Wes Anderson’s Potemkin Movies

The Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky claimed there are two types of filmmakers: imitators of the world and creators of their own. You don’t watch the films of, say, Akira Kurosawa or Ingmar Bergman, Dario Argento or Alfred Hitchcock, so much as inhabit them. There is no mistaking a film by any one of them for anyone else.