I think it's fine to anticipate Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom

David Bordwell w/ a close reading, and engages Richard Brody's assertion “An auteur is not a brand”:

Some people find an inward-turned world like this to be fey, coy, twee, infantile, precious, or self-indulgent. It seems to me, though, that Anderson’s work from The Life Aquatic onward links up with a literary tradition we associate with J. M. Barrie and G. K. Chesterton. These writers employed childhood fantasy in an effort to imagine a richer, livelier realm behind prosaic reality. Another kindred spirit would be Winsor McCay, like Anderson an obsessively meticulous stylist who gives heft and lilt to dream worlds. In cinema we might recall Greenaway’s The Falls (1980), as obsessive and precious a project as can be imagined.

Indeed, why not mention the most famous figure of all? There is a trace of Lewis Carroll in Moonrise Kingdom’s looking-glass world—its strangely safe tree house, its deadpan absurdity, the habit of lawyers talking as if always in court. Like Carroll, Anderson doesn’t shrink from cruelty; the death of Snoopy is as perfunctory as that of the oysters on which the Walrus and the Carpenter tearfully dine.

http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/2014/07/20/moonrise-kingdom-wes-in-wonderland/

Rescreened finite by introducing it to three friends who'd missed it at the time. I think now it's second best after Rushmore. Just beautiful.

I'd never seen this photo until someone posted it on Facebook a few minutes ago.

http://amsterdam-ftv-blog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/gosta-peterson-06.nocrop.w1800.h1330.2x-856x580.jpg

Gösta Peterson, 1965 (same year as the film).

How did Belle & Sebastian miss that for a single/album cover?

Didn't know anything about this guy--photographed Twiggy a lot at the time.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/09/10/gosta-peterson-s-bohemian-rhapsody-unpacking-a-photographer-s-60s-secrets.html

Saw this yesterday. Reminded me of Ozu with the head-on camera and very little movement. Even when the camera does rotate it does it in 90 degree increments.

I am probably the last person in the world to realise this. But then the only other WA film I think I've seen is FMF.

I forgot they kill a dog in this movie wtf

how else would you know that wes anderson is the bad guy

wes anderson's best movie?

imo

Tied with a few others imo but in first

better than royal tenenabums but ive heard life aquatic is really good and i really want to see it

so so far i have to say this just might be my favourite of his so far

when does the dog movie come out?

this one and the last were the best.

life aquatic is my second favorite (though there is lots of griping about it upthread)

march 23rd

life aquatic is the only one I have only seen once.

the staring contests between bill murray and owen wilson (with that awful mustache) are some of my favorite moments in film

I love WA’s work in general but « Life Aquatic » might be the only one I found so boring it took me a few times to watch it (although there are some great moments).

if you'll like life aquatic you'll like moonrise kingdom

Budapest > Moonrise > Tenenbaums for my top 3, but god this is the warmest love story.

I thought everyone understood FMF was his best

It's on my rewatch list.

top of my head top 5: Tenenbaums > Rushmore > Fox >> Moonrise >>> Budapest

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