'The Grand Budapest Hotel' Director: Wes Anderson (2014) Criterion Collection Blu-ray | Director-supervised 2K digital transfer

Wes Anderson brings his dry wit and visual inventiveness to this exquisite caper set amid the old-world splendour of Europe between the world wars. 

At the opulent Grand Budapest Hotel, the concierge M. Gustave and his young protégé Zero forge a steadfast bond as they are swept up in a scheme involving the theft of a priceless Renaissance painting and the battle for an enormous family fortune—while around them, political upheaval consumes the continent.

Meticulously designed, The Grand Budapest Hotel is a breathless picaresque and a poignant paean to friendship and the grandeur of a vanished world, performed with panache by an all-star ensemble that includes Ralph Fiennes, Tony Revolori, F. Murray Abraham, Adrien Brody, Saoirse Ronan, Willem Dafoe, Jude Law, Harvey Keitel, Jeff Goldblum, Mathieu Amalric, Tilda Swinton, and Bill Murray.

Special features include:
- Audio commentary featuring Anderson, filmmaker Roman Coppola, critic Kent Jones, and actor Jeff Goldblum
- Selected-scene storyboard animatics
- “The Making of ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel'"
- Interviews with the cast and crew
- Video essays from 2015 and 2020 by critic Matt Zoller Seitz and film scholar David Bordwell
- Behind-the-scenes, special-effects, and test footage
- Two pieces by critic Richard Brody, an 1880 essay on European hotel portiers by Mark Twain, a double-sided poster, and other ephemera