The Nose says goodbye to Brian Wilson and looks at ‘The Phoenician Scheme’

The Colin McEnroe Show

The pop music genius Brian Wilson, a founding member of The Beach Boys, died on June 11. The Nose says goodbye.

And: Wes Anderson has written and directed 12 feature films. The Nose has covered at least four of them plus his set of Roald Dahl shorts. So this hour, a look at Wes Anderson’s latest, The Phoenician Scheme, in all its twee, symmetrical, pastel, typewriter- and hatbox*-filled glory.

*I’d just like to point out that I wrote this sentence before I’d seen The Phoenician Scheme, in which a hatbox features prominently. And there’s evidence to support that claim. That said, there doesn’t appear to be a typewriter anywhere in the movie, which is kind of shocking.

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Chapters

1. The Nose says goodbye to Brian Wilson and looks at ‘The Phoenician Scheme’ (00:00:00)

2. B (00:26:19)

3. C (00:41:53)