Asteroid City is Wes Anderson鈥檚 11th feature film. It鈥檚 written and directed by Anderson from a story by Anderson and Roman Coppola. It鈥檚 a comedy-drama, sort of sci-fi thing with a play-within-a-TV-show-within-a-movie structure. The ensemble cast is predictably ridiculous and includes the likes of Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks, Jeffrey Wright, Tilda Swinton, Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, and Adrien Brody, Liev Schreiber, and Hope Davis. There are more. I didn鈥檛 even mention Willem Dafoe or Steve Carell or Margot Robbie. Or others.
And: The OceanGate Titan disaster isn鈥檛 the sort of thing The Nose usually covers. But collective internet obsession is, and so The Nose is interested in the internet鈥檚 collective, dark, ongoing obsession with the OceanGate Titan disaster.
Some other stuff that happened this week, give or take:
- What one piece of culture captures the true spirit of our country? We asked 17 columnists to find out.
- It turns us into the worst version of ourselves while convincing us that we鈥檙e at our best.
- The website Goodreads has become an essential avenue for building readership, but the same features that help generate excitement can also backfire.
- The channel has an astounding degree of control over a crucial part of American cinema. It should become a public resource available to all.
- Few things are sacrosanct in streaming TV鈥檚 chaotic revolution. But as Warner Bros. Discovery鈥檚 top exec recently learned, Turner Classic Movies is still zealously protected.
- 鈥淲heel of Fortune,鈥� 鈥淛eopardy!鈥� and 鈥淔amily Feud鈥� continue to attract big audiences even as streaming upends viewing habits.
- The musical genre of sociopolitical change, cultural transformation, excess, and fabulousness enters its next half century.
- To the Lighthouse from 1927 now carries warning that the book 鈥榬eflects the attitudes of its time鈥�
- At a time when lawmakers and parents are seeking to restrict what can and cannot be taught in classrooms, many teachers are seeing efforts to limit what can be staged in their auditoriums.
- Talks over a matchup between the two tech billionaires have progressed and the parameters of an event are taking shape.
GUESTS:
- David Edelstein: America鈥檚 Greatest Living Film Critic
- Sam Hadelman: Works in music public relations and hosts The Sam Hadelman Show at Radio Free Brooklyn
- Carolyn Paine: An actress, comedian, and dancer; she is founder, director, and choreographer of CONNetic Dance
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