Screenshots: Rewatching a favourite

With a new Wes Anderson movie coming out*, The French Dispatch, I thought I’d re-watch a favourite, The Royal Tenenbaums. There are quite of few scenes with telephones:

* Written Feb 2020, before Covid 19 ravaged the globe. And I thought I was about to see ‘The French Dispatch’. It still hasn’t come out (Oct 2020) although I did see a short for it at the cinema a week or so ago. It looks fabulous and I want to see it now!

Telephone Kiosk collection (6) – various

UK locations

Leeds
Holborn, London – being used as a menu board for a food stall
Margate

Screenshots: Superheroes

From the recent movie Captain Marvel and the tv series Watchmen (a phone booth used to talk to a blue god) to an iconic favourite – Buffy.

Smithfields in London

My husband sent me the top photo, from Smithfields market, as he walked home this Christmas Eve. Then I saw the following article online, from that morning, also at Smithfields:

Artists assemble! How collectives took over the art world

This article starts with an image still from the film Otolith II, 2007 – featuring iconic red phone boxes.

Click here

Telephone Kiosk collection (5) – Police boxes

Telephone Kiosk collection (4) – the K series

Telephone Kiosk collection (3) – RAC

Telephone Kiosk collection (2) – AA sentry boxes



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