Parties

Pangbianr x Live Music: Gulou Double Decker #2

Date: March 12 - 9 pm

Venue: Dada, Rm 101, Bldg B, 206 Gulou Dong Dajie

Price: 30 yuan

Pangbianr presents: Danish-Indian cultural radical, label runner, and future music producer Hari Shankar Kishore, aka DJ HVAD, for Gulou Double Decker #2 @Dada and Temple bars. Pangbianr.com x Live Beijing Music double down at 206 Gulou Dong Dajie, throwing parallel shows in perpendicular universes as the opening night rager of the 2015 JUE | Music + Art festival. Pangbianr is downstairs at Dada, hosting Danish producer Hari Shankar Kishore, aka DJ HVAD.

E-mail: josh@pangbianr.com

Website: livebeijingmusic.com

Film

Wes Anderson Month

Date: 8 pm - 10pm in March

Venue: LaBas Bar, Jiaodao kou Bei Santiao #34, Beijing

Price: Free entry

1. The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) March 3

Stars: Ralph Fiennes, F. Murray Abraham, Jude Law, Adrien Brody, Edward Norton, Bill Murray

The adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous hotel from the fictional Republic of Zubrowka between the first and second World Wars, and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend. Like the ship of 'The Life Aquatic' or the townhouse of 'The Royal Tenenbaums', 'The Grand

Budapest Hotel' comes with its own ready-made theatre and uniformed cast. From here, Anderson breaks out with verve on to trains, ski runs and cobbled streets to spin a wickedly funny tale that celebrates the final glory days of a dying world order. It's all given a bombastic lift by an Alexandre Desplat score which crescendos in organs and drums. Full of Anderson's visual signatures - cameras that swerve, quick zooms, speedy montages - it's familiar in style, refreshing in tone and one of Anderson's very best films.