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The Art of the Film: A Discussion of the Distinctive, Ornately Detailed Cinema of Wes Anderson

Aired of Wednesday, June 4th.

On this edition of ST, a discussion of the distinctive films of writer/director Wes Anderson, whose vivid, detailed, and meticulously crafted movies include "Rushmore," "The Royal Tenenbaums," "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou," and "Moonrise Kingdom" --- as well as "The Grand Budapest Hotel," which is still in theaters nationwide. Our guest is Matt Zoller Seitz, a critic for New York magazine who has a new book out about Anderson's decidedly ornate cinematic world. That book is "The Wes Anderson Collection" --- and as a critic for Filter has noted: "Each page of this book --- filled with conversations, photographs, and artwork surrounding each film --- showcases Anderson's pop-culture inspirations from Hitchcock and 'Star Wars' to Jacques Cousteau and the French New Wave. Better than most of their kind, the talks [between Seitz and Anderson] reveal a candidness and honesty between critic and director, allowing Seitz to dig around Anderson's vault and share his discoveries." Seitz will be reading from and signing copies of this book at a free-to-the-public Book Smart Tulsa event at the Philbrook Museum of Art tomorrow, Thursday the 5th, at 6pm. It'll be a rather multifaceted gala with live music, costumes, a lecture on Anderson's films, and so on --- then, after the Philbrook event concludes, there will be a special screening of "Bottle Rocket" (Anderson's first film) at the Circle Cinema at 8:30pm. And Seitz will introduce this screening.

Rich Fisher passed through KWGS about thirty years ago, and just never left. Today, he is the general manager of Public Radio Tulsa, and the host of KWGS’s public affairs program, StudioTulsa, which celebrated its twentieth anniversary in August 2012 . As host of StudioTulsa, Rich has conducted roughly four thousand long-form interviews with local, national, and international figures in the arts, humanities, sciences, and government. Very few interviews have gone smoothly. Despite this, he has been honored for his work by several organizations including the Governor's Arts Award for Media by the State Arts Council, a Harwelden Award from the Arts & Humanities Council of Tulsa, and was named one of the “99 Great Things About Oklahoma” in 2000 by Oklahoma Today magazine.
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