Actor · Voice actor · Screenwriter

Jason Schwartzman

5: briefs
13:00: average
65 min: in total

On film.briefs5

Marie Antoinette

Sofia Coppola · 2006

Sofia Coppola’s 2006 Marie Antoinette reimagines the queen’s early life as a study in isolation and performance, using Kirsten Dunst’s restrained presence, Milena Canonero’s Oscar-winning costumes, and a daring anachronistic soundtrack to evoke emotional rather than historical truth. Shot with deliberate softness and edited for rhythm over exposition, it omits political context to focus on interiority — making Versailles feel less like a palace and more like a gilded institution for girls.

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Fantastic Mr. Fox

Wes Anderson · 2009

George Clooney voices a fox whose one last heist against three farmers turns into a siege on his whole underground community. Wes Anderson's 2009 stop-motion adaptation of Roald Dahl keeps the plot but reshapes the tone into something drier and more personal.

13:00

Isle of Dogs

Wes Anderson · 2018

A dictatorial mayor exiles every dog in the fictional Japanese city of Megasaki to Trash Island over a manufactured flu outbreak, and his own twelve-year-old ward hijacks a plane to find his banished bodyguard dog among them. Wes Anderson's second stop-motion feature, drawing openly on Akira Kurosawa and Hayao Miyazaki, pairs meticulous handcrafted puppetry with a plot about political corruption and canine loyalty, while drawing sustained criticism for how it handles the Japanese setting and characters within it.

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Klaus

Sergio Pablos · 2019

A spoiled postal cadet exiled to a feuding Arctic town discovers that a reclusive toymaker's handmade gifts can be used to bribe warring children into good behaviour, and the scheme he runs to hit his delivery quota accidentally invents Christmas as it is now understood. Sergio Pablos, directing after years animating for Disney's hand-drawn era, built Klaus specifically to argue that traditional animation, sidelined industry-wide since the 1990s, still had a commercial future.

13:00

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson · 2022

Miles Morales crosses into a multiverse-spanning Spider-Society alongside Gwen Stacy, only to find that the group's leader believes certain tragedies must happen exactly on schedule to hold reality together. Built with roughly a thousand crew members and six visually distinct animated universes, it became the highest-grossing film Sony Pictures Animation has released.