The release of knight hotel

"After the work is finished, I don't want to integrate this short film into the film, but I can't make up my mind how to deal with it. I usually choose to play a short film before the movie starts, but this is not always the case. Sometimes I tend to watch movies directly instead of short films, which has become a problem for me. In the end, I decided to let the film be released directly in the United States without this short film, but I also hope that people can see the short film when they are interested. "

—— wes anderson, June 5438+1October 2007.

On September 2nd, 2007, Knight Hotel premiered at the 64th Venice Film Festival as part of the world premiere of Crossing Darjeeling, and then premiered at Apple retail stores in new york, Chicago, San Francisco and Santa Monica on September 25th. Anderson, Schwarczman and Portman attended the screening in Soho, new york, and answered questions from the audience after the screening. The next day, Apple's ITunes Store began to provide free download service for short films. On September 28th, Crossing Darjeeling was released at the 2007 New York Film Festival, and Knight Hotel was shown before it. According to the press release issued before the premiere, the short film is "a short ending destined for romance and a prelude to crossing Darjeeling".

The free download of the short film on iTunes lasted for one month. Although a month ago, USA-Today columnist Susan Wloszczyna criticized the short film as just an appetizer and "destined to be just a simple footnote", it was downloaded nearly 500,000 times and received wide acclaim. After stopping providing free downloads through iTunes, the short film began to be shown in cinemas, which was a sequence through Darjeeling. The New York Times reported in June 5438 +2007 10 that the publisher Fox Searchlight hoped that Knight Hotel would compete for the Oscar for Best Short Film, but the film was not nominated in the end. This short film was also included in the DVD "Crossing Darjeeling" released in 2008, and the short film script written by Anderson was published in the literary magazine "Seute Rope: All-Story" in the winter of 2007.