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The official companion to The French Dispatch and the latest volume
in the bestselling Wes Anderson Collection series The French
Dispatch—the tenth feature film from writer-director Wes
Anderson—weaves together stories of an eccentric band of expat
journalists working at the titular American newspaper in
20th-century Ennui-sur-Blasé, France. Broken out into a series of
vignettes, this love letter to the New Journalism era is filled
with a cast of Anderson’s frequent collaborators, including Jason
Schwartzman, Bob Balaban, and Willem Dafoe, as well as new players
Timothée Chalamet, Jeffrey Wright, Elisabeth Moss, and Benicio del
Toro. In this latest one-volume entry in the Wes Anderson
Collection series—the only book to take readers behind the scenes
of The French Dispatch—everything that goes into bringing
Anderson’s trademark style, intricate compositions, and
meticulous staging to the screen is revealed in detail. The Wes
Anderson Collection: The French Dispatch presents the complete
story behind the film’s conception, anecdotes about the making of
the film, and behind-the-scenes photos, production materials, and
conceptual artwork.
The Wes Anderson Collection: Isle of Dogs is the only book to take
readers behind the scenes of the beloved auteur's newest
stop-motion animated film. ?Through the course of several in-depth
interviews with film critic Lauren Wilford, writer and director Wes
Anderson shares the story behind Isle of Dogs's conception and
production, and Anderson and his collaborators reveal entertaining
anecdotes about the making of the film, their sources of
inspiration, the ins and outs of stop-motion animation, and many
other insights into their moviemaking process. Previously
unpublished behind-the-scenes photographs, concept artwork, and
hand-written notes and storyboards accompany the text. The book
also features an introduction by critics and collaborators Taylor
Ramos and Tony Zhou, and a foreword by critic Matt Zoller Seitz.
The fourth volume of the New York Times bestselling Wes Anderson
Collection, Isle of Dogs stays true to the series with its rich
design and colorful illustrations, capturing Anderson's signature
aesthetic vision and bringing the series's definitive study of
Anderson's filmography up to date. Isle of Dogs tells the story of
Atari Kobayashi, 12-year-old ward to corrupt Mayor Kobayashi. When,
by Executive Decree, all the canine pets of Megasaki City are
exiled to a vast garbage-dump called Trash Island, Atari sets off
alone in a miniature Junior-Turbo Prop and flies across the river
in search of his bodyguard-dog, Spots. There, with the assistance
of a pack of newly-found mongrel friends, he begins an epic journey
that will decide the fate and future of the entire Prefecture. The
film features the voices of Bryan Cranston, Koyu Rankin, Edward
Norton, Bob Balaban, Bill Murray, Jeff Goldblum, Kunichi Nomura,
Akira Takayama, Greta Gerwig, Frances McDormand, F. Murray Abraham,
Tilda Swinton, Akira Ito, Yoko Ono, Mari Natsuko, Harvey Keitel,
Courtney B. Vance, Ken Watanabe, Scarlett Johnasson, Fisher
Stevens, Nijiro Murakami, and Liev Schreiber.
AMC's Breaking Bad is among the most beloved, critically acclaimed
American television series of our time. Created by Vince Gilligan,
the series charts the transformation of high school science teacher
Walter White (played by Bryan Cranston) into a cold, calculating
meth kingpin. Breaking Bad 101 collects esteemed critic Alan
Sepinwall's (Uproxx) popular Breaking Bad recaps in book form,
featuring new, exclusive essays and completely revised and updated
commentary-as well as insights from and interviews with the
creative masterminds behind Breaking Bad. The ultimate critical
companion for one of the greatest television dramas of all time,
Breaking Bad 101 offers fans Sepinwall's smart, funny, and incisive
analysis of the psychology and filmmaking craft behind each episode
and celebrates the series' unique place in pop-culture history.
Mad Men Carousel is an episode-by-episode guide to all seven
seasons of AMC's Mad Men. This book collects TV and movie critic
Matt Zoller Seitz's celebrated Mad Men recaps-as featured on New
York magazine's Vulture blog-for the first time, including
never-before-published essays on the show's first three seasons.
Seitz's writing digs deep into the show's themes, performances, and
filmmaking, examining complex and sometimes confounding aspects of
the series. The complete series-all seven seasons and ninety-two
episodes-is covered. Each episode review also includes brief
explanations of locations, events, consumer products, and
scientific advancements that are important to the characters, such
as P.J. Clarke's restaurant and the old Penn Station; the
inventions of the birth control pill, the Xerox machine, and the
Apollo Lunar Module; the release of the Beatles' Revolver and the
Beach Boys' Pet Sounds; and all the wars, protests, assassinations,
and murders that cast a bloody pall over a chaotic decade. Mad Men
Carousel is named after an iconic moment from the show's
first-season finale, "The Wheel," wherein Don delivers an
unforgettable pitch for a new slide projector that's centered on
the idea of nostalgia: "the pain from an old wound." This book will
soothe the most ardent Mad Men fan's nostalgia for the show. New
viewers, who will want to binge-watch their way through one of the
most popular TV shows in recent memory, will discover a
spoiler-friendly companion to one of the most multilayered and
mercurial TV shows of all time. It's the perfect gift for Mad Men
fans and obsessives. Also available from Matt Zoller Seitz: The
Oliver Stone Experience, The Wes Anderson Collection: Bad Dads, The
Wes Anderson Collection: The Grand Budapest Hotel, and The Wes
Anderson Collection.
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