In his latest film, Moonrise Kingdom, however, Balaban technically doesn’t have a character – which he tells THR made his job tougher than usual. “You can’t do nothing,” Balaban says of ...

“Moonrise Kingdom” opened the Cannes Film Festival ... so it’s not a surprise to hear Anderson say he holds one of the main characters closest to his heart. The director’s next film ...

Movie characters, like any other artistic product, hold the essence of their creator within themselves. They are fiction birthed from reality, an extension of consciousness. So, at its core, “Moonrise ...

telling details designed to reveal the character of those within; nothing within the frame escapes his control. The monomaniacal fussiness makes “Moonrise Kingdom” an indulgent movie ...

Its characters simmer with understated angst ... may find it insufferable. Also: Discuss "Moonrise Kingdom" with John Serba for his My 2 Cents movie-chat series, 1 p.m. Sunday, July 1 at ...

If there are a thousand, different shots in Moonrise Kingdom, there could very well be a thousand, hysterical moments. Whether they be characters acting and reacting in the foreground or something ...

It requires sympathy with the characters, which means ditching ... The shot that opens Moonrise Kingdom pans across, up, and down a New England house, revealing its inhabitants going about their ...

Making "Moonrise Kingdom" was essentially sleep-away camp ... too. Like Hayward's character, he found a parental guide to "troubled" children atop his refrigerator, terrified and ashamed to ...

“Moonrise Kingdom” is not a drastic departure from ... It was so easy for Anderson and his characters. They could exteriorize their outsiderness in simple ways, with dollhouse-like sets ...

Focus Features have issued seven brand new character posters for their forthcoming ensemble drama Moonrise Kingdom. The posters, each focusing on one (or in one case two) of the leads, offer us a ...