The Grand Budapest Hotel
People tend to be split on the work of filmmaker Wes Anderson, folks either don’t care for his unique, inventive worlds, or they’re all in on them. I, am the latter, and have been ever since “Rushmore” came out in 2002, though I don’t think I fully fell in love with his work until “The Life Aquatic” in 2004. The Criterion Collection has recently issued a wonderful new blu-ray of Anderson’s 2014 film “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” which I hadn’t seen since it first hit theaters. “Grand Budapest” features many from familiar faces, several from the “Wes Anderson repertory” in its large cast. Throughout the course of the film’s 100 minutes running time you’ll see: Ralph Fiennes, F. Murray Abraham, Adrien Brody, William DeFoe, Jeff Goldblum, Jude Law, Tilda Swinton, Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Edward Norton, and Jason Schwartzman. Set In Europe, largely during the 1930s, “Grand Budapest” tells the story of a charming concierge at an opulent hotel who is soon framed for the murder of