guardian.co.uk - 10/26/2009
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How could Wes Anderson have allowed his new animated film to be used to lure young children into bad eating habits? Consider the great directors of cinema and what are the qualities that spring to mind? A distinctive personal imprint. Profundity and imagination expressed on every level. ...
io9.com - 10/26/2009
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James Cameron 's Avatar has been championed as
an attempt at original science fiction storytelling in film...
amongst a sea of remakes and adaptations. But Cameron may have borrowed some of the key aspects of his tale from author Poul Anderson . ...
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Did James Cameron Rip Off Poul Anderson's Novella? [Avatar]
interviewmagazine.com - 10/28/2009
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Is he almost single-handedly keeping alive the spirit
of the stylishly international cineaste auteur? Or do his...
Quirky, Soulful, intricately art-directed films and custom-tailored corduroy suits just make it seem that way?
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content.foxsearchlight.com - 10/30/2009
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Auteurs and Cheeseburgers
Row Three —
... level. Stylistic innovation. But when you think back on the work of the so-called greats, don’t you feel, deep in your soul, that something intangible is missing? Well, now the wily young maverick Wes Anderson has revealed exactly what was absent from Tarkovsky, Bresson, Welles and the rest: a merchandising tie-in with McDonald’s. True art, it seems, can co-exist after all with moist, defeated cheeseburgers and limp, glossy French fries. I do hope Cahiers du Cinema got the memo.” The Guardian takes Wes Anderson to task “None of which would be noteworthy in the slightest if the ...
Will Wes Anderson & McDonald's Make Kids Fat With 'Fox' Happy Meals?
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... director's peak, it's safe to say that everyone agrees that with " The Darjeeling Limited ," Anderson was spinning his wheels. The impending release of Anderson's latest endeavor, " The Fantastic Mr. Fox ," marks a number of firsts for the director. It's his first film adapted from a book, his first fully animated feature (not counting Henry Selick 's creatures in " The Life Aquatic ") and his first family film. But that hasn't stopped the knives from coming out, including a rather hilariously inept screed by the Guardian film blogger Ryan Gilbey. Gilbey breathlessly takes ...
The Wes Anderson Happy Meal.
IFC.com - Indie Eye —
... McDonald's has a "Fantastic Mr. Fox" Happy Meal, which brought out the fiend in the Guardian's Ryan Gilbey, who fumed that this wouldn't "be noteworthy in the slightest if the film in question were some DreamWorks piece of junk, or a knock-off directed by a hack," but that Anderson "should not be getting into bed with McDonald's, and using his work to lure young children into destructive eating habits," because he taints his work. "True art, it seems, can co-exist after all with moist, defeated cheeseburgers and limp, glossy French fries," he snipes. "I do hope Cahiers ...
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W hen indie darling Wes Anderson was announced as the director for the big screen adaptation of The Fantastic Mr Fox, the beloved children’s novel by Roald Dahl, the reaction was, to say the least, mixed. How, some felt, could a Texan director possibly bring to life a book with ...
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Must Watch: Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox Trailer
firstshowing.net 7/30/2009 —
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slashfilm.com 7/30/2009 —
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guardian.co.uk 10/14/2009 — This charming and defiantly old-school animation of the Roald Dahl children's classic gets the London film festival off to a cracking start Wes Anderson gets his eccentric groove back on with a witty and likeable movie for little kids and their hip ...
First look: 'The Fantastic Mr. Fox' is not for children only
usatoday.com 7/24/2009 — That's pretty much what happens when the grisly delights found in Roald Dahl 's irreverent tales for children are melded with the fastidious aesthetic of director Wes Anderson in the stop-motion-animated The Fantastic Mr. Fox , which opens Nov. 13. ...
Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox Photos
slashfilm.com 7/21/2009 —
Update from editor Peter Sciretta: Another new image from Wes Anderson ’s animated adaptation of Fantastic Mr. Fox has shown up on The Moving Picture , and can be viewed above. The original report from Russ, complete with two images, ...
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