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Watch Wes Anderon’s Hotel Chevalier Online Right Now!

Posted on Wednesday, September 26th, 2007 by Peter Sciretta

You’ve heard us talk about Wes Anderson’s 13 minute short film Hotel Chevalier which stars Natalie Portman (in the buff, kinda) and Jason Schwartzman. And now you can watch it exclusively on Apple iTunes. Fret not, it’s completely free - just click this link, download and consume.

Hotel Chevalier is set in a hotel room in France and is a “brief coda to a doomed romance and the prologue to The Darjeeling Limited.” I read in an interview that Portman didn’t want to smoke in the short (which was part of the script) so they replaced the cigarette with a toothpick.

A few screen captures after the jump, including the much talked about “money shot”.

Update: The movie is now available on Google Video, check it out after the jump.

Comments

sam

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well thank you for the head's up...
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Hennessy

Thank you!
I've been looking for this all day but iTunes really hasn't done much to promote it or make it all that easy to find--unless it just went up recently.

passionategeek

Well, I think the better shot is the extended close-up of her ass.

Zach

To be honest...I'm almost more interested in exploring the relationship between these two characters than the Darjeeling Limited. I think they seem really interesting...and i hope that Darjeeling goes into them somewhat...or that Anderson makes either another short or even a feature film maybe.

OAKside

Thanks Peter! Thanks Apple and (*gulp*) Fox, they can get me using iTunes store with great deals like this: Free and somewhat high quality.

Morgs

Man! All I want to do is see Hotel Chevalier but because I am not an American Citizen I cannot download it from iTunes. Can someone please download it and post a torrent. Globalization my ass!
FREE THE NET!

Nick O.

Morgs, if you leave me your email I'll hook you up.

Morgs

thanks man, that'd be suite. send me a message at my myspace and i'll hit you up with my email. myspace.com/morgan_panda

whitman

i have the same problem as morgs. outside of america and tryin to get it for my iTunes

jefferson

if you cant download it because of where you live its posted here

http://filmmelt.com/?p=50

Anonymoustache

I can't get my iTunes account working either, though I've given it a valid credit card. Quite astonishing really that the first time I attempt to actually use the iTunes store it's to view a free video and I can't get it because it thinks I have an invalid credit card address!

I turned off that crappy youtube copy. Can someone please put the full quality version online somewhere!? Come on, it was free to begin with and it's not a big file!

rjwil

hey im from canada and itunes wont let me download it
what can i do to watch it???

Fikr-1 Fiil

well thank you for the headÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s upÃ¢â‚¬Â¦

dan

I can`t tell which is cooler, the fact that I can`t download it from itunes, or the embedded google video not playing ...

Stefan

anyone know when we people outside the US will be able to watch this?

Stefan

found a good stream. better than the google video one
http://www.mefeedia.com/entry/3631897/

Anonymoustache

WTF! Why can't someone just upload the original 149mb file?! The mefeedia link from the last comment is just the flash version of a blip.tv file. After about 3 whole seconds of searching I found that the user who uploaded this to blip.tv uploaded three different copies which in total add up to more than 149mb! They even cropped and resized the video! Why would someone copy a video like this?! Was the wide aspect too much for a small brain to deal with?

So, bugger it. I give up on the internets and the multitude of idiots who now reside there!

Anonymoustache

Holy crap! It's cropped so tight that it even cuts off the closing credits!

Anonymoustache

OK. I've found the original now. I'll upload it to a few places and post a link here, so we can all rest. Well, I can anyway.

Boris Anthony

"Fret not, itÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s completely free"

Thankfully someone upped it to other services, but tell me, how is giving a corporation your credit card details, and thus identity, "free"?

:)

Anonymoustache

Sorry, all the high quality copies I can find are protected by iTunes DRM. How's that for free! I've been quite unsuccessful in finding an app for ripping something like this, so, I don't know. I'm uploading it anyway so that people can at least get it and maybe someone else out there knows a trick. Link soon...

Maynard

There is several apps to remove the drm from the original file if you own the file.
So anyone who's downloaded this from iTunes could remove the drm and then put the drm-free file up for download.

Stefan

i've downloaded the movie and wouldn't mind uploading it. i haven't been able to crack the drm though. tried tunebites but wasn't successful. any other tools you could recommend?

