Fantastic Mr Fox (Anderson, 2009): Everyman Cinema Screen on the Green, 10.30pm
This film is part of the Wes Anderson 35mm season at the Screen on the Green (details here) and also being shown on May 10th.
Chicago Reader review:
Tony hipster Wes Anderson (The Royal Tenenbaums) takes a left
turn into stop-motion animation with this 2009 adaptation of the Roald
Dahl children's book, and the result is an instant classic. The material
allows Anderson to neutralize the most irritating aspects of his work
(the precociousness, the sense of white-bread privilege) and maximize
the most endearing (the comic timing, the dollhouse ordering of invented
worlds). Like the rest of his movies, this one is essentially
infantile—but when you're telling the story of a ne'er-do-well fox
conspiring against a trio of nasty farmers, who cares? Noah Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale)
collaborated with Anderson on the script; among the voice talents are
Bill Murray, Meryl Streep, Michael Gambon, Willem Dafoe, and George
Clooney, perfect as the roguish hero.
JR Jones
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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