Wes Anderson‘s latest feature film “The French Dispatch” made its Cannes Film Festival debut last week, and the filmmaker is already putting together the next project, as Tilda Swinton had recently confirmed her involvement.
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Award winning film producer Cynthia Hargraves, who produced Wes Anderson’s debut feature film “Bottle Rocket,” passed away on June 9, 2021, at her Venice home, from complications of systemic scleroderma. She was 64. “When Bob Wilson introduced me and his sons Owen, Luke, and Andrew to Kit Carson and Cynthia Hargrave thirty years ago, he introduced us to the pathway to the rest of our lives.
Wes Anderson‘s latest feature film “The French Dispatch” made its Cannes Film Festival debut last week, and the filmmaker is already putting together the next project, as Tilda Swinton had recently confirmed her involvement.
Naman Ramachandran Bill Murray is among the cast of Wes Anderson’s new film that will begin production in Spain in August, Variety has learned.Sources close to the project have confirmed Murray’s casting. The actor has appeared in nine of Anderson’s movies to date, excluding the new pic.The as-yet-untitled film also stars Tilda Swinton, as she revealed exclusively to Variety in June.
Wes Anderson’s “The French Dispatch” on Monday night at the Cannes Film Festival, it almost felt like pre-pandemic times.The streets near the Palais were shut down. The crowds were screaming.
July 12th, 2021, Cannes – Reader, I ratatat out this missive in haste on my trusty Smith-Corona from the South of France, in the paltry hopes it may adequately convey my delight in viewing the latest cinematographic marvel from Mr. Wes Anderson, originally of Houston, Texas but more latterly resident of a nearby color-coded, symmetrical nebula almost entirely of his own design.
CANNES, France -- A year after it was first to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, Wes Anderson's “The French Dispatch" finally rolled into the French Riviera festival on Monday.Anderson and the large cast arrived on the Cannes red carpet in a bus, with a grinning Bill Murray sitting shotgun. The film, Anderson's elaborate and fanciful ode to The New Yorker, is perhaps the starriest ensemble playing at the festival this year.
wrote. “It’s fun and it’s impossibly stylish and it’s absolutely exhausting, and it might make you start musing about the law of diminishing returns.
The French Dispatch are in – scroll down to read the reactions.The film, described as a love letter to journalists, premiered at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival today (July 12) ahead of its public release later this year.Bill Murray, Adrien Brody, Timothée Chalamet, Tilda Swinton, Elisabeth Moss and more star in the film, which follows an anthology format to tell several stories set in 19th century France.Many critics praised the film’s visual style, with Variety‘s Peter Debruge saying “every
very Wes Andersonny? Heck, no.You wouldn’t expect anything less from “The French Dispatch,” which opened in the Main Competition section of the Cannes Film Festival on Monday.
If Wes Anderson hasn’t already been ordained as the king of twee, he certainly will be with The French Dispatch. There can never have been a film so entirely marked and dominated by preciously perfectionist compositions, arcane detail, meticulous camera moves, ornate décor, historical and design minutiae, styles of typography, precision diction, arch attitude, obsessive attention to cultural artifacts and loyalty to Oscar Wilde’s notion that art needn’t express anything other than itself.
Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticJournalists are the heroes in “The French Dispatch,” so expect film critics to be a little bit biased in their embrace of Wes Anderson’s latest. It flatters the field, after all, just not in the way that Pulitzer-centric mega-scoop sagas “All the President’s Men” or “Spotlight” may have done before.
The French Dispatch, describing it as “so original and unique.”READ MORE: Tilda Swinton joins cast of new Wes Anderson film set to shoot in SpainThe 52-year-old actor, who is currently starring as Mobius in Marvel’s Loki, joins forces with Wes Anderson for the seventh time on the upcoming flick, following writing and acting credits across Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Darjeeling Limited, Fantastic Mr.
Manori Ravindran International EditorWes Anderson won’t be taking any questions in Cannes because “The French Dispatch” isn’t getting a press conference.Variety has confirmed with festival sources that the movie’s creative team won’t be made available to the press.
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Wes Anderson film which is set to begin filming in Spain this year.It was reported last year that Anderson would be working on a new romantic film set in Rome, but earlier this year plans changed and the movie’s location was reportedly moved to Spain.Confirming the new location and her involvement in the film, Swinton told Variety that although the movie is shooting in Spain, “it’s not about Spain”.No plot has been confirmed yet, and Anderson, speaking to Variety from England, said he’s “not
So, it appears that after “The French Dispatch” arrives this fall, Wes Anderson isn’t ready to depart Europe. According to Variety, the filmmaker will be traveling to Spain for a new feature later this year.
Manori Ravindran International EditorWes Anderson is shooting his new movie in Spain, with production set to begin in September.In a recent interview with Variety, Tilda Swinton revealed that she will star in the project, specific details of which are being kept closely under wraps. Though the film is shooting in Spain, “it’s not about Spain,” Swinton hinted.
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