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Moonrise Kingdom

Moonrise Kingdom

Wes Anderson's latest echoes his earlier triumphs, but breaks no new ground

(3 stars)17 May 2012

Wes Anderson’s seventh film feels like a Greatest Hits package. Which if you’re a Wes fan will make you very happy. Set on a New England island in the summer of 1965, the opening sequence of Moonrise Kingdom, with its incessant camera-pans around the…

Fantastic Mr. Fox

Fantastic Mr. Fox

Inspired take on the Dahl classic

(4 stars)16 Oct 2009

Wes Anderson’s animated adaptation of Roald Dahl’s much loved book is no straightforward children’s film. Wee ones might enjoy it to a degree, but they won’t get much of the typically arch humour and wanton eccentricities the filmmaker once again…

Interview: Wes Anderson

Interview: Wes Anderson

The director talks about adapting Fantastic Mr. Fox for the big screen

15 Oct 2009

Texan born director Wes Anderson is renowned for making highly detailed and idiosyncratic films populated with slightly neurotic, child-like characters (The Royal Tenenbaums, The Darjeeling Limited). Seeing him in person, you realise that he wouldn’t…

The Darjeeling Ltd

Jason Schwartzman - The Darjeeling Limited

15 Nov 2007

‘I felt like we were kids making a movie,’ says Jason Schwartzman. ‘Every day we set out to work was an adventure. We never knew what was going to happen.’ The 27-year-old American actor might well be reminiscing about his big screen debut in 1998 in…

Behind the scenes of The Fantastic Mr Fox

Behind the scenes of The Fantastic Mr Fox

20 Oct 2009

Andy Gent, chief animator on Wes Anderson’s The Fantastic Mr Fox, reveals the cinematic inspiration behind the project and the difficulties inherent in making a stop-animation film. ‘As well as being a huge fan of Roald Dahl, Wes loves old films like…

Wes Anderson to direct animated Fantastic Mr Fox adaptation

3 Mar 2008

Wes Anderson, the director behind The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and The Darjeeling Limited, is to direct and write a big screen animated version of Roald Dahl's classic children's story The Fantastic Mr Fox. Expect a…

Dahl’s Fantastic Mr Fox destined for big screen

12 Nov 2007

Director Wes Anderson is finally getting to grips with a project he claims has been eight years in the making - bringing his favourite Roald Dahl story to the big screen. An animated version of Fantastic Mr Fox, in which George Clooney will voice the…

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