To celebrate the restoration of Ray's classic 'Days and Nights in the Forest,' Anderson sat down with legendary Indian actress Sharmila Tagore and film conservationist Shivendra Singh Dungarpur to discuss the maestro's enduring legacy.

Wes Anderson believes one "almost hippie" director's consecutive run of movies stands above all others, with great range and amazing performances by actors.

His idiosyncratic characters have become frequent fodder for spooky season, and Threapleton’s pipe-puffing, smoky-eyed novitiate Liesl is destined to join their dress-up ranks. Every time someone says that,

She has turned down the director almost more times than he can remember, but he’s still hoping she’ll change her mind.

With Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme hitting theaters today, fans might be interested in picking up the The Criterion Collection The Wes Anderson Archive: Ten Films, Twenty-Five Years – a 20-disc Blu-ray box set for collectors that includes 4K restorations created under the supervision of Anderson himself.

Wes Anderson has worked with some of the most acclaimed actors of his generation over the course of his three-decade career, but Jodie Foster remains elusive, turning him down for multiple roles.