The Weird and Wonderful World of Wes Anderson
WARNING: Serious praise ahead, DO NOT read if you are sensitive to to admiration! ..doing my best to convince you to watch.. Wes Anderson, an auteur. A writer/director unlike any other, unique and enthralling, his stories are fantastical adventures of self-discovery, loss, and understanding with flashes of dark humour and heart-wrenching sympathy. His ability to...
New DVD Releases “Take Shelter” and “Sleeping Beauty”: art-house film takes on the recession
Australian filmmaker Julia Leigh’s erotic drama Sleeping Beauty, and Jeff Nichol’s Mid-Western epic Take Shelter on the surface bare few similarities, save for praise and attention at film festivals such as Cannes and Sundance in 2011. The former stars the excellent Emily Browning as struggling university student Lucy in Sydney, flitting between temping jobs and...
