The “The Wes Anderson Archive” criterion is the Blu-Ray box of the year | DVD / Blu-ray

Physical media collectors must get their hands on the Criterion box of the year, a beautiful collection of the first ten films of the writer / director Wes Anderson. Criterion has already published Wes Anderson Films, but it is the first time that they have assembled them in a box, and they have marked the opportunity with new digital 4K masters of all films, while publishing the new 4K editions with new special features individually for “Isle of Dogs” and “The French Dispatch”. The set is available in a very Anderson box which gives the impression that each film is in a small newspaper, with reprints of various tests as well as more recently ordered entries. For example, you can read Martin Scorsese Squire Piece on “Bottle Rocket” until the exam by Richard Brody of “The French Dispatch”. Just the reading material alone constitutes an interesting analysis of an essential modern filmmaker with other Essays by James L. Brooks, Bilge Ebiri, Moeko Fujii, Kent Jones, Dave Kehr, Geoffrey O’Brien, Erica Wagner, and more.

Of course, the most important element of any box is the films themselves, and “The Wes Anderson Archive” really wants to take a film school course on the influence and trajectory of its creator. Anderson’s distinctive style, which is undoubtedly more pronounced with each film, can be assisted simply by watching the ten works of this set. It is fascinating to go from the relatively simple comedy of “Bottle Rocket” to the more expressive paintings of “Rushmore” to what many consider Anderson’s perfect distillation of his early and later films in “The Royal Tenenbaums”. “The Life Aquatic” and “The Darjeeling Limited” resemble a double functionality in terms of style, which then moves after Anderson’s foray into the stop-motion in “Fantastic Mr. Fox”. Son 7^th The film, “Moonrise Kingdom”, remains the most underestimated in my opinion, a distance from the work too composed of its smallest films in something that looks more like its first three. Of course, the set ends with the best nomine in the image “The Grand Budapest Hotel”, its second stop film in “Isle of Dogs” and its tenth film, “The French Dispatch”. (If you want the complete dozen, go get “Asteroid City” and “The Phoenic Scheme” in their autonomous and non -criteria editions or wait for this company to end up contacting them. The two feel inevitable.)

A sample of films to discern their 4K quality is mainly positive. “Tenenbaums” has passages that look a little visually degraded, for example, but “Life Aquatic” really appears, just like “Mr. fanant. Of course, the latest additions trigger the screen, and each film was accompanied by Audio Master DTS-HD 5.1 audio tracks which allow the use of Anderson’s music to resonate.

Finally, the whole includes dozens (literally) of hours of special characteristics. The first eight films in this set were previously available on DVD or Standard Blu-ray via Criterion, and all their special features have been imported. And we all know how deeply affected the criterion when they assemble bonus equipment. Not only do you get insightful comments, but incredible exclusives such as the “Max Fischer Players present” segments produced for MTV Movie Awards 1999, a segment produced by Albert Maysles at the time of “Tenenbaums”, shot by Ed Norton on the set of “Moonris Hotel.”

Criterion Collection has published remarkable Blu-ray boxes in the past, generally at that time of year, ready for vacation wishes. “Complete films in a box” for Agnes Varda, Ingmar Bergman, Wong Kar-Wai and even the heritage of Godzilla have been essential in the past. It is quite the thing to say that it is one of their best.