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Wes Anderson Interview Fantastic Mr. Fox
27 November 2009 2:41 PM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
I absolutely loved director Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox. The film is his first foray into stop-motion animation and it’s like he brought the genre to him rather than attempting to adapt to the genre. Trust me; if you’re a fan of his previous work like Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, you’re going to love this movie.
As most of you know, Fantastic Mr. Fox is based on the best-selling children’s book by Roald Dahl (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach) and it features the voices of George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Wally Wolodarsky, Eric Anderson, Michael Gambon, Willem Dafoe, and Owen Wilson. But unlike some animated movies that cast famous actors to help sell tickets, everyone who provides a voice is perfect in this film. Again, this is a great movie »
- Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub
Fantastic Mr. Fox Review
25 November 2009 4:21 PM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Fantastic Mr. Fox feels like the film that director Wes Anderson has been trying to make ever since his first feature Bottle Rocket. Anderson’s films have always had the tone of a classic book for young adults. But what was once a stylish affectation eventually mutated into artistic lethargy. 2007’s The Darjeerling Limited showed that Anderson was now using his style as a crutch instead of a means to effectively tell a story. But with Fantastic Mr. Fox, based on the classic 1970 Roald Dahl book, Anderson turns what had become his greatest weakness into his greatest strength and makes Fantastic Mr. Fox one of the best films of the year.
Fantastic Mr. Fox opens with a delightful limerick and sets the tone for the rest of the film:
“Boggis and Bunce and Bean, One short, one fat, one lean. These horrible crooks, so different in looks, were nonetheless equally mean. »
- Matt Goldberg
Fantastic Mr. Fox review
25 November 2009 5:00 AM, PST | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »
With a cast of talking stop-motion animated wild animals that are imbued with the herky-jerky charm of old Rankin-Bass Christmas specials ("Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"), it may seem like modern-day iconoclast filmmaker Wes Anderson has turned a corner into gentler, family-friendly waters. And in a sense, he has - but make no mistake, "The Fantastic Mr. Fox" is a Wes Anderson film through and through, complete with the pre-requisite father-issues, family angst, and nihilism that we've come to expect from his decade of quirky R-rated fare such as "The Royal Tenenbaums" and "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou" (albeit, in smaller doses). It even has such Anderson signature settings as mundane schoolrooms and science labs, as well as occasional detailed charts and graphics, not to mention a penchant for tan corduroy clothing, and any number of other accoutrements and flourishes held over from bygone eras of the not-so-distant past. Toss »
Fantastic Mr. Fox Review
24 November 2009 8:26 PM, PST | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »
Coming into the theatres in wide release with all the joie de vivre of a little boy trying to please his girlfriend and mother, Fantastic Mr. Fox is yet another trump card in the quality animated and family film derby of 2009. Like all of Wes Anderson's pictures, Fantastic Mr. Fox dances between meaningful and artificial. Often the directors detractors spend too much time on the latter, and perhaps miss the immense character detail revealed in their diorama surroundings and meticulously selected wardrobes. Of course the stop-motion technique selected to animate the film threatens to enhance the artificial, but somehow, the animators have transcended the challenge put to them to tell the story this way. This is simply the right way to do a Wes Anderson Joint (or rather French Cigarillo). Do the simple thought exercise of imagining this film as a 3D CGI or 2D cel animation affair. After »
Fantastic Mr. Fox Whackbat Featurette
23 November 2009 11:35 PM, PST | ShockYa | See recent ShockYa news »
Producer Jeremy Dawson describes the evolution of whackbat, the sport of choice. “The Fantastic Mr. Fox” by director Wes Anderson (Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums) is based on the book by Roald Dahl. The film featuring the voices of George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, and Jason Schwartzman. Synopsis: “Boggis and Bunce and Bean, One short, one fat, one lean. These horrible crooks, so different in looks, were nonetheless equally mean.” Mr. Fox, Mrs. Fox, and all their fox babies live under a hill under a tree, along with Badger, Rabbit, Weasel, and all of their families. To make ends meet, every night, Mr. Fox steals a meal from one of [...] »
- Brian Corder
