pick your favorite wes anderson film!

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

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.