pick your favorite wes anderson film!

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

tenenbaums ftw. i also love the life aquatic. for the longest time i would say that anderson was my favorite filmmaker and something about his Romanticism -- the fact that most of his films concern, in one way or another, the conflict between the individual's idiosyncratic vision of reality and reality itself, the sort of classic quixotic conflict that is a source of both tragedy and comedy -- still speaks to me a great deal.

Good Godfather II joke in that clip above.

if i housesat for wes anderson i would barf somewhere secret

tenenbaums is really the only one i'm inclined to want to see again nowadays. i haven't seen the recent ones (fox, moonrise, etc.). rushmore didn't hold up, imo. life aquatic did nothing for me. darjeeling has some wonderful parts but doesn't ultimately deliver, though it seems like a more modest film than some of the others so i appreciate it more.

see fox

possibly his best imho

love love love 'fantastic mr fox' and still really like 'rushmore.' liked 'tenenbaums' at the time but in retrospect it feels like the point where anderson started making films that were basically collages of his favorite things (salinger, 'eloise,' etc etc).

FMF sucks cause fox is slick instead of smart. it is beautifully made, though. i liked the wolf.

FMF is slipping into the 'now overrated' category for me

i could spend the rest of my life never seeing another nouvelle vague homage and die reasonably happy

(referring to execrable ad posted above)

on the Seitz book and the non-manic non-pixie dream girl:

http://thinkprogress.org/alyssa/2013/10/03/2723821/the-wes-anderson-collection-and-andersons-answer-to-the-manic-pixie-dream-girl/

This happening the week that book comes out is the ending of something. RIP Mr. LittleJeans

http://www.avclub.com/articles/rip-kumar-pallana-star-of-several-wes-anderson-mov,104109/

man bottle rocket crazy underrated in these results

a shame about kumar pallana. he was excellent in another earth last year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BG0IhsRxEWk

very sad.

reading the book now. wonderfully put together.

http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/blogs/browbeat/2011/09/29/hugo_chavez_caption_contest/Grand_Budapest_hotel_poster.jpg.CROP.original-original.jpg

great cast

I kinda wish he would make a sci-fi film. but then I wish this about most directors I like.

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

― ⚓ (gr8080), Monday, March 12, 2012 2:29 AM (1 year ago)

he should get to do the next batman or ninja turtles movie

bottle rocket is sort of a heist movie

new one written by wes with no collaborators - is that a first?

bottle rocket crazy underrated in these results

That there are 12 people who think that's the best he's ever done is sad, sad, SAD.

bottle rocket is sort of a heist movie

I remember when it came out, it definitely was marketed as a loser/thief 90s crime/comedy.

yeah it's almost like a parody of Tarantino or Boondock Saints or something

he should do a parody of Bourne or Oceans 11 or something

isn't that Fantastic Mr. Fox

i actually don't really like 'bottle rocket' all that much -- there are a few nice scenes but overall it feels pretty insubstantial.

yeah it's weak sauce imho

New video essays on the films by MZ Seitz here:

http://www.rogerebert.com/mzs/the-wes-anderson-collection-chapters-1-7-and-the-substance-of-style-chapters-1-5