Yes, Wes Anderson’s films are hyper-stylized, but they’re rich in meaning too. None more so than The Grand Budapest Hotel.
Elbert Ventura
Elbert Ventura is a research fellow at Media Matters for America.
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Tired of TV’s Golden Age?
Shane Carruth’s Upstream Color shows why we still need the movies.
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How Hate Groups Went Mainstream
In his new book, David Neiwert charts the rise of paranoid, hate-focused rhetoric on the right.
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What Hollywood Agenda?
Try as they might, conservatives just can’t quit Brokeback Mountain. Weeks after its release, Ang Lee’s critically acclaimed hit continues to be the object of fixation among conservative pundits. The grumbling has been relentless. The movie advances Hollywood’s “radical agenda,” says MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough. Syndicated conservative radio host Janet Parshall calls it part of the […]