Someone–Ebert maybe–is going to laud The Limits of Control. The nicest thing one can really say about it is it isn’t abjectly terrible. There aren’t many bad performances (Tilda Swinton’s lame and Bill Murray’s awful and Isaach De Bankolé is weak when he has more lines than the Terminator) and Jarmusch really does know how […]
Entries Tagged as 'Bill Murray'
The Limits of Control (2009, Jim Jarmusch)
May 16th, 2009 · No Comments
Tagged: Bill Murray· Focus Features· Jim Jarmusch· John Hurt· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Tagged: Bill Murray· Cate Blanchett· Noah Baumbach· Owen Wilson· Touchstone Pictures· Wes Anderson· Willem Dafoe· ★★★
Ed Wood (1994, Tim Burton)
November 13th, 2008 · No Comments
Ed Wood is a biopic of the unsung. The “misfits and dope addicts” of impossibly low budget American filmmaking. The film’s epilogue, following up with the characters, puts the film on the same level as all other big Hollywood biopics. Except this one is about someone who really didn’t do anything (and didn’t even get […]
Tagged: Bill Murray· Johnny Depp· Larry Karaszewski· Patricia Arquette· Rudolph Grey· Scott Alexander· Tim Burton· Touchstone Pictures· ★★★★
What About Bob? (1991, Frank Oz)
May 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
What About Bob? is a special movie. It’s absolute dreck. Coming from screenwriter Tom Schulman, I suppose its lack of quality shouldn’t have been a surprise, but I think I was operating under the assumption producer Laura Ziskin wouldn’t let it get too bad. I mean, production wise, it’s got good people–Anne V. Coates is […]
Tagged: Alvin Sargent· Bill Murray· Frank Oz· Laura Ziskin· Richard Dreyfuss· Tom Schulman· Touchstone Pictures· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ
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 […]
Tagged: Adrien Brody· Bill Murray· Fox Searchlight Pictures· Jason Schwartzman· Owen Wilson· Roman Coppola· Wes Anderson· ★★½
