Fantastic Mr. Fox (film)
Bill Murray, Frances McDormand, Edward Norton and Bruce Willis star in the film — the story of a 12-year-old girl and boy who merge their imaginative worlds on an island off the coast of New England.
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Moonrise Kingdom + Dark Horse
to focus on family dysfunction with steadily diminishing results. His animated adaptation of Roald Dahl’s The Fantastic Mr. Fox seemed to revive Anderson’s cinematic spirits, and now he returns with one of the best movies of his career. is an epic, romantic, Read more »
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Review: Wes Anderson finds near perfect balance in 'Moonrise Kingdom'
Here the writer-director's tendency toward the allegorical casts a magical spell with Anderson finding a near perfect balance between the humanism and the surreal that imprints all of his work — sometimes for the better ("The Royal Tenenbaums,""Fantastic from Los Angeles Times Read more »
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Watch: Bill Murray Drunkenly Touring the 'Moonrise Kingdom' Set
This weekend, Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom, the director's return to live-action films after adapting The Fantastic Mr. Fox, hits limited theaters. Alex already gave a mostly positive review of the film from Cannes (follow all his coverage right here) from FirstShowing.net Read more »
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An exacting director survives Cannes' mercurial nature
Wednesday night seems so long ago; here at the Cannes Film Festival, now halfway through its fantastic paces, it's a hundred films ago. On May 16 "Moonrise Kingdom,"director Wes Anderson's fable of young love and various eccentrics, on a fictional island from Chicago Tribune Read more »
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'Fight Club' Producer Arnon Milchan to Receive Best Producer Honor at Locarno
CANNES – The Locarno International Film Festival is giving its best producer prize this year to Arnon Milchan, the Oscar-nominated producer of L.A. Confidential (1997), whose credits also include Fight Club (1999), Marley and Me (2008) and The Fantastic from Hollywood Reporter Read more »
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In 'Moonrise Kingdom,' Wes Anderson relocates
CANNES, France In Wes Anderson's "Moonrise Kingdom," the famously meticulous director takes his fastidiously fashioned world and flings it into the woods.Even a relatively loose Anderson film is more ornately composed than most dollhouses, so no one shou from KansasCity.com Read more »
