The definitive Wes Anderson coffee table book

Sure to sate your appetite until The Grand Budapest Hotel comes out next spring (check out the brand new trailer below), The Wes Anderson Collection is a new coffee table book chock full of stills, stories, and ephemera from Bottle Rocket to Moonrise Kingdom. Penned by longtime friend/renowned TV critic Matt Zoller Seitz (with a foreword by Michael Chabon), the 300+ page hardcover is broken into seven chapters — one for each film — and covers his life, career, and influences via a booklong interview. It's even organized in a very Andersonian way, peppered with original illustrations and scrapbook-esque breakdowns of each film.

Lots of interesting behind-the-scenes trivia is revealed, too. For example, did you know Bill Murray not only tried to personally help finance Rushmore, but agreed to work for a SAG day rate that earned him only $9,000? Or that most of the train scenes in The Darjeeling Limited were shot in a real locomotive Anderson transformed into a traveling set so the actual countryside was captured in the background?