Drama, Movies

Rushmore

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Wes Anderson’s 2nd film, released in 1998,  is an even bigger surprise than Bottle Rocket. The 15-year old hero, Max Fisher, loves his elite prep boarding school but he faces a pressing problem. Although he leads almost every extra-curricula club in the school and although he is a genius on many fronts, he is image [Read More]
Drama, Movies

Bottle Rocket

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A few months ago I read a story about the director Wes Anderson in the New Yorker. Anderson was hailed as an innovative filmmaker with a peculiar style. I had seen his The Royal Tenenbaums  when it came out and found the film different but not particularly compelling. It struck me as trying to take image image [Read More]
Drama, Movies

A Single Man

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If we don’t meet or if we lose the one person we are meant to be with, then our life is not worth living. Everything becomes meaningless. This is the key premise of the film. It is wrong. But if you suspend your critical faculties and assume this idea is correct for the duration image [Read More]