Tag: The French Dispatch
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‘Accidentally Wes Anderson’ Creator on How He Feels About the Filmmaker’s Look Spawning Endless Memes
The creators of “Accidentally Wes Anderson” had no idea what was coming when they launched their Instagram page. Wally and Amanda Koval started the account in 2017 to celebrate visually-appealing buildings and landscapes around the world that looked as if they could have inspired Wes Anderson films.From tiny libraries in New Zealand to, of course,…
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Wes Anderson’s Debut Is Less Wes Anderson-y Than You’d Think
Everybody knows what Wes Anderson movies are like. An assortment of TikTok tributes and AI atrocities all reflect the stereotypical hallmarks of Anderson’s style: symmetrical compositions, mannered dialogue, deadpan actors, and a general sense of continental whimsy embodied by Alexandre Desplat’s “Obituary”, which scored the opening scene of The French Dispatch. While AI art is…
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Best Willem Dafoe Movies to Watch Before ‘Inside’
Willem Dafoe is one of the most consistently engaging, versatile, and respectable actors in the film industry since the 1980s, and its amazing to look at his incredible output over the entirety of his career. In 2021 alone, Dafoe appeared in Zack Snyder’s Justice League, the arthouse thriller Siberia, Wes Anderson’s latest ensemble dramedy The…
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Here’s Why Wes Anderson’s Next Two Films Aren’t at Searchlight
With seven nominations to his name, perennial Oscar contender Wes Anderson can call his own shots. It helps that he’s one of Hollywood’s most visually creative auteurs. Since 2012’s “Moonrise Kingdom,” which Focus Features released, Searchlight has distributed all of Anderson’s features, from his biggest global hit in 2014, “The Grand Budapest Hotel” and 2018’s…
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Léa Seydoux Wanted to Work with Channing Tatum, but She’ll Take Cronenberg and Hansen-Løve Any Day
It was hard to be at the Cannes Film Festival this year and not run into Léa Seydoux. The French actress starred in two well-received movies at this year’s festival, David Cronenberg’s dystopian “Crimes of the Future” and Mia Hansen-Løve’s romantic drama “One Fine Morning,” and also attended a lively 75th-anniversary event for the festival.…
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‘West Side Story’: Creating a Period-Authentic, Danceable NYC for Steven Spielberg’s Musical Reinvention
For a brief time, while working on Wes Anderson’s “The French Dispatch,” designing an array of hand-crafted sets from the ’50s and ’60s in Angoulême, France, production designer Adam Stockhausen was also prepping his Oscar-nominated “West Side Story.” Stockhausen multi-tasked while readying for Steven Spielberg’s reinvention of the iconic Leonard Bernstein-Stephen Sondheim musical about the…
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Wild Bunch unveils first look at Mounia Meddour’s ‘Houria’, plots physical EFM presence (exclusive)
Paris-based sales powerhouse has rented Berlin gallery off Potsdamer Platz.Wild Bunch International (Wbi) has released a first look image of Algerian-French director Mounia Meddour’s new drama Houria, ahead of its sales launch at the upcoming European Film Market (February 10-17).The previously announced project is Meddour’s second feature after Cannes Un Certain Regard breakout Papicha and…
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The Outrun: Saoirse Ronan To Lead Memoir Adaptation From The Unforgivable Director
Despite establishing herself multiple times over as one of the most talented young actors around, one glance at Saoirse Ronan’s filmography suggests she has carefully gone out of her way to pick and choose her projects in recent years with an eye on only the most interesting and promising roles. After the one-two-three punch of…
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Oscars 2022: Best Editing Predictions
Last Updated January 27: “Dune,” “Belfast,” “King Richard,” “No Time to Die,” “The Power of the Dog,” “Licorice Pizza,” and “Don’t Look Up” were among the editing Oscar contenders nominated for the 72nd annual Ace Eddie Awards this week. Also getting nods in the comedy category were “Cruella,” “The French Dispatch,” and the musical “Tick…
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Paul Thomas Anderson’s ‘Licorice Pizza’ Lands Pandemic-Best Debut at Indie Box Office
Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Licorice Pizza” has secured the best pandemic-era debut at the independent box office.With speciality offerings like “Licorice Pizza,” the key metric is per-theater-average rather than overall box office tally since its playing in very few locations. From only four theaters in the country — two in New York and two in Los…