The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou - Criterion Collection (2-Disc Special Edition)
The Nylvi Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Spinner has cool a piece on writer-director Wes Anderson’s convincing ability to match songs with scenes to make them both more enjoyable and memorable. We’ve picked two we like below. If you enjoy it, head over to Spinner to see the rest. The Stooges, Search and Destroy in The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou Elliott Smith, Needle [...]
An Angry White Guy in Chicago (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Fantastic Mr. Fox The last Wes Anderson film I cared to see and then own was The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou . After the quirk of Rushmore, The Royal Tennenbaums , and The Life Aquatic I had had my fill of Anderson's brand of indie cleverness and wry humor - hell, after Juno (not Anderson but certainly the spawn of his work...), I'd had about as much of that Gilmore Girls dry patter...
Draven99's Musings (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
Wes Anderson has played with animation in the past ( The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou ) but never has he created an entirely animated film. This does not seem to have been a problem for the talented writer/director. The target this time out is the 1970 Roald Dahl novel Fantastic Mr. Fox . Anderson has taken the tale of a fox's fight with a trio of nasty farmers and translated it into...
Pajiba (Free subscription) | yesterday
... turning the movies into dioramas writ large. The best example of this was The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou , which dealt awkwardly with an estranged father and son amid a submarine searching for an endangered shark. Anderson's periodic cuts away to the sub on a stage, with the fourth wall gone and the camera sliding between rooms, marked the moment he finally figured out what he...
[CinemaRatty] Lattest Articles (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
After a short scene in 2004s The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou utilizing the stop motion animations of Henry Selick, filmmaker Wes Anderson aimed to combine the technique with his usual cleverness...
Blogcritics: Video (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
Wes Anderson has played with animation in the past (The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou) but never has he created an entirely animated film. This does not seem to have been a problem for the talented writer/director. The target this time out is the 1970 Roald Dahl novel Fantastic Mr. Fox. Anderson has taken the tale of a fox's fight with a trio of nasty farmers and translated it into stop-motion...
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
... Anderson, who included several stop-motion sequences in his 2004 feature, "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou." "The thing I've always loved with stop-motion, more than anything else, is having puppets with fur."The fur flies in the "Fantastic Mr. Fox," which features the voices of Oscar winners George Clooney (in the title role), Meryl Streep and Adrien Brody. Bill Murray, Jason...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
The films of Wes Anderson - among them "The Royal Tenenbaums," "Rushmore" and "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou" - are the very definition of an acquired taste: You either swoon over the director's fussily art-directed images, his hipster-speak dialogue, and his '60s mod music soundtracks, or (like me) you want to hurl heavy objects at the screen.
Twitch (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
... complete disasters. Somewhere alone the line, though, perhaps midway through The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou and all the way through The Darjeeling Limite d, it felt like Anderson's playfully twee tone wore thin. His characters, who have always teetered on the brink between self-absorbed and self-pitying, fell hard toward the irredeemably murky end of a perpetual personality crisis....
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
The most common charge leveled at filmmaker Wes Anderson (The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou) is that his movies are too precious. His new film, an adaptation of Roald Dahl's children's book Fantastic Mr. Fox, continues the tradition: The picture is nothing but precious.
planting words (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
... and directed by Wes Anderson , who has made other quirky films such as The Life Aquiatic with Steve Zissou and The Darjeeling Limited . Not a great deal happens. Mr. Fox likes stealing chickens, but stops at Mrs. Fox's insistence when they have a baby. Two years later he meets an opossum and they plan to raid the three biggest chicken farmers in the area. Blah blah blah. The story...
Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
... known for arched, bemused detachment, a guy not afraid to fail big (The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou) in pursuit of a movie that doesn’t look or sound like any other movie. Mr. Fox doesn’t look like any other movie out there, not even the equally glorious stop-motion animated Coraline. And it doesn’t fail. Mr. Fox loves his wife, loves his double-breasted corduroy suits. He doesn’t...
