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The Grand Budapest Hotel and Moonrise Kingdom have made Wes Anderson a filmmaking force. Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums have become quotable cult classics. Yet every new Anderson release brings out droves of critics eager to charge him with stylistic excess and self-indulgent eclecticism. Donna Kornhaber approaches Anderson's style as the necessary product of the narrative and thematic concerns that define his body of work. Using Anderson's focus on collecting, Kornhaber situates the director as the curator of his filmic worlds, a prime mover who artfully and conscientiously arranges diverse components into cohesive collections and taxonomies. Anderson peoples each mise-en-scne in his ongoing "Wesworld" with characters orphaned, lost, and out of place amidst a riot of handmade clutter and relics. Within, they seek a wholeness and collective identity they manifestly lack, with their pain expressed via an ordered emotional palette that, despite being muted, cries out for attention. As Kornhaber shows, Anderson's films offer nothing less than a fascinating study in the sensation of belonging--told by characters who possess it the least. Covering Anderson's entire oeuvre and including an interview with the director, Wes Anderson is an entertaining look at one of our most beloved and polarizing filmmakers.
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Wes Anderson is considered one of the most important directors of the post-Baby Boom generation, making films such as Rushmore (1998) and The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) in a style so distinctive that his films are often recognizable from a single frame. Through the travelogue The Darjeeling Limited (2007) and the stop-motion animation of Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009), his films examine issues of gender, race, and class through dysfunctional family dynamics, with particular focus on masculinity and male bonding. Anderson's auteur status is enriched by his fascination with Truffaut and the French New Wave, as well as his authorship of every one of his screenplays, drawing on influences as diverse as Mark Twain, J. D. Salinger, Roald Dahl, and Stefan Zweig. Works such as Moonrise Kingdom (2012) and The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) continue to fascinate with their postmodern, hyper-nostalgic attention to detail. This book explores the filmic and literary influences that have helped make Anderson a major voice in 21st century "indie" culture, and reveals why Wes Anderson is one of the most inventive filmmakers working in cinema today.
Motion picture producers and directors --- Motion picture producers and directors. --- Performing Arts. --- Anderson, Wes, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Bibel --- United States. --- Anderson, Wes, 1969 --- -Filmproducers en -regisseurs --- Kritiek en interpretatie --- Verenigde Staten
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Behind the scenes at the legendary Warner Brothers film studio, where four immigrant brothers transformed themselves into the moguls and masters of American fantasy Warner Bros charts the rise of an unpromising film studio from its shaky beginnings in the early twentieth century through its ascent to the pinnacle of Hollywood influence and popularity. The Warner Brothers?Harry, Albert, Sam, and Jack?arrived in America as unschooled Jewish immigrants, yet they founded a studio that became the smartest, toughest, and most radical in all of Hollywood. David Thomson provides fascinating and original interpretations of Warner Brothers pictures from the pioneering talkie The Jazz Singer through black-and-white musicals, gangster movies, and such dramatic romances as Casablanca, East of Eden, and Bonnie and Clyde. He recounts the storied exploits of the studio?s larger-than-life stars, among them Al Jolson, James Cagney, Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Humphrey Bogart, James Dean, Doris Day, and Bugs Bunny. The Warner brothers? cultural impact was so profound, Thomson writes, that their studio became ?one of the enterprises that helped us see there might be an American dream out there.?
Motion picture studios --- Motion picture producers and directors --- Studios de cinéma --- Producteurs et réalisateurs de cinéma --- History --- Biography. --- Histoire --- Biographies --- Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967) --- Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc. --- Filmproducers en -regisseurs --- Filmstudios --- Geschiedenis --- Verenigde Staten --- Biografie --- Californie --- Los Angeles (Calif.)
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"Il y a des musiques de cinéma que nous pouvons fredonner instantanément ... Mais ce que l'on ignore, et qui sera révélé dans cet ouvrage à travers une série d'entretiens passionnants avec des cinéastes et des compositeurs, ce sont les hasards miraculeux ou les conflits intenses, le travail acharné ou les élans d'inspiration qui ont présidé à d'inoubliables morceaux d'anthologie. L'idée de ce livre, c'est aussi de montrer que la même complicité peut s'instaurer entre les cinéastes et les compositeurs de tous les types de cinéma, des Aventures de Rabbi Jacob mises en musique par Vladimir Cosma aux oeuvres exigeantes d'Atom Egoyan et Claire Denis en passant par les succès planétaires des musiques d'Ennio Morricone"
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