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What's up with all those Wes Anderson spoofs?
Fri, Feb 5 2010 9:57 AM
Super Bowl Sunday is coming up fast, so Slate has a video called "If Filmmakers Directed The Super Bowl." Here you can find by-the-numbers appropriations of various filmmakers: football footage intercut with anime and "Kill Bill" font and songs spell "Tarantino." For Lynch, run the footage backwards. For Wes Anderson, by all means... Read More...
"Avatar"'s filthy habit.
Tue, Jan 5 2010 12:38 PM
"Avatar" has Sigourney Weaver puffing up a storm front and center -- "Where's my cigarette?", she demands in her introductory scene -- prompting the New York Times to offer yet another scorecard on the year in tobacco (ab)use on-screen. Stephen A. Glantz -- director of the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education at UC-San Francisco... Read More...
Wes Anderson, tumor.
Wed, Apr 15 2009 4:54 PM
In his interview with Noel Murray at the AV Club, Will Oldham expresses from pretty strong thoughts on movie music in general and Wes Anderson in particular: AVC: You mentioned talking to Richard Linklater and Caveh Zahedi about your ideas on movie music. Can you summarize those ideas? WO: Well, for a while, it seemed like you were always seeing movies where... Read More...