Listings

2. Moonrise Kingdom (2012) March 10

Moonrise Kingdom opens with the camera gracefully panning sideways through the cross-section of a suburban home in 1960s New England, stopping occasionally, like a train pulling into station after station, to spy on members the family. We may as well be peering into a retro doll's house - and we are the kids about to play with the toys inside. This is an adult film, really, of course, with all the pleasures of seeing content start Bruce Willis a soft-hearted local cop; briefly encountering Tilda Swinton as a uniformed care worker called Social Services; lapping up the ample Hank Williams on the soundtrack; and squirming at a school production of Benjamin Britten's 'Noye's Fludde'. But you can imagine 'Moonrise Kingdom' turning young kids on to cinema; it's so full of a joyous love for the medium and smart without being clever-clever.

3. The Darjeeling Limited (2007) March 17

Wilson, Brody and Schwartzman are three brothers who embark on a journey through India a year after their father's death: they haven't seen each other since his funeral and Wilson, the older of the three and a dominating presence, hopes that a long train journey will bring them closer together as friends and as brothers. It's an Anderson movie from the off: the sound of The Kinks and the Stones mixed with the music of Satyajit Ray; the marriage of colour, costume and production-design to create a vivid but heightened impression of the real world.

4. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004) March 24

With a plan to exact revenge on a mythical shark that killed his partner, oceanographer Steve Zissou rallies a crew that includes his estranged wife, a journalist, and a man who may or may not be his son.

5. The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) March 31

An estranged family of former child prodigies reunites when their father announces he is terminally ill. It exists in a bubble - Anderson's New York doesn't exist and never did - but the rarefied atmosphere is a bit of a blind; what sneaks up on you is how, in his deliciously roundabout way, Anderson wears irony on his sleeve to camouflage a deeper sincerity. At its heart, this is a comedy of unrequited love, melancholy and disappointment. One to savour.