Wes Anderson Forces Pauline Kael To See A Private Screening of RUSHMORE
”I’m a filmmaker, and I’ve just finished a movie called ‘Rushmore,’ and I was hoping maybe I could …”
forgive the present tense, this happened about 14 years ago (when forcing Pauline Kael to review your new movie was still something you could do without a medium). Anderson had always admired the savagely brilliant film critic, and it was obviously very important to him that he hear the retired Kael’s feedback about the film that was poised to make or break his career. so the young Mr. Anderson trekked out to Kael’s home in the Catskills and practically dragged her to the nearest movie theater. it’s a sweet little story, one Anderson felt important enough to include in the introduction of the published screenplay.
Here it is as it appeared in The New York Times on January 31st, 1999.
Moonrise Kingdom — which I think ranks right up there with the best of Wes Anderson’s live-action work — hits big city theaters on May 25.
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Sissy Spacek & Martin Sheen on the set of Badlands (1973, dir. Terrence Malick)
Sheen: “One night I got a call saying that [Malick] decided to use me and would I be willing to do it. And I said, ‘Why sure, I’d be happy as Larry’. [The next morning], I was driving along Pacific Coast Highway and I was listening to a Dylan song called Desolation Row..and suddenly it dawned on me what had just happened - that I had the role of my life. And I began to weep uncontrollably with joy and I had to pull off the side of the road and just stop and reflect on what was happening. And it was one of the most profound moments of my life because it was the realization of a dream that I never thought would happen to me.”
Spacek:”It was a very passionate kind of working experience. No one was making any money and everyone was there because we were desperate to work on the film…It was probably the first film that I felt creatively engaged in. Terry would ask me questions about the character. I felt like I wasn’t just an actor for hire…After working with Terry, I was like, ‘The artist rules. Nothing else matters.’ My career would have been very different if I hadn’t had that experience.”
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