Tag Archives: Roman Coppola

Asteroid City review — Wes Anderson’s boxes in boxes

June 24, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by Wes Anderson | Written by Anderson and Roman Coppola | 105 min | ▲▲▲△△ If you go back to my review of Anderson Feature #10, The French Dispatch, you'll see it left me a little confused. I appreciated its very Andersonian qualities — art directed within an inch of its life, a disregard… Read More

The French Dispatch review — I don’t really get it. Still worth seeing, though.

November 1, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Wes Anderson | Written by Anderson, Roman Coppola, Hugh Guinness, and Jason Schwartzman | 108 min | In Cinemas I've long appreciated Wes Anderson's strange magic. I have plenty of time for his tiny twee classics like Moonrise Kingdom, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, and the writer-director's masterpiece, The Grand Budapest Hotel.… Read More

Isle Of Dogs review — Barking mad, beautiful, and yes, problematic

April 15, 2018 flawintheiris

Directed by Wes Anderson | Written by Anderson from a story by Anderson, Roman Coppola, Jason Schwartzman, and Kunichi Nomura | 101 min The new Wes Anderson is as brilliant and idiosyncratic as anything I've seen in his peculiar cinematic output. It also has moments where I was left befuddled, bemused, and maybe, once or… Read More

Moonrise Kingdom review

June 17, 2012 flawintheiris

Directed by Wes Anderson Written by Anderson and Roman Coppola I'm happy Wes Anderson is out there. Because, say what you will about him—whether his very particular style of filmmaking is to your taste—it's hard to argue against originality, which he has in spades. After Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic With… Read More