Wes Anderson

Ten Movie Moments That Were Made By The Music

Last week saw the limited release of Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master, and the director is currently receiving the type of media love reserved for those who rarely misstep and whose work is hailed as classic the moment it's released. What's always interested me about Anderson is his ability to perf ... More >>

Young Love, Wes Anderson-Style in Moonrise Kingdom

Summer Movies 2012: The Season Brings a Crop of Films Suitable for All Ages -- Including Adults

ABB: Always Be Baldwin

Ten Goosebump-Inducing Movie Score and Soundtrack Moments Not From John Williams

A scene from The Royal Tenenbaums.​Hey, it's almost Oscar season! Well, kind of. This much is sure: The summer's about to crest and the shitty movies will finally wash ashore like a dead, bloated whale. Then, the good films will come! You know the Hollywood drill -- and, often, it involves Hollywo ... More >>

Bidding a Fond Farewell to Producing Great Polly Platt, Who Shot Off Bottle Rocket

Criterion CollectionBob Musgrave and Luke and Owen Wilson shooting Bottle Rocket in 1995​Bob Musgrave sends word: "Polly Platt died yesterday." She was 72. Cinephiles know the name: The ex-wife of Peter Bogdanovich, she worked on such films as Paper Moon and The Last Picture Show before becoming a ... More >>

In Time For Saturday Night Screening in Hillsboro, Bottle Rocket Gets Mondo Poster

Rick Kelly for Mondo​We've written several times about Andy Carl Valentin and Chris Durbin's efforts to save the Hillsboro motel where some of Wes Anderson's locally filmed debut Bottle Rocket was shot. The local film fanatics make their trek southward Saturday night, and right now I'm scheduled t ... More >>

Alamo Drafthouse's Tim League on Love For Bottle Rocket, Need to Save "Landmark" Motel

Photo by Annie RayTim League​Found this in the in-box: a few words from Alamo Drafthouse CEO and founder Tim League, who wanted to explain why he decided to add Bottle Rocket to its Rolling Roadshow revue, which has taken iconic Texas-made films to the towns in which they were filmed. The series, ... More >>

Divine Intervention? Two Bottle Rocket Fans Want to Save Iconic Hillsboro Motel.

The Hillsboro motel where they shot part of Bottle Rocket is so iconic Ian Dingman put it on the front of the Criterion Collection DVD.​My old friend and long-ago Observer-er Matt Zoller Seitz, who wrote the definitive making-of piece about Bottle Rocket back in September 1995, sent me a note this ... More >>

Cosmic Cafe: Willing to Mix and Match to Please You

​When Wes Anderson and the Wilson brothers used to frequent the Cosmic Café (then called the Cosmic Cup), they could be found taking in the restaurants eclectic, Zen-inducing ambience, and maybe even conjuring up a plot or two. Former owner of the café Kumar Pallana can be seen in several of ... More >>

Oh Are They?

American Water

NX35 Thursday: Massive ****ing Slideshow!

Patrick MichelsFox and the Bird (Not a Wes Anderson Movie)​Patrick Michels, Spike Johnson and Danny Fulgencio shot some enormo-great bands including Seryn, Jacob Metcalf, RTB2 and the Evangelicals (which the DC9 crew expertly reviewed below). Check out the slide show in its redwood-forest hugeness ... More >>

Fantastic Mr. Fox

For the Big Fan of the AFI Dallas Film Fest, Some Movie News, Notes and Day Six Picks

Patrick MichelsHenry Selick, and friend Coraline, will receive the Texas Avery Award tonight at 7 at the Nasher Sculpture Center.So, before getting to today's AFI Dallas International Film Festival quick picks, this locally related film note: Former Dallas Observer film critic and all-round good egg ... More >>

Live Up and Closer

Enter Stage Left presents Marber's edgy tale

Frenchmas

See a foreign Christmas Tale

That Bottle Rocket DVD's Everything We Could Have Hoped For

View image Danny Fine, left, and Bob Musgrave in an outtake from Bottle Rocket Spent the better part of last night watching every single second and scrap on the Criterion Collection Wes Anderson-approved Bottle Rocket two-fer, available today (ya think?), and there are copious revelations containe ... More >>

Just Four More Days Till Criterion Collection Shoots Off That Bottle Rocket

So, yeah, right -- anxiously awaiting Tuesday, when Criterion Collection finally makes available that fully loaded Bottle Rocket two-fer that's long overdue. While we're waiting for the package, let's spend a couple of moments with the man who designed the package: artist Ian Dingman, responsibl ... More >>

Okkervil River

The Stand Ins (Jagjaguwar)

Criterion Explodes With Details About Double-Disc Bottle Rocket

Bottle Rocket, Best Dallas Movie Ever, On DVD in October. And In High-Def!

Blume-in' Movie

The Inwood screens an Anderson gem

Move Along, Kids

Explosive Screening

Bottle Rocket lights up the Inwood

Teen Pregnancy, Hilarious and Sweet, in the Indie-licious Juno

Royal Reel

The Inwood rents a room to the Tenenbaums

Owen Wilson Speaks.

Max Fischer in Dallas Tonight

'Darjeeling' Brings Depth, Whimsy

Wes Anderson's road trip tale of brotherly love features Adrian Brody, Owen Wilson

Legs to Spare

Still Ain't No Trip to Cleveland

In Local Celebrity Jewish News

How Would Jesus Roll?

Your Official Easter Playlist

If You Ever Made, Saw or Rented a Movie in This State, You Will One Day Be in the Texas Film Hall of Fame

A Barber's Son

Max Fischer gets expelled at the Inwood

Hasn't Lost His Touch, Man

Hasn't Lost His Touch, Man

The Bait and the Fish

See a Whale of a film at the Modern

Sea of Loathe

Wes Anderson takes Bill Murray out to sea and strands him there

Rebel With a Cause

Jason Schwartzman should Rushmore, slack less

Royal's Screwups

Wes Anderson's film is like its characters: flawed genius

Obsessive, Compulsive

Documentary series takes a look behind the scenes

The final cut

DVDs pull back the curtain on the movies, but do you really want to see the Wizard?

Night & Day

February 18 - 24, 1999

Sermonon the Mount

Even Bill Murray's antics can't rescue this self-important comedy

A slightly dirty dozen

Although many standout films were released in 1998, no one movie really stood out

Mope and glow

Bottle Rocket is a clever mix of optimism and angst

Unusual suspects

Five Dallas filmmakers risk their lives for a burger -- and to discuss their movie

Slouching toward Hollywood

Can four young Dallas filmmakers sell their dream-and still keep their souls? Matt Zoller Seitz follows the trail of Bottle Rocket