Wes Anderson's films are as formally distinctive as Peter Greenaway's, and sometimes as maddening. They are pictorial things, but less in the way of a film than, say, a graphic novel. Where Greenaway thinks like a painter, Anderson uses the camera like a cartoonist, each frame hyper-composed in colour and composition, an eccentric mini-work of art in itself. What the frames don't have is much sense of physical or emotional movement from one to another. It's the same with the dialogue. People in Wes World don't overlap in their conversation – a character says something, then there's a pause, then another character replies. Again, it's like the thin white lines dividing one box from another in a comic strip. Some find the effect very charming.
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Moonrise Kingdom (12A)
Friday 25 May 2012
Wes Anderson, 94mins. Starring: Jared Gilman, Kara Hayward, Bruce Willis, Bill Murray, Edward Norton
Cannes do attitude for the stars of tomorrow
Monday 21 May 2012
The iconic film festival has a habit of unearthing exciting talent, as Nick Clark found out
Hollywood bound after making a splash on Cote d'Azur
Monday 21 May 2012
While the box office names pose on the red carpet at the 65th Cannes Film Festival, industry experts are eagerly scouting films showing on the Croisette for the stars of tomorrow.
Monsieur Lazhar (12A)
Friday 04 May 2012
Philippe Falardeau, 95mins. Starring: Mohamed Fellag, Sophie Nelisse
How We Met: Julian Ovenden & James D'Arcy
Sunday 22 April 2012
'Maybe one day we could be the English Matt Damon and Ben Affleck...'
King's Speech film killed us off, say stars of stuttering West End show
Saturday 21 April 2012
Acclaimed production to close less than eight weeks into its run
DVD: Dream House
Sunday 15 April 2012
When Daniel Craig moves to the suburbs with his wife, Rachel Weisz, his life seems to be perfect. But is it? Well, no, of course it's not.
DVD: Moneyball
Sunday 18 March 2012
In this Oscar-nominated true story, a baseball coach (Brad Pitt) develops a statistics-based method of assembling a top-flight team for a bargain-basement price.
Carancho, Pablo Trapero, 94 mins (12A)
Wanderlust, David Wain, 98 mins (15)
This Means War, McG, 94 mins (12A)
Sunday 04 March 2012
If you don't want to get tangled up with The Vulture, better fasten your seatbelt ...
James Bond studios makes £3.9m loss
Thursday 01 March 2012
Pinewood Shepperton studios slumped to a £3.9m loss in 2011 after it failed in an attempt to build replicas of Paris, New York and Amsterdam on green belt land.
Katherine Butler: Iranians are humans, you know
Tuesday 28 February 2012
Here's a story. Urban-dwelling middle class couple, one bright school-age daughter. Nice apartment, good part of town. Husband and wife juggle the demands of their respective careers and the twice-daily school run with the obligations of extended family (the husband's Alzheimer's-afflicted father is living with them). But the marriage is unravelling.
Besides the hangovers, winners must shake off fear of next big step
Tuesday 28 February 2012
The French partied hard in Hollywood after the Oscars, but what happens next? By Guy Adams
Northern Irish leaders unite in praise of Oscar-winner
Tuesday 28 February 2012
An Oscar for a Belfast film-maker whose work concentrates on the violence of the Troubles was yesterday welcomed across the political and religious divide in Northern Ireland.
Spotlight on: Harvey Weinstein, Co-chairman, the Weinstein Company
Tuesday 28 February 2012
And the winner is... Yes, after the Oscars, who can doubt that the brothers Weinstein, Harvey and his younger sibling Bob, are back on top in Hollywood? The Weinstein Company distributed The Artist in the US, and orchestrated its campaign to win Best Picture, and that wasn't the only one of the firm's movies taking plaudits.
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