All posts tagged "Wes Anderson"
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Five Questions About An Oscar-Nominated Short: Jakob Schuh and Jan Lachauer’s “Revolting Rhymes”
Animated adaptations of British author Roald Dahl’s children’s fiction include two highly regarded works: Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox and Henry Selick’s James and the...
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The Irresistible Lure of the Heist: From Baby Driver to Logan Lucky, Why Do We Return to This Classic Genre?
Looking for a summer getaway? You may have to steal it. A couple of high-profile heists have promised summer pleasures this year. Steven Soderbergh, an...
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The Magnificent Anderson: Tour the Weird Wonder of Wes Anderson’s World With These Supercuts (Video)
With one of the most distinct eyes in cinema, Wes Anderson has been gracing screens with his playhouse-styled, candy colored visuals for the past 20 years....
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How Stop-Motion Can Survive: The Past, Present and Future of a Suffering Art (Video)
From The Boxtrolls, to Anomalisa, to Kubo and the Two Strings, stop-motion animation has consecutively held its place within the category of Animated Feature Films at the...
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First Draft: How Emotion and Human Behavior Come Together in Good Screenwriting
In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, we present “First Draft,” a series on everything to do with screenwriting. New articles, first published by Creative Screenwriting...
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Casting Your Location: How to Find (and Keep) a Great Location For Your Film
The right location can make a film, the wrong location can break it. Recently, my family went looking for a home in the foothills of...
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Best of 2014: 10 Stories from the Back Row
It’s mid-January, 2015. The new year. A time for reflection and a time for dishing out awards. These days everyone seems to be touting their...
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Feast for the Eyes Special Edition: Top Five Food Moments in 2014 Films
Our irregular blog Feast for the Eyes charts the gastronomic iconography of the screen, pondering the depths of narrative, character, and theme that a dish...
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Richard Dreyfuss
American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Stand By Me, Mr. Holland’s Opus… even while reading like a what’s what of cinema, those titles are just a handful...
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Cold Piece of Work: Richard Linklater Braves Greenland Hurricanes for Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Richard Linklater’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette opens with the answer to its titular question. In an impressively executed overhead shot, the camera gazes down onto placid Antarctic waters as...
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How They Did It: The Farewell Writer-Director Lulu Wang Shares Secrets to Turning Your Life Story into a Memoir Movie
The week before production started on The Farewell—my sophomore feature about a young woman (Billi, played by Awkwafina) and her family’s attempts to keep their grandmother’s cancer diagnosis hidden...