Confession: I still haven't seen The Squid and the Whale. But this trailer for filmmaker Noah Baumbach's new film, Margot at the Wedding, makes me much less inclined to put Squid/Whale back on the Netflix queue.
I'll stop posting about trailers when trailers actually start making sense. To be sure, this is a nice counterpoint to the recent discussion on PA re: Wes Anderson and his search for brotherly love. But combining the increasingly freakish Nicole Kidman and the ur-Single White Female and asking them to be warring siblings seems like an exercise in the absurd.
I will admit to getting a little goofy/weepy when that cover of CSNY's "Our House" started up. And then I did some quick g-searching and discovered that it's a cover by Phantom Planet, a band whose initial claim to fame was its original drummer, Jason Schwartzman. Yes, that Jason Schwartzman. If Probably Awkward has taught you anything, dear readers, it's that you can't escape circularity. Methinks it might be the secret weapon of the quirk.
[MD: I might be risking HT's wrath here, but I think Phantom Planet is actually sort of good.]
you also risk BK's wrath. PP is not, has never been, will never be good.
Posted by: benjamin | August 09, 2007 at 12:07 PM