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Before a single title card appears in “The Phoenician Scheme” (2025), you already know whose film you’re watching. The opening scene—Zsa-zsa Korda (Benicio Del Toro) surviving his sixth plane ...

Early on in “Bottle Rocket” (1996), Wes Anderson’s first feature, Luke and Owen Wilson are robbing a house. Luke Wilson sees a set of toy soldiers. He stops to straighten one of them. Consider that ...

There isn't a filmmaker working today whose style is as immediately recognisable as that of Wes Anderson. So significant are his stylistic hallmarks that one of the first things people started doing ...

BOTTLE ROCKET Wes Anderson before he got all Wes Andersonesque. WES ANDERSON’S BRAND is pretty secure. Moonrise Kingdom, his seventh film, was one of the best of 2012, and it couldn’t have been more ...

A number of magnificent auteurs broke out in the scene at the start of the 21st century. Blockbuster king Christopher Nolan has been dizzying and dazzling audiences since his debut, “Memento,” in 2000 ...