Wes Anderson films are just so gorgeous in general, so I'd reccomend just checking out films he's directed.
The colour grading in his films are so amazing!!
Everything he touches turns to solid gold. My new favorite movie is Asteroid City and the one before that was The Grand Budapest Hotel. He is an amazing director and his art direction is some of the most pleasing to the eye I have seen. Love his movies so much and I LOVE WILLEM DAFOE.
The old-timey aspects of his various narratives notwithstanding (from “Fantastic Mr. Fox” to “Life Aquatic” to “French Dispatch” and “Grand Budapest” and everything in between), I can basically boil That Wes Thing ™️ down to a few consistent visual tropes:
* Ubiquitous symmetry
* Tableau compositions
* Very deliberate/narrow color palettes
* LOOOOOOOONG takes (He loves them)
We have been known to stage quasi Wes film festivals sometimes and just binge a bunch of his films back to back.
it’s stupid and perfect and lowkey one of the greatest movies of all time. it’s fun !! it’s california! we’re surfing and skydiving and robbing banks! what more can you ask for!!
i have 9 out right now and in no world am i finishing all 9 of them (including a 500 page oral history of the soviet union and like a 550 page one about the manson murders). but i really love checking books out, really satisfies some sort of innate consumer impulse in me. and i love having books around me.
