Wes Anderson Collection: The Grand Budapest Hotel

This companion to the <i>New York Times</i> bestselling book <i>The Wes Anderson Collection </i>takes readers behind the scenes of the Oscar®-winning film <i>The Grand Budapest Hotel </i>with a series of interviews between writer/director Wes Anderson and movie/television critic Matt Zoller Seitz.<br><br> 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 Previously unpublished production photos, artwork, and ephemera illustrate each essay and interview.<br><br><i>The Wes Anderson Collection: The Grand Budapest Hotel</i> stays true to Seitz's previous book on Anderson's first seven feature films,<i>The Wes Anderson Collection</i>,<i> </i>with an artful, meticulous design and playful, original illustrations that capture the spirit of Anderson's inimitable aesthetic. Together, they offer a complete overview of Anderson's filmography to date.