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“Mr. Fox” – Best Film of the Year for New Yorker’s Richard Brody

Richard Brody chimes in again for Anderson in his Best of 2009 film list on his Front Row blog. “Fantastic Mr. Fox” is #1 on his list:

1. “Fantastic Mr. Fox” (Wes Anderson): Pure animal wildness plus an exquisitely controlled expressive frenzy; one of the most visually generous movies ever made, comparable in detail to Jacques Tati’s “Playtime.” You have to see it twice to see it once.

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Wes wins Special Filmmaking Achievement Award from the National Board of Review

See IndieWire for a full list of winners.

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“The Darjeeling Limited” Best of the Decade

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From Richard Brody’s New Yorker blog, where he ranked TDL the second best film of the 00s:

As ever with the films of Wes Anderson—the best new American director of the last twenty years—love and death, comedy and tragedy, comfort and adventure, understanding and opacity, style and substance fuse in a modernism of personal and reflexive cinema and a classicism of grand and subtle literary emotion.

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Spinner Interviews Anderson & Poster

Spinner interviewed Wes Anderson & longtime music supervisor Randall Poster about Fantastic Mr. Fox‘s soundtrack.

Full article after the jump, but check Spinner for a great promo video featuring Bobby Fuller Four’s “Let Her Dance.”

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NPR: Wes’ Influences and Jason on Wait, Wait…

NPR Weekend Edition did a little piece on Wes Anderson’s influences in Fantastic Mr. Fox:

“Eric says he thinks that it’s based on my relationship with my older brother,” says Anderson. “He was always taller, and he’s very intelligent, and he was always better adjusted than I was. He’s also very well-mannered and just always had it together. Now he’s a doctor. … I was a kind of grouchier, less well-adjusted child, so I think that might’ve been an inspiration without me ever thinking of it.”

Jason Schwartzman is going to be the guest for the “Not My Job” segment on Wait, Wait… Don’t Tell Me (“the NPR news quiz”) this weekend. Here is Jason’s apperance.

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The Music of Mr. Fox (video)

Wes, Alexandre Desplat, Jarvis Cocker, and the London Oratory School Schola

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Fantastic Mr. Fox “Street Fighting Man” video

From VH1. Note that the video contains unreleased scenes. If you are a stickler about spoilers, you might want to wait until you have seen the picture.

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Fantastic cover of New York Magazine

The November 23 issue of New York Magazine

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Fantastic Mr. Fox window display at Bergdorf Goodman (NYC)

Photos by Rudy Pospisil, © 2009 him
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Flash slideshow

(Simple gallery)

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Fantastic Mr. Fox concept art

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We have compiled a gallery of concept art from the production of Fantastic Mr. Fox. Click here or on the image above for the flash slideshow, here for the simple gallery. A few of the smaller images appear rather grainy in the slideshow.

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