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The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

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The Secret Meaning of The Life Aquatic

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the most surprising email I've received today. Warning: If you haven't seen The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, beware! Spoilers ahead!Steve is a modern, comic version of St. Stephen, the early Christian martyr put to death for asserting

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The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)

This review was originally published at Christianity Today in December 2004. * You won't find the word father on the résumé of Steve Zissou. That's because Zissou, an inventive seafaring documentarian, has been too caught up in his own self-perpetuating mythology to settle down and raise a

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Trailer of the Moment: Wes Anderson's Bill Murray film

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou is the strangest title of the year. It also has one of the most promising trailers. How is it that when Wes Anderson leaves his exquisitely decorated sets and starts filming outdoors, the result still looks like his exquisitely decorated sets?

Waves of raves for Life Aquatic

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Waves of raves for Life Aquatic

Peppered with CAPITALIZED EXPLETIVES (you've been warned), the early screening “reviews” (better: unedited, sloppy, gushing superlatives) are coming in after a screening of Wes Anderson’s The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, the film I’m more eager to see than anything since The Return of the King.