Reddit reviews The Wes Anderson Collection

Here's a great series about all the Wes Anderson movies up to Moonrise Kingdom based on the book by Matt Zoller Seitz. I really love these videos and go back to re-watch them all the time.

The Wes Anderson Collection:

Chapter 1: Bottle Rocket

Chapter 2: Rushmore

Chapter 3: The Royal Tenenbaums

Chapter 4: The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou

Chapter 5: The Darjeeling Limited

Chapter 6: Fantastic Mr. Fox

Chapter 7: Moonrise Kingdom

Cars

Photography

Comic Books 1, 2

Apple

LEGO's

American Football

PostSecret

Video Games

Vinyl

Warhol

Outdoors

Star Wars

Motorcycles

The Dark Knight

Paris

Interior Design

World Atlas

Banksy

Wes Anderson

Tribal Cultures

Playboy

Girls

Libraries

The Cosmos

The Beetles

Travel

Preppy

Steve McQueen

The Moon

I got this for xmas last year, and it's great. I've done a fair amount of critical thinking and writing on Anderson, but that book really focuses on his prior cinematic influences, many of which were an eye-opener for me.

Matt Zoller Seitz is a capable writer and his interpretive work is both well done and well documented. Nicely applied ecological criticism at its best, and mostly from first-hand sources.

Anderson is not a "quirky" film maker. He's a film maker who knows what he wants, and has a wealth of film history backing up his choices. His films are simultaneously completely original in their presentation of a unique vision... while also relying heavily on vocabulary and motifs from those that have gone before.

He stands on giant shoulders and then moves the camera forward (mostly in static composition and right down the center of frame).

https://www.amazon.com/Anderson-Collection-Matt-Zoller-Seitz/dp/081099741X

When he was in college, Wes Anderson made a documentary.

From a '97 Variety article:

>[Anderson and Owen Wilson] made their first film together in college after getting into a dispute with the landlord of the house they were renting.

>“We stopped paying rent and ended up moving out of the house in the middle of the night because he wouldn’t do repairs on the windows,” Anderson recalls. “We ended up resolving the conflict by making a 20-minute documentary about him. It was called ‘Karl Hendler Properties,’ which was the name of his company.” The $350 budget for the film was provided by Hendler.

That name, Karl Hendler, already sounds like a Anderson character. I could imagine Anderson being very good at taking a random "ordinary" person and examining their quirks and character in a documentary, just sort of letting them talk about their life and going about their day.

I also recall that the scene in "Bottle Rocket" where they do a "test" break-in at Anthony's house was inspired by their college living situation (apparently, the landlord wouldn't fix the wondows so Anderson and Wilson staged a break in to try and convince him to fix it).

Anderson also talks about the documentary briefly in that "Wes Anderson Collection" book:

>There was a public-access station in Houston, and I got to use their equipment. I made a documentary about my landlord Karl Hendler. I made it on commission from him in order to pay him some debts I owed him, but he didn’t like it.

>He didn’t like the documentary?

>No, but he was up-front about it. I don’t think he was mad. He just didn’t think it was going to be helpful to him.

>Do you still have it?

>I’m sure it’s somewhere, but I don’t currently have access to it.

Crazy to think that access to camera/editing equipment used to be so damn hard. Wes Anderson had to borrow from a Public Access station. Unless you went to film school, it'd be hard to get film shot/developed (and before digital video, no one would take something shot on VHS seriously). Nowadays, you could make a feature film with your smartphone, but back in the '80s/'90s, it was only really determined people who could dabble in filmmaking.

If he's a fan of Wes Anderson, there's a book I was gifted by a friend for Christmas one year and I loved it https://www.amazon.com/Anderson-Collection-Matt-Zoller-Seitz/dp/081099741X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1479769976&sr=8-1&keywords=wes+anderson+book

Another interesting idea that my girlfriend did for me, she made a picture frame into a little drop box for ticket stubs you get at movie theaters. Fun way to keep a hold of them and document every movie you go to at a theater.

No problem, this is the one: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/081099741X/

Is it this one?

it came out today! looks like it's already on back order through amazon though.

If you are a fan of Wes Anderson this one is pretty great.

I'd start with coffee table books. That's the closest I can think of.

I'm a fan of this beauty.

https://www.amazon.com/Anderson-Collection-Matt-Zoller-Seitz/dp/081099741X

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https://www.amazon.com/Anderson-Collection-Matt-Zoller-Seitz/dp/081099741X

might I recommend this then, it's written by a great critic.

I LOVE the Fantastic Mr. Fox release but I'm kind of irked it doesn't fit next to the others as it's in this nice thick cardboard casing.

BUT it goes well with this book I picked up, and then this one that starts it off!

Check out this and this book if you want to know more about his influences. He talks about them at great length.