![]() ![]() As you said, this follows his usual direction in style and storyline-one thing I love about this director is how he takes seemingly insignificant and small stories and creates an entire film around weaving them together. This is yet another wonderfully odd Anderson film.Īnna The guy certainly has a style, and as both of us are big fans, it's always exciting to hear another Anderson flick is coming out. Bill Murray, Willem Dafoe, Tilda Swinton, Edward Norton, Frances McDormand, Adrien Brody, Jason Schwartzman, Owen Wilson, and Anjelica Huston (this film's narrator) are regulars in his productions-familiar faces (and voices) I love to see (and hear). It helps that Anderson has an amazing cast of actors who stick with him film after film. In fact, I could probably watch this film three times today and still not fully absorb all the little references he's packed into it. There's not a one of his films I'm not ready to re-watch whenever the opportunity arises, this new one included. You're either a fan of Anderson's carefully created tableaus-sets that seem more suited to theater productions than film, color schemes and set decorations so curated as to feel like miniatures, perfectly rendered characters simultaneously deeply familiar and utterly queer-or you're not. By now, you probably know if you love Anderson or not, and if not, there's no point in seeing this film if you've yet to be hooked by the likes of The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Darjeeling Limited, or The Grand Budapest Hotel-not to mention his two forays into stop-motion animation, Fantastic Mr. Liebling, James Thurber, Joseph Mitchell, James Baldwin, and Rosamond Bernier), The French Dispatch is as quirky, endearing, and engaging as all of Anderson's work. Tickets are available at the theatre or in advance at Wearabouts on Alexander Street.Glen Essentially a satirical homage to the early years of The New Yorker magazine and some of its most storied writers (A.J. We’re also showing Belfast, The Lost Daughter and The Rescue during the week so don’t miss those. 26), so grab a program at the Salmar Classic Theatre or at Wearabouts, or check out our website at for the full line-up. Most of the movies have second showings (we show movies at 4 and 7:30 p.m. This Canadian movie is a heartwarming story of a transgender woman who comes home to repair her relationship with her father. The Danish animated film, Flee, in which a refugee is confronted with a secret from his past as he’s about to marry his boyfriend, will be shown at 4:00, and Dawn, Her Dad and The Tractor is at 7:30. is Jockey, a lovely movie about an aging jockey and his newly-discovered son. At 10:30 we present Give Me Liberty, a freewheeling comedy about a medical transport driver at 1:30, from the U.K. Read more: Morning start: Buzz Lightyear almost had a different name Read more: Director Ivan Reitman remembered as comedy heavyweight, champion of Canadian film Then, Saturday night at 7:30, from Iran, we’re showing Sun Children, about a young street gang tasked by a local crime lord to find a treasure. At 3:30 is the award-winning three-hour Korean film Drive My Car in which a famed writer/director unravels his past with assistance from his female driver. Saturday’s line-up begins with the Spanish film Parallel Mothers, about two pregnant women facing motherhood with very different mindsets (10:30), followed by Together, Together where a relationship develops between a man and the surrogate he hires to have his baby (1:30). The New Yorker magazine itself said of The French Dispatch, “it’s necessary to see it twice in order to see it fully once.” Luckily it shows on Thursday, Feb. We are immersed into the lives being written about: a man serving a life sentence for homicide who becomes a genius artist, a young revolutionary involved in a student protest in Paris, and a chef who cooks for the police and becomes involved in a nightmare kidnapping. With a star-studded cast, the eccentric journalists are as fascinating as the people they are interviewing. The town is Ennui-sur-Blase, where articles are being written for the final edition of The French Dispatch, a magazine based on The New Yorker. 18, with The French Dispatch, our opening night feature, a fascinating and quirky Wes Anderson English language film set in a fictional town in France. We’ve got some great movies for you starting Friday, Feb. We of the Shuswap Film Society are thrilled that our International Film Festival is a go.
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