This April, the Craptions collection added a new Wes Anderson variant movies in their library: 2014 Grand Budapest Hotel. At the time of its release, the film, starring in a mountain hotel with its staff as the war drew to a close, was nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Photo and Best Director.
Crquion's new release boasts of director-directed 2K digital transfers, audio commentary featuring Anderson, Roman Coppola, and Jeff Goldblum, and more. One of the most unique, however, is the collection of news stories told by Anderson himself.
The animatics, which can last up to 25 minutes, include "Introduction," "The Wonder Woman," "Kovacs Murder," "Prison Escape" The film's fans have now watched the entire first episode, "Introduction," here on Polygon. The clip goes with the opening of the film by Anderson's storyboards, with Anderson reading the script above the animated image.
The complete list of special items available for the Criterion Collection release is as follows:
- 2K digital transfer, monitored by director Wes Anderson, with DTS-HD Master Audiotrtrack rotation on Blu-ray
- New audio commentary featuring Anderson, filmmaker Peter Coppola, and actor Jeff Goldblum
- Animatics of the selected storyboard
- Made by “Budapest Hotel, a new documentary about the film
- New conversations with a chat cutter with staff
- Video articles from 2015 and 2020 by critic Matt Zoller Seitz and film scholar David Bordwell
- Behind the scenes, special effects, and video surveillance
- Trailer
- Two pieces by critic Richard Brody and a (Blu-ray) two-poster poster and another ephemera
Criterion Collection Blu-ray for Grand Budapest Hotel it's out now.
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