28 May 2014

Back to the sea


The Onion's AV Club marks the Criterion Collection Blu-Ray release of "Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou," Wes Anderson's masterpiece that is turning 10 this year. Here's the link.

"Life Aquatic" stars Bill Murray as a Jacques Cousteau type leading an amazing cast -- Jeff Goldblum, Cate Blanchett, Willem Dafoe, Owen Wilson, Anjelica Houston, Michael Gambon, and Seymour Cassel -- in Anderson's most fully realized vision on screen. All that and Portuguese versions of David Bowie songs by Seu Jorge.

The film suffered from having to follow the critical  darling, "The Royal Tenenbaums," Anderson's breakthrough from 2001. It may be Murray's career high point. His character's rivalry with Goldblum's Alistair Hennessey is unrivaled. It's one of my all-time favorite movies. Time to revisit it.

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