‘Moonrise Kingdom’s’ Bob Balaban on Being ‘Your Guide to the Creative Experience of This Movie’ ... “You can’t do nothing,” Balaban says of playing the film’s Narrator, ...

It’s great news that critics and viewers are responding, with enthusiasm and ticket purchases, respectively, to “Moonrise Kingdom.” It deserves both the acclaim and the popularity; for all ...

“Moonrise Kingdom” is nothing if not a nostalgic fantasy-reinvention of first love, transposed to 1965 (a fact supplied by Bob Balaban, who doubles as both the pic’s narrator and its most ...

Moonrise Kingdom opened in New York in LA on May 25th, ... jaunty red-scarf-clad narrator Bob Balaban, Moonrise Kingdom follows Sam, a 12-year-old foster child and Khaki Scout ...

As explained by a nameless narrator played by Bob Balaban (looking every inch the Christmas elf in a Technicolor-red winter coat and jaunty green cap), “Moonrise Kingdom“ will chronicle the ...

Moonrise Kingdom epitomizes this paradox, ... From a deadpanned Bob Balaban as the Steve-Zissou-like narrator, to Suzy and Sam dancing in their underwear on the beach, ...

While no less twee than Wes Anderson's earlier pictures, "Moonrise Kingdom" supplies a poignant metaphor for adolescence itself.

One shot and you know it’s a Wes Anderson film, no mistaking it for anyone else’s. The frames are off-symmetrical, their strong human centers unevenly flanked, the balance precarious, as if ...

A decade later, “Moonrise Kingdom” remains nostalgic — despite the film’s exploration of youth and its temporality. The story follows two 12-year-olds, Sam and Suzy, who live on an island off the ...

In Moonrise Kingdom, this theme is at hand yet again, as two children—one a bona fide orphan, the other a daughter to parents who have lost their way—escape and create their own lives, their ...

Moonrise Kingdom While no less twee than Wes Anderson's earlier pictures, "Moonrise Kingdom" supplies a poignant metaphor for adolescence itself.