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Filed under: News, Video, Exclusive, Movies Like his movies, each of writer-director Wes Anderson's soundtracks has a totally unique feel. The British Invasion cuts in 'Rushmore' burst with teen angst and the drunk-like feelings associated with falling for your first love; the songs in 'The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou' by the likes of David Bowie and the Stooges are adventurous, even reckless at times. For 'Fantastic Mr. Fox,' Anderson's first animated feature starring George Clooney, Meryl Streep and Jason Schwartzman, the director and his longtime music supervisor Randall Poster finally used a band they've been toying with using for years: the Beach Boys. Why the wait? "I really loved the Beach Boys as a kid," Anderson tells Spinner when discussing the film's use of their songs 'Heroes and Villains' and 'Ol' Man River.' "Even young children really love the Beach Boys, so it's one of those [bands] that kind of works for all ages." Anderson says he originally intended to use the group's 'Sloop John B' in 'The Royal Tenenbaums,' but for some reason or another it didn't pan out. Considering that 'Fox,' an adaptation of Roald Dahl's classic children's book, is meant to play equally well with kids and adults, though, he feels that holding off on using them was well worth it. For 'Fantastic Mr. Fox''s original score, Anderson enlisted French composer Alexandre Desplat, whose whimsical, sprightly compositions bubble along as Mr. Fox and his friends run for their lives from three local farmers. "I'm a fan of Alexandre's from 'Birth' and also 'The Queen,'" Anderson says. "He lives in my neighborhood in Paris, so it was a perfect kind of situation for us. I first mentioned the film [to him] several years ago, in fact." Another neighbor of sorts, fellow Parisian Jarvis Cocker, plays an original song for the movie, 'Fantastic Mr. Fox (aka Petey's Song),' and voices a character, a troubadour who bears an uncanny resemblance to Cocker himself. "The words [to the song] were written by Noah Baumbach and I in our script, so that's all we contributed," Anderson explains. "Jarvis wrote the music and made it into a real song. I've known Jarvis for many years now; we were just lucky enough that he agreed to do it." "I think there's a certain na ve hopefulness to the music in the movie," music supervisor Poster says, who originally met Anderson at a farmers market in Los Angeles and, shocked that the director's debut, 'Bottle Rocket,' didn't have a soundtrack, put one together for London Records. "There's a little bit of a cultural collision," he continues about the music in 'Fox,' "where you have a certain Americana element that rubs up against maybe an English folk traditional that then finds itself getting spun around by some beautiful, melancholic French perspective." That eclectic, multicultural mix Poster speaks of is clearly evident in 'Fox''s soundtrack, which includes songs by Art Tatum, the Bobby Fuller Four, director Fran ois Truffaut's go-to composer Georges Delerue, Burl Ives, Nancy Adams and -- no surprise to Anderson aficionados -- the Rolling Stones, a band featured more often than any other in the director's films. When asked whether the Stones have ever spoken to him about the heavy use of their music in his films, Anderson says, "I heard that they said something about 'She Smiled Sweetly' [from 'The Royal Tenenbaums'] in a show they played once. But I couldn't get a ticket actually, so I didn't hear what they said." The 'Fantastic Mr. Fox' soundtrack is out now on ABKCO Records. Check out this promo video of the Bobby Fuller Four's "Let Her Dance" set to clips from the film: Wes Anderson's 10 Best Movie Music Moments

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With the werewolves out of the way, back to our regularly scheduled programming. A few weeks ago, The Hollywood Reporter ran a piece called "Shallow pool for Oscar's actress contenders." The basic premise: While the list of female directorial hopefuls is stronger than ever for the 2010 Academy race, the actress nods aren't so hot with Meryl Streep leading only a handful of other front-runners (Carey Mulligan and Gabourey Sidibe). The piece also noted the other potential Best Actress candidates, the possibility of notable performances in the remaining releases, the struggles women still face in Hollywood, and -- egads -- the fact that some are talking about Sandra Bullock getting a nod for The Blind Side. Reading the article through, I quickly had a thought .... and it was most definitely not about that previously mentioned werewolf flick getting any award love. Usually a discussion like this might be disheartening or aggravating, but the thought wasn't negative. It was, in fact, quite positive. Why don't we use this "shallow pool" as a reason to celebrate unconventional roles and performances? Filed under: Awards, Girls on FilmContinue reading Girls on Film: The Academy's Shallow Actress Pool Permalink | Email this | Comments

Welcome to a new series here on Cinematical where we select an actor or actress and the role we think is their all time best. Last August, "Meryl Streep" wrote an op-ed piece for The Onion called "Name One Masterpiece Of Cinema That I've Starred In." It was really written by the Onion staff, of course, but they (and Streep) made a good point. For a woman who is very possibly the finest living actor of any sex, she has made very few truly unforgettable films. Her resume doesn't contain anything quite like Rear Window, The Godfather, Chinatown or Pulp Fiction. Case in point: the article brings up Kramer vs. Kramer. "Streep" says "I'd watch it if it were on," but it isn't really a masterpiece. Also, it's more Dustin Hoffman's movie than Streep's movie, and if you look at it that way, it ranks pretty far down on Hoffman's list of classics. Streep's two best bona-fide classics are without a doubt Woody Allen's Manhattan (1979) and Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter (1978), but she has only tiny roles in both. Despite Streep's excellence, films like The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), Sophie's Choice (1982), Silkwood (1983), Out of Africa (1985), Plenty (1985), Ironweed (1987), A Cry in the Dark (1988), Marvin's Room (1996), One True Thing (1998), Music of the Heart (1999) or The Hours (2002) aren't exactly compulsively watchable, nor do they turn up on very many lists of favorite films. You could also eliminate her comedies like She-Devil (1989), Postcards from the Edge (1990) and Death Becomes Her (1992), and her recent string of lightweight hits like The Manchurian Candidate (2004), The Devil Wears Prada (2006) and Mamma Mia! (2008).Filed under: Romance, FandomContinue reading Their Best Role: Meryl Streep Permalink | Email this | Comments

Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, and Director Wes Anderson Chat About the animated film "Fantastic Mr. Fox" which opens on November 13 2009 NATIONWIDE.

Hollywood 411 catches up with the voice stars behind Wes Anderson's new movie THE FANASTIC MR. FOX. Meryl Streep talks about her one chance to play George Clooney's wife, and Jason Schwartzman takes us behind the scenes of the film!

Julie Powell, una giovane trentenne, ha bisogno di qualcosa che spsezzi la monotonia della sua esistenza così decide di cucinare nell'arco di un anno tutte le 524 ricette del libro "Mastering the art of French Cooking", scritto da Julia Child.

Julie Powell, una giovane trentenne, ha bisogno di qualcosa che spsezzi la monotonia della sua esistenza così decide di cucinare nell'arco di un anno tutte le 524 ricette del libro "Mastering the art of French Cooking", scritto da Julia Child.

A look at the new films from George Clooney, Meryl Streep and Jeremy PivenAuthor: itnentertainment Tags: entourage film pounds will ferrell fox review fantastic mr fox meryl streep colin animation live hard jeremy piven cannes wes anderson sell hard comedy george clooney the goods zombie horror Posted: 23 October 2009 Rating: 0.0 Votes: 0