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Director Wes Anderson was very easy to fall in love with. His debut film, Bottle Rocket (1996), starring his goofily charming friends the Wilson brothers, won him early cult status. Rushmore was built on a witty and distinctive voice, and Anderson's visual brilliance came into sharp focus with The Royal Tenenbaums, an elaborately wrapped present to a generation that wanted its own J.D. Salinger, one without the hermit-like lifestyle and creepy Joyce Maynard baggage. (See the Top 10 Troubled Genius films...
Their main claim to fame was the whiteboard they brought with them to each game that served as a constantly-changing poster and source of visual heckling...
Echoing Conway, Livingstone, who studies how art can “reflect and reveal things about what we see,” says that both art and visual neuroscience influence each other...
...example, a large part of our visual system is color-blind—the parts that are evolutionarily older and are engaged in detecting motion and separation between figure and background, while the more primate-specific areas are color-selective, says Livingstone...
Though released just a week shy of Halloween, Robert Zemeckis’ beautifully animated “A Christmas Carol” proves itself the perfect ghost story for any season. With nuanced performances, a strong visual aesthetic, and an expertly pitched pace, Zemeckis’ third experiment in motion capture animation proves to be his best yet. Though the film offers little by way of narrative invention and may frighten much of its intended audience, its truly spectacular 3-D effects and loyalty to Dickens’ novella will likely preserve it as a new Christmas classic...