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WSJ: 'Nude' Short Serves As Film's Prequel
Sept. 24, 2007 -- The director of Fox Searchlight film Darjeeling Limited—about three brothers taking a spiritual journey through India -- is offering a 13-minute short as a free download Sept. 26 on Apple’s iTunes that is a prequel. To juice interest in the short Hotel Chevalier, actress Natalie Portman appears in an extended nude scene, though she only makes a brief appearance in Darjeeling, which premieres Sept. 29. “The use of Hotel Chevalier as a promotional tool…is an attempt to put one of (the director’s) creative works to use and stir up intrigue around the main movie,” notes a Wall Street Journal article. Director Wes Anderson self-financed and produced Chevalier in two-and-one-half days entirely in a Paris hotel room one year before Darjeeling.
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New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/22/business/media/22darjeeling.html?ref=media