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Fantastic Mr. Fox opens Wednesday throughout the Triangle Fantastic Mr. Fox director Wes Anderson has always given his protagonists qualities he himself possesses as a director.

At this point in his career, Ben Stiller is kind of an enigma. Just when you think all he's got left are Night at the Museum s and Heartbreak Kid s, he turns in a badass performance in Tropic Thunder .

"Quirky." "Eccentric." "Whimsical." Critics trot out the synonyms for "playful" and "odd" when talking about Wes Anderson.

Noah Baumbach is an indie writer-director known for wry, literate, darkly comic arthouse meditations on Gen-X angst like Kicking & Screaming and The Squid and the Whale .

Hey everyone. Capone in Chicago here. From he first came on the filmmaking scene with 1996's BOTTLE ROCKET, Wes Anderson has been one of the more analyzed and idolized writer-directors working today.

It may not merit the adjective in its title, yet the animated yarn 'Fantastic Mr.

Wes Anderson is 'absolutely, totally convinced' that if he and co-writer Noah Baumbach had not been given the opportunity to live and work at author Roald Dahl's famous 'Gipsy House' in the English countryside - 'a lot of the essence of Dahl might be missing from 'Fantastic Mr.

Three movies open Wednesday in theaters, taking advantage of the long Thanksgiving weekend.

Like Gen-X nostalgia, animation won't be going away anytime soon. Consider Fantastic Mr.

"Fantastic Mr. Fox" - With George Clooney, Meryl Streep and Bill Murray leading the top-notch voice cast, director Wes Anderson has found an ideal story and medium - stop-motion animation - to bring his cockeyed vision to the cartoon world.

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Last night at 92YTribeca - in a discussion moderated by Entertainment Weekly 's Dave Karger - 92YTribeca, Borders, and Twentieth Century Fox presented an evening of conversation with director Wes Anderson and actor Jason Schwartzman .

With 'Fantastic Mr. Fox,' Wes Anderson F... Wes Anderson is famous for his quirky sense of absurdist humor.

It may not merit the adjective in its title, yet the animated yarn "Fantastic Mr.

Mr Fox and his wife Felicity used to steal chickens, but now they raise their children while Mr Fox concentrates on journalism.

In a recent New Yorker profile of Wes Anderson - the director of "Rushmore," "The Royal Tenenbaums" and other quirky indie ventures - he was said to have inspired a glut of auteurs with a similar sensibility.

Daniel Carey "A MAN can't change what he is. He can convince anyone he's someone else, but never himself." So Verbal Kint comments in 'The Usual Suspects', explaining how dirty ex-cop Dean Keaton is persuaded to return to a life of crime.

'Fantastic Mr. Fox' is directed by indie darling Wes Anderson, and features George Clooney and Meryl Streep as lead voices.

Wes Anderson has explored the ocean's depths in the nautical "The Life Aquatic" and voyaged by train through India in "The Darjeeling Limited," but the director has another place still to explore - the final frontier.

BASED on the story by Roald Dahl, the Fantastic Mr Fox tells the tale of the noble and charming Mr Fox who outfoxes some dimwitted farmers, who tire of sharing their chickens with the crafty creature.