Wes Anderson
CANNES, FRANCE - MAY 18: Director Wes Anderson appears at Moonrise Kingdom press conference during the 65th Annual Cannes Film Festival at Baoli Beach on May 18, 2012 in Cannes, France.
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Edward Norton was someone who I corresponded with over the years, and he was somebody who I thought of as a scoutmaster
'Moonrise' is a story of love's improbable triumph, and for Wes Anderson and his team a labor of love from start to finish ... How wonderful it is to congratulate him, on behalf of everyone at Focus, for this remarkable, record-breaking opening.
The middle is angry about where we are at and they really see two villains on this stage, this play has two antagonists. Both of them are bigMore quotes »
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'Moonrise Kingdom' a box-office record-breaker
a cult filmmaker, writer-director Wes Anderson , below, has done astonishingly well with his latest, "Moonrise Kingdom," a box-office record-breaker that took in a per-theater average of $167,250 over its debut last weekend. By contrast, "Men in Black 3," Read more »
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Moonrise Kingdom + Dark Horse
Anderson burst onto cinema screens with the bold one-two punch of Bottle Rocket (1996) and Rushmore (1998). Both movies use an exuberant “let’s-put-on-a-show” aesthetic to explore the fuzzy line between childhood and adulthood in a playful manner that is self-reflexively Read more »
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In 'Moonrise Kingdom,' Wes Anderson relocates
-- 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 should expect cinema Read more »
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Cannes gets under way with Anderson, Baron Cohen
-- The 65th annual Cannes Film Festival was to get under way Wednesday with Wes Anderson 's carefully composed whimsy and Sacha Baron Cohen's less confined theatrics.Anderson's "Moonrise Kingdom" will open Cannes, where it will premiere amid the frenzy of Read more »
Around the web
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Tom Sutcliffe: Wes Anderson is so animating
finally "got" Wes Anderson the other day. Which is not to say that I hadn't "got" him before – in the sense of liking his work and always being willing to substitute his vision of the world for mine for an hour or two. Though I'm not very fond of fey art-house 6/1/12 from The Independent Read more »
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Out of Frame: Moonrise Kingdom
Anderson has a lock on a kind of hipster whimsy that can polarize audiences. His films operate more and more in a self-conscious land where authenticity and artifice rub up against each other, creating an aesthetic distance between the viewer/filmmaker and 6/1/12 from DCist Read more »
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EXCL: Wes Anderson to Reveal a New Animated Short Film
Anderson's latest film, Moonrise Kingdom, is now playing in select theaters and will expand to more cities in the weeks to come. Today, ComingSoon.net had the chance to speak with the auteur filmmaker, who revealed that he has prepared a special animated short 6/1/12 from Comingsoon.net Read more »
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Wes Anderson on “Moonrise Kingdom”: I’m trying to make something unfamiliar
in a familiar fashion (action movies and thrillers). The problem with Wes Anderson — if you think there is a problem with Wes Anderson — is that his movies appear to call attention to their own artificiality in an unusual way, and do not pretend to be naturalistic. 6/1/12 from Salon Read more »
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Wes Anderson talks about ‘Moonrise Kingdom’ and his Cannes debut
— For someone with a reputation for being one of the most exacting, detail-oriented and decisive directors of his generation, Wes Anderson spends a surprising amount of time second-guessing himself. When the writer-director’s new film, “Moonrise Kingdom,” 6/1/12 from The Washington Post Read more »
