Anderson shares the story behind the films conception, the wide variety of sources that inspired itfrom author Stefan Zweig to filmmaker Ernst Lubitsch to photochrom landscapes from turn-of-the-century Middle Europepersonal anecdotes about the making of the film, and other reflections on his filmmaking process. This supplementary, 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. Wes Andersons eighth feature film, The Grand Budapest Hotel, is the fullest expression to date of Andersons varied thematic and stylistic idiosyncrasies and influencesa meticulously crafted, visually resplendent matryoshka-doll caper set primarily in an alternate-history version of 1930s Europe.
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