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21 December 202521 December 2025

Gingerbread Grand Budapest Hotel

Happy holidays!

Credit: saffasister and Duchess Bake Shop

Gingerbread Grand Budapest
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16 December 202516 December 2025

This illustration sounds like Vince Guaraldi Trio x Mark Mothersbaugh

Celebrate with the 24th anniversary of The Royal Tenenbaums’ release with this Peanuts-inspired print from illustrator Martin Bruckner!

Buy it on Etsy.

11 December 202511 December 2025

Gene Hackman’s Royal Tenenbaums memorabilia auctioned

Among the few possessions he left to his heirs was a set of Encyclopedia Britannica in storage at the Lindbergh Palace Hotel under the names Ari and Uzi Tenenbaum.

In November, art and memorabilia from the collection of Gene Hackman (1930-2025) were auctioned by Bonhams in New York and Los Angeles.

Among the items auctioned were Hackman’s Best Performance Golden Globe award (sold for $51,200), his National Society of Film Critics and Chicago Film Critics awards for Best Actor (sold for $4,608), and material including a script, notes, contracts, marketing albums, and crew jackets (sold for $8,960) for The Royal Tenenbaums.

I hope that they somehow end up in the Wes Anderson archive.

Photo credit: Bonhams

11 December 202511 December 2025

#otd 27 years ago, Rushmore was released

It inspired my interest in film, and this website.

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11 December 202511 December 2025

Wes Anderson Film Archive feat. in A/V Club’s best pop culture gifts

The recently released Criterion Wes Anderson Film Archive sits atop The Onion A/V Club’s 2025 list of best pop culture gifts. Buy it here!

Known for its meticulously considered DVD releases, Criterion outdid itself with its new 20-disc Wes Anderson collection. Containing the director’s first 10 films on 4K UHD DVD, the Anderson Archive brings the auteur’s precise design sensibilities to this stunning box set. At $400, the price dares potential purchasers to wait for one of Criterion’s many 50% off sales. Still, with the holidays around the corner, it’s a hefty, luxurious gift for the extremely lucky Anderson fanatic in anyone’s life, or the perfect start to a burgeoning cinephile’s physical media collection. We highlighted the collection back in the fall, but it bears repeating: This set contains new 4K masters of the director’s first 25 years of output, running from his early breakout Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, and Royal Tenenbaums through 2021’s The French Dispatch. His two stop-motion features, Isle Of Dogs and The Fantastic Mr. Fox, appear alongside 25 hours of special features, 10 illustrated books, and new essays from writers Richard Brody, Bilge Ebiri, and Moeko Fujii, as well as filmmakers James L. Brooks and Martin Scorsese. Could we ask for anything else? Sure, Asteroid City and The Phoenician Scheme. For now, this is most satisfactory.
– Matt Schimkowitz, A/V Club

11 December 202511 December 2025

Wes Anderson The Archives at the Design Museum

I went! It was the best day of my life! Information and tickets here.

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Here’s a lovely five-star review piece from last weekend’s Sunday Times.

Article on the Wes Anderson Archives from The Sunday Times
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11 July 202511 July 2025

Drop day for The Phoenician Scheme soundtrack on vinyl!

Buy it here!

From abkco:

The film’s most dominant musical force is Russian-born composer and conductor Igor Stravinsky. His dramatic ballet scores Petrouchka and L’Oiseau de Feu (The Firebird) (taken from recordings conducted by Stravinsky himself) underpin the characters’ emotional and geographic journeys. In addition to pieces from Stravinsky’s ballets, Anderson and Poster zeroed in on the soaring final movement of Stravinsky’s Apollon musagète. “Apotheosis” plays during the opening credits sequence, a way to introduce Zsa-zsa as “epic.” “Our film is about a man who is like a mountain,” says Anderson. “He is himself of epic scale, his life is on an epic scale.”