Wes Anderson's eighth feature film, a meticulously crafted, visually resplendent
matryoshka-doll caper set primarily in an alternate-history version of 1930s Eu
rope, The Grand Budapest Hotel is, perhaps, the fullest expression to date of An
derson's varied thematic and stylistic idiosyncrasies, influences, and obsession
s. 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 and cultural critic and New York
Times bestselling author Matt Zoller Seitz. Anderson shares the story behind th
e film's conception, the wide variety of sources that inspired it--from author S
tefan Zweig to filmmaker Ernst Lubitsch to Photochrom landscapes from turn-of-th
e-century Middle Europe--personal anecdotes about the making of the film, and ma
ny other reflections on his filmmaking process.
These interviews will be acco
mpanied by behind-the-scenes photos, ephemera, and artwork.
