# The Wes Anderson Collection: The Grand Budapest Hotel - Hardcover

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by **Matt Zoller Seitz** (Author), **Anne Washburn** (Introduction by), **Wes Anderson** (Contribution by)

**This book, part of the _New York Times_ bestselling The Wes Anderson Collection series, takes readers behind the scenes of the Oscar(R)-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.

This beautifully designed book also contains 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 Previously unpublished production photos, artwork, and ephemera illustrate each essay and interview.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_

### Author Biography

**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, _The Wes Anderson Collection_ (Abrams, 2013).

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_.

**Anne Washburn**'s plays include _Mr. Burns_, _The Internationalist_, _A Devil at Noon_, and a transadaptation of Euripides's _Orestes_. She lives in New York City and, occasionally, Buenos Aires.

**Max Dalton** is a graphic artist living in Buenos Aires, Argentina, by way of Barcelona, New York, and Paris. He has published a few books and illustrated some others, including _The Wes Anderson Collection_ (Abrams, 2013). Max started painting in 1977, and since 2008, he has been creating posters about music, movies, and pop culture, quickly becoming one of the top names in the industry.  

**Number of Pages:** 256

**Dimensions:** 0.8 x 11.3 x 9.4 IN

**Illustrated:** Yes

**Publication Date:** February 10, 2015

## Details

- **Price:** 57.0 USD
- **Vendor:** BooksCloud
- **Type:** Books
- **Tags:** Books, Coffee Table Books, Direction & Production, Film, History & Criticism, Individual Director, Performing Arts, Price Written on Book

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