Ben Stiller taps into his inner slacker in 'Greenberg' trailer
23 November 2009 5:28 PM, PST | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
Noah Baumbach is an indie writer-director known for wry, literate, darkly comic arthouse meditations on Gen-x angst like Kicking & Screaming and The Squid and the Whale. Ben Stiller is ... Ben Stiller. What do you get when you put the two together? Judging from the just-released trailer for Greenberg, which opens in March, you get Stiller as a 40-something slacker who's at loose ends in his life and busying himself building a doghouse, writing angry letters to Starbucks, and fumbling into a romance with another lost soul (Greta Gerwig). We haven't seen Stiller go for this kind of minor-key, emotionally vulnerable »
- Josh Rottenberg
Fantastic Mr. Fox In The Puppet Shop Featurette
21 November 2009 11:18 PM, PST | ShockYa | See recent ShockYa news »
Director Wes Anderson and actor Billy Murray introduce us to the actual puppets behind each of the film’s characters. “The Fantastic Mr. Fox” by director Wes Anderson (Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums) is based on the book by Roald Dahl. The film featuring the voices of George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, and Jason Schwartzman. Synopsis: “Boggis and Bunce and Bean, One short, one fat, one lean. These horrible crooks, so different in looks, were nonetheless equally mean.” Mr. Fox, Mrs. Fox, and all their fox babies live under a hill under a tree, along with Badger, Rabbit, Weasel, and all of their families. To make ends meet, every night, Mr. [...] »
- Brian Corder
'Fantastic Mr. Fox' Lives Up to its Name
21 November 2009 9:05 PM, PST | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »
Like Coraline, Spirited Away, and Where the Wild Things Are before it, Fantastic Mr. Fox is a children's film that doesn't treat its pint-sized audience with kid gloves. Though Wes Anderson's previous directorial outings have had their fair share of man-children, this is the first film that the hipster favorite has created with kids in mind. However, this smart adaptation of a Roald Dahl classic never talks down to its viewers, and its fun, feisty adventure proves to be Anderson's best work since The Royal Tenenbaums.
Mr. Fox (voiced by George Clooney) has ambition. He gave up the life of a bird thief 12 fox years ago (that's two years, to you and me), and he now spends his days as a corduroy-suit-clad newspaperman. He, Mrs. Fox (Meryl Streep), and their rebellious son, Ash (Jason Schwartzman), have finally moved up in the world: instead of calling a hole their home, »
Fantastic Mr. Fox Featurette Foxy Music
20 November 2009 11:48 PM, PST | ShockYa | See recent ShockYa news »
An inside look at Fantastic Mr. Fox, as we watch Alexandre Desplat compose original music for the film. “The Fantastic Mr. Fox” by director Wes Anderson (Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums) is based on the book by Roald Dahl. The film featuring the voices of George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, and Jason Schwartzman. Synopsis: “Boggis and Bunce and Bean, One short, one fat, one lean. These horrible crooks, so different in looks, were nonetheless equally mean.” Mr. Fox, Mrs. Fox, and all their fox babies live under a hill under a tree, along with Badger, Rabbit, Weasel, and all of their families. To make ends meet, every night, Mr. Fox [...] »
- Brian Corder
Birthday Suits and a Ballsy Actress
18 November 2009 8:47 AM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Today's stars! Well not literally today's but November 18th. Get a little history. Celebrate one of these cinematic entities today in whatever way occurs to you.
Senors Gilbert, Hemmings and Infante
1836 W.S. Gilbert of 'Gilbert & Sullivan' legend. If you've never seen Mike Leigh's exceptional biopic of this creative giant, Topsy-Turvy, drop everything right now and do so.
1908 Imogene Coca beloved comic actress, mostly known for TV roles
1917 Pedro Infante Mexico's biggest movie star ever. Here he is singing. Pedro Almodóvar fans will recognize this one immediately
1939 Margaret Atwood, best-selling much-awarded author. Strangely Hollywood doesn't seem to have taken to her in a big way. The Handmaid's Tale (1990) starring Natasha Richardson is one of the few adaptations
1939 Brenda Vaccaro, Midnight Cowgirl and she of one of the oddest Oscar nominations of all time... seriously, have you seen Once Is Not Enough? Here's StinkyLulu's look at that Oscar year.
1941 David Hemmings, »
- NATHANIEL R
Decade in Review: 2001 Top Ten
17 November 2009 8:41 PM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
What follows is my original top ten list of 2001. We'll discuss each year of the decade over the next month or two (we already did 2000). I do this because I am curious about which films "stick" and which fade and why and maybe you are too? Best year of the decade I think. The top five films would all be valid #1 film choices in some years. New comments are in red.
