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2025 Cannes: New Palme d’Or Comp Faces in Ari Aster, Hafsia, Hayakawa, Hermanus, Laxe, Carla Simón & Mascha Schilinski!

Gone are the days of the old boys club (although the Dardenne Bros will be attempting to win the record-breaking third Palme), and there...

2025 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – Hafsia Herzi, Óliver Laxe & Rebecca Zlotowski?

La Petite Dernière Hafsia Herzi Producers: June Films' Naomi Denamur and Julie Billy World Sales: mk2 In her first pair of attempts, actress-filmmaker Hafsia Herzi has managed to...

Asteroid City | Review

The Lost City of Twee: Anderson Continues Quest of Counterfeit Sentiments Somewhere along the way, over the past twenty years, Wes Anderson’s style completely...

2023 Cannes Film Festival: Nicholas Bell & Eric Lavallée’s Top 10

We arrived. We watched. We reviewed. We lost a lot of sleep and we battled the ticketing system. Combining our efforts to bring you...

Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 7

Technically speaking the great American filmmaker Wes Anderson has now appeared in the Cannes competition with three titles - opening the '12 edition with...

You BETcha!: Kaouther Ben Hania, Ramata-Toulaye Sy, Alice Rohrwacher, Wang Bing & Glazer Top Contenders for the Palme d’Or

Yesterday the Cannes Film Festival opened with Maïwenn’s Jeanne du Barry (marking the return of Johnny Depp in the French language no less) but...

Live from Cannes: 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel – Meet the Jury!

Last year Ruben Östlund took home the big daddy of film prizes winning his second Palme d'Or and this year he gets to be...

2023 Cannes: Glazer, Ceylan, Rohrwacher, Haynes & Ramata-Toulaye Sy Competing for the Palme d’Or

A surprise Wim Wenders project (Perfect Days), a rare directorial debut Ramata-Toulaye Sy (Banel et Adama) and a Wang Bing film (Jeunesse) are part...

2023 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – 24 Palme d’Or Hopefuls

It's official folks! The drop date has been confirmed. There'll be a couple of films that trickle in a bit after the announcement is...

The French Dispatch | Review

Repetition Commission: Anderson Flatlines with Twee Aesthetic Since cinema requires a semblance of participation by the audience, a passive relationship of sorts, the latest curio...

2021 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 7 – Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch

He opened the 2012 edition of the Cannes Film Festival with Moonrise Kingdom and he returns for a second year in a row (The...

Descriptions added to the 56 Cannes Film Festival Selected Films for the 2020 Edition

Adding more value to their June 3rd unveiling, what went into this selection process and to be frank, some of these short descriptions will...

The Conversation: Vying for Venice 2019 – Predictions!

Once again, Venice seems poised to make a killing by featuring a number of high-profile US auteurs in its line-up. Like last year’s program,...

Isle of Dogs | Review

A Dog’s Tale: Anderson Returns to Animation with Scruffy, Eclectic Fantasy We’ve come to expect a certain technical formality from Wes Anderson, even across a...

Through the Looking-Glass…Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2018: #100-11

As the cinematic landscape begins to take shape with the upcoming editions of Sundance, Berlin, and Rotterdam, here are 100 titles of note to...

Through the Looking-Glass…Top 200 Most Anticipated Films of 2017: An Introduction

As we were putting together our projections for most anticipated films due in 2017, we noticed there were too many notable titles to be...

The Conversation: 2015 Oscar Predix: Before Midnight…Richard Linklater Will Claim Best Director Gold

The Nominations: Director “Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)” Alejandro G. Iñárritu “Boyhood” Richard Linklater “Foxcatcher” Bennett Miller “The Grand Budapest Hotel” Wes Anderson “The Imitation Game” Morten...

The Conversation: 2015 Oscar Predix: Third Time a Definite Charm… Anderson’s Budapest Hotel Should Win Original Screenplay

The Nominations: Best Original Screenplay “Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)” Written by Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr. & Armando Bo “Boyhood”...

Birds & the Bees…Boyhood Leads 24th Gotham Independent Film Award Noms

Deemed as his career best, Richard Linklater's Boyhood leads all nominations for the 24th Gotham Independent Film Awards with winks in the Best Feature,...

Nicholas Bell’s Top 10 Best of 2014 So Far…

#10. The Grand Budapest Hotel Without a doubt, Anderson’s darkest film to date, this also has to be the richest and most complex of his...

The Grand Budapest Hotel | Blu-ray Review

Like Kubrick’s secluded Overlook Hotel, Wes Anderson’s Grand Budapest is a thing of decrepit majesty haunted by its former more lavish and illustrious self,...

The Grand Budapest Hotel | Review

Anderson's Doll-House Noir Stuffed With Wisecracks and Woe Like Kubrick’s secluded Overlook Hotel, Wes Anderson’s Grand Budapest is a thing of decrepit majesty haunted by...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #32. Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel

The Grand Budapest Hotel Director: Wes Anderson Writer(s): Wes Anderson Producer(s): Wes Anderson, Jeremy Dawson, Steven M. Rales, Scott Rudin U.S. Distributor: Fox Searchlight Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Tony Revolori,...

Criterion Collection: Fantastic Mr. Fox | Blu-ray Review

No one was surprised when it was announced in the wake of The Darjeeling Limited that Wes Anderson’s next endeavor would be wholly animated...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #188. Peter Bogdanovich’s Squirrel to the Nuts

Squirrel to the Nuts Director: Peter Bogdanovich Writer(s): Peter Bogdanovich, Louise Stratton Producers: Noah Baumbach, Wes Anderson, George Drakoulias, Logan Levy, Holly Wiersma U.S. Distributor: Rights Available Cast: Jennifer...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #23. Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel

The Grand Budapest Hotel Director/Writer: Wes Anderson Producer(s): Anderson, Steven M. Rales and Scott Rudin U.S. Distributor: Rights Available Cast: Jude Law, Ralph Fiennes, Edward Norton, Bill Murray,...

Nicholas Bell’s Top Ten Films of 2012: Strong Year for U.S. Indie – DuVernay, Batmanglij & Zobel Among Picks 10-6

10. Elena – Dir. Andrei Zvyagintsev (Russia) Of my theatrical releases, two of these made waves in 2011 on the festival circuit, such as Russian...

2012 Gotham Awards: ‘Moonrise Kingdom’ Wins Best Feature, ‘Beast’ Takes Home Pair

In the battle of the Andersons, it was Wes who beat P.T for Best Feature at the 2012 Gotham Awards. Moonrise Kingdom would go...

Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 1: Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom

Click to enlarge. Irrefutably signed Wes Anderson, co-scripted along with Roman Coppola, Moonrise Kingdom is this U.S. indie filmmaker's 7th feature film. Starring newcomers Jared...

Inside Cannes 2012 Day 1: Five Quotes from Moonrise Kingdom Press Conference

1. "I use my memory of what I remember wanting to have happened, and having not actually occured." - Wes Anderson Filmmaker comments on the...

Top 3 Critic’s Picks In Theaters this May: Zvyagintsev’s Elena, Trier’s Oslo, August 31st and Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom

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