One of the first graphics Dorn created for the film was The French Dispatch masthead. “It was actually my first time working on a movie, but I think I did okay because I was asked to join The French Dispatch as the lead graphic designer a few months after the Isle of Dogs released,” says Dorn. To create the publication, Anderson and co-producer Octavia Peissel brought designer Erica Dorn on board, who had previously worked with Anderson on Isle of Dogs, creating the graphics and props for the sets in close collaboration with Annie Atkins. While even the characters of the film were based on New Yorker journalists and moments from the periodical’s storied history, the magazine in the film itself had to have a very distinct identity.įor a fictional magazine that actually doesn’t even exist, The French Dispatch feels impossibly real. “The French magazine in the film obviously is not The New Yorker-but I was, I think, totally inspired by it,” said Anderson in a recent interview with the actual New Yorker. The film, which traces the making of the magazine, draws on Anderson’s lifelong love for The New Yorker, which he discovered in eleventh grade. It’s one of those blink-and-you-miss-it-moments, which even in its brevity, hints at the scrupulous eye of auteur Wes Anderson, whose latest film follows the staff of a fictional American publication in France, set in the imagined town of Ennui-sur-Blasé. Pasted on the wall next to Jones’ desk are 12 past covers of The French Dispatch, showing an assortment of imagined stories in one, the Statue of Liberty in Paris waves to the one in New York, and in another, a group of men in suits break into a dance. (Among the director’s returning regulars are Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody, Tilda Swinton, and Frances McDormand at least one major newcomer to the fold is Timothée Chalamet.) So, while fans wait to find Instagram inspiration in this movie’s soundtrack and set design, here are some recommendations for what to watch instead.During a quick scene in The French Dispatch, Hermès Jones, a magazine illustrator played by Jason Schwartzman, gets an earful from Arthur Howitzer, Jr., the editor-in-chief played by Bill Murray. Set in the 1960s, The French Dispatch focuses on the French outpost of an American magazine not unlike The New Yorker and features the expected Anderson ensemble of stars. On Thursday, Disney announced it had delayed a slew of its upcoming movies, including Mulan, and took The French Dispatch completely off its schedule.īut what might have been: Anderson’s new film was initially set to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May before rolling out to theaters this weekend. In fact, that could be where The French Dispatch winds up. The global health crisis has put the near future of moviegoing in doubt: this week, AMC delayed opening its venues until at least mid-to-late August and at least one analyst has suggested theatrical releases will remain paused until 2021. Movie theaters around the country remain closed on account of the coronavirus pandemic, which has killed more than 143,000 Americans so far, and any hope for a swift reopening of venues has been dashed as COVID-19 cases in the United States continue to soar. But as everyone knows, there is nothing normal about this Friday or anything else at the moment. If this were a normal Friday, at least some moviegoers would head to theaters to see Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch, the fastidious director’s latest meticulously designed project.
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