Known for his affinity for symmetrical shots, warm color schemes, and that specific font and color of the text in the image, Wes Anderson has a definite style that is evident throughout his films, such as Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Life Aquatic, The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, the recent Grand Budapest Hotel, and more. These are some of my favorite movies of all time.
A big part of Anderson's movies is the theme of family. Whether that family is broken to pieces or made of a wide variety of people and friends or it's just being made, family is important and unique and not easy. He makes this a baseline for a lot of his films, and doesn't preach it, but lets you see it through the lives and eyes of his characters, who are all colorful well written.
Without going on a rant or writing an essay on Wes Anderson as an artist, I won't say much more. I will say that many of his films are rated R (for language, mostly) so they aren't a good on campus choice (unless Leeper wants to show some as a class event next semester??), but Fantastic Mr. Fox is a good on campus watchable example of his work, and it has some really amazing stop-motion animation and puppetry.
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