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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The Royal Tenenbaums (2001, Wes Anderson)
March 30th, 2009 · No Comments
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· ★★★★
Scream 2 (1997, Wes Craven)
October 7th, 2007 · No Comments
This year (2007), I saw more summer movies than I have in at least five years. I avoid big Hollywood franchises (the modern ones, the revitalization attempts… it’s fifty-fifty), so I really don’t know how bad the acting is in most of those films–from what I saw this summer, it’s probably atrocious. But there’s a […]
Tagged: Dimension Films· Kevin Williamson· Liev Schreiber· Luke Wilson· Neve Campbell· Wes Craven· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ
Idiocracy (2006, Mike Judge)
July 6th, 2007 · 1 Comment
Idiocracy has one fundamental flaw–and plenty of little ones, but the fundamental one is too glaring and too fixable–the two leads do not have a romance and the film pretends they do. Foul-mouthed prostitute Maya Rudolph all of a sudden starts talking without slang and doing sweet things. Then, at the end, there’s supposed to […]
Tagged: 20th Century Fox· Etan Cohen· Luke Wilson· Mike Judge· ★
