Blog: Music Under Fire

There is a story that filmmaker, Wes Anderson, wrote for the New York Times in 1999, shortly after the release of his now revered movie “Rushmore” starring Bill Murray and Jason Schwartzman. The story was about how Anderson set up a private screening of Rushmore for famed New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael. At the end of the screening, Kael told the young Anderson “I don’t know what you’ve got here Wes…I genuinely don’t know what to make of this movie.” Now, I’m not a prominent critic like the late Pauline Kael, but [...]