Wes Anderson

...to have made this one for his inner child. The movie has been adapted by Anderson and Noah Baumbach (writer-director of "The Squid and the Whale'') from the 1970 kids' book by Roald Dahl. It jettisons Dahl's coolly subversive tone, as...

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...anthropomorphized animals come off as fascinatingly off-kilter. It's a far more fulfilling take on a beloved children's book. TITLE: "The Fantastic Mr. Fox" CREDITS: Directed by Wes Anderson, written by Mr. Anderson and Noah Baumbach

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...vulpus vulpus. And yet Clooney's naturalism is of a piece with the joyous, marvelously detailed movie around him, adapted from Roald Dahl's novel with adventurousness and seemingly boundless love by Anderson and Noah Baumbach. "Fantastic Mr....

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...years good enough to kill the bad taste of The Men Who Stare at Goats. (Anderson and Baumbach send up his Ocean's Eleven character's appetite for poring over blueprints.) An inventive thief, Mr. Fox goes straight when his wife (voiced by...

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...Fox isn't one of these. Anderson and his co-writer, Noah Baumbach, have made a few modest diversions from Dahl's text, but they remain faithful to its essential good spirit and sense of wonder at the natural world. There is no serious...

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...links, send them along. Wes Anderson at NYPL tonight Somehow not sold out yet: Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach talk about The Fantastic Mr. Fox at the 42nd St. NYPL tonight. Tickets here. By Jason Kottke • Nov 9, 2009 at 10:36 am •...

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...as voice talent. Working with co-screenwriter Noah Baumbach on the droll Dahl novel, a childhood favorite of the director's, allowed Anderson to connect with a congenial sensibility and to expand on the plot. The basic thrust of the...

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Wes Anderson brings Roald Dahl's 'Fantastic Mr. Fox' to life MOVIES | Director Wes Anderson brings Roald Dahl's 'Fantastic Mr. Fox' to life Wes Anderson is "absolutely, totally convinced" that if he and co-writer Noah Baumbach had not been...

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...movie for all. Anderson and co-screenwriter Noah Baumbach have taken Dahl's beloved 1970 tale of a thieving, clever fox and created a stop-motion animated classic, with affection for the original present in every frame. It begins with a...

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