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One Day Since Yesterday: Peter Bogdanovich & the Lost American Film (2014) Bill Teck, Wes Anderson, Noah Baumbach, Anna Thea Bogdanovich
One Day Since Yesterday: Peter Bogdanovich & The Lost American Film is the story of maverick film director Peter Bogdanovich’s love for both the late Dorothy Stratten Read More »
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004) Wes Anderson, Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Anjelica Huston
Internationally famous oceanographer Steve Zissou (Bill Murray) and his crew, Team Zissou Read More »
Hitchcock/Truffaut (2015) Kent Jones, Mathieu Amalric, Wes Anderson, Peter Bogdanovich, Documentary
In 1962 Hitchcock and Truffaut locked themselves away in Hollywood for a week to excavate the secrets behind the mise-en-scène in cinema. Read More »
Moonrise Kingdom (2012) Wes Anderson, Jared Gilman, Kara Hayward, Bruce Willis, Comedy, Drama, Adventure
Set on an island off the coast of New England in the 1960s, as a young boy and girl fall in love they are moved to run away together. Various factions of the town mobilize to search for them and the town is turned upside down — which might not be such a bad thing.
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The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) Wes Anderson, Gene Hackman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Anjelica Huston, Comedy, Drama
Royal Tenenbaum (Gene Hackman) and his wife, Etheline (Anjelica Huston), had three children – Chas, Margot, and Richie – and then they separated. Chas (Ben Stiller) started buying real estate in his early teens and seemed to have an almost preternatural understanding of international finance. Margot (Gwyneth Paltrow) was a playwright and received a Braverman Grant of $50,000 in the ninth grade. Richie (Luke Wilson) was a junior champion tennis player and won the U.S. Nationals three years in a row. Virtually all memory of the brilliance of the young Tenenbaums was subsequently erased by two decades of betrayal, failure, and disaster. The Royal Tenenbaums is a hilarious, touching, and brilliantly stylized study of melancholy and redemption from Wes Anderson.
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