Eyeing up Anderson’s adaptations: Roald Dahl’s short stories get the Wes Anderson treatment

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Eyeing up Anderson’s adaptations: Roald Dahl’s short stories get the Wes Anderson treatment

Nat Dolan

Nat Dolan

Stage ladder men CR Sam Moghadam Khamseh on Unsplash
Actors address the audience and stagehands move into view in the short films directed by Wes Anderson [Image: Sam Moghadam Khamseh on Unsplash]

Nat Dolan reflects on the distinctive style of filmmaker Wes Anderson and how this is applied to interpreting short stories for the screen

When the word “auteur” is thrown around these days in the filmic sense, the first name which comes to mind for many people is Wes Anderson. Over the p