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The Wes Anderson Collection: The Grand Budapest Hotel Spiral-Bound | February 10, 2015

Matt Zoller Seitz, Anne Washburn (Introduction by), Wes Anderson (Contributions by)

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This book, part of the New York Times bestselling The Wes Anderson Collection series, takes readers behind the scenes of the Oscar®-winning film The Grand Budapest Hotel with a series of interviews between writer/director Wes Anderson and movie/television critic Matt Zoller Seitz.
 
Introduction by award-winning playwright Anne Washburn
 
Learn all about the film’s conception, hear personal anecdotes from the set, and explore the wide variety of sources that inspired the screenplay and imagery—from author Stefan Zweig to filmmaker Ernst Lubitsch to photochrom landscapes of turn-of-the-century Middle Europe. Also inside are interviews with costume designer Milena Canonero, composer Alexandre Desplat, lead actor Ralph Fiennes, production designer Adam Stockhausen, and cinematographer Robert Yeoman; essays by film critics Ali Arikan and Steven Boone, film theorist and historian David Bordwell, music critic Olivia Collette, and style and costume consultant Christopher Laverty; and an introduction by playwright Anne Washburn. Previously unpublished production photos, artwork, and ephemera illustrate each essay and interview.
 
The Wes Anderson Collection: The Grand Budapest Hotel stays true to Seitz’s previous book on Anderson’s first seven feature films, The Wes Anderson Collection, with an artful, meticulous design and playful, original illustrations that capture the spirit of Anderson’s inimitable aesthetic, offering an overview of Anderson’s filmography.
 
Praise for The Wes Anderson Collection:
 
“The Wes Anderson Collection comes as close as a book can to reading like a Wes Anderson film. The design is meticulously crafted, with gorgeous full-page photos and touches.”—The A.V. Club
 
Also available from Matt Zoller Seitz:
The Wes Anderson Collection
The Wes Anderson Collection: Bad Dads
The Oliver Stone Experience
Mad Men Carousel
 
Also available:
The Wes Anderson Collection: Isle of Dogs
The Wes Anderson Collection: The French Dispatch

 

Publisher: ABRAMS
Original Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256 pages
ISBN-10: 1419715712
Item Weight: 2.9 lbs
Dimensions: 9.4 x 0.9 x 11.3 inches
Customer Reviews: 4 out of 5 stars 501 to 1,000 ratings
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-New York Times Book Review
Matt Zoller Seitz, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism, is the TV critic for New York Magazine and Vulture.com, as well as the editor in chief of RogerEbert.com.

A Brooklyn-based writer and filmmaker, Seitz has written, narrated, edited, or produced more than a hundred hours'worth of video essays about cinema history and style for the Museum of the Moving Image and The L Magazine, among other outlets. His five-part 2009 video essay, "Wes Anderson: The Substance of Style," was later spun off into a New York Times bestselling hardcover book series: The Wes Anderson Collection (Abrams, 2013) and The Wes Anderson Collection: The Grand Budapest Hotel (Abrams, 2015).

Seitz is the founder and original editor of the House Next Door, now a part of Slant Magazine, and the publisher of Press Play, a blog of film and TV criticism and video essays. He is the director of the 2005 romantic comedy Home.