Tagged Wes Anderson

This film was previously reviewed in July 2021 as part of our Cannes Film Festival coverage. One of Cannes Film Festival’s most anticipated films, Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch, is a love letter to...

Rushmore is 20 years old. Even with a two-decade legacy that reaches into cinema’s hallowed history to map out its future, Wes Anderson’s singular screwball tale of love, betrayal and extracurricular...

This film was previously reviewed on 19/02/18 as part of Berlinale Festival. It’s hard to decide which elements of Isle of Dogs are the definitive "perfect fit" for Wes Anderson. Obviously Fantastic Mr....

Wes Anderson is the most polite filmmaker in punk rock, but that’s probably what makes him the most effective, too. Notorious for his meticulousness and specificity, the Texan philosophy graduate’s...

It’s hard to decide which elements of Isle of Dogs are the definitive "perfect fit" for Wes Anderson. Obviously Fantastic Mr. Fox has already proven that stop-motion and anthropomorphic animal antics gel...

https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/246729336 One of the key pillars of postmodernist thinking is that there is no longer such thing as an original idea. We have too much culture and too much art, now it...

Everyone's got their favourite filmmakers: from Scorsese to Spielberg, Cuarón to the Coens and Wes Anderson to Paul Thomas Anderson - but which of these famous directors are you most like? Apropos of...

1. Dick Van Dyke will soot up for Mary Poppins Returns We’d like to dedicate this next story to a very special man. He’s 91 years old and he weighs under 200 tons: Dick Van Dyke. Yes, the Hollywood...

A father abandons his family. He lies, cheats and betrays them, spending most of the family fortune. When present, he’s cruel: blunt and caustic with his children, putting them down in painful moments and...

The directorial debut is an interesting phenomenon: for every illustrious filmmaker who nailed their craft at the first time of asking, other estimable auteurs needed a number of cracks to hit their...

Hitchcock/Truffaut is a gentle but revealing documentary, 50 years on from the exhaustive interviews conducted by François Truffaut. Concentrating on re-evaluating Hitchcock’s work and the context...

Really, Jason Schwartzman should be a bigger star. Part of the prolific Coppola clan and erstwhile creator of teen drama theme tunes, he made his screen acting debut in Wes Anderson’s Rushmore in 1998 – a...

What are you looking at? A laptop, a tablet, a smartphone? Whatever you’re reading these words on, it’s probably a rectangle, framing the text and the images and this article in a standard space. This...

It is that time of year once again. Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to Oscar Season. By now the dust will have settled on last year's Oscar debates just in time for them to begin all over again. It is, by all...

Wes Anderson is a fascinating phenomenon. Having plugged away as a more or less cult director for some time, his films are becoming increasingly popular amongst wider and wider audiences. To achieve this,...