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Entries Tagged as 'Wes Anderson'

The Royal Tenenbaums (2001, Wes Anderson)

March 30th, 2009 · No Comments

The Royal Tenenbaums is a profound examination of the human condition. It’s hard to think about Tenenbaums, which Anderson made as a precious object–he tends to put the actors on the right and fill the left side of the frame with exactly placed sundries, sometimes it’s the carefully placed minutiae, but he usually puts those […]

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Tagged: Alec Baldwin· Ben Stiller· Bill Murray· Danny Glover· Gene Hackman· Luke Wilson· Owen Wilson· Touchstone Pictures· Wes Anderson· ★★★★

Rushmore (1998, Wes Anderson)

March 10th, 2009 · 2 Comments

The best moment in Rushmore, the one it all comes together, is at the end, when Jason Schwartzmann dedicates his play to his mother. There’s a brief cut to Seymour Cassel and his reaction. It’s a beautiful little moment and quieter than the subsequent (and also incredibly quiet) moment with Vietnam vet Bill Murray tearing […]

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Tagged: Bill Murray· Brian Cox· Jason Schwartzman· Luke Wilson· Owen Wilson· Touchstone Pictures· Wes Anderson· ★★★★

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004, Wes Anderson)

February 19th, 2009 · 1 Comment

The problem with The Life Aquatic reveals itself quite clearly in the final act, as the cast all gives Bill Murray shoulder squeezes of support. The scene is supposed to mean something profound. It’s Murray confronting not just his Moby Dick (a quest for vengeance lost in the film, maybe because they knew it was […]

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Tagged: Bill Murray· Cate Blanchett· Noah Baumbach· Owen Wilson· Touchstone Pictures· Wes Anderson· Willem Dafoe· ★★★

The Darjeeling Limited (2007, Wes Anderson)

October 22nd, 2007 · No Comments

The first sequence in The Darjeeling Limited suggests a far worse film than Anderson actually delivers. A frantic taxi race to a train station with Bill Murray suggests Anderson has become–well, I really don’t know who, but someone who miscasts incredibly. Besides the Murray cameo coming off like Anderson fulfilling his image, the taxi race […]

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Tagged: Adrien Brody· Bill Murray· Fox Searchlight Pictures· Jason Schwartzman· Owen Wilson· Roman Coppola· Wes Anderson· ★★½

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