Film: The Phoenician Scheme & Storytelling: Psalms from the Horse's Mouth
Yesterday, the second of two days of film, I headed with Movie Roadhouse London (MRL) to The Phoenician Scheme , at Regent Street Cinema . This isn't terribly highly rated, although the rating is rising - but it's Wes Anderson , so I figured I'd probably love it. Stars Benicio del Toro as a multi-millionaire with a desperate money-making scheme, Michael Cer a as the family tutor, Scott Shepherd as a reporter, Willem Dafoe , F. Murray Abraham as a prophet, R upert Friend as a US government official "Mr. Excalibur", trying to scupper the plan , and, whom I hadn't noticed in the cast list, Tom Hanks as an investor, Bill Murray as God (insert joke here..), Scarlett Johansson as Benicio del Toro's second wife, Charlotte Gainsbourg as his first wife and the mother of his children, Bryan Cranston as Reagan , and an unrecognisable Benedict Cumberbatch as Benicio del Toro's brother, ...