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18 May 2012 5:40 AM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »

Cannes, France -- In Wes Anderson's "Moonrise Kingdom," the famously meticulous director takes his fastidiously fashioned world and flings it into the woods.

Even a relatively loose Anderson film is more ornately composed than most dollhouses, so no one should expect cinema verite in his latest fable. But there is – gasp! – actual handheld camera work in "Moonrise Kingdom," a story of pre-adolescent love on a rustic New England island.

For Anderson, whose previous film was the animated "The Fantastic Mr. Fox," it's a welcome return to the vagaries of live-action filmmaking.

"It was nice to have the sort of lack of control that you get on the set," Anderson said in a seaside interview in Cannes, where "Moonrise" opened the prestigious film festival before releasing in theaters May 25. "It's nice to go on location with a group. That's something I kind of missed."

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- AP

17 May 2012 9:06 PM, PDT | Filmmaker Magazine - Blog | See recent Filmmaker Magazine news »

Wes Anderson, the cover star of the latest issue of Filmmaker, kicked off the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday with his new film, Moonrise Kingdom, which opens Stateside on next Friday. (The estimable David Hudson, now operating at Fandor, collects the critical consensus on the movie here.)

If you, like me, are not on the Croisette this year, you can still get your Anderson fix via the Cannes website, which takes a special look at Anderson’s body of work through the prism of his use of pop music, collecting together clips from a string of movies plus an interview with Anderson.

And if you’re in New York, you’ll be pleased to know that today marks the start of the Museum of the Moving Image’s Wes Anderson’s Worlds. The 10-day season will screen all of the director’s features, plus has a special showing of Orson Welles’ The Magnificent Ambersons, »

- Nick Dawson

4 May 2012 10:59 AM, PDT | Trailers from Hell | See recent Trailers from Hell news »

Although filmed in 1982, James Bridges’ film maudit did not see the light of a projector until 1984, and even then in very limited release. In the meantime the writer-director’s version of the death of a drug dealer went under the studio knife and saw its non-linear storytelling conventionalized into a standard narrative. The result joins the likes of The Red Badge of Courage and The Magnificent Ambersons as compromised but still compelling mutant movies that have yet to be reconstructed.

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- Danny

3 items from 2012