Auteur: Jake Perlin

Wes Anderson was born in Houston, Texas. His films include Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Darjeeling Limited, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Moonrise Kingdom, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Isle of Dogs and The French Dispatch. His latest film is Asteroid City.Jacob “Jake” Perlin is a film programmer, distributor and publisher. He is the founding Artistic Director of Metrograph. His companies, The Film Desk and Film Desk Books, recently released Vengeance is Mine (Michael Roemer, 1984) and No Fear No Die (Claire Denis, 1990), and new editions of Film as a Subversive Art by Amos Vogel and Diary of a Film by Jean Cocteau. Perlin also oversees Cinema Conservancy, a non-profit whose most recent release is James Baldwin: From Another Place (Sedat Pakay, 1973). He was named Chevalier de l”Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and received a special award from the New York Film Critics Circle for his “Indispensable contributions to fi lm culture.”