Each new release is a cause for a high holy day, complete with reverent watching, compulsive re-watching (to learn all the lines, duh), and immediate soundtrack blasting. (He now has two sons named Ari and Max, the latter of which I called Uzi for the first three years of his life.) We moved backwards to his feature debut, Bottle Rocket (which introduced the Wilson brothers to the world outside of Austin), and have been completists ever since. Wes’s films quickly became an obsession for my younger brother and me. From the bone-dry humor and exquisite calligraphy to the stellar retro soundtrack and the pre- Lost in Translation return of Bill Murray, I was hooked. My first introduction to the films of Wes Anderson was through the private school world of Max Fischer in 1998’s Rushmore, played by a precocious Jason Schwartzman.
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