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Wes Anderson Forces Pauline Kael To See A Private Screening of RUSHMORE
”I’m a filmmaker, and I’ve just finished a movie called ‘Rushmore,’ and I was hoping maybe I could …”
forgive the present tense, this happened about 14 years ago (when forcing Pauline Kael to review your new movie was still something you could do without a medium). Anderson had always admired the savagely brilliant film critic, and it was obviously very important to him that he hear the retired Kael’s feedback about the film that was poised to make or break his career. so the young Mr. Anderson trekked out to Kael’s home in the Catskills and practically dragged her to the nearest movie theater. it’s a sweet little story, one Anderson felt important enough to include in the introduction of the published screenplay.
Here it is as it appeared in The New York Times on January 31st, 1999.
Moonrise Kingdom — which I think ranks right up there with the best of Wes Anderson’s live-action work — hits big city theaters on May 25.
Movies From An Alternate Universe
you are traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mind. a journey to a land where movie posters let us know what could have been had the stars and their stories just shaken out in different ways.
Godard’s TRAINSPOTTING could have been truly brilliant, the anger of junkie culture (pooped laundry bags) dovetailing with godard’s political virulence… could have been delightful.
shoving Audrey Hepburn into RUSHMORE...well, not so much. though if anyone could make it work it would certainly be nicolas ray.
head on over to Behance to see a bunch more of these lovely fever dreams.
Criterions in Context: The Top 10
so the folks over at Criterion have selected the 10 finalists for their Criterions in Context contest, and all in all methinks these are pretty solid choices. the purist in me favors the IVAN’S CHILDHOOD design, but the attention to detail evident in the F FOR FAKE mock-up and the clever layers of the VIDEODROME riff are hard to deny. or does EVERLASTING MOMENTS pull it out for sheer elegance?
head on over to Criterion’s Facebook page to vote for your favorite (if you can pick one, that is), and whichever has the most “likes” by this time tomorrow (3:30 PM EST) will be the winner. huzzah!
“I’m A Little Bit Lonely These Days”
in honor of Criterion’s imminent announcement of a RUSHMORE blu-ray, here’s Derek Eads tribute to Billy Murray’s Herman Blume.
you can buy a print of this illustration (and a bunch of other bill murray-related stuff) from Eads’ site.
alright, Criterion’s November slate on its way… hold onto your butts.
