Wes Anderson has a fetish for shooting overhead
Oh Wes Anderson… you’re so quirky with your quirky movies and your quirky characters and your quirky way of storytelling and your quirky ’60s-hued coloration and your quirky way of shooting things from above. If you can name which Wes Anderson movies each of these shots are from, then you are a really good person....
‘Moonrise Kingdom’ Looks Like a Wes Anderson Movie Because it is
In the trailer for Wes Anderson‘s newest movie Moonrise Kingdom, we are treated to the usual Anderson fare: an egg wash of cartoony reality splashed deliberately on the screen, a geeky/cool hero that will be the template of hipster values, a charming family of dysfunction, and characters that we admire because we don’t quite understand...
The stop-motion slyness of ‘Mr. Fox’
If someone had to put a new spin on stop-motion movie, it had to be Wes Anderson. Actually, it makes sense. His movies (Rushmore, Royal Tenenbaums, The Darjeeling Limited) all have this stop-motion caricature to them. They are quirky, humorous and as clever as the species of the title character of Fantastic Mr. Fox. The...
