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Wes Anderson's First 10 Films Get Deluxe 4K Ultra HD Box Set
The post Wes Anderson's First 10 Films Get Deluxe 4K Ultra HD Box Set appeared first on Consequence. Here's some great news for Wes Anderson aficionados awaiting the arrival of the eccentric filmmaker's work in 4K Ultra HD: The Criterion Collection has announced that his first 10 feature films will be released as a deluxe 4K UHD box set on September 30th. Approved by the director himself, The Wes Anderson Archive: Ten Films, Twenty-Five Years features new 4K masters of Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Darjeeling Limited, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Moonrise Kingdom, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Isle of Dogs, and The French Dispatch. Pre-order your copy at the Criterion Collection website. This expansive special edition collector's set contains 10 4K UHD discs presented in Dolby Vision HDR, alongside 10 Blu-ray discs of the films. It boasts over 25 hours of special features, including audio commentaries, interviews, documentaries, deleted scenes, auditions, short films, commercials, storyboards, animation tests, archival recordings, still photography, and visual essays. 10 illustrated books will also be included in the clothbound edition. Anderson's next film, The Phoenician Scheme, is set for a limited US release on May 30th and will open nationwide on June 6th. It stars Benicio del Toro, Mia Threapleton, Michael Cera, Bill Murray, Willem Dafoe, Benedict Cumberbatch, Scarlett Johansson, Bryan Cranston, Hope Davis, Tom Hanks, and Jeffrey Wright. Editor's Note: Revisit our ranking of every Wes Anderson movie. Popular Posts Billy Joel Diagnosed with Brain Disorder, Cancels All Upcoming Tour Dates Man Wearing Nazi T-Shirt Gets a Beatdown from Fans at Punk Rock Bowling Fest The 30 Best Action Movie Stars of All Time, Ranked Freddie Mercury's Alleged Child Revealed in New Biography Is The Who's Farewell Tour in Turmoil? Zach Braff to Return for Scrubs Reboot Subscribe to Consequence's email digest and get the latest breaking news in music, film, and television, tour updates, access to exclusive giveaways, and more straight to your inbox.
LeMonde
18-05-2025
- Entertainment
- LeMonde
Inside the meticulous world of Wes Anderson's 'The Phoenician Scheme'
Since March 19, employees at the Paris Cinémathèque française film institution have noticed some unusual visitors. Despite the spring weather, more and more young people have come to visit clad in red woolen hats, heavy suede jackets or ties adorned with foxes – a nod to the characters of The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2005), The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) or Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009), all films by Wes Anderson, to whom the Parisian institution has dedicated a vast exhibition, which runs until July 27. Unbothered by the warm temperatures, many of the exhibition's visitors – 53,000 in just one month – might have arrived in a Margot Tenenbaum-style fur coat, one of Mr. Fox's corduroy outfits or in many other impeccable items – starched shirts and fitted tracksuits – that Anderson typically adorns his characters with. In November, when the exhibition travels to the Design Museum in London, some visitors may don Bjorn Lund's (played by Michael Cera) rust-colored jacket, or the pristine suit with a club tie worn by Prince Farouk (Riz Ahmed) in The Phoenician Scheme, the 56-year-old American director's 12 th feature film, which is competing at the Cannes Film Festival and set to arrive in French cinemas on May 28. Anderson's cinematic universe is not just about clothing but also sets, props, music and graphic identity. "It is an immense body of work, with the unique ability to deploy itself throughout a space," explained Matthieu Orléan, the curator of the exhibition at the Cinémathèque française. "That's why we showcase so many objects." This includes the puppets used in the making of Fantastic Mr. Fox and Isle of Dogs (2018), magazines chronicling the exploits of the gifted Tenenbaum family members, cross-stitch landscapes from the imaginary island setting of Moonrise Kingdom (2012) and the bathrobe from the short film Hôtel Chevalier (2007).
