Yes please to more Wes Anderson. I’m a big fan. I’ve yet to watch The Phoenician Scheme but Asteroid City is probably my favourite film of the last few years. I agree the framing serves as a distancing technique but I find it incredibly heartwarming.
Thank you for sending me down a rabbit hole about J G Links, who I only knew as the author of the grand old book on Canaletto, still cited by us scholars despite its age. I had no idea he was actually a furrier or that he had created murder mystery kits with Wheatley (Wikipedia says they were Links’s idea), complete with torn up photographs you had to piece together, strands of hair and scented letters for clues. Producing them must have been a nightmare for the publishers!
Yes please to more Wes Anderson. I’m a big fan. I’ve yet to watch The Phoenician Scheme but Asteroid City is probably my favourite film of the last few years. I agree the framing serves as a distancing technique but I find it incredibly heartwarming.
Thank you for sending me down a rabbit hole about J G Links, who I only knew as the author of the grand old book on Canaletto, still cited by us scholars despite its age. I had no idea he was actually a furrier or that he had created murder mystery kits with Wheatley (Wikipedia says they were Links’s idea), complete with torn up photographs you had to piece together, strands of hair and scented letters for clues. Producing them must have been a nightmare for the publishers!