pick your favorite wes anderson film!

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

Bottle Rocket is way too low

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/lovestruck-hero-or-creepy-harasser-suddenly-were-seeing-our-favorite-rom-coms-in-a-new-light/2018/02/27/1d3d85d2-06a8-11e8-94e8-e8b8600ade23_story.html

ctrl-f "bottle rocket"

None unreservedly, and not in order without complete revisitation, but I like Darjeeling, Moonrise, Tenenbaums and maybe Bottle Rocket more than Budapest, Fox, or Rushmore. I haven't paid much attention to Chevalier or Zissou.

Incidentally, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Zissou_(jurist)

ctrl-f "bottle rocket"

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i did and nothing happened

oh no wait now i get it

Darjeeling was probably the most bored I've ever been in a movie theater. it felt like a spot-on parody of a Wes Anderson film, just without any humor

"look at these assholes" was a peak Wes Anderson moment but otherwise the film wasn't top shelf. though i liked it tbh.

http://lwlies.com/articles/the-darjeeling-limited-wes-anderson-best-film/

I can't go thee.

going w/ the site name

The Darjeeling Limited is the best! I know it gets a lot of stick for cultural appropriation but it’s all framed in a ‘look at these idiots!’ kind of way, epitomised in the shoe-being-stolen prank. I think it’s a wonderfully poignant film about parental neglect and what it means to be symbolically orphaned. And about all kinds of loss really.

The performances, especially by Wilson and Brody, feel blisteringly personal, and the context of what was going on for Owen Wilson at the time only adds to this: http://content.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1658495,00.html

It’s also really funny.

I'm glad to see ILX consensus around every film ever released by Wes Anderson.

nobody talked about moonrise at all on this thread. maybe there is another thread where people talk about it.

yeah I love darjeeling, but maybe only because of the color palette

the only recent ones i’ve liked are Moonrise Kingdom & Grand Budapest Hotel.
I can’t explain why but all the promos for Isle of Dogs have repelled me. But I wasn’t into Fantastic Mr Fox either

These are OR scrubs.

O R they?

Rushmore
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Moonrise Kingdom
Bottle Rocket
The Darjeeling Limited
The Royal Tenenbaums
... and then I can't stand Hotel Chevalier

Still haven't seen Steve Zissou

wow i completely agree with tt actually, i found darjeeling v touching at the time but all of the critiques of it made
me feel like i was remembering it wrong or even had interpreted it incorrectly when i saw it

I think in some ways (especially visually) it’s the most superficially Wes andersony of his movies, but for all its flaws it’s the one where the characters are most recognisably human (rather than marionettes). It’s definitely not his worst.

Yeah, it's only the worst among the films he's made.

Rushmore
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Moonrise Kingdom
Bottle Rocket
The Darjeeling Limited
The Royal Tenenbaums
... and then I can't stand Hotel Chevalier

This looks right, and it's the order I'd agree with most. He's only made three watchable movies, though (your top three), and I've no interest in watching them again (not necessarily a sin).

TBH, I don't really want to watch any of them beyond the top 4 again.

Zissou is probably widely regarded as the worst Wes Anderson film and maybe people are right, but I thought it was very good.

End of Zissou might be the best thing he's ever done.

Love Zissou, though it took a second viewing to bring me around. Initially kind of hated it. No such luck with Darjeeling.

Rushmore
The Royal Tenenbaums
The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Moonrise Kingdom (Maine summer camp nostalgia elevates this one considerably)
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Bottle Rocket
The Darjeeling Limited

I don't think Anderson's strange, dry humor translated well with Fantastic Mr. Fox. I have no hope for The Isle of Dogs (especially after watching the first long preview). I really enjoy most of his other work though.

Dahl's sensibility and Anderson's were a good mesh.

Anderson excels when you have quirky things in the real world like the treehouse in Moonrise Kingdom. Take away the real world, aka talking animated animals, the quirky stuff hardly works.