The Grand Budapest Hotel’s Editor Barney Pilling
Editor Barney Pilling began his film career as a location scout on 24 Hour Party People, in 2002. A few years later, he’d become an editor, and worked on a string of narratively complex films, including An Education in 2009, the haunting adaptation Never Let me Go, from Kazuo Ishiguro’s difficult, daring novel, and One ...
Painting a Renaissance Masterpiece From Scratch for The Grand Budapest Hotel
Renaissance painter Johannes van Hoytl the Younger (1613-1669) worked in solitude. Known for his use of light and shade, as well as his attraction to the lustrous and velvety, the painter was particularly un-prolific and a financial failure. Yet, van Hoytl nevertheless produced up to a dozen of the finest portraits the world has ever ...
The Grand Budapest Hotel Production Designer Adam Stockhausen Goes Handmade
Seven years ago, a young art director was given an appropriately quirky assignment on the set of The Darjeeling Limited: design the dishes for the dining cabin of Wes Anderson’s India-traversing train. It took “an awful lot of versions” to win over the discerning director, but Adam Stockhausen must have made a good impression—since then, ...
Music and Movies: An Interview with Music Supervisor Randall Poster
Randall Poster from The Credits on Vimeo. In this exclusive interview, The Credits chats with legendary music supervisor Randall Poster about Moonrise Kingdom, working with director Wes Anderson, and the importance of protecting creativity at all costs. And for more insight into where Randall Poster draws inspiration from, check out this iTunes playlist of his ...
