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Wes Anderson Summer Watching List - 7 Movies

Wes Anderson listed 7 aesthetic old-school movies to watch during summer. Check out the latest Wes Anderson movie recommendations.
Wes Anderson
Director, Screenwriter
Wes Anderson listed 7 aesthetic old-school movies to watch during summer. Check out the latest Wes Anderson movie recommendations.
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Stray Dog

A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes undercover, scavenging Tokyo’s sweltering streets for the stray dog whose desperation has led him to a life of crime. With each step, cop and criminal’s lives become more intertwined and the investigation becomes an examination of Murakami’s own dark side.
Wes Anderson
Director, Screenwriter
Another Japanese director who has influenced Wes Anderson was Akira Kurosawa. Specifically, The Stray Dog usually stands out a lot . The film, whose script was co-written with Ryūzō Kikushima, is often placed as a predecessor to the detective film genre.
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My Neighbor Totoro

Two sisters move to the country with their father in order to be closer to their hospitalized mother, and discover the surrounding trees are inhabited by Totoros, magical spirits of the forest. When the youngest runs away from home, the older sister seeks help from the spirits to find her.
Wes Anderson
Director, Screenwriter
It was during the press conference of the Berlin Film Festival for his stop-motion animation film Isle of Dogs (2018) that Anderson named Japanese Anderson Hayao Miyazaki as a key director for his film. In Vanity Fair he explained the extent of his charm for the work of the Japanese, especially for the movie My neighbor Totoro .
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Quarantine Film Evenings - 5 Movies Recommended by Wes Anderson

Wes Anderson shared a list of 5 movies he is watching during the lockdown.
Wes Anderson
Director, Screenwriter
Wes Anderson shared a list of 5 movies he is watching during the lockdown.
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3 Movies Wes Anderson Recommended to Gwyneth Paltrow

Gwyneth Paltrow interviewed Wes Anderson and he shared some movies that Gwyneth should check out and we can do the same.
Wes Anderson
Director, Screenwriter
Gwyneth Paltrow interviewed Wes Anderson and he shared some movies that Gwyneth should check out and we can do the same.
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The Graduate

Benjamin, a recent college graduate very worried about his future, finds himself in a love triangle with an older woman and her daughter.
Wes Anderson
Director, Screenwriter
I loved The Graduate when I first saw it.
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

A bitter, aging couple, with the help of alcohol, use a young couple to fuel anguish and emotional pain towards each other.
Wes Anderson
Director, Screenwriter
When I watched it more recently I thought it was the most beautiful, inspired, exciting movie. Mike Nichols is one of the most inventive directors that we’ve had, and that’s one of the great, you know, it’s a great movie, and a stunning first film.
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Toni

In the 1920s, the Provence is a magnet for immigrants seeking work in the quarries or in the agriculture. Many mingle with locals and settle down permanently - like Toni, an Italian who has moved in with Marie, a Frenchwoman. Even a well-ordered existence is not immune from boredom, friendship, love, or enmity, and Toni gets entangled in a web of increasingly passionate relationships. For there is his best pal Fernand, but also Albert, his overbearing foreman; there is Sebastian, a steady Spanish peasant, but also Gabi, his young rogue relative; there is Marie, but there is also Josefa.
Wes Anderson
Director, Screenwriter
It’s set in the south of France and they’re Italian immigrants who’re working, who’re laborers working in the South of France. It’s very beautiful, kind of lyrical and very sad; a great Renoir movie. I don’t know if it’s seen that much anymore. It’s great.
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Grand Illusion

A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieutenant Maréchal, grapple with their own class differences after being captured and held in a World War I German prison camp. When the men are transferred to a high-security fortress, they must concoct a plan to escape beneath the watchful eye of aristocratic German officer von Rauffenstein, who has formed an unexpected bond with de Boeldieu.
Wes Anderson
Director, Screenwriter
Well recently I watched Grand Illusion, which I haven’t seen in several years.
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Trouble in Paradise

Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company executive Mariette Colet, the two crooks decide to combine their criminal talents to rob their employer. Under the alias of Monsieur Laval, Gaston uses his position as Mariette's personal secretary to become closer to her. However, he takes things too far when he actually falls in love with Mariette, and has to choose between her and Lily.
Wes Anderson
Director, Screenwriter
A great Lubitsch movie. Herbert Marshall and Miriam Hopkins. And Samson Raphaelson is the screenwriter; he did several Lubitsch movies. I don’t know if anybody can make a movie like that anymore — that perfect tone, like a “soufflé”-type of movie. A confection, I guess.
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A Clockwork Orange

In a near-future Britain, young Alexander DeLarge and his pals get their kicks beating and raping anyone they please. When not destroying the lives of others, Alex swoons to the music of Beethoven. The state, eager to crack down on juvenile crime, gives an incarcerated Alex the option to undergo an invasive procedure that'll rob him of all personal agency. In a time when conscience is a commodity, can Alex change his tune?
Wes Anderson
Director, Screenwriter
I think A Clockwork Orange is one that springs to mind. A fully-formed Stanley Kubrick. It’s a movie that’s very particularly designed and, you know, conjures up this world that you’ve never seen quite this way in a movie before, but at the same time there’s a great sort of spontaneity to it.
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The 400 Blows

