Wes Anderson interview  Dec 10 2008

On the occasion of the upcoming Criterion release of Bottle Rocket on Blu-ray, the AV Club interviewed Wes Anderson. I love this bit about working with Gene Hackman.

But Gene, I don't think loves being directed in the first place, and I had a lot of particular ideas for the way some things were to be done. He just wasn't getting a huge kick out of it -- but I don't know that he ever does. The main thing is that everything he was doing was great. Even though he can be belligerent, there's a lot of emotion there. I was always excited to be working with him, even when I was a little scared of him, just because this character that I'd spent so much time working on and was so invested in was being brought to life -- not only in all the ways that I'd wanted, but something quite beyond.

Dignan's notebook  Sep 17 2008

Dignan's 75-year plan from the movie Bottle Rocket.

E. Develop outside interests
  a. Travel
  b. Art
  c. Science

(thx, tommy)

Bottle Rocket, The Criterion Collection  Aug 18 2008

Bottle Rocket, Wes Anderson's first film, is getting the Criterion treatment in both DVD and Blu-ray formats. Lovely cover. (via goldenfiddle)

Here's the original 13-minute version of Wes  May 10 2006

Here's the original 13-minute version of Wes Anderson's Bottle Rocket. (thx, janelle)

Dressed as their favorite characters from a Wes Anderson movie  Apr 19 2005

Dressed as their favorite characters from a Wes Anderson movie.