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Wes Anderson

Film Review: “The French Dispatch” — A Fantastical Magazine

Fans will be pleased that time around director Wes Anderson has shot off everything in his stylistic quiver.

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: The French Dispatch, The New Yorker, Tim Jackson, Wes Anderson

Film Commentary: Wes Anderson, Stefan Zweig, and Discovering the Value of “The World of Yesterday”

Perhaps a movie such as “The Grand Budapest Hotel, which is much more than a zany comedy, can lead us back, as director Wes Anderson may have intended, to the fabulous writing of Stefan Zweig.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, World Books Tagged: Film, German literature, literature in translation, Stefan-Zweig, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The World of Yesterday, Wes Anderson

Film Review: The Grand Budapest Hotel — A Deliriously Eccentric Adventure Story

Director Wes Anderson’s “The Grand Budapest Hotel” presents a frenzied feast of lavish and preposterous set pieces, performances, and tall tales.

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: The Grand Budapest Hotel, Wes Anderson

Movie Review: Through the Eyes of Children

Two superb new films, “Moonrise Kingdom” and “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” revolve around children and the power of love.

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Featured, Film Tagged: Beasts of the Southern Wild, Benh Zeitlin, Jared Gilman, Kara Hayward, Moonrise Kingdom, Quvenzhané Wallis, Wes Anderson

Film Review: ‘Greenberg’ and the Half-Cooked

Despite some poignant moments, “Greenberg” ends up as a half-cooked film about half-cooked people. Reviewed By Justin Marble In perhaps the most revealing scene in Noah Baumbach’s latest film, “Greenberg,” Ben Stiller’s title character stands in the middle of a party, alone, as the director’s camera slowly moves in on him from above. The partygoers […]

By: Justin Marble Filed Under: Film Tagged: Ben Stiller, comedy, Film, Greenberg, Justin Marble, movie, Noah Baumbach, Wes Anderson

Film Commentary: The Redemption of Wes Anderson

It’s easy, and popular, to write director Wes Anderson off as a hipster who offers nothing beyond quirk and the occasional funny line. But his films are really American versions of the French New Wave. by Justin Marble “He redeemed himself.” “Redemption? Sure. But in the end, he’s just another dead rat in a garbage […]

By: Justin Marble Filed Under: Featured, Film Tagged: -Jean-Luc-Godard, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Film, French New Wave, Justin Marble, Wes Anderson

Coming Attractions in Film: December 2009

By Justin Marble Various Films at Stuart Street Playhouse This isn’t so much a ringing endorsement of the current offerings, the biopic Coco Before Chanel or the British comedy Pirate Radio, as much as it is a plug for the brand-new Stuart Street Playhouse. Located in the heart of the city, the fantastic new venue […]

By: Justin Marble Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Film Tagged: Akira Kurosawa, American Beauty, Bottle Rocket, Brattle Theatre, Criterion Collection, Husbands, It's a Wondderful LIfe, John Cassavetes, Justin Marble, Lost in La Mancha, MFA, Strongman, Stuart Street Playhouse, Terry Gilliam, The Virgin Suicides, Wes Anderson

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