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John’s Top Eleven Films of the Decade
6 December 2009 3:47 PM, PST
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I was just under 11 years old as we entered the 2000s, and in the last decade I have made it my mission to fill the space in my mind that should be reserved for academics to remembering the details of far too many films. In looking back upon this decade, it seems that we’ve had quite a good chunk of time for movies — there are only two years absent on my top ten list: 2000 and 2005, while 2006 is represented by three films. I still cheated, though, by extending my list to eleven entries. Some were just too good to decide between.
I hope you enjoy reading this as much as I enjoyed writing it. And before you start — don’t cry. The Dark Knight isn’t on here.
11. The Royal Tenenbaums – 2001
Spoiler: you’re going to find that comedy is slightly underrepresented on this list, with Wes Anderson’s The Royal Tenenbaums
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Movie Review: Fantastic Mr. Fox
3 December 2009 9:26 PM, PST
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Starring: George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray
Director: Wes Anderson
Release Date: November 25, 2009
Running Time: 87 mins.
MPAA Rating: R - for some violence, disturbing images and language
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
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My relationship with the movies of Wes Anderson can best be described as strained, to say the least. I have a sympathetic ear for the dysfunction he makes his characters wallow in each movie, but aren’t they all really just singing the same song; that a family, no matter how damaged and quirky, can get through anything as long as they stick together? He has a definitive style but more and more I get the impression that he is really telling a variation of the same story and trying to hide it by out-weirding the last one. Considering it to be my loudest objection to his movies, I find it curious that one
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Movie Review: Fantastic Mr. Fox
3 December 2009 9:26 PM, PST
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Starring: George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray
Director: Wes Anderson
Release Date: November 25, 2009
Running Time: 87 mins.
MPAA Rating: R - for some violence, disturbing images and language
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
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My relationship with the movies of Wes Anderson can best be described as strained, to say the least. I have a sympathetic ear for the dysfunction he makes his characters wallow in each movie, but aren’t they all really just singing the same song; that a family, no matter how damaged and quirky, can get through anything as long as they stick together? He has a definitive style but more and more I get the impression that he is really telling a variation of the same story and trying to hide it by out-weirding the last one. Considering it to be my loudest objection to his movies, I find it curious that one
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- jndubbs@gmail.com (Jeremy Welsch)
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Movie Review: Fantastic Mr. Fox
3 December 2009 9:26 PM, PST
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Starring: George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray
Director: Wes Anderson
Release Date: November 25, 2009
Running Time: 87 mins.
MPAA Rating: R - for some violence, disturbing images and language
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
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My relationship with the movies of Wes Anderson can best be described as strained, to say the least. I have a sympathetic ear for the dysfunction he makes his characters wallow in each movie, but aren’t they all really just singing the same song; that a family, no matter how damaged and quirky, can get through anything as long as they stick together? He has a definitive style but more and more I get the impression that he is really telling a variation of the same story and trying to hide it by out-weirding the last one. Considering it to be my loudest objection to his movies, I find it curious that one
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Movie Review: Fantastic Mr. Fox
3 December 2009 9:26 PM, PST
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Starring: George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray
Director: Wes Anderson
Release Date: November 25, 2009
Running Time: 87 mins.
MPAA Rating: R - for some violence, disturbing images and language
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
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My relationship with the movies of Wes Anderson can best be described as strained, to say the least. I have a sympathetic ear for the dysfunction he makes his characters wallow in each movie, but aren’t they all really just singing the same song; that a family, no matter how damaged and quirky, can get through anything as long as they stick together? He has a definitive style but more and more I get the impression that he is really telling a variation of the same story and trying to hide it by out-weirding the last one. Considering it to be my loudest objection to his movies, I find it curious that one
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Movie Review: Fantastic Mr. Fox
3 December 2009 9:26 PM, PST
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Starring: George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray
Director: Wes Anderson
Release Date: November 25, 2009
Running Time: 87 mins.
MPAA Rating: R - for some violence, disturbing images and language
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
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My relationship with the movies of Wes Anderson can best be described as strained, to say the least. I have a sympathetic ear for the dysfunction he makes his characters wallow in each movie, but aren’t they all really just singing the same song; that a family, no matter how damaged and quirky, can get through anything as long as they stick together? He has a definitive style but more and more I get the impression that he is really telling a variation of the same story and trying to hide it by out-weirding the last one. Considering it to be my loudest objection to his movies, I find it curious that one
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- jndubbs@gmail.com (Jeremy Welsch)
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Movie Review: Fantastic Mr. Fox
3 December 2009 9:26 PM, PST
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Starring: George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray
Director: Wes Anderson
Release Date: November 25, 2009
Running Time: 87 mins.
