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...HARRY ANDERSON TROPHY...
...three brothers (Andrew and Luke are in movies too)--concludes the witness report on the coincidences between Francis Whitman and Owen Wilson. Enough with the creepiness already. What actually registers most strongly in Darjeeling is the sweet deadpan charm that Wilson has brought to all five of Anderson's movies...
Picaresque movies often feel longer than they are. For them to work, they need an interior spring with more thrust than Darjeeling's attempt at reconstituted brotherhood. The problem is in Anderson's approach, which is so supercool, it's chilly. In his elaborate visual construct, virtually every shot is followed by the camera's point of view shifting 90 or 180--geometrically groovy but quickly predictable. Same goes for his stories, which rely on gifted people behaving goofily. Anderson has the attitude for comedy but not the aptitude. His films are airless. Humor under glass...
There's one tiny bit in Darjeeling that shows what Anderson can do. The camera tracks along a corridor of train compartments. In each is a different character, glimpsed for just a few seconds: the Sikh trainman, the hostess, Peter's wife ... and Bill Murray as a businessman also seen briefly at the film's opening. It's a graceful series of snapshots into the lives of Darjeeling's subsidiary characters. Maybe Anderson could make a film about each of them. And perhaps collaborate on the screenplays with Owen Wilson. It could be therapeutic...
...League experience. We are going to recruit outstanding student-athletes and I look forward to positively impacting Harvard.” Tillman, a four-year assistant coach at Ithaca College before joining the Navy staff, assumes his new role with the Crimson immediately. He replaces Scott Anderson, who stepped down as head coach after 20 years earlier this month to become an assistant director of athletics at Harvard. Anderson, who has known Tillman for years, said that despite having a limited roll in the coaching search process, he thinks Tillman is “a tremendous choice?...