Pols, Mary (November 13, 2009). "Wes Anderson's Return to Form". Time. Archived from the original on February 14, 2011 . Retrieved May 17, 2011. a b c Joe Utichi (November 22, 2007). "Interview: Wes Anderson talks Darjeeling Limited and Mr. Fox". Rotten Tomatoes. Archived from the original on November 23, 2007 . Retrieved November 22, 2007.

Fantastic Mr. Fox". British Board of Film Classification. Archived from the original on March 26, 2021 . Retrieved March 26, 2021. Wes’ instinctual sense of film grammar and his inimitable visual style made him a natural fit for the medium of stop motion since it requires so much deliberate, pre-determined arrangement and fastidious attention to detail. One can picture Anderson staring at the myriad of expertly-crafted miniatures for his film, and obsessing over the precise symmetry of a weasel or a rabbit entering the frame. The set for Bean’s coveted cider cellar, is gloriously adorned in a glowing haze of amber light, shot through the prism of dozens of individually crafted miniature jugs of cider. All of the movie’s bucolic exteriors are exclusively colored in a mixture of auburns, chestnuts, and gold pigments. The sun always seems to be bathing the world of ‘Fantastic Mr. Fox’ in a vibrant, bleeding rainbow of primary colors. One could honestly pause this movie at any point during its runtime, and always be staring at a poster-worthy, or at least screenshot-worthy, image. Related article: The Masters of Cinema Awards: Hollywood Insider Pays Tribute to ‘La Vie En Rose’, Exclusive Interview with Director Olivier Dahan FANTASTIC MR. FOX – Wes Anderson's Animated Acceptance Speech. FoxSearchlight. January 13, 2010. Archived from the original on January 14, 2010 . Retrieved May 17, 2011– via YouTube. National Board of Review: Special Filmmaking Achievement award list". National Board of Review. Archived from the original on January 31, 2010 . Retrieved January 17, 2010.

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Foxy, with all his vocabulary and trappings, has abandoned his wild heritage, but finds himself incapable of being fully human either. He is caught between two worlds, he is a man without a country, he is an adorable miniature of what Zola called “la bête humaine”. (Like Anderson, I am not particularly afraid of being called pretentious; would that our similarities didn’t end there.) Cast: George Clooney, Meryll Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Willem Dafoe, Michael Gambon. So “Fantastic Mr. Fox,” which Mr. Anderson wrote with Noah Baumbach, and which he has been hoping to make for many years, is in some ways his most fully realized and satisfying film. Once you adjust to its stop-and-start rhythms and its scruffy looks, you can appreciate its wit, its beauty and the sly gravity of its emotional undercurrents. The work done by the animation director, Mark Gustafson, by the director of photography, Tristan Oliver, and by the production designer, Nelson Lowry, shows amazing ingenuity and skill, and the music (by Alexandre Desplat, with the usual shuffle of well-chosen pop tunes, famous and obscure) is both eccentric and just right. Devo Is Dead. Long Live Devo". Wired. May 2006. Archived from the original on November 7, 2011 . Retrieved August 1, 2011. Who Are the Animators on Fantastic Mr. Fox?". Lineboil. January 12, 2010. Archived from the original on January 28, 2010 . Retrieved January 17, 2010.

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Kilday, Gregg (October 30, 2017). "Vanessa Morrison Takes on New Role as President, Fox Family". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on March 28, 2019 . Retrieved March 14, 2022. ... as well as independent projects such as Book of Life and Fantastic Mr. Fox. Michael Fleming (October 25, 2006). "Fox catches Dahl's Fox". Variety. Archived from the original on March 14, 2016 . Retrieved February 25, 2007.

According to Time, the film is "both a delightful amusement and a distillation of the filmmaker's essential playfulness" [32] and was one of the ten best films of the year. [33] Cosmo Landesman of The Sunday Times said "having a quirky auteur like Anderson make a children's film is a bit like David Byrne, of Talking Heads, recording an album of nursery rhymes produced by Brian Eno". According to Landesman: The film was nominated for the 2010 Critics Choice Awards for Best Animated Feature, [39] the 2010 Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film, [40] the 2010 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, and Academy Award for Best Original Score, [41] but ultimately lost all the nominations to Up. Corliss, Richard (December 8, 2009). "Wes Anderson's Return to Form". Time. Archived from the original on June 23, 2011 . Retrieved May 17, 2011. This, among many, is Anderson’s primary gift: the ability to upholster a film in magnificent fabrics through which we see – in relief rather than apertures – the shapes of terrible beasts moving around, all the more disturbing for their obscurity. The cleanliness and precision of each Anderson world – The Belafonte, Rushmore Academy, The Grand Budapest – only render more distressing the inelegant sadnesses they seek to keep at bay: self-disgust, heartbreak, grief, war.

Thanksgiving is upon us once again. It’s an American holiday of ubiquitous iconography and tradition: the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, the NFL on CBS , and a countrywide feast of biblical proportions. For better or worse, most of us eagerly anticipate our chance to participate in the American myth-making machine, every time the fourth Thursday in November rolls around. But if asked to provide a list of movies that epitomize the truest essence of Thanksgiving, most of us would probably start to run out of examples after perhaps John Hughes’ ‘Planes, Trains, and Automobiles’ and maybe a few others. One movie that most people likely overlook in this discussion is Wes Anderson’s ‘Fantastic Mr. Fox’ , which, dare I say, is a fantastic exemplification of the essential themes for which the notion of Thanksgiving was originally conceived – those themes being: the importance of family (blood or chosen), building a sense of community through the sharing of food and resources, and a concerted effort to appreciate who we are, what we have, and more importantly, who we have in this wild world. A Tribute to Martin Scorsese: A Complete Analysis of the Life and Career of the Man Who Lives and Breathes Cinema