Consistently derided as quirky, Wes Anderson's career as a filmmaker has been enviable, lucky, charming and always evolving. What began with the simple, misshapen (but elegant) not-quite-caper film BOTTLE ROCKET, with its focus on friendships not crime, continues to grow and to dream big and to encom

Absurd, Baroque, Bright, Brit-pop, Citational, Clean, Comedies, Elegant, Funny, Implosive, Joyful, Kinetic, Lush, Overflowing, Polychromatic, Sardonic, Sincere, Whimsical, Witty

Picture cascading waterfalls of women, bedecked in identical glittering costumes and moving in eerie unison. Picture abstract, kaleidoscopic shots that slowly reveal themselves to be composed of live, dancing bodies -- dancing bodies in pools of water, on rotating stages, in the middle of grandly the

Bombast, Bright, Classic hollywood, Grand, Joyful, Kinetic, Sexy

Recognized as a comic genius equal to Chaplin, Keaton had a style that assembled as much mechanical grace and Rube Goldberg gags as the Tramp's, but without the sentimentality or didacticism. His final visual pun in "The General" -- kissing his sweetheart while they use the horizontal wheel-joints of

Classic hollywood, Funny, Illusive, In-your-face, Kinetic, Trippy, Wise assy