Rushmore
— Poignant and painful coming of age comedy by a director on the road to greatness.”
- Director: Wes Anderson
- United States, 1998
For many cinemagoers – myself included – Rushmore was a first peek inside the meticulous bazaar of Wes Anderson’s creative mind, unless of course you’d been lucky enough to stumble across a showing of Bottle Rocket two years before.
Looking back, with the benefit of The Royal Tenenbaums and The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou as hindsight, Rushmore looks like a relatively restrained affair, but it’s a unique mind that generates this level of detail and the results evoke a child’s devotion to modelmaking.
It’s the work of a fastidious, curious mind and there’s that strange sense of real humanity which offsets a strong whiff absurdity. Rushmore is like a scale model of Anderson’s later work, with all the pieces (especially characterisation and sountrack) glueing nicely together.
See also:
The Royal Tenenbaums
No small feat: Anderson the director who breathed new life into Gene Hackman.
- Originally published: 5 Feb 2007 in Film
The Darjeeling Limited
Riveting rail movie: terrific casting and a sparkling script make this an enjoyable passage to India.
- Originally published: 3 Dec 2007 in Film
I am 27 today
Birthdays are a wonderful opportunity to reflect on how much more you have yet to achieve in life.
- Originally published: 26 Jun 2006 in Editorial
Ghostbusters
Unique, ridiculous and the first great movie I ever saw at a cinéma.
- Originally published: 27 Nov 2006 in Film
Groundhog Day
Only Bill Murray could make misery, misanthropy and rejection this funny.
- Originally published: 25 Mar 2007 in Film
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