Trailers for Wes Anderson's new film The Grand Budapest Hotel have recently circulated as un-skippable ads on YouTube and pre-film entertainment in movie theaters.
The fantastic Mr. Anderson may appear to be immovable--in that his Futura technicolor has become standard--but his use of popular music as a detailed brush stroke to the cinematic fanfare has changed from the Rolling Stones and Kinks-centric soundtrack for The Darjeeling Limited.
This time, a score written from the masterful French film composer Alexandre Desplat will move to the foreground of the film.
Desplat has worked with Anderson before, providing musical offerings for The Fantastic Mr. Fox and Moonrise Kingdom (abreast of Leonard Berstein, of course), but on a bit smaller scale.
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