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INTRODUCTION
In the very first scene of Wes Anderson’s very first film, Bottle Rocket, the selfinvolved hero Anthony (Luke Wilson) escapes from a mental hospital by knotting his bed sheets together and lowering himself to the ground below. This elaborate escape plan has been hatched by his best pal, Owen Wilson’s incurable schemer Dignan, currently hiding in the bushes. What Dignan doesn’t realize is that Anthony’s time at the institute was entirely voluntary. He was free to leave at any point – out the front door. ‘He just got so excited about the thing,’ Anthony tells his bemused doctor, ‘I didn’t have the heart to tell him.’ You could say that the Texan born filmmaker’s fleet of ten brilliant, perplexing, idiosyncratic and pristine films, from Bottle Rocket to The French Dispatch, has stuck rigidly to Dignan’s way of thinking. .
BOTTLE ROCKET (1996)
For his first film, Wes Anderson turned life into art. This cult tale of three Dallas friends attempting to get into crime was born out of the young writer-director’s early experiences and a slice of luck
RUSHMORE (1998)
For his second film, Wes Anderson turned for inspiration to his schooldays at a prim, private Houston academy. The rarefied coming of age that ensued is the tragicomedy against which all his other films are judged
THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS (2001)
For his third film, Wes Anderson departed for New York to survey the wreckage of a highly dysfunctional family of geniuses. An uproarious tragedy – more ambitious, starrier and weirder than ever.
THE LIFE AQUATIC WITH STEVE ZISSOU (2004)
For his fourth film, Wes Anderson unveiled his most ambitious, elaborately designed and divisive yarn to date: a Boy’s-Own tale of illegitimate sons, man-eating sharks and the existential pangs of a has-been oceanographer
THE DARJEELING LIMITED (2007)
For his fifth film, Wes Anderson ventured even further afield, with the story of three estranged brothers seeking connection in exotic India. It is Anderson’s road movie, only on a train…
FANTASTIC MR. FOX (2009)
The sixth film by Wes Anderson took an unusual turn – the actors were no more than twelve inches tall. In choosing to adapt Roald Dahl’s blackly comic children’s tale of a tailless fox he turned to stop-motion animation, but without losing any of his human insight
MOONRISE KINGDOM (2012)
For his seventh film, Wes Anderson turned to romance. Only the couple in question are two troubled twelve-year-old runaways, who live on a small island off the coast of New England, with a symbolic storm on its way
THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (2014)
For his ninth film, Wes Anderson went meticulously epic. Here is a period tale within a period tale of legendary concierge Monsieur Gustave H., a rip-snorting adventure bursting at the seams with stolen paintings, lusty dowagers, prison escapes, bobsled chases, and the stirring of fascism
ISLE OF DOGS (2018)
For his ninth film, Wes Anderson returned to the rigours of stop-motion animation. What better medium for a science fiction stray dog story that also serves as a political satire while paying homage to the breadth of Japanese culture?
THE FRENCH DISPATCH (2020)
For his tenth film, Wes Anderson concocted a multi tiered love song to journalism. Set in a fictional French city across the fifties, sixties and seventies, it centres on the exploits of a weekly magazine run by a band of expatriate American intellectuals
Publisher : White Lion Publishing (November 3, 2020)
Language : English
Hardcover : 176 pages
ISBN-10 : 0711255997
ISBN-13 : 978-0711255999
Item Weight : 2.63 pounds
Dimensions : 8.75 x 1.2 x 10.05 inches