San Francisco Chronicle
18-05-2025
- Entertainment
- San Francisco Chronicle
‘The Phoenician Scheme' finds Wes Anderson at his sweetest and most visually captivating
'The Phoenician Scheme' is Wes Anderson's 12th feature-length movie and each successive film seems more hermetically sealed than the last. Yet something else interesting is happening with his work. As he has creatively sharpened visually, he seems to have emotionally softened. In fact, this latest film might be his sweetest. Set in 1950, 'The Phoenician Scheme,' co-written by Anderson and Roman Coppola, stars Benicio del Toro as Zsa-Zsa Korda, a multi-millionaire capitalist whose questionable business practices has made him far more enemies than friends. When the movie opens, he is surviving another of his many plane crashes, this one part of a string of assassination attempts by former employees. Meanwhile, the U.S. government has imposed a steep tariff on a simple bolt that is crucial to his worldwide construction plans. He must frantically try and renegotiate business deals from his eccentric partners in hopes of getting them to share a greater percentage of the costs so he doesn't go bankrupt. Given he is under threat of assassination and he doesn't trust his partners, he reconnects with his estranged daughter, Liesl (Mia Threapleton), a nun. He is prepared to make her his sole heir to protect his interests, and takes her and a tutor, Bjorn (Michael Cera of ' Sacramento ') on a globe-trotting trip to meet with his partners. Among them are Leland and Reagan, played by Tom Hanks and Bryan Cranston, respectively. Zsa-Zsa is a first-class jerk, and Liesl doesn't take any guff. She might be the first person to stand up to him. She's fearless, and God is on her side. He respects that, and gradually feels something for his daughter that comes dangerously close to fatherly love, a new concept. Of course, describing the plot of a Wes Anderson movie is like giving directions down Lombard Street to a tourist. The goal isn't the destination but the experience; just revel in the unconventional curves and characters you meet along the way. There's Prince Farouk (Riz Ahmed), Marseille Bob (Mathieu Amalric), Cousin Hilda (Scarlett Johansson) and a ship's captain (Jeffrey Wright). Benedict Cumberbatch, Willem Dafoe, Bill Murray, Hope Davis and F. Murray Abraham also pop up in various roles. Despite the galaxy of A-listers, most of whom are Anderson regulars, the real stars are the sets by production designer Adam Stockhausen and the art direction team led by Esther Schreiner. 'The Phoenician Scheme,' mostly filmed at Babelsberg Film Studio near Berlin, is another Anderson visual feast. Consider that his live action movies from the 2000s, 'The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou' and ' The Darjeeling Limited,' made extensive use of real-life locations — Italy and India, respectively. In contrast, his work in the 2020s has been largely filmed in studios on intricately designed sets inspired by the mid-20th century. Counterintuitively, however, this recent work seems to suggest a disillusionment with modern society. ' The French Dispatch ' (2021), which focused on writers preparing the last issue of a popular magazine, is an ode to print journalism. In parodying the nuclear fears and UFO craze of the 1950s, ' Asteroid City ' (2023) touches on postpandemic fears. Now 'The Phoenician Scheme' assesses the damage done by the rich and powerful, who are often narcissists. Anderson doesn't seem like a guy who digs the 21st century. If there's hope in these films, it's in a reestablishment of human connection. As father and daughter, Del Toro and Threapleton (daughter of Kate Winslet), establish real chemistry as people willing to change for the better.
Times
12-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Times
My drunken night on the A-list party crawl at the Cannes festival
Halfway through lunch, on the aft deck of a boat, next door to the actual boat from Wes Anderson's film The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, my phone vibrates. It is the people from Louis Vuitton. 'Traffic out of Cannes is going to be very heavy. Are you OK with a helicopter?' Damn right I am OK with a helicopter. Right now, in the intense sunshine, in among the free-flowing champagne and deep into a hangover from last night raging like a warm Styrofoam pelmet around my party-fried cranium, the most 'Cannes' thing to do right now seems to be to get out of Cannes for a few hours. Obediently I take a car to a chopper pad on the salty, rusty, industrial edge
The Independent
01-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
Bill Murray chokes up talking about ‘good friend' Bruce Willis amid his health battle
Bill Murray appeared to get emotional as he recalled working with 'good friend' Bruce Willis on Wes Anderson's 2012 romcom Moonrise Kingdom. During a recent appearance on Andy Cohen 's Watch What Happens Live talk show to promote his new movie The Friend, Murray, 74, was asked to rank a handful of Anderson's movies, including Moonrise Kingdom, from least favorite to favorite. As he went through the list of films, all of which he's starred in, Murray shared brief notes about each. Praising The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) for its 'incredible' technical aspects and calling The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2005) the most challenging job, he remembered Moonrise Kingdom as being a 'beautiful and lovely film.' He further remembered co-starring alongside Willis in the latter. 'I got to work with, and I got to have a wonderful time with Bruce Willis, [who] we should remember today. He just had a birthday,' Murray said of the Die Hard star, who recently celebrated his 70th birthday. 'Bruce Willis is a good guy. He's a good f***ing guy. And he was a good friend,' he added of the retired actor, who's currently living with dementia. Murray went on to reveal that he had actually crossed paths with Willis at NBC's New York City headquarters years before they worked together on Moonrise Kingdom. 'Bruce Willis was a page at NBC when I was on Saturday Night Live,' he remembered, explaining Willis' job was to go around to the dressing rooms and refill snacks. 'And I remember when I met him after he was a successful guy, he said, 'You and Gilda [Radner] were nice to me.' And I always thought, 'OK, I'm good with this guy,'' Murray added. In 2023, Willis' family announced that the actor had been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia (FTD). The news came a year after they initially revealed he had been diagnosed with aphasia and would be 'stepping away' from acting. On March 19, he celebrated his 70th birthday with his wife, Emma Heming Willis, honoring him on Instagram. 'It's Bruce's birthday, and if there's one thing I know, it's that there's no greater fan than a Bruce fan,' she wrote, alongside a photo of Willis giving two thumbs up while standing on an ATV four-wheeler. 'So flood him with all the love today, he will feel it, I swear he will. You are one powerful bunch. I love how you rally for him, and I'm so grateful that he has you.'