For young Parisian boy Antoine Doinel, life is one difficult situation after another. Surrounded by inconsiderate adults, including his neglectful parents, Antoine spends his days with his best friend, Rene, trying to plan for a better life. When one of their schemes goes awry, Antoine ends up in trouble with the law, leading to even more conflicts with unsympathetic authority figures.
Wes Anderson
Director, Screenwriter
Anderson said of “The 400 Blows,” “This movie in particular I think was one of the reasons I started thinking I would like to try to make movies.”
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Wes Anderson's 10 favorite New York movies

I wanted to live in New York when I was young. So many books and plays and movies that I love were set in New York. It really gave me an idea of the city before I had even moved here.
Wes Anderson
Director, Screenwriter
I wanted to live in New York when I was young. So many books and plays and movies that I love were set in New York. It really gave me an idea of the city before I had even moved here.
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The Exterminating Angel

After a lavish dinner party, the guests find themselves mysteriously unable to leave the room.
Wes Anderson
Director, Screenwriter
Have just watched The Exterminating Angel for the first time since fuzzy VHS in University of Texas A/V library. He is my hero. Mike Nichols said in the newspaper he thinks of Buñuel every day, which I believe I do, too, or at least every other.
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Blue Collar

Fed up with mistreatment at the hands of both management and union brass, and coupled with financial hardships on each man's end, three auto assembly line workers hatch a plan to rob a safe at union headquarters.
Wes Anderson
Director, Screenwriter
This has always been one of my favorites of his, along with Blue Collar. And Donald Richie again!
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Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

A fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima told in four parts. The first three parts relate events in three of his novels: The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, Kyoko's House, and Runaway Horses. The last part depicts the events of 25th November 1970.
Wes Anderson
Director, Screenwriter
What a great Mishima DVD—and the commentary track. Immediately started the movie again and watched it all the way through with Paul Schrader.
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Naked Childhood

Handed over to foster care by his mother—who's unwilling to give up permanent custody—the now-adolescent François understands that nothing in life is permanent, and his increasingly erratic actions reflect this knowledge.
Wes Anderson
Director, Screenwriter
I was introduced to Pialat in the first place by your À nos amours disc. You should do every one of his you can get your hands on.
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À Nos Amours

A portrait of youth in bloom; a tale of one family's dissolution; a reflection upon the danger and the mystery in living. Sandrine Bonnaire plays Suzanne, a free spirit and the vessel for an almost Brontëan choler. She's 16, and men exist — diverse lovers, an overbearing brother, and the father portrayed by director Maurice Pialat himself in an unforgettable turn that displays the full magnitude of the cinema giant's tenderness, force-of-will, and presence of being.
Wes Anderson
Director, Screenwriter
I was introduced to Pialat in the first place by your À nos amours disc. You should do every one of his you can get your hands on.
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A Heart in Winter

Beautiful violin virtuoso Camille has two obsessions: the music of Ravel, and a friend of her husband's who crafts violins. But his heart seems to be as cold as her playing is passionate.
Wes Anderson
Director, Screenwriter
I am a great fan of Claude Sautet, especially Un coeur en hiver. Who is our Lino Ventura?
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The Big Risk

On crowded Milan streets, two men execute a split-second payroll heist-in broad daylight-then begin a lightning-paced getaway, via every conveyance available. But after all, when a tough guy's returning to France (where he's been sentenced to death in absentia) after holing up in Italy for nearly a decade, he's got to have some startup money--particularly if he's going back with the wife and kids.
Wes Anderson
Director, Screenwriter
Classe tous risques is very good.
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The Friends of Eddie Coyle

An aging hood is about to go back to prison. Hoping to escape his fate, he supplies information on stolen guns to the feds, while simultaneously supplying arms to his bank robbing chums.
Wes Anderson
Director, Screenwriter
It’s not upbeat.
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

British agent Alec Leamas refuses to come in from the Cold War during the 1960s, choosing to face another mission, which may prove to be his final one.
Wes Anderson
Director, Screenwriter
I had never seen it before. It’s great, and the interview with John le Carré is touching—especially his assessment, or more like admission, at the end that Martin Ritt made “something like a classic.”
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The Taking of Power by Louis XIV

Cardinal Mazarin dies, leaving a power vacuum in which the young Louis asserts his intention to govern as well as rule. Mazarin's fiscal advisor, Colbert, warns against Fouquet, the Superintendant who has been systematically looting the treasury and wants to be prime minister. Fouquet believes Louis will soon tire of exercizing power and overplays his hand by offering a bribe to Louis' mistress to be his ally. She reports this to the king who arrests Fouquet. Louis and Colbert design a brilliant strategy to keep merchants making money, nobles in debt, the urban poor working and fed, and peasants untaxed. Years later, in a coda, we see Louis exercizing the power of the sun.
Wes Anderson
Director, Screenwriter
This is a wonderful and very strange movie. I had never heard of it. The man who plays Louis cannot give a convincing line reading, even to the ears of someone who can’t speak French—and yet he is fascinating
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Intentions of Murder

Sadako, cursed by generations before her and neglected by her common-law husband, falls prey to a brutal home intruder. But rather than become a victim, she forges a path to her own awakening.
Wes Anderson
Director, Screenwriter
We are deep into Shohei Imamura. I always loved Vengeance Is Mine, which was the only one I knew, on a double-disc Criterion laser. But now this box set gives me some perspective. Pigs and Battleships. The war didn’t exactly work wonders for the people of Tokyo or wherever that was.