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- 11/14/2018
- MUBI
Wes Anderson is a filmmaker that is truly one of a kind. There’s really no other way to describe his films other than Wes Anderson-ian. Well, a more superficial description would be to call his various projects “quirky.” So, that being said, when you hear that Anderson, along with his wife Juman Malouf, curated a special exhibit in Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum, you’d have to imagine that it’s very Wes Anderson-ian.
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- 11/13/2018
- by Charles Barfield
- The Playlist
In between “Isle of Dogs” and his next film, Wes Anderson has taken it upon himself to try his hand at something new: museum curation. The filmmaker and his partner, Juman Malouf, were invited to Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum to curate an exhibition, which opened this week. It’s titled “Spitzmaus Mummy in a Coffin and other Treasures,” because of course it is, and is a collection of more than 400 objects drawn from all 14 of the museum’s historical collections. According to the New York Times, Anderson delivered the briefest of speeches during the opening: “It was probably worth it.”
Cody Delistraty, the Times critic in question, seems unimpressed overall. He writes that Anderson and Malouf were “interested neither in the provenance or rarity of a piece, nor whether it was the best example of its school or style. Rather, they grouped about 450 objects by color, material and size, in...
Cody Delistraty, the Times critic in question, seems unimpressed overall. He writes that Anderson and Malouf were “interested neither in the provenance or rarity of a piece, nor whether it was the best example of its school or style. Rather, they grouped about 450 objects by color, material and size, in...
- 11/11/2018
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
This spring saw the release of Wes Anderson’s ninth feature film and his second stop-motion animation, Isle of Dogs, an ode to Japanese cinema and specifically the films of Akira Kurosawa. For the filmmaker’s follow-up, he looks to be inspired by another country’s cinema: France. The first details are now trickling in for his tenth film, which will begin shooting early next year.
Update: The film will be a musical, Charente Libre reports.
The French publication Sudoest reports that The Grand Budapest Hotel director–who is currently living in France–will embark on a four-month shoot for this new film in the southwest commune of Angoulême this February. The only story detail thus far is that the project will take place just after World War II. Considering the deep influence of the French New Wave on the director’s work, one wonders what he’s conjured up here.
Update: The film will be a musical, Charente Libre reports.
The French publication Sudoest reports that The Grand Budapest Hotel director–who is currently living in France–will embark on a four-month shoot for this new film in the southwest commune of Angoulême this February. The only story detail thus far is that the project will take place just after World War II. Considering the deep influence of the French New Wave on the director’s work, one wonders what he’s conjured up here.
- 8/14/2018
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Wes Anderson’s movies are often compared to works of art, so it’s only fitting the directing is about to tackle a new gig as a museum curator. The Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, Austria has announced that Wes Anderson and his partner Juman Malouf are set to launch a new art exhibition this November entitled “The Spitzmaus Mummy in a Coffin and Other Treasures from the Kunsthistorisches Museum.”
The museum is giving Anderson and Malouf free range to their extensive back catalogue. The duo will be able to cull from all fourteen collections at the Kunsthistorisches, including Greek and Roman Antiquities, Old Master Paintings, Egyptian Antiquities, and the Collection of Historical Musical Instruments, among others. Anderson will be able to feature these works however he chooses.
Anderson and Malouf are set to unveil their exhibit on November 6, which means Anderson fans better book their plane tickets to Vienna as soon as possible.
The museum is giving Anderson and Malouf free range to their extensive back catalogue. The duo will be able to cull from all fourteen collections at the Kunsthistorisches, including Greek and Roman Antiquities, Old Master Paintings, Egyptian Antiquities, and the Collection of Historical Musical Instruments, among others. Anderson will be able to feature these works however he chooses.
Anderson and Malouf are set to unveil their exhibit on November 6, which means Anderson fans better book their plane tickets to Vienna as soon as possible.
- 7/17/2018
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Unfortunately Entertainment Weekly doesn't allow for their videos to be embedded so you'll have to click over there to watch what I'm talking about here, but that's the way it goes sometimes. Last week, Wes Anderson revealed a short animated companion piece to his new film Moonrise Kingdom would be coming soon. In the film 12-year-old Suzy (Kara Hayward) carries with her a collection of six books from which she used to read to her younger brothers before running away with Sam (Jared Gilman) on the adventure that guides the rest of the film. Those books she kept with her and even reads to Sam later in the film and now she reads them for us with accompanying animation and narration by Bob Balaban. Anderson considered animating the stories for the film, but ultimately decided to hold on the characters' faces during these scenes, but after the film was made...
- 6/7/2012
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Wes Anderson's funny, fabulous Fantastic Mr. Fox feels like a book that's been missing from his library, an all-ages comedy with tender life lessons gently imparted by lovable characters. For all I know, Roald Dahl is spinning in his grave, but the British author's book has provided Anderson with a badly-needed spark that reignites his creative juices.
Not that Anderson's post-Owen Wilson collaborations with Noah Baumbach have been complete disasters. Somewhere alone the line, though, perhaps midway through The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou and all the way through The Darjeeling Limited, it felt like Anderson's playfully twee tone wore thin. His characters, who have always teetered on the brink between self-absorbed and self-pitying, fell hard toward the irredeemably murky end of a perpetual personality crisis.
It made you downright concerned that somebody might really kill themselves.
All such thoughts are happily banished in Fantastic Mr. Fox. Reformed...
Not that Anderson's post-Owen Wilson collaborations with Noah Baumbach have been complete disasters. Somewhere alone the line, though, perhaps midway through The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou and all the way through The Darjeeling Limited, it felt like Anderson's playfully twee tone wore thin. His characters, who have always teetered on the brink between self-absorbed and self-pitying, fell hard toward the irredeemably murky end of a perpetual personality crisis.
It made you downright concerned that somebody might really kill themselves.
All such thoughts are happily banished in Fantastic Mr. Fox. Reformed...
- 11/25/2009
- Screen Anarchy
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