Director Wes Anderson loves to mine the inner lives of his eclectic characters, which he does again through the lens of a very odd father/daughter tale in his latest Focus Features film, The ...

The Phoenician Scheme returns Wes Anderson to the straightforward pleasures of the caper movie. He talks about writing the film for its star, Benicio del Toro, his fascination with charismatic, ...

His plan, as it turns out, is to create a massive infrastructural overhaul, which would lead to the construction of bridges, dams and tons of public works facilities all over the Mediterranean. This ...

There's an earnest thread of hope in Wes Anderson's The Phoenician Scheme, despite its anti-hero being a monument of corruption. Like many of Anderson's movies (The Royal Tenenbaums, Asteroid City, ...

Every Wes Anderson film is a new adventure for production designer Adam Stockhausen, who has collaborated with the director seven times, and won the Oscar for his work on "The Grand Budapest Hotel." ...

Well, perhaps Wes Anderson was overdue for a flop. The writer/director known for quirky visuals and charmingly self-conscious whimsy has had a long run of movies that were enchanting (“Fantastic Mr.

Director Wes Anderson explains how he devised the numerous artful assassination attempts in The Phoenician Scheme. The goal, he says, was to make them "both brutal and visceral literally, but it ought ...

In terms of sheer quantity of work, Wes Anderson has foraged an almost unprecedented cinematic run in the past few years. The director, known for his iconic style of cinematography — defined by ...

"They say you murdered my mother," the young would-be nun tells the shady tycoon. "I feel the need to address this." There's something about the deadpan delivery and the clear-eyed manner that makes ...

The Phoenician Scheme wasn’t one of Wes Anderson’s best films as far as box office is concerned, but the reviews have generally been positive, and the film is comfortably Certified Fresh on Rotten ...

You know you are watching a Wes Anderson-directed movie when the film fulfills the following three conditions: First, a Wes Anderson movie is always packed with A-list celebrity cameos — so many, you ...

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