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(Die Royal Tenenbaums [de])
USA 2001
d: Wes Anderson
Criterion / Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Region 1 us)
USA 2001
d: Wes Anderson
Criterion / Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Region 1 us)
sc: Wes Anderson, Owen Wilson
c: Robert Yeoman (Technicolor, Panavision)
e: Dylan Tichenor
pd: David Wasco
m: Mark Mothersbaugh
p: Wes Anderson, Barry Mendel, Scott Rudin (American Empirical Pictures / Mordecai Films / Touchstone Pictures)
w: Gene Hackman, Anjelica Huston, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ben Stiller, Luke Wilson, Owen Wilson, Danny Glover, Bill Murray, Alec Baldwin, Seymour Cassel, Kumar Pallana, Grant Rosenmeyer, Jonah Meyerson, Aram Aslanian-Persico, Irene Gorovaia
pr: 05 Okt 2001
aw: Berlin International Film Festival 2002 Nominated Golden Berlin Bear • Golden Globes 2002 Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy Gene Hackman
c: Robert Yeoman (Technicolor, Panavision)
e: Dylan Tichenor
pd: David Wasco
m: Mark Mothersbaugh
p: Wes Anderson, Barry Mendel, Scott Rudin (American Empirical Pictures / Mordecai Films / Touchstone Pictures)
w: Gene Hackman, Anjelica Huston, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ben Stiller, Luke Wilson, Owen Wilson, Danny Glover, Bill Murray, Alec Baldwin, Seymour Cassel, Kumar Pallana, Grant Rosenmeyer, Jonah Meyerson, Aram Aslanian-Persico, Irene Gorovaia
pr: 05 Okt 2001
aw: Berlin International Film Festival 2002 Nominated Golden Berlin Bear • Golden Globes 2002 Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy Gene Hackman
rt: 109:38 min
dvd-rl: 09 Jul 2002
ar: 2.35:1 (16:9 Anamorphic Widescreen)
sd: English DTS 5.1 Surround • English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround • English Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround • Audio Commentary Dolby Digital 2.0
st: English
supp: The Criterion Collection #157
Created on a high-definition C-Reality, this digital transfer was mastered from the 35mm interpositive and the original magnetic audio tracks. This transfer was supervised and approved by director Wes Anderson
DISC 1
• The Film
• Audio Commentary by Director/Writer Wes Anderson
DISC 2
• "With The Filmmaker": Portraits by Albert Maysles, featuring Wes Anderson (27:02 min)
• The Peter Bradley Show, featuring interviews with additional cast members(14:21 min)
• 2 Deleted Scenes (1:47 min)
• Exclusive video interviews and behind-the-scenes footage (26:52 min) of Gene Hackman (3:15 min), Anjelica Huston (3:21 min), Ben Stiller (3:17 min), Gwyneth Paltrow (2:20 min), Luke Wilson (6:01 min), Owen Wilson (2:08 min), Bill Murray (3:57 min), and Danny Glover (2:31 min)
• 2 Theatrical Trailers (4:22 min)
• Collectible insert including Eric Anderson’s drawing
• Miguel Calderon Radio Interview (4:33)
• Miguel Calderon Art Gallery (18 images)
• Stills Gallery (205 images)
• Wes Anderson Storyboards (32 images)
• Eric Anderson Art Galleries: Margot (23 images); Murals ( 90images)
• Book And Magazine Covers (8 images)
Easter eggs
• On Disc 2, go to the Main Menu and press [Up] to highlight the "Criterion Collection" Logo. Press [Enter] for a "Criterion DVD" Introduction by Ben Stiller (0:14 min)
• On Disc 2, go to 'Murals' on the "Scrapbook" Menu. Press [Down] and the Dalmatian Mouse on the floor will be highlighted. Press [Enter] to see some Behind-The-Scenes footage of Bill Murray elaborating on Mice and Snakes (0:20 min)
• 12-Page Eric Anderson's "The Tenenbaum House" Guidebook
• 14-Page Collector's Booklet
dvd-rl: 09 Jul 2002
ar: 2.35:1 (16:9 Anamorphic Widescreen)
sd: English DTS 5.1 Surround • English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround • English Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround • Audio Commentary Dolby Digital 2.0
st: English
supp: The Criterion Collection #157
Created on a high-definition C-Reality, this digital transfer was mastered from the 35mm interpositive and the original magnetic audio tracks. This transfer was supervised and approved by director Wes Anderson
DISC 1
• The Film
• Audio Commentary by Director/Writer Wes Anderson
DISC 2
• "With The Filmmaker": Portraits by Albert Maysles, featuring Wes Anderson (27:02 min)
• The Peter Bradley Show, featuring interviews with additional cast members(14:21 min)
• 2 Deleted Scenes (1:47 min)
• Exclusive video interviews and behind-the-scenes footage (26:52 min) of Gene Hackman (3:15 min), Anjelica Huston (3:21 min), Ben Stiller (3:17 min), Gwyneth Paltrow (2:20 min), Luke Wilson (6:01 min), Owen Wilson (2:08 min), Bill Murray (3:57 min), and Danny Glover (2:31 min)
• 2 Theatrical Trailers (4:22 min)
• Collectible insert including Eric Anderson’s drawing
• Miguel Calderon Radio Interview (4:33)
• Miguel Calderon Art Gallery (18 images)
• Stills Gallery (205 images)
• Wes Anderson Storyboards (32 images)
• Eric Anderson Art Galleries: Margot (23 images); Murals ( 90images)
• Book And Magazine Covers (8 images)
Easter eggs
• On Disc 2, go to the Main Menu and press [Up] to highlight the "Criterion Collection" Logo. Press [Enter] for a "Criterion DVD" Introduction by Ben Stiller (0:14 min)
• On Disc 2, go to 'Murals' on the "Scrapbook" Menu. Press [Down] and the Dalmatian Mouse on the floor will be highlighted. Press [Enter] to see some Behind-The-Scenes footage of Bill Murray elaborating on Mice and Snakes (0:20 min)
