pick your favorite wes anderson film!

on second thought, i'm surprised life aquatic did as well as it did. not surprised, although disappointment, at the poor showing for darjeeling limited.

so what was your secret reason for doing this?

amateurist high school drama club will perform a slightly altered version of the winning film at the end of the spring semester

also lol @ rushmore getting 51 votes

perhaps the Tenenbaum haters/Fox lovers are indeed a small shouty minority

my secret reason was... i wanted to know what folks' favorite wes anderson film was.

Just saw Rushmore again last night. Not sure how much I liked it. But I quite liked it.

Anyway what surprised me was discovering, or rediscovering, Thomson's entry on WA in the 2003 (?) biographical dictionary where he says watch this space, he may do something interesting.

What a strange misjudgement - for if you thought WA interesting enough to include at all, then you'd have to accept that the first 3 or so films were already worth discussing; and if you didn't like them, then there was little reason to think he'd improve.

rushmore by a mile for me, then bottle rocket - flush everything else down the toilet

rushmore came out when i was 13 and really confounded me for a few years, i felt overloaded with irony and i had no idea what i was supposed to think of it, and as a consequence it sorta made me mad - by the time tenenbaums came along my friend had convinced me that WA was mostly sincere and i found it easier to take him at face value by then

never understood the love for Bottle Rocket

― kulinary gangsta (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, April 5, 2010 1:18 PM (10 months ago) Bookmark

its funny with likable characters - its also almost impossible to imagine him filming something like this again, it has such a Texas feel to it and isn't plagued by his obsession w/making color schemes the star of the movie

tenenbaums is probably the height of the kind of thing he wants to accomplish, but its almost just... too much for me. it's great when you're 17 though

i think life aquatic is his only truly loathesome, worthless movie - darjeeling was actually better than i expected, but still nothing i think back on fondly

highlights of his career: "O.R. they" and the scene from Rushmore where bill murray wanders onto a basketball court and blocks a little kid's shot

i think life aquatic is his only truly loathesome, worthless movie - darjeeling was actually better than i expected, but still nothing i think back on fondly

totally.

the other highlight is of course

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJKTkcq_xh4

I'm not a big Anderson fan, Life Aquatic is the only one I really like! I want to be part of Steve Zissou's crew and swim with luminous stop motion fishes.

I swore off this guy forever since seeing Darjeeling Unlimited...for some reason the idea that one character would lose a shoe and spent the rest of the movie with just one shoe on is just the ultimate Wes Anderson in-a-nutshell moment in a movie full of insufferable moments

have you ever been shoe shopping in India

I think a part of the aesthetic of Life Aquatic (and lots of Wes stuff) is loathsomeness - hence Bill Murray's being the bastard father. Another part of the movie is shit luck. All the sadness is half of what makes that movie really good imo. Hence the initial opera hall scene where Murray basically receives no applause and his commitment to something as personal as revenge is also met with deft ears. It's all this stuff that makes the movie great. No one cares that he is finally using his heart - he keeps on truckin' and wearing his heart in the face of shit luck, and eventually he might get a little bit of recognition for it but recognition doesn't even matter at all by the end of the movie.

ug, I didn't edit that for spelling/clarity.

I mean it's just a stupid thing to write into a movie; like I swear this is all leading up to the ultimate Wes Anderson movie where the main character wears a bear hat and carries around chopsticks and starts every conversation with a line from a chorus of a song from whichever Hollies album cover art matches the shirt of the person hes talking to, with the climatic final scene being him trying to hail a cab in slow motion while The Jam plays "English Rose"; the taxi driver is Bill Murray with a lion hat, who just looks at him and shakes his head while passing him by; then he is approached by a little Mexican kid selling Chiclets and handcrafted wooden turtles; the chopsticks fall slowly to the ground...end of movie

yeah but you need a main character to die for some climatic effect

sounds great! pitch it to the Weinsteins

Mark Mothersbaugh's chamber orchestra bits in these films are the real star.

Trailer for Moonrise Kingdom is out

Of all the Wes Anderson movies in the world, this one might be the most Wes Andersonish.

Didn't start a separate thread for this as I'm kinda "enh" on this.

There must be some mistake. There are no Kinks or David Bowie songs in the trailer. Obviously, this is the work of an imposter.

random wes anderson movie generator

Looks good to me!

In a statement, Cannes artistic director Thierry Fremaux announced that "Wes Anderson is one of the rising powers of American cinema, to which he brings a highly personal touch, particularly in 'Moonrise Kingdom,' which once again is a testimony to the creative freedom in which he continues to evolve. Sensitive and independent, this admirer of Fellini and Renoir is also in his own right a brilliant and inventive filmmaker."

he is tbh

uber-fan Richard Brody weighs in on Wes' recent commercials

i wish he would do a spy movie or a heist movie or hard sci fi or something

lol hard sci fi

i can see a wes anderson spy movie tbh

Rushmore is still underrated by some. Beautiful, touching, inspired comedic filmmaking.

It's his only film that I really love.

I can't see that he'll ever top it, the writing partnership with Owen Wilson was never better - I still really like all of his films to various degrees, but there's something completely indelible about Rushmore. Truest characters in his career helps.

touched to find this thread wasn't trolled to death tbh

maybe it isn't too late.

i rewatched 'the royal tennenbaums' at a midnight screening this summer and it was so so so so *barfs*

wd not have guessed there was a ref to Bogdanovich's Daisy Miller in Rushmore. (per dvd commentary)

only thing I remember from that commentary was them pointing out the Barry Lyndon reference which I never would have got.

Murray even points out the Lyndon thing in his Charlie Rose interview on the disc.

Maybe that's where I remember that from.

what Barry Lyndon ref

I didnt hear that, just 10 mins of commentary.

Only two I'd rank:

Fantastic Mr Fox
Rushmore

the rest reek in some way

no, the rest are good in some way, still havent seen MK goddammit

The shot of Olivia Williams walking up to Bill Murray during the vietnam play intermission is lifted straight from BL xposts

Another lift (and all I remember from checking out the commentary once nearly 9 years ago): The scene were Max is on the payphone and the school cop hangs up for him was taken from Wiseman's High School.

Murray, Angela Lansbury join next cast

http://www.movies.com/movie-news/bill-murray-and-angela-lansbury-join-cast-of-the-grand-budapest-hotel/9683

http://www.amazon.com/Anderson-Collection-Matt-Zoller-Seitz/dp/081099741X/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=OnsXlxYiH6c

errrr make that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnsXlxYiH6c