Note: This list references films released in NYC in 2001, not year of production or year in which they first the hit festival circuit or whatnot.
Runners Up (in descending order): Sexy Beast, Ali, Series 7: The Contenders, The Others, Last Resort and Waking Life. I don't remember loving Ali that much... and more than The Others? I don't remember that at all. I mean Nicole Kidman was the shit Twice Over in 2001.
In my round up of the »
- NATHANIEL R
Film Of The Week: Fantastic Mr. Fox
12 November 2009 4:37 PM, PST | GreenCine Daily | See recent GreenCine Daily news »
by Vadim Rizov
Fantastic Mr. Fox is Wes Anderson's sixth feature and third to be pre-judged as a "Wes Anderson" film—a calcified pejorative often bearing little relation to what the movies are actually like. A "Wes Anderson movie," we're given to understand, is a series of candy-colored rectangular sets and frames boxing in little more than statically quirky characters. It's true that Anderson's thematic concerns have been consistent: dysfunctional families, absent/negligent paterfamiliases, '60s pop and rock songs, hermetically detailed mise-en-scène. But there are also meaningful differences between each one, rarely noted in negative reviews convinced Anderson has outstayed his welcome. After The Royal Tenenbaums—in which Rushmore's occasional cuteness thickened into an emotional mausoleum, with only Luke Wilson's suicide attempt breaking through—Anderson made two transitional films entering new terrain. Anderson's detractors didn't notice: two movies about bad fathers and tragic sons with suicidal impulses were two too many. »
Review: Fantastic Mr. Fox
12 November 2009 11:10 AM, PST | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
Fantastic Mr. Fox marks the first time Wes Anderson, that connoisseur of whimsy, has worked with animation. If the switch required an adjustment it’s hard to tell. From the use of slow-motion to Alexandre Desplat’s jaunty soundtrack the world of this stop-motion adaptation of Roald Dahl’s children’s classic looks and feels a lot like the offbeat ones of The Darjeeling Limited, The Royal Tenenbaums and Rushmore. It’s no small achievement that it does so while telling the story of a fox named Mr. Fox (George Clooney) who lives with his wife Mrs. Fox (Meryl Streep) and son Ash (Jason Schwartzman) in a tree and turns to espionage in a quest to combat three evil farmers. In the wrong hands, Dahl’s work could be prone to the strenuous prettifying and overt moralizing that are so often byproducts of family productions. Anderson goes the opposite direction, applying »
- Robert Levin
Fantastic Mr. Fox review (5/5) - Wes Anderson reaches new heights.
12 November 2009 6:55 AM, PST | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »
The new tools filmmaker Wes Anderson puts to use in his first animated film, a wonderful adaptation of Roald Dahl's 1970 children's book "Fantastic Mr. Fox" are miniature sets, hand-built models and stop-motion photography. The materials may be fresh to Anderson and appear somewhat revolutionary in the era of 3D digital animation from Pixar and DreamWorks. On the surface, "Fantastic Mr. Fox" is a quaint throwback to the stop-motion world of Gerry Anderson and his "Thunderbirds." What's fantastically fresh and irreverent are the ways Anderson and co-writer Noah Baumbach blend Dahl's magical storytelling with their American take on the English countryside and family themes drawn from past Anderson movies "The Royal Tenenbaums" and "The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou." Finally, Anderson's childlike spirit finds the perfect canvas in "Fantastic Mr. Fox" and the result is a classic family adventure. Mr. and Mrs. Fox (voices of George Clooney and Meryl Streep »
Fantastic Mr. Fox Featurette Capturing His World
11 November 2009 11:00 PM, PST | ShockYa | See recent ShockYa news »
Cast and crew weigh in on the pain-staking detail that went into both the characters’ creation and stop-motion animation in Wes Anderson’s new film, “The Fantastic Mr. Fox” by director Wes Anderson (Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums) is based on the book by Roald Dahl. The film featuring the voices of George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, and Jason Schwartzman. Synopsis: “Boggis and Bunce and Bean, One short, one fat, one lean. These horrible crooks, so different in looks, were nonetheless equally mean.” Mr. Fox, Mrs. Fox, and all their fox babies live under a hill under a tree, along with Badger, Rabbit, Weasel, and all of their families. To make [...] »
- Brian Corder
Wes Anderson on Fantastic Mr. Fox
11 November 2009 2:21 PM, PST | Vanity Fair | See recent Vanity Fair news »
