@deanduncan63Saw #Rushmore. Very, very special. A bildungsroman both sharp & tender, & tale of excessive self-regard & the most poignant vulnerability …
… so formally precise as to be practically sphincteral (but we haven’t seen nothin’ yet, have we?), and yet coming off as wonderfully natural, organic.
#Rushmore. What’s cool, what puts w/d Wes Anderson all the way into Welles/Truffaut/Bertolucci territory—so precocious! so promising!— …
… is that the protagonist’s journey from insufferable narcissism to decency & other-awareness seems to parallel his own best aspirations.
#Rushmore. Anderson’s use of pre-owned music is very crafty, very appealing. The use of the Who’s “A Quick One, While He’s Away,” …
… threatens to go down in history as one of the loveliest, most multi-valent bits of musico-intellectual montage ever …
… Forgive my saying it, but for more on that see me (DD), Fordham University Press, 2003.
#Rushmore. Mr. Bill Murray. Less celebrated, just as precious, Mr. Seymour Cassel.