The French Dispatch | film by Anderson [2021] (original) (raw)
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In Wes Anderson Anderson’s next feature film, The French Dispatch (2021), was described as a “love letter to journalism.” It follows various stories that will be featured in the last edition of a newspaper’s magazine supplement. Murray, Brody, Huston, Wilson, and Schwartzman were among the Anderson regulars who appeared in the movie. Read More
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Brody
In Adrien Brody …Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), and The French Dispatch (2021). In addition, he voiced the Field Mouse in Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009). Read More
Chalamet
In Timothée Chalamet: Dune and other movies from the 2020s …ensemble casts of Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch and Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up. That same year he also starred as Paul Atreides alongside Zendaya as Chani in Denis Villeneuve’s interpretation of Dune, Frank Herbert’s 1965 science-fiction epic. Chalamet’s turn as a lead actor Read More
Dafoe
In Willem Dafoe …featured in another Anderson film, The French Dispatch, playing a crooked accountant. Dafoe’s other credits that year included Guillermo del Toro’s film noir Nightmare Alley and The Card Counter, a crime drama directed by Paul Schrader. Read More
Del Toro
In Benicio Del Toro …also appeared in Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch, playing an unstable artist who finds his muse while in prison. Read More
Huston
In Anjelica Huston …The Darjeeling Limited (2007), and The French Dispatch (2021); she also lent her voice to Anderson’s stop-motion animated feature Isle of Dogs (2018). In 2004 she portrayed women’s suffrage pioneer Carrie Chapman Catt in the HBO film Iron Jawed Angels. She later played the addled mother of a sex addict… Read More
McDormand
In Frances McDormand …a journalist in his dramedy The French Dispatch. Later that year she costarred with Denzel Washington in The Tragedy of Macbeth, an adaptation of William Shakespeare’s play that was directed by McDormand’s husband; he also was credited with writing it for the screen. She later had a minor role in… Read More
Murray
In Bill Murray …Grand Budapest Hotel (2014); and The French Dispatch (2021). He provided the voice of the sardonic cat Garfield in two commercially successful films (2004 and 2006) based on the eponymous comic strip, as well as the voice of a badger in Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009), an animated film adaptation… Read More
Norton
In Edward Norton …subsequently reunited with Anderson on The French Dispatch (2021), in which he played a gangster who kidnaps the son of a police officer. In 2022 Norton appeared as a tech billionaire in Glass Onion, a whodunit that was part of the Knives Out anthology franchise; the series centres on a… Read More
Swinton
In Tilda Swinton …an art critic in his The French Dispatch (2021), about the last edition of a newspaper’s magazine supplement. Read More
Waltz
In Christoph Waltz …he appeared in Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch, a dramedy about the final edition of a newspaper’s magazine supplement. Read More
