![]() All that fastidiousness, all that assiduously symmetrical framing, all the sheer, cinematographic sweat-equity he puts into his movies for our enjoyment - not to mention the appearance of his go-to cadre of actors like Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Edward Norton and Tilda Swinton - can't help but leave you grinning from ear-to-ear as you gaze up at the screen. Let's agree: Anderson's films are a pleasure to watch, in the moment. Pop Culture Happy Hour 'Dune': A sweeping, spectacular spice-opera - half of one, anyway Eye-candy is still candy, after all The film employs several freeze-framed tableaux of crowd scenes for us to admire, and as Anderson's camera pans sloooowly across them, he wants us to notice that he's not employing a photographic technique - he's simply asked his actors to hold stock-still, unblinking. Know, for example, that The French Dispatch contains a sequence that shifts to animation to dramatize a high-speed chase, and another that transforms one character's memory into a literal theatrical production. He wants us to remain fully aware that we are watching his movies, to make us complicit in the act of observing. Anderson's films are all about artifice, about the theater of it all. ![]() Thing Two: It's never gonna let you forget about Thing One. A rigorous attention to detail and an exacting eye for a highly defined personal aesthetic will come baked into its every frame, from the set design to the cinematography to its color palette(s) to its dialogue to its performances. Thing One: It will be meticulously, painstakingly constructed. This means, even before the lights go down in the theater, you know two things about it already, and for certain: The French Dispatch is Wes Anderson's tenth feature film. Searchlight Pictures/Twentieth Century Fox ![]() ![]() Searchlight has not announced a new date, but the film could pop back up at Cannes in 2021.Wes Anderson's love letter to The New Yorker is set in the fictional French town of Ennui-sur-Blase. The movie’s second release date for Octowas also removed. The film was named an official selection of the 2020 Cannes Film Festival. “The French Dispatch” was originally on the release calendar for Jbut was moved by Searchlight Pictures amid the coronavirus pandemic. What I love is how he will surprise you with something new, completely unexpected and perfect.” “A new angle, which he does very clearly and assertively. “I think my favorite moments with Timmy during a scene were the ones where I saw him pause and find a new attack,” the filmmaker added. “He was somehow already part of the family. How did Chalamet fare as a new arrival to Anderson’s world? “It was immediately as if it wasn’t his first time with our group,” Anderson said. ‘Asteroid City’ Has the Precise Camerawork of a Wes Anderson Film - but Now in Desert SunlightĬhalamet is one of the newcomers to Anderson’s troupe in “The French Dispatch,” which also stars the director’s longtime collaborators Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton, Jeff Goldblum, Frances McDormand, and more. He’s not any kind of type - but the New Wave would have had a happy place for him.” A slow train from Paris, a backpack, a beach for 10 days in bad weather. “I knew he was exactly right, and plus: He speaks French and looks like he might actually have walked right out of an Éric Rohmer movie. “I had seen Timmy in ‘Lady Bird’ and ‘Call Me by Your Name’ and I never had the inconvenience of ever thinking of anybody else for this role even for a second,” Anderson said. In the upcoming, anthology-inspired “French Dispatch,” Chalamet stars as a student revolutionary named Zeffirelli, whose story appears to have a few nods to the Nouvelle Vague, from its black-and-white cinematography to its focus on rebellious and liberated youth. After working with Timothée Chalamet on “ The French Dispatch,” Wes Anderson is convinced the 24-year-old Oscar nominee would have been right at home in the films of the French New Wave, according to the director in GQ magazine for Chalamet’s new cover story.
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