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Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2025 8:41 am
Bill Murray and Pablo Pauly in a scene from The French Dispatch.Credit:Projector photos via AP
As a thank you, Anderson and his producers have carefully provided a crib sheet listing the profiles of his characters and the New Yorker writers and editors who inspired them.
That doesn’t mean you’re in for a quick comedy about intra-office politics resonating with witty banter and gleefully one-upmanship games. This is not the view of the Algonquin Roundtable of Manhattan Scholars that we get here.
in The French Dispatch.
Bill Murray plays editor Arthur Howitzer jnr in The French Dispatch.Credit:PA
’s remark that she had walked into The New Yorkerone day, but had to come home because someone was using the pencil. Anderson envisioned a publication made up of journalists who don’t have the time or inclination to commune with their colleagues. They are fully concerned with the stories they are working on. They only report to their editor, Arthur Howitzer Jr (Bill Murray). Francophile son of a Kansas newspaper editor, Howitzer founded the magazine to bring a breath of French culture to the American Midwest. But times are tough and he has to consider cutting costs. Whatever happens, however, he is determined that his beloved writers do not suffer.
The magazine is not based in Paris. Instead, we find ourselves in a phone number library French town created from Anderson’s imagination. As he was shooting the film in the southwestern town of Angoulême, chosen for its cafes, cobblestones and winding alleys, he transformed it with miniatures, digital enhancements and clever pieces of reconstruction for sound like the kind of storybook-making familiar to many of his films and he called it Boredom-on-Blasé. The overall effect of it all is a particularly freakish form of escape – as if an excessive knowledge of reality has caused a state of longing for a world that never existed.Macron faces his far-right presidential rival visiting Vichy | Emmanuel Macron
Emmanuel Macron warned against the “manipulation” of history in a clear message to the far-right presidential candidate, Eric Zemmour, on a symbolic visit to Vichy.
After the German occupation in 1940, the spa town was chosen for the puppet regime of Marshal Philippe Pétain, who collaborated with the Nazis and ensured the deportation of the Jews to the death camps. Zemmour angered historians by claiming, instead, that Pétain saved French Jews.
As a thank you, Anderson and his producers have carefully provided a crib sheet listing the profiles of his characters and the New Yorker writers and editors who inspired them.
That doesn’t mean you’re in for a quick comedy about intra-office politics resonating with witty banter and gleefully one-upmanship games. This is not the view of the Algonquin Roundtable of Manhattan Scholars that we get here.
in The French Dispatch.
Bill Murray plays editor Arthur Howitzer jnr in The French Dispatch.Credit:PA
’s remark that she had walked into The New Yorkerone day, but had to come home because someone was using the pencil. Anderson envisioned a publication made up of journalists who don’t have the time or inclination to commune with their colleagues. They are fully concerned with the stories they are working on. They only report to their editor, Arthur Howitzer Jr (Bill Murray). Francophile son of a Kansas newspaper editor, Howitzer founded the magazine to bring a breath of French culture to the American Midwest. But times are tough and he has to consider cutting costs. Whatever happens, however, he is determined that his beloved writers do not suffer.
The magazine is not based in Paris. Instead, we find ourselves in a phone number library French town created from Anderson’s imagination. As he was shooting the film in the southwestern town of Angoulême, chosen for its cafes, cobblestones and winding alleys, he transformed it with miniatures, digital enhancements and clever pieces of reconstruction for sound like the kind of storybook-making familiar to many of his films and he called it Boredom-on-Blasé. The overall effect of it all is a particularly freakish form of escape – as if an excessive knowledge of reality has caused a state of longing for a world that never existed.Macron faces his far-right presidential rival visiting Vichy | Emmanuel Macron
Emmanuel Macron warned against the “manipulation” of history in a clear message to the far-right presidential candidate, Eric Zemmour, on a symbolic visit to Vichy.
After the German occupation in 1940, the spa town was chosen for the puppet regime of Marshal Philippe Pétain, who collaborated with the Nazis and ensured the deportation of the Jews to the death camps. Zemmour angered historians by claiming, instead, that Pétain saved French Jews.