Here's a quick report on RUSHMORE, which was filmed in Houston earlier this year by the crew behind BOTTLEROCKET. I heard a bit about it, but not much, but looky here, we gots us a report from up in Toronto on the flick from our Wheaties eating reviewer Kilgore Trout... gotta love that breakfast of champions eh?
I am once again near death.
First, to Kowalski, yes, fashion models may prefer disreputable louts, but in "Permanent Midnight", the obscenely gorgeous Elizabeth Hurley playz a TV producer.
Okay, onto another brief report: Today I saw a movie at the Toronto Fest you'll be hearing a lot about very soon.
"Rushmore" is a new comedy from Wes Anderson, who directed the not-so-great "Bottle Rocket"; "Rushmore" is...well, brilliant. Taking a cue from John Hughes, the story revolves around Max Fischer (newcomer Jason Schwartzman, perfectly cast), a Ferris Bueller-esque Rushmore separate school student involved in so many extra-curricular activities that his grades are suffering, particularly math. Max befriends a self-loathing steel investor (played by the Bill Murray you've been waiting to see again for years--bitter as hell), and the two hatch a scheme to hook Max up with a beautiful grade one teacher ("The Postman"'s Olivia Williams)...even though Max is several years her junior.
I don't want to give more than that away--"Rushmore" is full of surprises. Almost all the humour is verbal and situational: Max is so charming and persuasive I was never sure how "The Graduate" subplot would resolve. Kudos to all involved; brilliant sequences abound, like when Murray goes for a swim, or Max's two (hilarious) school plays. "Rushmore" is also, rather unexpectedly, beautifully photographed--teen eighties movies, a genre to which this movie is indebted, never looked this good.
Oy vay, I loved "Rushmore". Touchstone has never put out a comedy this sweet, engaging, or hilarious.
Wish I could say more. 'night.
Kilgore Trout
