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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.
Movies from Wes Anderson

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.
Movies from Wes Anderson

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.
Movies from Wes Anderson

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.
Books from Wes Anderson

Accidentally Wes Anderson

A visual adventure of Wes Anderson proportions, authorized by the legendary filmmaker himself: stunning photographs of real-life places that seem plucked from the just-so world of his films, presented with fascinating human stories behind each façade. Accidentally Wes Anderson began as a personal travel bucket list, a catalog of visually striking and historically unique destinations that capture the imagined worlds of Wes Anderson. Now, inspired by a community of more than one million Adventurers, Accidentally Wes Anderson tells the stories behind more than 200 of the most beautiful, idiosyncratic, and interesting places on Earth. This book, authorized by Wes Anderson himself, travels to every continent and into your own backyard to identify quirky landmarks and undiscovered gems: places you may have passed by, some you always wanted to explore, and many you never knew existed. Fueled by a vision for distinctive design, stunning photography, and unexpected narratives, Accidentally Wes Anderson is a passport to inspiration and adventure. Perfect for modern travelers and fans of Wes Anderson's distinctive aesthetic, this is an invitation to look at your world through a different lens.
Wes Anderson
Director, Screenwriter
“The photographs in this book were taken by people I have never met, of places and things I have, almost without exception, never seen,” Anderson writes in the foreword. “But I must say: I intend to. Wally Koval and his collaborators have put together both a very entertaining collection of images and also an especially alluring travel guide.”
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Louder and Funnier

P. G. Wodehouse is recognized as the greatest English comic writers of the twentieth century, rightly admired throughout the world and translated into more than thirty languages. Launched on the twenty-fifth anniversary of his death, this series presents each Overlook Wodehouse as the finest edition of the master's work ever published--beautifully designed and faithful to the original. This season, Overlook is pleased to offer the latest two hilarious volumes. Louder and Funnier is a collection of articles written for Vanity Fair, with subjects ranging from Shakespeare and divorce to income tax and ocean liners. The Prince and Betty is an engrossing, hilarious story of an unscrupulous millionaire and his plans to build a casino in the Mediterranean. Revised by Wodehouse after the initial publication, it features the master's signature reflections on the rich in one of his classic novels.
Wes Anderson
Director, Screenwriter
Two books : The Big Goodbye : Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood, by Sam Wasson Louder and Funnier, by P.G. Wodehouse
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The Big Goodbye

From the New York Times bestselling author of Fifth Avenue, Five A.M. and Fosse comes the revelatory account of the making of a modern American masterpiece Chinatown is the Holy Grail of 1970s cinema. Its twist ending is the most notorious in American film and its closing line of dialogue the most haunting. Here for the first time is the incredible true story of its making. In Sam Wasson's telling, it becomes the defining story of the most colorful characters in the most colorful period of Hollywood history. Here is Jack Nicholson at the height of his powers, as compelling a movie star as there has ever been, embarking on his great, doomed love affair with Anjelica Huston. Here is director Roman Polanski, both predator and prey, haunted by the savage death of his wife, returning to Los Angeles, the scene of the crime, where the seeds of his own self-destruction are quickly planted. Here is the fevered dealmaking of "The Kid" Robert Evans, the most consummate of producers. Here too is Robert Towne's fabled script, widely considered the greatest original screenplay ever written. Wasson for the first time peels off layers of myth to provide the true account of its creation. Looming over the story of this classic movie is the imminent eclipse of the '70s filmmaker-friendly studios as they gave way to the corporate Hollywood we know today. In telling that larger story, The Big Goodbye will take its place alongside classics like Easy Riders, Raging Bulls and The Devil's Candy as one of the great movie-world books ever written.Praise for Sam Wasson:"Wasson is a canny chronicler of old Hollywood and its outsize personalities...More than that, he understands that style matters, and, like his subjects, he has a flair for it." - The New Yorker"Sam Wasson is a fabulous social historian because he finds meaning in situations and stories that would otherwise be forgotten if he didn't sleuth them out, lovingly." - Hilton Als
Wes Anderson
Director, Screenwriter
Two books : The Big Goodbye : Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood, by Sam Wasson Louder and Funnier, by P.G. Wodehouse
Books from Wes Anderson

