The Wes Anderson Collection
Subtitle: The Grand Budapest Hotel
By: by Matt Zoller Seitz ; with an introduction by Anne Washburn
Contributors: Washburn, Anne (Anne Elizabeth), writer of introduction
Series: The Wes Anderson Collection
Publisher: Abrams
Published: 2015-02-10
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781419715716
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Motion pictures; Interviews; Influence; Grand Budapest Hotel (Motion picture); Motion picture producers and directors
Other titles: Grand Budapest Hotel
Description: This companion to the bestselling The Wes Anderson Collection is the only book to take readers behind the scenes of The Grand Budapest Hotel. Through a series of in-depth interviews between writer/director Wes Anderson and cultural critic Matt Zoller Seitz, Anderson shares the story behind the film's conception, personal anecdotes about the making of the film, and the wide variety of sources that inspired him--from author Stefan Zweig to filmmaker Ernst Lubitsch to photochrom landscapes of turn-of-the-century Middle Europe. The book also features 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 Previously unpublished behind-the-scenes photos, ephemera, and artwork lavishly illustrate these interviews and essays.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The Idea of Europe; title: The Snow-globe version; title: At the Algonquin Hotel