Wes Anderson at the 92nd Street Y/Tribeca

Going to see Wes Anderson speak about The Fantastic Mr. Fox tonight .  Stimulating Q&A! Film nerdery! Open bar! Check out this video below about the "making-of" the stop-motion animation film.  You'll learn that 18.5 TBs of footage was shot (for realz??),  how Anderson directs from a quaint flat in Paris,  and that the producer of the film  has a voice like Billy Barty, among other interesting production tidbits.  


Via: Wired.com 

The Fantastic Mr. Fox?

Wes Anderson's trailer for the upcoming stop-motion animation film The Fantastic Mr. Fox is being screened before the snoozefest , Where the Wild Things Are.  Now, I don't wanna be a hater, but on the big screen the movement of the characters--particularly when talking--seemed choppy to the point of distraction, as if the audio and picture were out of sync.  It's probably the stop-motion and I shouldn't expect the same fluidity as a Pixar film.  I believe Coraline was all stop-motion too and didn't suffer from the same problems. Well, I'm still psyched to see the film, as I've always admired the charming details, visual humor and stylized sensibility of Anderson's films.