• 12-Page Eric Anderson's "The Tenenbaum House" Guidebook
• 14-Page Collector's Booklet
Wittier, a lot more enjoyable and infinitely richer than the year's major Oscar contenders, this is clearly a blood brother to Anderson's Rushmore. The Tenenbaums are New York high society gone to seed. Scandalous Royal (Hackman) separated from wife Etheline (Huston) two decades ago, and after that kept his distance as his once prodigious offspring slumped. Business whizz Chas (Stiller) has become a paranoid neurotic; Richie (Wilson) is a tennis star whose career was sacrificed to love; adopted daughter Margot (Paltrow) is a closed book of a playwright. Financially embarrassed and claiming a dying man's last rights, Royal returns to put his house in order. The milieu is reminiscent of Preston Sturges' screwball fancies from the early 1940s - albeit scored to '70s rock. Anderson's unusually pronounced literary influences include Salinger, Edith Wharton and the New Yorker magazine, and the film sometimes resembles a cartoon from that august publication's glory days: an elegantly composed caricature given the finishing touch with an immaculately turned one-liner. It exists in a bubble - Anderson's New York doesn't exist and never did - but the rarefied atmosphere is a bit of a blind; what sneaks up on you is how, in his deliciously roundabout way, Anderson wears irony on his sleeve to camouflage a deeper sincerity. At its heart, this is a comedy of unrequited love, melancholy and disappointment. One to savour.
— TCh, Time Out Film Guide
•••••
How charmed you are by the quirky Tenenbaums will determine how much you enjoy their tortured efforts to work things out. The self-consciously loopy plot is mostly a showcase for the cast, and Hackman and Houston easily outshine the younger actors: Stiller's sputtering rage, Paltrow's goth-deb anomie and the Wilsons' goofy antics are entertaining, but they're one-note characterizations. Anderson has said he took some of his inspiration from classic New Yorker fiction, and the film's studied eccentricities do indeed recall the magazine's more precious offerings.
— Maitland McDonagh, TV MovieGuide
•••••
May not be the movie of the year, but it is a seasonal gift to us all. Sweet and funny, doggedly oddball if bordering precious.
— Village Voice, J. Hoberman
•••••
You may find Wes Anderson's follow-up to Rushmore a solid piece of entertainment in the same general mode, but disappointing insofar as it moves the earlier film's stylistic freshness into a kind of formula, increasing the overall cuteness while reducing the sense of adolescent despair. Not that the extended dysfunctional New York family of the title are happy campers by any means; like Salinger's Glass family, they're a disarming mix of prodigal talents, crippling incapacities, and diverging ethnicities. The movie's affection for them all is certainly infectious, and the cast is wonderful: Danny Glover, Gene Hackman, Anjelica Huston, Bill Murray, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ben Stiller, Luke Wilson, and Owen Wilson. Whatever my qualms, it's still one of the funniest comedies around.
— Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
— TCh, Time Out Film Guide
•••••
How charmed you are by the quirky Tenenbaums will determine how much you enjoy their tortured efforts to work things out. The self-consciously loopy plot is mostly a showcase for the cast, and Hackman and Houston easily outshine the younger actors: Stiller's sputtering rage, Paltrow's goth-deb anomie and the Wilsons' goofy antics are entertaining, but they're one-note characterizations. Anderson has said he took some of his inspiration from classic New Yorker fiction, and the film's studied eccentricities do indeed recall the magazine's more precious offerings.
— Maitland McDonagh, TV MovieGuide
•••••
May not be the movie of the year, but it is a seasonal gift to us all. Sweet and funny, doggedly oddball if bordering precious.
— Village Voice, J. Hoberman
•••••
You may find Wes Anderson's follow-up to Rushmore a solid piece of entertainment in the same general mode, but disappointing insofar as it moves the earlier film's stylistic freshness into a kind of formula, increasing the overall cuteness while reducing the sense of adolescent despair. Not that the extended dysfunctional New York family of the title are happy campers by any means; like Salinger's Glass family, they're a disarming mix of prodigal talents, crippling incapacities, and diverging ethnicities. The movie's affection for them all is certainly infectious, and the cast is wonderful: Danny Glover, Gene Hackman, Anjelica Huston, Bill Murray, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ben Stiller, Luke Wilson, and Owen Wilson. Whatever my qualms, it's still one of the funniest comedies around.
— Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
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m = music score ; p = producer; w = cast; pr = premiere; aw = awards;
rt = runtime; dvd-rl = dvd release; ar = aspect ratio; sd = soundtracks; st = subtitles; supp = supplements
m = music score ; p = producer; w = cast; pr = premiere; aw = awards;
rt = runtime; dvd-rl = dvd release; ar = aspect ratio; sd = soundtracks; st = subtitles; supp = supplements