateur crossword junkie, for assistance. “Mind if I hold the paper?” Anderson asks, setting the crossword in his lap, pulling an erasable pen from his pocket, and casually taking control of the situation. He gives the sense that everyone is participating, working together, and yet—as he fills in one answer after another—it becomes clear that the end result would be the same if Anderson were sitting there alone.

“I think we’re just being entertained,” jokes Coppola.

“Oh, no—I couldn’t do this without you guys,” says Anderson, a statement that comes across as both true and false.

i'm baffled by how this animated image could seem both immeasurably stupid & quite possibly the work of an ad-industry genius. then recently, i noticed a v2 optimization the creator had made, where he/she endowed the alien w/ a bikini & blond wig:



it's almost art.