Hotel Chevalier is a 2007 short film written and directed by Wes Anderson, starring Jason Schwartzman and Natalie Portman as former lovers who reunite in a Paris hotel room. The 13-minute film acts as a prologue to Anderson's 2007 feature film The Darjeeling Limited, in which a man (played by Adrien Brody) reunites with his brothers (Owen Wilson and Schwartzman) in India after the death of their father. Hotel Chevalier was shot on location in a Parisian hotel by a small crew and self-financed by Anderson, who initially intended it as a stand-alone work. Its first showing was at the Venice Film Festival première of the feature film on September 2, 2007, and it made its own debut later that month at Apple Stores in four American cities. The day after its première, it was made available for free from the iTunes Store for one month, during which it was downloaded more than 500,000 times. The film garnered near-universal critical acclaim from reviewers who compared it favorably with The Darjeeling Limited and praised its richness, poignancy, and careful construction.
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1666:
A large fire began on London's Pudding Lane and burned the city for three days, destroying St Paul's Cathedral and the homes of 70,000 of the city's 80,000 inhabitants. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Fire_of_London
1792:
French Revolution: Due to an overwhelming fear that foreign armies would attack Paris and prisoners would revolt, thousands of people were summarily executed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_Massacres
1946:
The interim government of India, headed by Jawaharlal Nehru, was formed to assist the transition of India from British rule to independence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interim_Government_of_India
1985:
Hurricane Elena, an unpredictable and damaging tropical cyclone that affected eastern and central portions of the United States Gulf Coast, made landfall near Biloxi, Mississippi as a Category 3 major hurricane. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Elena
1998:
Swissair Flight 111, en route from New York City to Geneva, crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 229 people on board. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swissair_Flight_111
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autochthon: 1. The earliest inhabitant of an area; an aborigine. 2. (geology) An autochthonous rock formation. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/autochthon
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Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum: it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other. Within the compass of five generations we find the Puritan first an uncompromising believer in demonology and magic, and then a scoffer at everything involving the play of fancy. --Eugene Field https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Eugene_Field