pick your favorite wes anderson film!

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

trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Fg5iWmQjwk

cautiously optimistic!

http://blogs.houstonpress.com/hairballs/2013/11/updated_barber_rushmore.php

:(

was thinking of creating a lol poll for Best Wes Anderson Music + Slow Mo Scene

definitely the shaving scene

dunno i think the "These Days" or "Everyone" from RT could trump it.

Or Max getting off the service elevator and parking his gum to "A Quick One While He's Away".

Also, this is happening: http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2013/11/20/i-saved-latin-wes-anderson-tribute-cd/

Or Max getting off the service elevator and parking his gum to "A Quick One While He's Away".

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It's this one

yeah that one. I also liked the scene in Life Aquatic with Bowie's "Queen Bitch" but definitely felt a sense of "oh yeah, this trick again"

so should we do this poll, can I get a list (I don't wanna omit anything and it's been awhile since I've seen a few of these)

Mr. Fox is the only film he doesn't do this trick in

also, perhaps coincidentally, his best.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRGqeHIItY8

lol I knew someone must have done that

wouldn't have thought of it before I watched that reel but the "ooh la la" shot at the end of rushmore is solid

"quick one" still better tho

please do this poll!

I'm worried I'm going to omit something

can people help me fill in the blanks here/what's missing?

Bottle Rocket: Dignan goes to jail to ...
Rushmore #1: Max Fischer and his bees step out of an elevator to The Who's "A QUick One"
Rushmore #2: Max receives accolades after the debut of his play to ...
Rushmore #3: Everyone dances to the Faces "Ooh La La"
Royal Tenenbaums #1: Margot steps off the bus to Nico's "These Days"
Royal Tenenbaums #2: The family leaves Royle's grave to Van Morrison's "Everyone"
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou: The crew attends a film premiere to David Bowie's "Queen Bitch"
The Darjeeling Limited #1: The brothers attend a funeral to The Kinks' "Strangers"
The Darjeeling Limited #2: The brothers race for a train to The Kinks "This Time Tomorrow" (I think?)
Moonrise Kingdom ...?

somehow I don't think either of these will be in the running

Dignan goes to jail to ... Mark Mothersbaugh - Highway Reprised
Max receives accolades after the debut of his play to ... Zoot Sims - Blinuet

I think there is another Life Aquatic slow-mo + David Bowie shot on the sub but I can't find a clip or a reference that specifies which song it is

hmm I guess that scene is not in slow-mo actually

The way that interiors refract psychology links Anderson’s shooting style to that of Max Ophüls, whose The Earrings of Madame de . . . (1953) Anderson calls “a perfect film” (http://www.criterion. com/explore/115-wes-anderson). The Ophülsian tracking shot marks key moments in Anderson’s movies, including the opening of Moonrise Kingdom, in which the rooms of Suzy’s house are revealed as a series of intricately connected spaces and through which the pleasure of artifice asserts its domain. This effect also recapitulates the movement of Anderson’s camera through the rooms of the house in The Royal Tenenbaums, the ship in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, and the train in The Darjeeling Limited. When Sam presents his lover with a homemade pair of earrings fashioned out of insects skewered on fishhooks, Ophüls’s earrings might spring to mind by way of comic inversion. In Bottle Rocket, Dignan steals the earrings of Anthony’s mother in a practice burglary, whearas the escalating conflict between Max Fischer (Jason Schwartzman) and Herman Blume (Murray) in Rushmore (1998) might seem like a joke at the expense of the (far more deadly) duel between a younger and older man over a love affair in Ophüls’s Liebelei (1933). Unlike Ophüls, Anderson studiously avoids overtly unhappy endings, yet he injects a liberal measure of Ophülsian rue into his comedy. Just as The Royal Tenenbaums runs the gamut from infidelity, drug addiction, career failure, attempted suicide, and quasi-incest, Moonrise Kingdom is replete with jokes about loveless marriages, foster care, self-harm, and uncaring parents. Many proponents and detractors of Moonrise Kingdom agree on the point that the movie is not ambitious, whether its “escapist fantasy” (Washington Post) is viewed as a plus or instead as a string of puerile “adolescent fantasies” (New York Observer). Other critics, however, such as Spectrum Culture reviewer Trevor Link, are better equipped to see that the strange “cognitive dissonance” of Anderson’s productions involves the startling degree of “pain and sadness that pools underneath the surface” of nostalgic fables (http://spectrumculture.com/2012/ 05/moonrise-kingdom.html/).

http://www.filmquarterly.org/2014/01/unsafe-houses-moonrise-kingdom-and-wes-andersons-conflicted-comedies-of-escape/

the article from which that derives must be completely tedious.

Wes Anderson has announced his intentions to collaborate with Devo co-founder and composer Mark Mothersbaugh on their own theme park.

"I hope to soon secure the means to commission the construction of an important and sizeable theme park to be conceived and designed entirely by Mark Mothersbaugh," Anderson writes in the foreword to Mark Mothersbaugh: Myopia. "For 40 years he has set about creating a body of work which amounts to his own Magic Kingdom, where the visitor is amused and frightened, often simultaneously."

http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/22405/1/wes-anderson-wants-to-build-his-own-theme-park

i like both of these guys but this sounds like my worst nightmare

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

I don't like Wes Anderson. I want to make that absolutely clear.

damn we need do this poll again.

no

I dunno, Moonrise Kingdom and whatever the fuck that last one was called, The Understated Twee Hotel On A Mountain or something, were the closest he's come to the level of Rushmore (despite the lack of Who songs).

and Foxy

Recently took a trip to Austin. Was looking to cut the drive a bit and booked a hotel along the way. Picked the Days Inn in Hillsboro, Texas. Found out after the fact it was the hotel prominently featured in Bottle Rock. It was cool and remains largely unchanged all these years later. It inspired a re-watch of the movie, since I haven't seen it in probably 15 years or more. It was cool to see the hotel, including the very room we stayed in, on screen. And the empty field behind the hotel and pool is still an empty field. And the movie has it's cool bits, but it has not aged well at all. A lot about it really bugged me. Anthony's behavior when stalking Inez is pretty unacceptable. Very creepy, and no amount of Wes Anderson soundtrack music could offset that vibe for me. And really the whole thing is basically White Privilege: The Motion Picture. I guess Dignan gets a stint in the slammer at the end, which kinda offsets the no-consequences-for-the-rich-boys thing. And what was the big reveal there at the end, that Dignan admits he, at some point, had spent time in a real nuthouse? It's a very frustrating movie. Rushmore and the rest are miles ahead after this one.

Yup

For awhile there, for every move Anthony made on Inez my wife and I were yelling "That is not OK!"

my god

Did He forsake you too?! Compelling.

Not sure if this has been posted or not--too many Wes Anderson and/or political threads to check.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2nP-hci-AQ&app=desktop

Not great, but pretty good--better than The Grand Budapest Hotel. I love the Bobby Jindal chapter.

ok yeah I lol'd @ Jindal entrance

I've not seen Bottle Rocket or The Isle of Dogs, but of the rest, this matches my own ranking exactly, except I'd swap #4 and #5

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/mar/23/the-best-wes-anderson-movies-ranked