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The Wes Anderson Collection: The French Dispatch: The French Dispatch Hardcover – August 22, 2023

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The official behind-the-scenes companion to The French Dispatch and the latest volume in the bestselling Wes Anderson Collection series

Everything that goes into bringing Anderson's trademark style, meticulous compositions, and exacting production design to the screen is revealed in detail in this beautifully designed book.

Written by film and television critic and New York Times bestselling author Matt Zoller Seitz, 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 artwork.

The French Dispatch—the tenth feature film from writer-director Wes Anderson—is a love letter to journalists set at the titular American newspaper in the fictional 20th-century French city of Ennui-sur-Blasé. The film stars a number of Anderson's frequent collaborators, including Bill Murray as the newspaper's editor in chief; Owen Wilson, Tilda Swinton, and Frances McDormand, as well as new players Jeffrey Wright, Benicio del Toro, Elisabeth Moss, and Timothée Chalamet, who bring to life a collection of stories published in The French Dispatch magazine.

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  1. Part of series
    The Wes Anderson Collection
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    256 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Publisher
    Abrams Books
  5. Publication date
    August 22, 2023
  6. Dimensions
    9.65 x 0.9 x 11.55 inches
  7. ISBN-10
    141975064X
  8. ISBN-13
    978-1419750649
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About the Author

Matt Zoller Seitz is the editor in chief of RogerEbert.com; the TV critic for New York magazine; the author of The Wes Anderson Collection, The Wes Anderson Collection: The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Oliver Stone Experience, and Mad Men Carousel; and the coauthor of The Sopranos Sessions. He is based in New York City.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Abrams Books (August 22, 2023)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 141975064X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1419750649
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 0.353 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9.65 x 0.9 x 11.55 inches
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jeffrey m. goldman
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazon worker does not know how to pack
Reviewed in the United States on August 24, 2023
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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!
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N. southam
5.0 out of 5 stars worth the wait!
Reviewed in the United States on August 27, 2023
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lovely book. It’s the same high quality as the rest of the series.
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Mark Twain
5.0 out of 5 stars The quality is great
Reviewed in the United States on August 26, 2023
Just bought my copy at my local independent bookstore and just wanted to note that the quality of The French Dispatch is identical to my copy of Seitz's The Grand Budapest Hotel. Which is to say it is exquisite. They're lovely books that are put together with a level of care and attention to detail befitting a Wes Anderson production.
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ROGE PARK
2.0 out of 5 stars Very Poor Print Job for a Wes Anderson Production
Reviewed in the United States on August 23, 2023
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Binding |
The book is printed and bound in the USA. One of the two stars is for this alone. The quality of the binding is bad. Hold it against the incidence of a ray of light or run your fingertips diagonally across the boards, and the bumpy cheap cardboard used in the binding is evident.

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The stock is light weight semi-gloss, that is known to the subscribers of Vogue, Variety, GQ, or Cosmopolitan. One word … Cheap.

Print |
Super tiny (Point 4?) Serif fonts start to finish. Lines are packed close together, in dense text clusters, making for *very difficult* readability.

The Covers of The French Dispatch |
This section has all 30+ classy and classic covers by the illustrator Javi Aznarez. What’s not to like? The four covers crammed per page. It is hard to believe that ABRAMS pulled this wry joke on the discriminating readers and collectors of all things Wes Anderson. Each cover deserves a page all its own. With another page of commentary. And each with a perforated easy-tear layout for framing. But no such luck … or good foresight forthcoming.

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Skip this edition. Unless you are a completist. My copy will be returned for a full refund.
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rory smith
1.0 out of 5 stars A little beat up.
Reviewed in the United States on September 18, 2023
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Sean Curley
4.0 out of 5 stars Maintains the quality standard of Zoller Seitz's earlier installments.
Reviewed in Canada on September 3, 2023
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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.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Great content, poor binding
Reviewed in Germany on December 28, 2023
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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.
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Matthew Chattle
5.0 out of 5 stars The French Dispatch
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 15, 2023
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Another superb book about a Wes Anderson movie
Beautiful piece of art that explores the film and its ideas
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