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From his first film “Bottle Rocket’ (1996), director Wes Anderson caught the attention of the Sundance Festival crowd and even auteur Martin Scorsese with his unique filmmaking style. Anderson mixes a distinctive whimsical visual style with saturated colors and detailed production design with an affectionate view of the eccentric characters at the heart of his stories. In “Rushmore,’ (1998), which brought him to wide public attention, he tells the story of a love struck private school student with deadpan humor and the inspired casting of Bill Murray, as a despairing wealthy businessman, as competitors for a schoolteacher-s attention. This unusual love triangle plays out believably because of Anderson-s ability to capture the human impulses underneath the quirks. He has continued to create fantastical tales with a returning set of favorite actors: Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman, and both Owen and Luke Wilson. In films like “The Royal Tenenbaums’ (2001), “The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou’ (2004) and even the animated “Fantastic Mr. Fox’ (2009), he captures troubled souls at their moment of reconnection to others. His next project, “Moonrise Kingdom,’ will follow the conflicts and confusions of a 1960s New England town as they search for a pair of young runaways with Bruce Willis and Edward Norton joining his recurring actors Murray and Schwartzman.

From his first film “Bottle Rocket” (1996), director Wes Anderson caught the attention of the Sundance Festival crowd and even auteur Martin Scorsese with his unique filmmaking style. Anderson mixes a distinctive whimsical visual style with saturated colors and detailed production design with an affectionate view of the eccentric characters at the heart of his stories. In “Rushmore,” (1998), which brought him to wide public attention, he tells the story of a love struck private school student with deadpan humor and the inspired casting of Bill Murray, as a despairing wealthy businessman, as competitors for a schoolteacher’s attention. This unusual love triangle plays out believably because of Anderson’s ability to capture the human impulses underneath the quirks. He has continued to create fantastical tales with a returning set of favorite actors: Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman, and both Owen and Luke Wilson. In films like “The Royal Tenenbaums” (2001), “The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou” (2004) and even the animated “Fantastic Mr. Fox” (2009), he captures troubled souls at their moment of reconnection to others. His next project, “Moonrise Kingdom,” will follow the conflicts and confusions of a 1960s New England town as they search for a pair of young runaways with Bruce Willis and Edward Norton joining his recurring actors Murray and Schwartzman.