MPAA Rating: R - for some violence, disturbing images and language
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
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My relationship with the movies of Wes Anderson can best be described as strained, to say the least. I have a sympathetic ear for the dysfunction he makes his characters wallow in each movie, but aren’t they all really just singing the same song; that a family, no matter how damaged and quirky, can get through anything as long as they stick together? He has a definitive style but more and more I get the impression that he is really telling a variation of the same story and trying to hide it by out-weirding the last one. Considering it to be my loudest objection to his movies, I find it curious that one
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- jndubbs@gmail.com (Jeremy Welsch)
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Fantastic Mr. Fox Review
2 December 2009 4:35 PM, PST
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Short Version: Fantastic Mr. Fox is a pleasantly surprising film that is odd, witty, and probably more fun for adults than kids.
Screen Rant Reviews Fantastic Mr. Fox
I am not a Wes Anderson fan. Rushmore didn’t make me swoon; The Royal Tenenbaums made me groan; The Life Aquatic was no “masterpiece” far as I could tell and I didn’t even bother with The Darjeeling Limited. In fact, everything Anderson has done after Bottle Rocket has ultimately fallen on my cinematic bad side. Hearing his name brought up in classrooms and discussed as if he is the Shakespeare of cinema has only compounded that antagonism. If we were to play the word association game and you said “Wes Anderson” my immediate response would likely be “Pretentious and overrated.”
I went to see Fantastic Mr. Fox because, frankly, somebody on the site needed to review it. I wasn’t expecting much.
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- Kofi Outlaw
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Peter Bradshaw: Richard Brody's list of the decade's finest movies tops my chart
2 December 2009 2:41 AM, PST
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In this season for critical lists, the Best of the Decade survey from the New Yorker's movies editor genuinely stands out
It's the end of the year, and for film critics this is the season for making lists – the best films of the year and, now of course, the best films of the decade. All the papers are doing it and we here are in the process of drawing up our list of the decade's top 100 movies for guardian.co.uk/film. Making lists appeals to the nerdy, Hornby-esque and anally retentive side of all of us. And of course it offers huge opportunities for – whisper it – showing off.
The seasoned list-maker will know how to combine the obscure choices with the mainstream ones, and this latter consideration is important. The seasoned lister knows that the more MoR candidates provide the resonant C-major chords which give solidity and plausibility to the list.
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- Peter Bradshaw
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Jason Schwartzman: 'I love cleaning'
1 December 2009 1:14 AM, PST
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Jason Schwartzman has revealed that he loves cleaning his house. The Darjeeling Limited star, who is married to fashion designer Brady Cunningham, said that it is important to try to enjoy everything, even boring household chores. Schwartzman told USA Today: "You can be cleaning your house and all of the sudden get an exhilarating feeling. "When I'm walking my dog and he does something (more)
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Fantastic Mr. Fox Review
29 November 2009 12:34 AM, PST
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Fantastic Mr. Fox
Directed by: Wes Anderson
Written by: Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach (screenplay), Roald Dahl (book)
Starring: George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Eric Anderson, Michael Gambon, Willem Dafoe
At the beginning of the decade, Wes Anderson was being praised as one of the most unique and talented emerging filmmakers in America. The Royal Tenenbaums was seen by many as his ultimate masterpiece, earning his only Academy Award nomination to date. However, since then, he has arguably become a victim of his own success. Surrounded by copycats and increasingly cynical audiences, he has struggled to break from the mold that he created for himself.
Although I enjoyed both The Life Aquatic and The Darjeeling Limited a great deal, I can't deny that Wes Anderson's style was starting to feel more like a predictable checklist and less like the mark of an auteur. He was stuck in a rut,
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Preview: Brothers
27 November 2009 4:01 PM, PST
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About ten years ago, three promising young actors were working to secure a place amongst the Hollywood A-list. Natalie Portman had finished her first major acting role, as Mathilda in Luc Bessons Leon. She would go on to make her major breakthrough in the Star Wars prequels. Tobey Maguire had small roles in respected films like The Cider House Rules and Wonder Boys, then also got his major break in a high budget franchise, winning the role of Spiderman. Jake Gyllenhaal came to public attention through his role in sleeper Indie hit Donnie Darko, then hit the big time through a combination of big budget popcorn in The Day After Tomorrow, and critically acclaimed drama in Brokeback Mountain. Next week in the Us, these three actors, firmly A-List, come together for Jim Sheridan’s brothers.
Brothers is a remake of Susanne Bier’s Danish film Brodre. Tobey Maguire plays Captain Sam Cahill,
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Fantastic Mr. Fox Review
24 November 2009 8:13 PM, PST
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Wes Anderson's funny, fabulous Fantastic Mr. Fox feels like a book that's been missing from his library, an all-ages comedy with tender life lessons gently imparted by lovable characters. For all I know, Roald Dahl is spinning in his grave, but the British author's book has provided Anderson with a badly-needed spark that reignites his creative juices.
