Considering Wes Anderson is a fairly tight-lipped director, most fans have chosen to view him as, well, a Wes Anderson character: Dry and fastidious, with excellent taste in music. It came as something of a surprise, then, when the filmmaker behind The Royal Tenenbaums, The Grand Budapest Hotel, and the new Isle Of…
In addition to being an expert tattoo rater and horny tweet reader, Jeff Goldblum is also recognized for his decade-spanning career as an actor. From brief appearances in films like Annie Hall to starring roles in the Jurassic Park franchise, Goldblum has been lucky enough to work with some of the biggest names in…
On today’s episode of Film Club, A.V. Club film editor A.A. Dowd and staff critic Ignatiy Vishnevetsky sit down to discuss the delightful Isle Of Dogs, Wes Anderson’s second foray into stop-motion after 2009’s Fantastic Mr. Fox. Set off the coast of the fictional Japanese metropolis Megasaki, Dogs imagines a dystopian…
Dogs do not have it easy in the bright, glorious dollhouse worlds of Wes Anderson. Think of Buckley, beloved beagle of the youngest Tenenbaums, run down in the prime of his life. Or poor Snoopy, impaled casualty of the boy-scouts war raging across a woodland moonrise kingdom. (Who’s to say if he was a good dog, but he…
At this point, Bill Murray can’t really do anything that would surprise us. The public has become so accustomed to his idiosyncratic behavior that anytime he acts kind of crazy or pulls some stunt, we just shrug and say, “Well, that’s Bill.” So, it was really no surprise to hear that, while participating in the Isle…
Wes Anderson is headed back to stop-motion with his latest animated wonder, Isle Of Dogs, set to hit theaters on March 28. Anderson’s intricately choreographed follow-up to 2014's The Grand Budapest Hotel, the film tells the story of a young boy (Koyu Rankin) who travels to the canine island in order to recover his…
We saw a trailer for Wes Anderson’s Isle Of Dogs way back in September, but for anyone looking to get to know these stop-motion animals a little bit better, Entertainment Weekly has shared a clip of the movie’s stars talking about their characters as their characters. In other words, the video has Bill Murray voicing…
The Roxie Theater is going to the dogs this month, as Mashable reports the San Francisco establishment will open its doors to our beloved canines for a screening of Wes Anderson’s Isle Of Dogs.
The upcoming Isle Of Dogs looks wonderful, with a post-apocalyptic world full of garbage, dogs, and celebrated character actors offering wry asides over ’60s British Invasion B-sides, presumably. It’s also, for director Wes Anderson, a return to the stop-motion animation style of his 2009 sleeper classic Fantastic Mr.…
Despite being only his second feature film, Wes Anderson’s Rushmore contains many of the stylistic elements and techniques that would eventually become synonymous with the director’s work, albeit in a more grounded, realistic package. But, in addition to being a logical continuation of the auteur’s creative maturity,…
Welcome back to AVQ&A, where we throw out a question for discussion among the staff and readers. Consider this a prompt to compare notes on your interface with pop culture, to reveal your embarrassing tastes and experiences, and to ponder how our diverse lives all led us to convene here together. Got a question you’d…
Last night, Wes Anderson released a lovely little teaser trailer for his upcoming return to stop-motion animation, Isle Of Dogs, almost single-handedly justifying the odious “teaser trailer” concept in the process. Now, the full-length trailer has arrived, and it suggests this old director has learned some new tricks.
Over the last few years, we’ve come to roll our eyes, with good reason, as the “teaser for the trailer” trend, in which marketers attempt to build anticipation for the thing designed to build anticipation for a major film. That being said, most teases don’t feature intricate stop-motion animation or gorgeous…
There’s a fine art to making food look good on film, and it is pretty distant from the fine art of actually making food taste good. The cheeseburger you buy from a fast food joint looks nothing like the advertisement, for example, but it sure will taste the way you want it to. In this capacity, it shows the distance…
Part of the appeal of Wes Anderson movies, aside from their immaculate writing and the near-certain presence of Bill Murray, is the way they feel like a portal into a new world. Whether it’s the storybook compositions of his recent movies or the surrealist riffs on action films of Bottle Rocket and The Life Aquatic,…
Inspired by a number of YouTube comments saying that the muted color pallet Marvel Studios uses gives their films a more realistic feel, Patrick Willems decided to make a video analyzing what exactly we mean when we talk about realism in films and, perhaps more importantly, whether or not we should actually care if a…
Wes Anderson recently announced that his new stop-motion animation project Isle Of Dogs will be released April 20, 2018. It’s his second such stop-motion film, but it’d be incorrect to label his previous effort, Fantastic Mr. Fox, as a children’s film, just as it would be to call his child-focused romance Moonrise…
Dust off your ‘60s rock records and prepare to frame your compositions directly in the center of the shot: The countdown to the next Wes Anderson film has begun. Anderson started filming on his latest feature, the stop-motion animated film Isle Of Dogs, back in December, announcing a cast that includes Bryan Cranston,…
You often hear people waxing poetic about the difference between film and digital, so much so that it’s become something of a cliché. A short video essay about the glories of 16mm film by The Royal Ocean Film Society steers directly into this cliché, front-loading the discussion with jokes about being a hipster,…
As a racist, dangerously ignorant steak salesman makes his way toward the Oval Office despite the majority of Americans voting otherwise, that spurned majority is doing some soul-searching. Namely: Would Bernie Sanders have won? There are countless hand-wringing articles exploring how Hillary Clinton’s candidacy…
