The Wes Anderson Collection: The French Dispatch: The French Dispatch

Muy buena calidad del papel, excelente para coleccionar

How reassuring to know that somewhere out there, Matt Zoller Seitz is doubtless hard at work preparing the "Asteroid City" companion book for its release in a couple of years. In the meantime, appreciate the latest entry in his series of guides to Wes Anderson's filmography (though he passed off "Isle of Dogs" to Lauren Wilford and Ryan Stevenson).Indeed, "The French Dispatch" actually has a pair of relevant written companions, also taking into account "An Editor's Burial", a selection of pieces from "The New Yorker" that Anderson and editor David Brendel released via Pushkin Press. Between the two books, you get a very extensive sense of the director's inspirations for his work, as well as his creative processes and the functioning of his sets. While this is focused on the creation of the film in question, Zoller Seitz's interviewees provide a lot of details about their own histories with Anderson, so you get, for instance, Tony Revolori's account of coming to be in "The Grand Budapest Hotel" or Tilda Swinton's explaining how she wrote to Anderson over a decade ago to express a desire to be in one of his films and thus commenced a lengthy collaboration.Zoller Seitz has an impressive array of interview subjects here, from core members of Anderson's production team to local residents in Angoulême who answered the casting calls for extras and bit players. I personally found the description of Anderson's screenwriting process the most illuminating segment, but there's plenty here that will be of interest to filmmaking enthusiasts. And the package is, of course, handsome.

This expensive book, which is beautiful, was delivered with NO PACKING MATERIAL.Although I have a doctorate, when I was 15, I worked in a company at 157 Chambers Street in NYC, packing books and records. Outside of the book, the box was empty as the packer’s head!Whoever packed this book needs to be taught how to pack! DISGRACE! I found no other way to complain to Amazon!

Great content but the binding of the hard cover and the rest of the book is off, when you open or close the book, you hear this weird sound.

Another superb book about a Wes Anderson movieBeautiful piece of art that explores the film and its ideas