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Posts for GreatDirectorsGreat Directors: David FincherGreat Directors: Jean-Pierre JeunetGreat Directors: Wes AndersonGreat Directors: Darren AronofskyGreat Directors: Steven Soderbergh Third in my ongoing Great Directors series is Wes Anderson, best known for Rushmore, and The Royal Tenenbaums. Anderson has a very unique and discernible feel to his movies that gives him something of a significant [...]

Bill Murray returns to another film with Wes Anderson, this time portraying Steve Zissou, an oceanographic researcher who seems to be based a bit on Jacques Cousteau.  Angelica Huston again appears in a Wes Anderson film as Eleanor Zissou.  The rest of the cast includes Cate Blanchett, Jeff Goldblum, Willem Dafoe, and Owen Wilson.The Life [...]

Wes Anderson’s first film stars Owen Wilson and Luke Wilson as Dignan and Anthony Adams, respectively.   When Dignan is released from a mental hospital where he had been being treated for depression, Anthony Adams joins up with Dignan and the two begin practicing and planning to become criminals of some sort. Continue reading… SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: [...]

Likely based upon The Magnificent Ambersons, The Royal Tenenbaums follows the attempts Royal Tenenbaum (Gene Hackman), the estranged patriarch of the family, to become closer to his family of three child-prodigies, their children, and his ex-wife Etheline Tenenbaum (Angelica Huston). Continue reading… SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "The Royal Tenenbaums, 2001", url: "http://fauxnixon.com/the-royal-tenenbaums-2001/" });

In many ways this was the true mainstream break-through for Wes Anderson as a director, though the film maintained that independent spirit that his earlier movie Bottle Rocket made such great usage of. Jason Schwartzman stars as Max Fischer, a character of enormous depth and knowledge, perpetually a creator of clubs and a masterer of [...]