Thursday, June 19, 2025

The Movie Page -- The Phoenician Scheme -- Wes Anderson -- June 19, 2025

Locator: 48772ARCHIVES.

Tech: link here.

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NYC and Taxes

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The Movie Page

Disclaimer: recommended for hardcore Wes Anderson fans only.

Without question, over time, this film will grow on me and I may see it again on the big screen before it leaves town. But no promises.

The Phoenician (Levant) Scheme: wiki.

Best review I've seen so far: link here.

The lead actress needs an introduction: wiki. Full name may help -- Mia Honey Winslet Threapleton. Born in 2000, this is/was her first lead role.

How Wes Anderson chose Mia Threapleton for the role: Rolling Stone

Roger Ebert review. Link here.

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The Book Page

Re-posting.

Red Brick Black Mountain White Clay, Christopher Benfey, c. 2012/Penguin, 2013.

Chrisopher Benfey's recent essay in The New York Review of Books resulted in me ordering this book sight unseen. Ordered yesterday or two days ago, I forget; arrived today. Excellent, excellent book.

From an earlier post:

Three works:

  • The Hare With Amber Eyes, Edmund De Waal, c. 2010, the link;
  • The White Road: Journey Into An Obsession, Edmund de Waal, c. 2015, the link;
  • Portrait of a Lady, Henry James, serial published in 1880 - 1881, and then as a book, 1881.
From a recent issue of The New York Review of Books, June 12, 2025, p. 21, "Anecdote of the Teapot," Christopher Benfey. Link here.