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interviewmagazine.com - 27 days ago

Wes Anderson

— interviewmagazine.com — Is he almost single-handedly keeping alive the spirit of the stylishly international cineaste auteur? Or do his... Quirky, ­Soulful, intricately art-directed films and custom-tailored corduroy suits just make it seem that way? Wes Anderson

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The Fantastic Mr. Fox

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Videos From the FANTASTIC MR. FOX Costume Contest!

— content.foxsearchlight.com — Gen Art and Fox Searchlight ran a contest for young filmmakers and designers - check out the... results here! Videos From the FANTASTIC MR. FOX Costume Contest!

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The Fantastic Mr. Fox

Wes Anderson

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cinematical.com - 25 days ago

How To Make Your Own 'Fantastic Mr. Fox' Halloween Costume

— cinematical.com — Not long ago we told you about a little contest in which Fox Searchlight and Gen Art... were bringing filmmakers and designers together to see which team could produce the best How-To video with the theme being Fantastic Mr. Fox costumes, based on the ... How To Make Your Own 'Fantastic Mr. Fox' Halloween Costume

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The Fantastic Mr. Fox

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@Glinner and sponsored by McDonalds...http://bit.ly/kH9kn 23 days ago

Even if it is a Happy Meal, I still can't wait to see this movie. rt@facetschicago: http://tinyurl.com/ykux764 27 days ago

RT @guardianfilm: Film blog: Fantastic Mr Fox's McDonald's tie-in is a fantastically wrong move | Ryan Gilbey http://bit.ly/6DkVf 29 days ago

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Auteurs and Cheeseburgers
Row Three — ... level. Stylistic innovation. But when you think back on the work of the so-called greats, don’t you feel, deep in your soul, that something intangible is missing? Well, now the wily young maverick Wes Anderson has revealed exactly what was absent from Tarkovsky, Bresson, Welles and the rest: a merchandising tie-in with McDonald’s. True art, it seems, can co-exist after all with moist, defeated cheeseburgers and limp, glossy French fries. I do hope Cahiers du Cinema got the memo.” The Guardian takes Wes Anderson to task “None of which would be noteworthy in the slightest if the ...

Will Wes Anderson & McDonald's Make Kids Fat With 'Fox' Happy Meals?
:: The Playlist :: — ... director's peak, it's safe to say that everyone agrees that with " The Darjeeling Limited ," Anderson was spinning his wheels. The impending release of Anderson's latest endeavor, " The Fantastic Mr. Fox ," marks a number of firsts for the director. It's his first film adapted from a book, his first fully animated feature (not counting Henry Selick 's creatures in " The Life Aquatic ") and his first family film. But that hasn't stopped the knives from coming out, including a rather hilariously inept screed by the Guardian film blogger Ryan Gilbey. Gilbey breathlessly takes ...

The Wes Anderson Happy Meal.
IFC.com - Indie Eye — ... , if only because it takes a certain amount of wit (or, uh, greed) to propose using a vampire's face to stop bleeding. But then there are our auteurs, our artists , whose work is challenging, unusual, not just empty entertainment. Clearly, they, of all people...do not deserve marketing and merchandising? McDonald's has a "Fantastic Mr. Fox" Happy Meal, which brought out the fiend in the Guardian 's Ryan Gilbey, who fumed that this wouldn't "be noteworthy in the slightest if the film in question were some DreamWorks piece of junk, or a knock-off directed by a hack," but that ...