Andersonian
One of the biggest influences on Paul Thomas Anderson is this director who is known for his overlapping dialogue and ensemble movies.
Robert Altman
The Jets blame everything from bad parenting to psychology for their behavior in this comic West Side Story number: “Gee, Officer ___.”
Krupke
Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, Willem Dafoe
Finding Nemo
Manny, Sid, and Diego discover that their frozen valley is about to flood, forcing them to escape before the surrounding ice melts.
Ice Age: The Meltdown
A college freshman joins an all-female a cappella group and helps them shake up their tired routine for a national singing competition.
Pitch Perfect
Wes Anderson’s The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou centers on the search for this aquatic creature.
Jaguar Shark
Roy Scheider plays Broadway choreographer Joe Gideon, whose obsessive work habits and hedonistic lifestyle catch up with him in this 1979 film.
All That Jazz
Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Ned Beatty
Toy Story 3
A group of mystery-solving friends must stop a masked villain who is bringing costumes of their former foes to life and unleashing the monsters across town.
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
A film crew travels to a mysterious island, where they encounter a giant beast who is eventually brought to New York City.
King Kong
Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another was loosely based on a Thomas Pynchon novel titled this.
Vineland
Repeated takes of the famously acrobatic “Make ’Em Laugh” number in Singin’ in the Rain reportedly sent this performer to the hospital with exhaustion.
Donald O’Connor
Tina Fey, Graham Norton, Richard Ayoade
Soul
A makeshift family of zombie survivors travels across the country from the White House to Graceland, encountering new survivors and evolving zombies along the way.
Zombieland: Double Tap
A middle-class family in Taipei quietly navigates work, marriage, first love, and loss over the course of a year in this 2000 drama.
Yi Yi
In 2023, Wes Anderson released four Roald Dahl short-film adaptations on Netflix: The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, The Swan, The Rat Catcher, and this.
Poison
More than 80 years after its release, The Wizard of Oz became an immersive experience at the Las Vegas Sphere, where audiences might be surprised when these actually fall from above during a scene.
Apples
Frances McDormand, Jeffery Wright, Steve Zahn
The Good Dinosaur
A former CIA assassin living in exile is pulled back into the world of espionage after being framed for the murder of two agents in Berlin.
The Bourne Supremacy
Stanley Kubrick’s second movie follows a washed-up boxer who gets tangled up with a dancer and her dangerous employer in this 1955 noir.
Killer's Kiss
Wes Anderson recently helped restore and re-release this 1970 Satyajit Ray film in which four urbanite yuppies take a vacation to a poor, remote village.
Days and Nights in the Forest
The same year he directed Casablanca, Michael Curtiz also directed James Cagney as composer and Broadway legend George M. Cohan in this 1942 musical.
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Michael Caine, Emily Mortimer, John Turturro
Cars 2
A rescue astronaut searches for a missing crew while intelligent apes battle a hidden society of telepathic human mutants living in the ruins of New York.
Beneath the Planet of the Apes
A mother and daughter, both named Edith Beale, live together in a crumbling East Hampton mansion overrun by cats in this 1975 documentary.
Grey Gardens