Fantastic Mr. Fox

Two short films cast a long shadow over the history of cinema. The first is the famous 1895 Lumière Brothers’ “L’arrivée d’un train en gare de La Ciotat,” a mere fifty seconds of documentary footage. Through a static, single shot, we watch a train approaching from a distance, chugging from the center-right of the frame […]

Admittedly, this L.A. Times article ventures a little bit into the type of gossip and dirt that we try to avoid here on Filmwell as much as possible. At the same, however, it delves into some of the intriguing methods and challenges faced by the crew of Fantastic Mr. Fox, as well as Wes Anderson’s […]