Wes Anderson: A Mini Documentary

Paul Waters is part of Brown Elephant Creative, a media production house which has worked on high profile in-house and consumer based media projects with a diverse clientèle, including several Fortune 500 companies.

This short film is the sort of thing Paul does in his spare time.

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First posted: 1 April 2014

Come Together

A new (Christmas) film directed by Wes Anderson, and starring Adrien Brody.

Wes Anderson & Yasujiro Ozu: A Visual Essay

Anna Catley takes us on a tour of the parallel works of Wes Anderson and Yasujiro Ozu.

Wes Anderson is known for his whimsical films with dry humour, bright colour palettes, and for his distinct narrative and visual style. Yasujiro Ozu, arguably less well-known to mainstream audiences, made a name for himself as the "most Japanese of all film directors", known for his calm, minimalist approach to film and his tendency to revisit the same kinds of stories over and over again. The relationship that exists between these Anderson and Ozu, if any, might not be immediately tangible, so the purpose of this essay is to try and draw some visual, thematic, and narrative parallels between these two extraordinarily distinct artists. Anderson and Ozu are two of my favourite directors, so it seemed only natural to pay tribute to them and their incredible filmographies.

Wes Anderson: A Mini Documentary

Paul Waters is part of Brown Elephant Creative, a media production house which has worked on high profile in-house and consumer based media projects with a diverse clientèle, including several Fortune 500 companies.

This short film is the sort of thing Paul does in his spare time.

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Wes Anderson directs commercials

The Royal Tenenbaums is one of my favourite movies. It was written and directed by Wes Anderson, a guy with a unique sensibility. I wasn't quite as thrilled by Bottle Rocket, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, or The Darjeeling Limited, though Rushmore was an interesting film. 

So what? Well, Wes Anderson has been directing commercials lately. They are very... Wes Anderson-ish.

Here's one for a car. A quiet car.

Here's another for a car you can talk to, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang-style.

Here's a commercial he made with Roman Coppola for Stella Artois beer.

Here is Wes Anderson's 2007 "Reporter" ad for AT&T. 

Here's one Wes Anderson made in 2008 with Brad Pitt. It's a commercial for Japanese cell phones, which takes Jacques Tati's Mr Hulot's Holiday as inspiration.

And last, but not least, here is Wes Anderson himself. He starred in and directed this American Express commercial, which chronicled the "filming" of an action movie starring Jason Schwartzman. Anderson acts as if he is being interviewed by someone from American Express for the ad, while walking around completing tasks on set, a scene paying homage to the movie Day for Night by Francois Truffaut.