What is The Last Movie You Watched?

[Stavros]

I have been buying DVDs of the man from Texas, Wes Anderson, to explore his work. In the past I have been disappointed by Moonrise Kingdom (2012), and it took some time for me to warm to The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014). I was enraptured by Isle of Dogs (2018 ), and watched it again at the start of this retrospective, and it never fails, and I am always slightly amused that he got the idea from the actual Isle of Dogs in East London. These days smartened up a lot but when I worked in London's East End, briefly in the 1970s it was famous or notorious for its phantom bus service. Times change. They have buses and the DLR.

Thus The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) has been 2nd on the list, not having seen it before. It is typical Anderson, a gallery of mildly eccentric people who have to deal with the disruption of the status quo that has sustained them for a length of time and made them complacent and bored. The acting he gets from his crew is effervescent, comical, indeed comical-tragical, possibly comical-tragical-clerical, though I sometimes wonder if it is all superficial. But even if not profound, the films are, like whipped cream or Champagne, a delight to experience.

Does this make Wes Anderson an American genius, on the same level as Scorsese and Spielberg?

[bruce_willy]

Does this make Wes Anderson an American genius, on the same level as Scorsese and Spielberg?

No. He's a pretentious wanker who's well past his sell buy date. Asteroid City proves that.

[Stavros]

No. He's a pretentious wanker who's well past his sell buy date. Asteroid City proves that.

I just bought the DVD of Asteroid City! Will give you my 10c at a later date....

[MrFanti]

No. He's a pretentious wanker who's well past his sell buy date. Asteroid City proves that.

I loved Asteroid City....

[MrFanti]

Last Movie: "The Mummy's Ghost"....

[bruce_willy]

I loved Asteroid City....

Why? What did you think was good about it?

[todd1971]

Thunderbolt and lightfoot last night on tubi

[MrFanti]

Why? What did you think was good about it?

Quite a bit.
The fact that it was shot on 35mm film is one aspect...
The changing aspect ratios when the B/W scenes to color are other...
Loved the retro-future plot....

Just a few of the reasons..

[Fitzcarraldo]

Just watched The Exorcist for the first time since the early '80s.

[HbgDon]

Saw X