Funny People
Judd Apatow’s personal epic Funny People (2009) is a tribute to its star Adam Sandler and a reflection on the price of fame. Apatow draws inspiration from Fitzgerald’s The Great… Read more »
Tag: Jason Schwartzman
Asteroid City
Wes Anderson continues to explore the synthesis between high camp visuals and dead pan existentialism with a flare for miniature photography and jukebox scores in the science fiction film Asteroid… Read more »
Fantastic Mr. Fox
From Bottle Rocket (1996) to The Darjeeling Limited (2007), filmmaker Wes Anderson was moving his aesthetic closer and closer to animation. Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) is the first time that… Read more »
CQ
Roman Coppola’s ambitious debut feature CQ (2001) was one of the hot items that year. It’s self-deprecating humor and genuine affection for science fiction films of the sixties like Barbarella… Read more »
Marie Antoinette
The entire time I was watching the first season of Bridgerton (2020) I kept thinking about Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette (2006). I don’t think Bridgerton would exist without Coppola’s film…. Read more »
The Grand Budapest Hotel
It’s been years since Wes Anderson transcended the cult status of his earlier films. Bottle Rocket (1996) and Rushmore (1998) offered a highly stylized, if not completely unreal, suggestion of what was… Read more »
