Does ‘Bottle Rocket’ Hold Up Thirty Years Later?

One February day back in 1996, I drove across Los Angeles to interview a trio of Texas filmmakers for the UCLA Daily Bruin, my college paper. Their names were Wes Anderson, who hailed from Houston, and Owen and Luke Wilson, two brothers out of Dallas. I was nervous, but not because they were famous, which they weren’t—yet. I was nervous because I loved their new movie, an indie film called Bottle Rocket, Anderson’s directorial debut. I wanted to come across as a serious journalist, not a superfan. So I was mortified to find myself blurting out “I’m from Texas too!” as soon as I was ushered into the room where Anderson and the brothers were sitting on a small couch. I somehow made it through…

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