23.12.04

The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)

After the recent airing of this film on the CBC I am aghast that I do not yet own a copy! Easily one of the best films made yet this century, there should be a Collectors edition of Bottle Rocket, Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums. Maybe that's what I'm waiting for...


One thing struck me, though. In Eli Cash's apartment he has these bizarre paintings of fur-mask wearing men on small motorcycles. I could have sworn they were the work of Canadian ex-pat painter Attila Richard Lukacs.


But they were actually the work of Miguel Calderón, a Mexican artist. Kind of embarrassing, since I had met and interviewed Lukacs in the mid-nineties when he did a show at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal.

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