A Clockwork Orange

Fully restored edition of Anthony Burgess' original text of A Clockwork Orange, with a glossary of the teen slang 'Nadsat', explanatory notes, pages from the original typescript, interviews, articles and reviewsEdited by Andrew Biswell With a Foreword by Martin Amis'It is a horrorshow story ...'Fifteen-year-old Alex likes lashings of ultraviolence. He and his gang of friends rob, kill and rape their way through a nightmarish future, until the State puts a stop to his riotous excesses. But what will his re-education mean?A dystopian horror, a black comedy, an exploration of choice, A Clockwork Orange is also a work of exuberant invention which created a new language for its characters. This critical edition restores the text of the novel as Anthony Burgess originally wrote it, and includes a glossary of the teen slang 'Nadsat', explanatory notes, pages from the original typescript, interviews, articles and reviews, shedding light on the enduring fascination of the novel's 'sweet and juicy criminality'.Anthony Burgess was born in Manchester in 1917 and educated at Xaverian College and Manchester University. He spent six years in the British Army before becoming a schoolmaster and colonial education officer in Malaya and Brunei. After the success of his Malayan Trilogy, he became a full-time writer in 1959. His books have been published all over the world, and they include The Complete Enderby, Nothing Like the Sun, Napoleon Symphony, Tremor of Intent, Earthly Powers and A Dead Man in Deptford. Anthony Burgess died in London in 1993.Andrew Biswell is the Professor of Modern Literature at Manchester Metropolitan University and the Director of the International Anthony Burgess Foundation. His publications include a biography, The Real Life of Anthony Burgess, which won the Portico Prize in 2006. He is currently editing the letters and short stories of Anthony Burgess.
Wes Anderson
Director, Screenwriter
Very well adapted, good book.
Books from Wes Anderson

The World of Yesterday

This eBook is produced by arrangement with Viking, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.The World of Yesterday, mailed to his publisher a few days before Stefan Zweig took his life in 1942, has become a classic of the memoir genre. Originally titled "Three Lives," the memoir describes Vienna of the late Austro-Hungarian Empire, the world between the two world wars and the Hitler years."The best single memoir of Old Vienna by any of the city's native artists." ?¾Clive James"A book that should be read by anyone who is even slightly interested in the creative imagination and the intellectual life, the brute force of history upon individual lives, the possibility of culture and, quite simply, what it meant to be alive between 1881 and 1942." ?¾The Guardian"It is not so much a memoir of a life as it is the memento of an age." ?¾The New Republic
Wes Anderson
Director, Screenwriter
The subject matter and the way stories are told are unusual and very effective. They were just hugely popular books. Also, there is a memoir called "The World of Yesterday" which he wrote at the end of his life, which is really about the world that was destroyed in 1940, the world that began to be destroyed in 1914. His motivation to go on living begins to ab. His fiction and this memoir are really the reason why I kinda felt that I'd like to do a European story.
TV Shows from Wes Anderson

Neon Genesis Evangelion

At the turn of the century, the Angels returned to Earth, seeking to wipe out humanity in an apocalyptic fury. Devastated, mankind's last remnants moved underground to wait for the day when the Angels would come back to finish the job. Fifteen years later, that day has come... but this time, humanity is ready to fight back with terrifying bio-mechanical weapons known as the Evangelions. Watch as Shinji, Rei, Asuka and the rest of the mysterious shadow agency Nerv battle to save earth from total annihilation.
Wes Anderson
Director, Screenwriter
Another classic of Japanese animation that Anderson has declared a fan of, is Neon Genesis Evangelion, the animated series. In an interview with Goop, the Houston native said: “This is a Japanese cartoon that is very difficult to describe and might not sound as good if you tried anyway. There are 24 episodes, and we saw them all in less than a week because you start to believe that it is real. This could generate something like Scientology. "
TV Shows from Wes Anderson

Better Call Saul

Six years before Saul Goodman meets Walter White. We meet him when the man who will become Saul Goodman is known as Jimmy McGill, a small-time lawyer searching for his destiny, and, more immediately, hustling to make ends meet. Working alongside, and, often, against Jimmy, is “fixer” Mike Ehrmantraut. The series tracks Jimmy’s transformation into Saul Goodman, the man who puts “criminal” in “criminal lawyer".
Wes Anderson
Director, Screenwriter
More surprising were his television picks of which there was only one: Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould’s Better Call Saul. “It’s simply my favorite series,” Anderson said of the Breaking Bad spinoff.
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19 Best Old Songs from Wes Anderson Movies

It is a well-known fact that Wes Anderson is extremely detail oriented and every song in the movie or certain scene should be organic to atmosphere and tone of the film, so he often handpicks it himself. Enjoy the list of Wes Anderson curated music!
Wes Anderson
Director, Screenwriter
It is a well-known fact that Wes Anderson is extremely detail oriented and every song in the movie or certain scene should be organic to atmosphere and tone of the film, so he often handpicks it himself. Enjoy the list of Wes Anderson curated music!
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Directors that Influenced "Isle of Dogs"

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Wes Anderson's Favorite Filmmakers

The greatest inspire the greatest.
Wes Anderson
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The greatest inspire the greatest.