Not that Anderson's post-Owen Wilson collaborations with Noah Baumbach have been complete disasters. Somewhere alone the line, though, perhaps midway through The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou and all the way through The Darjeeling Limited, it felt like Anderson's playfully twee tone wore thin. His characters, who have always teetered on the brink between self-absorbed and self-pitying, fell hard toward the irredeemably murky end of a perpetual personality crisis.
It made you downright concerned that somebody might really kill themselves.
All such thoughts are happily banished in Fantastic Mr. Fox. Reformed
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Jason Schwartzman Interview for "Fantastic Mr. Fox"
23 November 2009 10:19 AM, PST
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I love "Fantastic Mr. Fox!" And I equally love talking with Jason Schwartzman ("Rushmore," "The Darjeeling Limited"). He provides the voice of Ash, the son of Mr. Fox (George Clooney) and Mrs. Fox (Meryl Streep).
We talked about:
His involvement with the film
His character Ash
The moral of the story
How long did he work in the project
The secret of the production
Working with Wes Anderson in an animated setting
Have Fun!
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Cast and Credits
Starring: George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Wallace Wolodarsky
Directed by: Wes Anderson
Produced by: Steven M. Rales, Arnon Milchan, Scott Rudin
Mr and Mrs Fox live an idyllic home life with their son Ash and visiting young nephew Kristopherson. But after 12 years, the bucolic existence proves too much for Mr Fox's wild animal instincts. Soon he slips back into his old ways
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'Fantastic Mr. Fox' Lives Up to its Name
21 November 2009 9:05 PM, PST
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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,
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Podcast: Jason Schwartzman
14 November 2009 10:26 AM, PST
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In director Wes Anderson's stop-motion animated feature Fantastic Mr. Fox (read Vadim Rizov's "Film of the Week" review), 29-year-old actor Jason Schwartzman—who began his screen career working with Anderson as the overambitious teen hero of Rushmore, then co-starred in and co-wrote The Darjeeling Limited—lends his voice to the role of Ash. A runty young fox who longs for the attention and affection of his father Mr. Fox (George Clooney), Ash spends most of the story in a quiet jealous huff over his cousin Kristofferson (Eric Chase Anderson), who seems to be better than him in just about every sport—including the art of romance.
Sitting down with Schwartzman before Fantastic Mr. Fox's limited release, we discussed the film, familial competition, his hilarious new HBO series Bored to Death, his band Coconut Records (did we mention he was a musician before he was a thespian?), and a somewhat unusual vice.
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Interview: F is for 'Fantastic Mr. Fox'
12 November 2009 9:40 PM, PST
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With their matted pelts and porcelain eyes, director Wes Anderson’s stop motion puppets breathe new life into the Roald Dahl classic "Fantastic Mr. Fox" in his analog animated adaptation of the beloved British children’s book. For all you wanted to know about Fantastic Mr. Fox and the unique vision of Wes Anderson, here is CinemaSpy’s A-z guide to the film and the inspiration and processes of its filmmaker, as he described it to us recently in New York.
Fantastic Mr. Fox opened in limited release this weekend.
A is for Anderson
"Each time I've worked with Wes it's been so completely different than the last time, the movie and the situation that we find ourselves in," said Jason Schwartzman, who has collaborated with the filmmaker on Rushmore, Darjeeling Limited and who is the voice of Mr. Fox’s son, Ash, in Fantastic Mr. Fox. "It's a real
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Film Of The Week: Fantastic Mr. Fox
12 November 2009 4:37 PM, PST
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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.
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Review: The Fantastic Mr Fox
12 November 2009 4:09 PM, PST
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When indie darling Wes Anderson was announced as the director for the big screen adaptation of The Fantastic Mr Fox, the beloved children’s novel by Roald Dahl, the reaction was, to say the least, mixed. How, some felt, could a Texan director possibly bring to life a book with such a British sensibility? And how, others pondered, could two such disparate voices as Dahl’s and Anderson’s co-exist?
The finished film provides the answers to both these questions and, whilst the cultural xenophobes needn’t have concerned themselves with any notion of cultural imperialism, those fearing a cross-pollination of tones may have had their worries vindicated.
The story centres around the sociopathic Mr Fox (George Clooney) who, after announcing his retirement from chicken hustling to his wife (Meryl Streep), decides his life of writing a newspaper column isn’t as exciting as he may have hoped and, instead,
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Review: Fantastic Mr. Fox
12 November 2009 11:10 AM, PST
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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
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