This is the first ever fully authorised book to cover Wes Andersons 30-year career in film, richly illustrated with photographs of never-before seen notebooks, polaroids and objects from Andersons archive.
This is the first ever fully authorised book to cover Wes Andersons 30-year career in film, richly illustrated with photographs of never-before seen notebooks, polaroids and objects from Andersons archive, including props from Rushmore, costumes from The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, and signage from The Darjeeling Limited.
The book features extensive interviews with some of Andersons long-term collaborators, such as actors Owen Wilson, Scarlett Johansson, Jason Schwartzman and Tilda Swinton; composer Alexandre Desplat, musician Seu Jorge and music supervisor Randall Poster; as well as an extensive interview with Wes Anderson himself, reflecting on his films and working process.
The book also includes essays by leading film writers including Isabel Stevens (Sight & Sound), Matthieu Orléan (Cinémathèque française) and Vincent Maluasa (Cahiers de Cinéma) looking at key themes of Andersons cinematic work; the design and style of Andersons films are explored in essays by design curators like Glenn Adamson, Johanna Agerman Ross and Lucia Savi.
The book accompanies the first ever retrospective of Wes Andersons work, an exhibition produced and curated jointly by Cinémathèque française in Paris and the Design Museum in London.
