Big Book of Wes Anderson

Wes Anderson’s style of filmmaking is easy to pigeonhole as overly twee and susceptible to parody, but that’s because past the affect and omnipresent Moonrise Kingdom couples Halloween costumes, he’s a gifted director with a well-defined, consistent voice. Matt Zoller Seitz, New York magazine television critic, editor-in-chief of RogerEbert.com, and a long-time acquaintance of Anderson has examined that voice for years, starting with the first-ever profile of Anderson and frequent collaborator Owen Wilson. In The Wes Anderson Collection, Seitz expands a series of video essays on Anderson’s influences, illuminating as much of Anderson’s process as possible in a massive, beautifully rendered volume. Although it looks (and sometimes reads) like a coffee table book, The Wes Anderson Collection brings together style and substance to provide a loving homage to Anderson’s films and moviemaking in general.