This was how I first discovered Wes Anderson in 1996, as a teen tuning in to see Ben Stiller and Janeane Garofalo host, Seven ...
Wes Anderson is the cilantro of American cinema. There are some whose loathing of his work is almost genetic. To others, Anderson’s films are essential viewing. Anderson’s critics frequently use the ...
A new Wes Anderson comedy will soon be available on streaming. The celebrated director of The Royal Tenenbaums and The Grand Budapest Hotel is known for employing memorable color palettes and ...
After watching Wes Anderson’s newest feature film offering, The Phoenician Scheme (my review), I was energized by seeing him try to inject some specific genre energy into his usual film formula.
Early on in “Bottle Rocket” (1996), Wes Anderson’s first feature, Luke and Owen Wilson are robbing a house. Luke Wilson sees a set of toy soldiers. He stops to straighten one of them. Consider that ...
Wes Anderson is not a filmmaker we often associate with horror cinema. The Oscar-winning writer/director behind films like The Royal Tenenbaums and Moonrise Kingdom is known for his elaborate ...
Auteurs can often be divisive figures in filmmaking. But while anyone can argue about the controversial violence of Quentin Tarantino, the confounding narratives of Christopher Nolan, or the ...
If Wes Anderson finally discovered evil in The Grand Budapest Hotel, with Isle of Dogs he attempts to bring it to his level. That earlier film’s Mitteleuropean marzipan levity was haunted, and ...
If there’s one director that Jeffrey Wright loves to collaborate with again, it’s Wes Anderson. The Westworld actor opens up about his experience working on Anderson’s films and explains why he would ...
When the poster arrived for Wes Anderson's latest, The Grand Budapest Hotel, people couldn't help but remark how Wes Anderson-y it was. Now that early reviews are out of Berlin, that seems to be the ...
When Michael Cera was announced as joining the cast of a Wes Anderson movie for the first time, the prevailing response was: Hadn’t he already been in a Wes Anderson movie? So seemingly aligned in ...