21 h. ago Inside the obsessive, compulsive making of a Wes Anderson set

The celebrated filmmaker conjures up incredibly detailed jewellery box dioramas across his movies, from ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ to this week’s ‘The Phoenician Scheme’. Clarisse Loughrey speaks to his longtime set decorator Anna Pinnock about bringing his meticulous dreamscapes to life

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26 h. ago BRIAN VINER in Cannes: Wes Anderson's The Phoenician Scheme: These superstars are having a riot... But it's no fun for us

The Cannes Film Festival closes this weekend and, unusually, two of the films that had the glitziest premieres there have already reached UK cinema screens.

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45 h. ago Wes Anderson isn’t in a rut, but he could do with another flop

As the celebrated auteur unveils another ornate wisp of a film in this week’s ‘The Phoenician Scheme’, Adam White asks if he has become too big to fail – and if the familiarity of his style is masking his recent evolution as a writer

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3 d. ago Wes Anderson makes fun of Donald Trump’s film tariff plan: ‘Can you hold up a movie in customs?’

American president has threatened to impose 100 per cent tariff on films made abroad

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4 d. ago ‘Cinema doesn’t ship that way’: Wes Anderson mocks Donald Trump’s film tariff plans in Cannes

While acknowledging he is ‘not an expert in that area of economics’, the director criticised Trump’s announcement of a 100% tariff on films ‘from foreign lands’American director Wes Anderson has mocked Donald Trump’s plan to impose severe tariffs on foreign-made films, suggesting it would mostly financially hit film-makers like him and be unworkable in practice.“Can you hold up the movie in customs?” the world’s chief auteur of cinematic whimsy asked at a press conference at the Cannes film festival. “I feel it doesn’t ship that way. I’m not sure I want to know the details so I’ll hold off on my official answer.” Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Benedict Cumberbatch and his wife Sophie Hunter put on loved

Sophie Hunter and Benedict Cumberbatch put on a loved-up display as they attended the screening of The Phoenician Scheme at Cannes. It is the latest film from Wes Anderson.

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5 d. ago The Phoenician Scheme review: Mia Threapleton shines in Wes Anderson’s muted new confection

Benicio Del Toro and Michael Cera are essentially wingmen to Kate Winslet’s daughter, making a breakthrough big screen turn in Anderson’s enjoyable yet airless ensemble rompWes Anderson has contrived another of his elegant, eccentric, rectilinear comedies - as ever, he is vulnerable to the charge of making films that stylistically resemble all his others, and yet no more, surely, than all those other directors making conventional films that resemble all the rest of their own conventional work. The Phoenician Scheme is enjoyable and executed with Anderson’s usual tremendous despatch, but it is somehow less visually detailed and inspired than some of his earlier work; there is less screwball sympathy for the characters, and it is disconcerting to see actors of the calibre of Tom Hanks, Willem Dafoe and Scarlett Johansson phoning in tiny, deadpan, almost immobile cameos. But there is a likeable lead turn from Mia Threapleton, an eerie visual and aural echo of her mother, Kate Winslet. ...

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5 d. ago The Phoenician Scheme is one of Wes Anderson’s most enrapturing films in years

Making the most of a stellar cast, this pictorial treat sees the director approach live-action drama as if he is making animation

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5 d. ago The Phoenician Scheme review: 'Wes Anderson's film just doesn't soar'

Screening in Cannes, Anderson’s newbie is led by Benicio Del Toro and Mia Threapleton, along with a string of A-List cameos, but can’t escape a certain flimsiness

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5 d. ago Wes Anderson reveals what Gene Hackman really thought of The Royal Tenenbaums after walking off set 'without saying goodbye'

After more than half a century on-screen it would be one of his last significant contributions to American cinema.

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5 d. ago Wes Anderson says Gene Hackman was ‘furious’ about his Royal Tenenbaums salary: ‘We had friction’

Director admitted he and the late actor had a tense relationship while filming the 2001 comedy drama

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6 d. ago Wes Anderson talks 'The Phoenician Scheme,' Gene Hackman and his Cannes bus

With remarkable regularity, Anderson has been crafting movies uniquely his own since his 1996 debut, “Bottle Rocket.”

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9 d. ago Wes Anderson reveals objects from his first film were sold without his permission

The director started to store objects himself in order to keep them safe

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1 week ago Wes Anderson’s priceless “Renaissance portrait” to go on show in London

Wes Anderson’s priceless “Renaissance portrait” to go on show in London  The Art Newspaper

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2 w. ago Director Wes Anderson reveals Gene Hackman’s verdict on The Royal Tenenbaums

Bill Murray previously said Hackman was ‘really rough’ on the director during the making of the 2001 film

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2 w. ago Quirky world of Wes Anderson set for Design Museum retrospective

Quirky world of Wes Anderson set for Design Museum retrospective  BBC

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2 w. ago We’re having sex inside Moby Dick! The wild architectural world of Japan’s love hotels

From cruise ships to UFOs, from King Kong to a giant whale, half the sex in Japan may take place in its dazzlingly imaginative love hotels. But have some become just too seedy? Our writer checks inDo whales make you horny? How about UFOs? Maybe you’ve always dreamed of having a tryst in a fairytale castle, or making love inside a gigantic biscuit tin? Whatever your weird fantasy may be, it can probably be catered for on a roadside somewhere in Japan, if a new book on the curious phenomenon of love hotels is anything to go by.French photographer François Prost has been on a 3,000km pilgrimage of passion, driving from Utsunomiya, north of Tokyo, to the island of Shikoku in the south, to document Japan’s unique architecture of furtive liaisons. What he found spans from manga-embellished motels and Christmas-themed love nests to pastel-hued stage sets worthy of Wes Anderson. And some things stranger than your most eccentric kinks could dream of. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Wes Anderson’s Personal Archive Comes to Life at London’s Design Museum This Fall

Wes Anderson’s Personal Archive Comes to Life at London’s Design Museum This Fall  stupidDOPE

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3 w. ago Wes Anderson Unboxes His Wonderfully Weird Archives for His First London Show

Wes Anderson Unboxes His Wonderfully Weird Archives for His First London Show  Artnet News

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3 w. ago Wes Anderson's Archives Are Coming to London's Design Museum

Wes Anderson's Archives Are Coming to London's Design Museum  hypebeast.com

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