Grand Budapest Hotel Collection

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Wes Anderson's eighth feature film a meticulously crafted visually resplendent matryoshka-doll caper set primarily in an alternate-history version of 1930s Europe The Grand Budapest Hotel is perhaps the fullest expression to date of Anderson's varied thematic & stylistic idiosyncrasies influences & obsessions This supplemental one-volume companion to The Wes Anderson Collection (Abrams 2013) is the only book to take readers behind the scenes of The Grand Budapest Hotel with in-depth interviews between Anderson & cultural critic & New York Times bestselling author Matt Zoller Seitz Anderson shares the story behind the film's conception the wide variety of sources that inspired it--from author Stefan Zweig to filmmaker Ernst Lubitsch to Photochrom landscapes from turn-of-the-century Middle Europe--personal anecdotes about the making of the film & many other reflections on his filmmaking process These interviews will be accompanied by behind-the-scenes photos ephemera & artwork