June Film Club #1

Our first film of our Wes Anderson Summer Series is Rushmore.

Rushmore is a 1998 American comedy film directed by Wes Anderson about an eccentric teenager named Max Fischer (Jason Schwartzman in his film debut), his friendship with rich industrialist Herman Blume (Bill Murray), and their shared affection for elementary school teacher Rosemary Cross (Olivia Williams). The film was co-written by Anderson and Owen Wilson.

The film had a positive reception among film critics. The film helped launch the careers of Wes Anderson and Schwartzman while establishing a "second career" for Murray as a respected actor in independent cinema. It currently holds a 90% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes and Roger Ebert gave the film 2.5/4 stars saying this in his review, "Anderson and Wilson are good offbeat filmmakers. They fill the corners of their story with nice touches, like the details of Max's wildly overambitious stage production of "Serpico". But their film seems town between conflicting possibilities: It's structured like a comedy, but there are undertones of darker themes, and I almost wish they'd allowed the plot to lead them into those shadows. The Max Fischer they give us is going to grow up into Benjamin Braddock. But there is an unrealized Max who would have become Charles Foster Kane."

We will be meeting Thursday, June 22nd at 5:30 pm

Here's a trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxCNDpvGyss

Hope to see you there!