Maynard

Try qtfairuse
More tools: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FairPlay

Anonymoustache

I did upload it and I posted a comment here with a link but comments with links are screened and it didn't go up. hmmm. Either way, I haven't found any apps that remove the DRM from iTunes video files, only audio files. All of the DRM removal apps on that wikipedia page including qtfairuse only work with audio, not video.

Otukka

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=1HD66L70

I found it in WMV format without DRM.

Anonymoustache

Though the WMV doesn't appear to be very degraded and doesn't have any noticeable DRM, I don't think it's the full quality version. It's actually smaller than the ripped versions already online such as the ones on blip.tv.

Oh well, continue waiting.......

Anonymoustache

Actually, upon further inspection it does look degraded!

Eddie von Vondrecht

That was the biggest load of crap I've ever seen in my life. I scratch my head at the point of of it. Pondering why I wasted 13 minutes of my life for nothing. Even though I love Natalie, this movie was a giant waste of her talents. If nudity was the point, it failed because even that was poorly done. I've seen more skin on daytime TV. I'm just glad I didn't pay to see it.

Anonymoustache

Wow Eddie von Vondrecht! Never seen a Wes Anderson film before?

ms_r

well, he digs his yellows! I like Wes' movies, but they're all variations on similar characters (educated, privileged, self-loathing, neurotic) and similar themes (able to afford going to exotic places to freak out and/or be miserable, or work it out). Fantastical elitism!

I wonder if he'd ever do a ghetto fairytale and call it Get Poor and Die Broke. Have a character imagine that his/her life is 'Forbidden Planet'.

Alejandro

Hi:
Someone please post me high quality copy of the short. As many others I'm not an american citizen and it seems that our credit cards are not worth it for Itunes. Hope someone could send it. Thanks!

Amira

How does the story start?? Can someone put the first 3 or 4 minutes of this short film pls?? the links provided only show the last 10 mins, i guess due to time constrain. Thanx!!!

Anonymoustache

Amira, the film only goes for 12:59. It's a short film. That's all of it. Although, as the article says the film is a Ã¢â‚¬Å“brief coda to a doomed romance and the prologue to The Darjeeling Limited.Ã¢â‚¬Â so in a way the missing part is The Darjeeling Limited.

Amira

but there's a phone scene too. i saw a little bit on the short film's trailer.

Anonymoustache

Which phone scene is that? The phone scene that starts at about 12 seconds or the one that starts at 37 seconds? They're both in the google video version at the top of this post and that's the same as the cinema version apparently.

Amira

um... google link isn't working, it keeps saying not available... and it happens to alll vids related to hotel chevalier...hmm

Amira

i've been able to watch from where he opens the door at the hotel and natalie is on her cell phone.... but not before that:(

Anonymoustache

I'm uploading the WMV version somewhere for you now. I'll let you know once I have a link.

Amira

yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeei!
mil gracias bigote anonimo!!
that's thanks Anonymoustache!=D

Anonymoustache

OK. Here's the streaming version (flash version will take its place soon):
http://hotelchevalier.blip.tv/file/419442/
Here's the downloadable version:
http://blip.tv/file/get/Hotelchevalier-HotelChe...
It's still not the original file, but it's close.

Anonymoustache

It's already there. Refresh the page and it should be 4 comments above this one.

Anonymoustache

Ah crap. No it's not. It's still awaiting moderation. So many comments for such a simple thing! ok, just go to hotelchevalier dot blip dot tv (replace "dot" with a actual dots).

Amira

i was just gonna say donde?...hahahahahaha XD oh my that's so sweet of you! muchos thanks!!

Anonymoustache

donde?

Amira

donde=where:P , hey got a question....what does he say to her before they lay on the bed?? "are you running away from me?" "I thought.....(what?!)"

Amira

buenas noches Anonymoustache! and thanks again!
have a nice day every1!

sammy

How can i download this?

Gisela

Why can't I download this from itunes? I keep getting a message that says it is no longer available?!?!

pirate bob

i just saw the darjeeling limited in theaters last weekend. was excited to watch hotel chevalier online. now none of the links work because apparently it's going to accompany the film going forward! but i paid in theaters and didn't get to see it. so unfair! missed it on the big screen AND online. is this online anywhere at all anymore?

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