Wes Anderson

Is one of my favourite directors, I discovered last night. Criminally, I often pay little attention to who directs the films that I like, but after watching Rushmore and deciding that it had to be the same director as The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and the Darjeeling Limited, IMDB revealed to me the source for all of this pleasure.

There is a kind of homely familiarity to his films, not least because they often star the same actors (including the wonderful Bill Murray) and have the same gentle, subtle - yet slightly odd - take on life.