From Bookforum
Max Dalton's charming children's book-style illustrations introduce each film with a double-page spread of the movie's principal location, incorporating "fourth wall" views suggested by Anderson's familiar cutaway dollhouse technique, used so well in the opening of
Moonrise Kingdom and
The Life Aquatic. Designer Martin Venzky unpacks the filmmaker's sources and style—with an inspired deployment of stills, amusingly corny display type, and inventive layouts with images made to resemble postage stamps, scrapbook clippings, and other collectibles—perfectly capturing Anderson's seductively twee combination of obsessive detail and ironic distance. —Christopher Lyon
About the Author
Matt Zoller Seitz, a Pulitzer Prize finalist for criticism, currently writes for
New York magazine. He lives in Brooklyn.
Michael Chabon is the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of many novels, the most recent being
Telegraph Avenue. He lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife and four children.
