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 ...
Photographer Ava Williams’s TikTok video of an Anderson-style train ride unleashed a new cinematic subgenre on the platform. “You better not be acting like you’re in a Wes Anderson film when I get ...
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 ...
At what point does a signature style become a crutch? For devoted followers of filmmaker Wes Anderson, the answer may be "never," as his increasingly fussy, hermetically sealed approach to making ...
With just a few days between us and the newest Wes Andersen movie, Moonrise Kingdom, we’re itching for a fresh dose of the director’s signature dry humor and cinematography. Set to Judy Is a Punk by ...
Consensus on the Internet today seems to be that the poster for Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel is, well, Wes Anderson-y. But just how Wes Anderson-y is it? Wes Anderson movies tend to be ...