Interview Details

Title & Link

How Wes Anderson Turned The New Yorker Into “The French Dispatch” | The New Yorker

Publish Date

September 5, 2021

Interviewees

Wes Anderson

Interviewers

Susan Morrison

Publisher

The New Yorker

Topics

Creation of the characters and storylines in the film
Creative process and decision-making
Discussion on specific characters and scenes in the movie
Influences from French cinema and literature
Inspiration for the movie 'The French Dispatch'
Reception and expectations for the movie in France
Relationship with The New Yorker

People Mentioned

A. J. Liebling
Adrien Brody
Arthur Liebling
Ben Hecht
Ben Yagoda
Benicio Del Toro
Bill Murray
Brendan Gill
Calvin Tomkins
Calvin Trillin
Clair McKelway
Dominique de Menil
E. B. White
Edith Wharton
Elisabeth Moss
Ernest Hemingway
Frances McDormand
George Trow
Gore Vidal
Harold Ross
J. K. L. Berenson
James Baldwin
James Joyce
James Thurber
Janet Flanner
Jeffrey Wright
Joe Mitchell
John Huston
Joseph Duveen
Katharine White
Larry Gagosian
Lillian Ross
Lois Smith
Maw Clampette
Moses Rosenthaler
Owen Wilson
Pauline Kael
Raoul Peck
Rosamond Bernier
Stephen Park
Tilda Swinton
Timothee Chalamet
Tom Stoppard
Ved Mehta
William Maxwell
Wim Wenders
Wolcott Gibbs

Works Mentioned

An Editor’s Burial
Equal in Paris
Giovanni’s Room
Moonrise Kingdom
Paris, Texas
The Dead
The Other Paris
The Photographs of Chachaji
The Royal Tenenbaums
The Years with Ross

Places Mentioned

Berkeley
Ennui-sur-Blasé
Fifth Avenue
France
Liberty, Kansas
Nanterre
New York
New York Film Festival
Paris
Texas

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