"CASTELLO CAVALCANTI" by Wes Anderson

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There's a new Wes Anderson short film for Prada featuring Jason Schwartzman >>>

CAST & CREW
Jason Schwartzman
Giada Colagrande

Written and directed by Wes Anderson
Cinematography: Darius Khondji
Editing: Stephen Perkins
Production Design: Stefano Ortolani
Costumes Design: Milena Canonero
Music: Alessandro Casella & Randall Poster
Production: The Directors Bureau in association with Hi! Production

PRADA presents "CASTELLO CAVALCANTI" by Wes Anderson - YouTube

[EricJ]

Wes Anderson? Hey, whaddya know, the devil really DOES wear Prada.

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Wes Anderson discussed 3D, animation and an idea for a series of shorts at the Rome Film Festival this evening [Nov 13], where he introduced the world premiere of a short sponsored by Italian fashion label Prada.

The Moonrise Kingdom director, whose Grand Budapest Hotel will open the Berlinale in February, was joined on stage by regular collaborators Roman Coppola and Jason Schwartzman.

Together with cinematographer Darius Khondji, they worked on Castello Cavalcanti, an eight-minute short centred on racing driver Jed Cavalcanti and set during Italy’s Molte Miglia rally in September 1955.

Shot at Rome’s famous Cinecitta studios, where Federico Fellini made La Dolce Vita, it opens with Cavalcanti (Schwartzman) crashing his car in a village square, where the racing driver soon discovers he has a connection with the people.

Coppola revealed there was a prop included in the short that was used in La Dolce Vita and said: “The fact that we used a prop that had been in that movie was a wondrous thing.”

Anderson said the short was inspired by a scene from Fellini’s Amarcord (1973) and could be the first in a series set at famous studios around the world.

“I love Jason’s character of this racing car driver in the 1950s and we think this could be the first chapter in an ongoing series,” the director told a packed theatre at the festival’s Cinema Village.

“We have to ask Prada but they have been so enthusiastic and encouraging, I bet they would let us do another one.

“This is sort of connected to Fellini and we filmed it at Cinecittà. Maybe these films could be connected to different countries and different filmmakers. There are many wonderful old studios. There’s one in Nice; Toho in Japan; and Ealing in the UK.

“Maybe we could go to the studios that we love from old movies and try set one of these there and connect each one with the filmmakers who worked in that place. It would be a world tour with this guy.”

He cautiously added: “It’ll probably never happen.”

Source:
http://www.screendaily.com/news/wes-...063654.article

[Archedamian]

Cool. Love Wes Anderson.