Life After Brecht: Wes Anderson’s Lowbrow Dialectics
Wes Anderson’s intellectualization of high art in middlebrow presentation is rife with Brechtian flair and a Clintonite understanding of upper-middle-class politics.
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Stephen Park Finally Gets His Big Close-Up in ‘The French Dispatch’
Stephen Park has been brought into Wes Anderson’s exclusive filmmaking troupe for The French Dispatch in a role that was written specifically for him.
‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ Gorgeously Conveys Our Need for Poise and Elegance
The sense of artifice in Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel helped him create an alluring reverie of both color and meaning.
Sic Transit Gloria: The Problem with Wes Anderson
Twenty years ago, Wes Anderson's breakthrough film, Rushmore, was released. But his stubborn refusal to expand cinematic horizons has resulted in a stunted, predictable body of work.
Neuroses, Eccentricities, and the Status Quo in Wes Anderson’s ‘Isle of Dogs’
Visually enchanting and emotionally seductive, Wes Anderson's Japan-set stop-motion adventure marries aesthetic beauty with messy politics.
The Subversive Creativity in Wes Anderson’s ‘Isle of Dogs’
Wes Anderson has created a powerful (though unassuming) sociopolitical statement about the causes and consequences of segregation.
‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ Deserves to Win Almost All the Oscars ‘Boyhood’ Doesn’t
Ralph Fiennes holds civilization together with little more than his impeccable manners and mustache in Wes Anderson's absurdist dollhouse of a tragicomedy, The Grand Budapest Hotel.
The 10 Best Stop-Motion Films
Over the decades, stop-motion animation has been resurrected and rejected. This list of the 10 best stop-motion films advocates a joyous resurrection.
‘I’m Not the Fox I Used to Be’: Wes Anderson’s Changing Seasons
Far from style over substance, Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox fixates over objects to show its protagonist's inability to handle the oncoming winter.
‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’: It’s Time for Wes Anderson to Make Another Kind of Wes Anderson Movie
The story in The Grand Budapest Hotel repeatedly takes a backseat to the style. Wes Anderson is meticulous with his details and creates a candy-colored world within which to situate his whimsy.
‘Fantastic Mr. Fox’ Is One Cussin’ Fantastic Film
Like Roald Dahl, Wes Anderson seems to have a twisted desire to expose the fallacies of adulthood through the innocent yet knowing eyes of children.