Bottle Rocket
The Wilson brothers made their auspicious, no-budget film debut with this deadpan caper film.
"...Lumi Cavazos and James Caan. This movie is named Bottle Rocket not because it's about firecrackers or demolition experts..."
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Feb. 23, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Launching Bottle Rocket
Sparks Over Tinseltown
"...in the low-rent Central Texas domain of the slacker, Bottle Rocket, the debut feature from director Wes Anderson and..."
Feb. 23, 1996 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov
Luv Doc Recommends: Bottle Rocket Screening with Kumar Pallana
Alamo Drafthouse Downtown, Saturday, February 26, 2005
"...a special screening of the Wilson Brothers’ 1996 debut, “Bottle Rocket” with a celebrity in attendance. Scratch James Caan..."
Feb. 25, 2005 Column by The Luv Doc
'Rocket' Away
How you can help save the 'Bottle Rocket' motel
"...You know the Texas motel in Bottle Rocket where the three bumbling criminals hole up and..."
June 28, 2011 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones
It's a Rocket, It's a Hot Air Balloon, It's a ... Decorated Show Cake?
Cake decorators and sugar artists from around the country converge on Austin to compete and learn
"...year's categories will be angel food cakes, moon pies, mini-bottle cakes, cookies, and candies. (Kate Thornberry and I will..."
Feb. 22, 2013 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood
Bombshell
Finding sympathy in Fox’s #MeToo moment by ignoring everything else about Fox
"...narrative. Bombshell’s ultimate punch lands more like a spectacular bottle rocket than a scorching Molotov cocktail...."
Dec. 20, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Behind Enemy Lines
"...of the film, which casts Texan Wilson (Shanghai Noon, Bottle Rocket) as a disenchanted Navy navigator who, as the..."
Nov. 30, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Scanlines
Fargo
"...Bottle Rocket D: Wes Anderson; with Owen Wilson, Luke Wilson,..."
Jan. 17, 1997 Screens Feature
Academy Leader
"...UT grad. (Anderson co-wrote Rushmore and his earlier film Bottle Rocket with writing partner and fellow UT alum, actor..."
Feb. 5, 1999 Screens Feature by Michael Bertin
L.M. Kit Carson: Film Frontiersman
The 2015 Texas Film Awards induct L.M. Kit Carson posthumously into the Texas Film Hall of Fame
"...wild Wilson boys, Luke and Owen, as he shepherded Bottle Rocket to the screen. Like any gambler he was..."
March 6, 2015 Screens Feature by Louis Black
Celebrate 50 Years of the Village With Alamo Drafthouse
Parties, Disney classics, and a Wes Anderson retrospective
"...Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, and his debut feature, Texas classic Bottle Rocket...."
Jan. 11, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
Remembering Polly Platt
A collaborative filmmaker, friend to AFF, and mentor to many
"...first recognized the potential in the pair's short film "Bottle Rocket" and who helped them develop their idea into..."
Aug. 19, 2011 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt
First Steps
New program highlights Texas filmmakers 'before they were legends'
"...Brooks' purposes, and ours, it's with the short film "Bottle Rocket."..."
Feb. 18, 2011 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones
Short Cuts
"...this fall is Rushmore, a new movie by the Bottle Rocket team of Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson. The..."
Aug. 15, 1997 Screens Column by Marjorie Baumgarten
Owen Wilson and the Joy of Paint
The star of the new wry comedy on the inner and outer life of Burlington’s No. 1 art show host
"...scene- and character-defining haircuts. Dignan's weird, elevated buzzcut in Bottle Rocket; Hansel's flowing locks, cascading down his face, forcing..."
April 7, 2023 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker
Seven of the Best With Owen Wilson
From small-town crook to the ultimate speedster, the most unmissable roles of the Texas actor's career
"...seeming like a star with underground instincts. Dignan in Bottle Rocket (1994/1996)..."
April 7, 2023 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker
West Anderson Becomes Wes Anderson
City renames street for the filmmaking UT alum
"...Whereas, Wes Anderson's visionary work, from Bottle Rocket in 1996 to The French Dispatch in 2021,..."
Nov. 9, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
"Tales of the Obsessed" Comes to Town
The new Drafthouse series celebrates wonderful weirdos
"...of course, a twofer of Wes Anderson's quirky characters (Bottle Rocket, Moonrise Kingdom)...."
July 28, 2017 Screens Feature by Josh Kupecki
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Wes Anderson's film is a marvelous spectacle: spry, sly, and rich with microdetailed production design and tickling tributes to cinematic forebearers.
"...facade, yes – see also: Dignan’s harebrained heists in Bottle Rocket, oceanographer Steve Zissou’s jaguar-shark obsession in The Life..."
March 14, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Moonrise Kingdom
Wes Anderson is back with another delightful movie about beautiful dreamers and full-time schemers.
"...schemers: the criminally inept Dignan, with his 75-Year Plan (Bottle Rocket); Max Fischer, the half-cocked Renaissance man-child (Rushmore); broken,..."
June 8, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
AFF Announces 2011 Lineup
Regional premieres of Shame, The Descendants
"...late Polly Platt, which will include a screening of Bottle Rocket (which she produced), presented by Luke Wilson and..."
Sept. 20, 2011 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones
Catastrophe and the Cure
Behind the scenes of Explosions in the Sky's most challenging and personal album
"...three years. The four immediately bonded at Milto's over Bottle Rocket; Wes Anderson's directorial debut about three young Texans..."
July 1, 2011 Music Feature by Austin Powell
Luv Doc Recommends: Red, White 'n Buda
Buda City Park, Monday, July 4, 2011
"...a camo pouch on his belt. To him, the rockets' red glare and the bombs bursting in air were..."
July 1, 2011 Column by The Luv Doc
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Wes Anderson's delightful animated film has room for both existentialist dread and a grinning joie de vivre.
"...began his feature career with two nearly flawless films, Bottle Rocket and Rushmore, and he’s been paying for them..."
Nov. 27, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Skills Like This
Winner of the SXSW Audience Award in 2007, Skills Like This is the story of a would-be writer and his impulsive, overnight career as a bank robber.
"...come out a little over a decade ago. Its Bottle Rocket-esque trio of insecure males (or over-secure, in the..."
April 17, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
The Wendell Baker Story
The Wilson brothers deliver this shaggy comedy – which was written and directed by Luke and Andrew and co-stars Luke, Owen, and seasoned pros Harry Dean Stanton, Seymour Casssell, and Kris Kristofferson.
"...a new kind of confused and despondent hero in Bottle Rocket, after he saved The Royal Tenenbaums from drowning..."
May 18, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt
Boots and Suits, Scheming and Dreaming
The Wilson Brothers on The Wendell Baker Story
"...my imagination, or does the movie pick up where Bottle Rocket leaves off? You have a guy with an..."
May 18, 2007 Screens Feature by Marrit Ingman
Articulations
A painful week for friends of the theatre with the passing of educator and director Gil Sharp and producer, director, and actor Don Phillips, Jr.
"...to the stage. Gil Sharp, the driving force behind Crockett High School's award-winning theatre department for two decades, died..."
April 11, 2003 Arts Column by Robert Faires
Getting Their Due
The 2003 Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards
"...Angeles, Philadelphia, The West Wing); screen darling Luke Wilson (Bottle Rocket, The Royal Tenenbaums, Legally Blonde); actor, writer, and..."
March 7, 2003 Screens Feature by Margaret Moser
The Royal Tenenbaums
"...third directorial outing (following the unlikely breakthrough success of Bottle Rocket and the much-heralded comic stylings of Rushmore) shows..."
