Check In To Wes Anderson's 'Hotel Chevalier'

The New York Film Festival doesn't begin until Friday but you can get your first taste of what will be unspooling on screens at Lincoln Center tonight at the Soho Apple Store. Director Wes Anderson and stars Natalie Portman and Jason Schwartzman will be on hand for a screening of Anderson's new 12 minute short film Hotel Chevalier at 9 pm.

The short was shot entirely in a Paris hotel room and serves as a prequel to Anderson's new movie The Darjeeling Limited about three brothers traveling across India by train, which opens the festival and gets a theatrical release this Friday.

Chevalier will screen at the festival but not theatrically, so until it comes out on DVD (or gets leaked to youtube) this is your opportunity to Natalie Portman's Jean Seberg impression (and in the buff, no less). Ahh, all the young actresses these days want to be like the New Wave muses. (Check out an early review of Darjeeling from Slant and we chatted with Anderson when Life Aquatic came out in 2004. A Gothamist review to come after we see it on Thursday.)

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By Karen Wilson in Arts and Events on September 25, 2007 3:13 PM

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This was absolutely terrible. Just terrible, terrible planning from the Apple store. I showed up at 7 and they were handing out wristbands. There were already people wrapped around the corner and almost all the way down the block. We got some dinner and came back, only a few people back from where we originally were when the wristbands were given out. We waited and waited. They said they would be letting people in at 8:45 and starting at 9. They let people in closer to 9:30. Everyone was in at 9:45ish and they started it soon thereafter. The first 25 people got seats. Everyone else stood in the back. Tall people in the front made it impossible for anyone who wasn't in the front row of people to see. No one could see the film, no one could see the actors when they spoke afterwards. The mics weren't even loud enough to hear them.

I felt completely jipped, and I know it was a free event, but damn, this was just a complete waste of time. If you didn't get a wristband and weren't able to get in, BE GLAD! This was horrible.

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judd apatow was a pretty smart writer until learned of the adam sandler pg-13 pander to broad audiences and you will make a shitload of money scheme. It's hit everyone. If a up and coming comedian does anything with pg-13 in it. Stay away.

Neil Epstein

Anyone hit the Apple store?

guest

The short film will be for free on itunes on the 26th by the way.

guest

who's judd apatow?

hipsters will eat this crap up, even the title is hipster.

Judasgoat

Oh, "Dude69"... Don't worry. There will still be plenty of Aliens vs. Predator and Judd Apatow movies for you to enjoy.

guest

it is going to be a free download on itunes tomorrow

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guest

you think that's what it's gonna be?

I can relate to a movie like that.

Dude69

Overrated "artistic" crap that only hipsters would enjoy. I wish I could return my copy of "The Royal Tennenbaums".

TimSPC

I hope this one involves rich people doing wonderfully quirky things and is set to an off-kilter soundtrack. That would be super.

guest

The short will be available for free on iTunes starting Wednesday.

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guest

IFC is running live events from the NYFF this year:

http://ifc.com/news/article?aId=21150

It's pretty cool for those of us that can't make the events.