Mr. Fox with his director Wes Anderson. Wes Anderson came to Hollywood from Texas armed with a short film and a best friend with a funny nose. The year was 1993, the film was Bottle Rocket, and the best friend was—and still is—Owen Wilson. By chance, James Brooks saw and loved Bottle Rocket, and gave Anderson the boost he needed, helping him shore up financing to expand the short into a full-length feature. Since then, Anderson has written and directed four films: Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums—for which he was nominated for best original screenplay—The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, and The Darjeeling Limited and its accompanying short, Hotel Chevalier. On Friday, he will be releasing his sixth film, The Fantastic Mr. Fox, a sumptuous, stop-motion version of Roald Dahl’s classic children’s story, which Anderson co-wrote with Noah Baumbach. The film features the voices of George Clooney and Meryl Streep, »
Behind the Scenes of Fantastic Mr Fox with Jason Schwartzman
11 November 2009 10:00 AM, PST | movies.about.com | See recent movies.about.com news »
Jason Schwartzman's a very busy guy. He's starring in the HBO comedy series Bored to Death and he's been working on a variety of film projects, including lending his voice to the character 'Ash' in the animated movie Fantastic Mr. Fox. Based on the book by Roald Dahl and adapted for the screen and directed by Wes Anderson (The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore), Fantastic Mr. Fox is the story of a chicken-stealing fox and the three mean farmers who wage war on the fox and his family and friends. Schwartzman, George Clooney, Bill Murray, and Meryl Streep are among those who provide the voices in this stop-motion animated tale.
"It was really fun. I had no idea just how much fun it was going to be," said Schwartzman, describing his experience doing voice work on the family-friendly film. "It kept getting better, actually, and it was such an odd thing. »
'Fantastic Mr. Fox' Director Wes Anderson Talks About How His Fantastic Cast Came Together
10 November 2009 2:30 PM, PST | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
From MTV.Com: Wes Anderson is comfortable with his crew of Hollywood buddies, a bunch he started cobbling together along with college roommate Owen Wilson for his debut feature, "Bottle Rocket." In subsequent movies, Anderson's hipster squad grew to encompass Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray and others, as he continued to cast them in films like "The Royal Tenenbaums" and "The Darjeeling Limited."
So when it comes to his first animated film, the stop-motion Roald Dahl adaptation "Fantastic Mr. Fox," no one should be surprised that Wilson, Murray and Schwartzman lend their voices to the animal characters. But was it always going to be this way? Did Anderson have these actors in mind from the beginning, or did the decision to cast them develop later on? And how did Oscar winners like George Clooney and Meryl Streep sneak into this tight-knit group?
Continue reading How Were George Clooney And Bill Murray »
- Adam Rosenberg
How Were George Clooney And Bill Murray Cast In 'Fantastic Mr. Fox'?
10 November 2009 12:39 AM, PST | MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news »
'When we were writing it, we were thinking of animals, so we didn't really think of actors,' director Wes Anderson says.
By Eric Ditzian
George Clooney, Wes Anderson and Bill Murray
Photo: Dave Hogan/Getty Images
Wes Anderson is comfortable with his crew of Hollywood buddies, a bunch he started cobbling together along with college roommate Owen Wilson for his debut feature, "Bottle Rocket." In subsequent movies, Anderson's hipster squad grew to encompass Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray and others, as he continued to cast them in films like "The Royal Tenenbaums" and "The Darjeeling Limited."
So when it comes to his first animated film, the stop-motion Roald Dahl adaptation "Fantastic Mr. Fox," no one should be surprised that Wilson, Murray and Schwartzman lend their voices to the animal characters. But was it always going to be this way? Did Anderson have these actors in mind from the beginning, or »
Jason Schwartzman Exclusive Interview Fantastic Mr. Fox
10 November 2009 12:10 AM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
I absolutely loved director Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox. The film is his first foray into stop-motion animation and it’s like he brought the genre to him rather than attempting to adapt to the genre. Trust me; if you’re a fan of his previous work like Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, you’re going to love this movie.
As most of you know, Fantastic Mr. Fox is based on the best-selling children’s book by Roald Dahl (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach) and it features the voices of George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Wally Wolodarsky, Eric Anderson, Michael Gambon, Willem Dafoe, and Owen Wilson. But unlike some animated movies that cast famous actors to help sell tickets, everyone who provides a voice is perfect in this film. Again, this is a great movie »
- Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub
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