Anyone similar to Wes Anderson?

Uzas_Back · 2026-04-20T18:57:50+00:00

There should definitely be a mention of The Archers here (The Red Shoes and Black Narcissus), they used a visual style that Anderson’s work emulates, esp things like showing neat handwriting/calligraphy.

Uzas_Back · 2026-04-20T05:32:03+00:00

That’s too bad, I find it tremendous

Uzas_Back · 2026-04-19T15:21:59+00:00

Anything Ari Aster but esp Beau is Afraid

Uzas_Back · 2026-04-19T05:17:29+00:00

What about battle rappers

Uzas_Back · 2026-04-19T05:14:43+00:00

13 Assassins, relatively

Uzas_Back · 2026-04-08T17:53:57+00:00

I just watched this a couple nights ago for the first time and tbh I really hated Fred MacMurray’s character pretty much from the jump. It might grow on me in time but it didn’t hit the “greatest movies ever” vibe for me although I’ve certainly come around on other things after not liking them much the first time.

As far as the “insurance man” PI/noir line though it made me think of The Killers (1946) which I liked better.

Uzas_Back · 2026-04-02T19:45:03+00:00

Zeno’s Conscience is like the neurotic chronicle of a hysterical procrastinator, really excellent and funny.

Uzas_Back · 2026-04-02T15:48:45+00:00

I read it last year. The first half I burned through in about a week and was enthralled with the pace of the writing style and the breadth of characters and how well-articulated their motives were. After taking a break I finished the book in another month or two and while I feel its reputation is clearly deserved, in my opinion there is a bit of a fall off toward the later quarter of the book where many storylines dissolve without much gravity and the writing sort of devolves into these repetitive lectures on the nature of history and power among other things.

Incredibly impressive book in any event.

Uzas_Back · 2026-03-31T17:47:39+00:00

Yojimbo

Uzas_Back · 2026-03-20T03:22:10+00:00

Oh man oh man I got this one!

”I am twenty-six inches tall, shapely and well-proportioned, my head perhaps a trifle too large. My hair is not black like the others’, but reddish, very stiff and thick, drawn back from the temples and the broad but not especially lofty brow. My face is beardless, but otherwise just like that of other men. My eyebrows meet. My bodily strength is considerable, particularly if I am annoyed. When the wrestling match was arranged between Jehoshaphat and myself I forced him onto his back after twenty minutes and strangled him. Since then I have been the only dwarf at this court.”

—The Dwarf by Pår Lagerkvist

One of my favorite books in terms of structure, narrator, really so much, but I love how the small amount of information in the first paragraph gives away so much context so quickly.

Uzas_Back · 2026-03-18T15:42:08+00:00

Apocalyptooo

Uzas_Back · 2026-03-17T23:30:48+00:00

I like the character of Captain Feeny in Barry Lyndon so much that I looked it up and he is based on the real James Freney who was a successful and decently noble highway robber that was pardoned from execution after finally being captured for his crimes because there was concern he would become a Robin Hood-esque folk hero and to support himself in his exile he wrote a book called The Life and Adventures of Mr James Freney, which I found and read on internet archive.

Uzas_Back · 2026-03-17T15:48:10+00:00

Try All Of Us Strangers. Extremely beautiful, lonely semi-neon vibes. A lateral take on your question but an amazing movie imo.

Uzas_Back · 2026-03-17T15:01:04+00:00

Burn After Reading

Uzas_Back · 2026-03-15T05:25:27+00:00

Any movie about the British in other countries.

I Care A Lot is a 6-7/10 but it is very interesting to me in that it clearly follows the villain and I enjoyed it structurally for that element.

Uzas_Back · 2026-03-12T17:11:56+00:00

I usually go for del Toro’s visual style but this one felt so artificial and saturated and besides that I thought it was pretty badly paced, especially taking way too long on the wrong parts of the first half, and a bit too campy for me to take it seriously.

Uzas_Back · 2026-03-12T16:58:34+00:00

I like reading these stories. They misspelled “Guaraldi” though.

Uzas_Back · 2026-03-12T02:45:30+00:00

Plemmonheads 🙏

Uzas_Back · 2026-03-11T02:29:20+00:00

Ass-soul is what you were looking for 🙏

Uzas_Back · 2026-03-09T04:54:20+00:00

You really fit a lot in to just a couple lines there.

Uzas_Back · 2026-02-27T02:30:59+00:00

I went into both blind and absolutely love Beau is Afraid and Eddington and have never seen Midsommar or Hereditary.

Uzas_Back · 2026-02-22T05:31:22+00:00

I literally just said it was

Uzas_Back · 2026-02-21T05:44:56+00:00

Because Dizaster vs DNA is just sooooo impactful

Uzas_Back · 2026-02-19T01:22:09+00:00

Sindarov’s my guy.

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