Wes Anderson Archive: The Ultimate Criterion Box Set Collection

The Wes Anderson Archive, an exclusive and meticulously curated 20-disc box set from The Criterion Collection, retails for a premium of $500, and good reason. This deluxe collector’s edition showcases all ten of Anderson’s feature films in stunning 4K UHD resolution, with Dolby Vision HDR and immersive DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 surround soundtracks. Every remaster was personally supervised by Wes Anderson himself, ensuring a true-to-vision cinematic experience for longtime fans and cinephiles alike.

“We’ve been working on it for some time,” said Anderson of the upcoming box set. “I like the idea of having this set. It’s ten movies, it’s an even number.”

Housed in an elegant, cloth-bound minimalist box, this set includes 10 double-disc volumes—one for each film—designed to look like hardcover books. The packaging itself is a work of art, embodying the signature aesthetic precision Anderson is known for. Each film comes paired with a dedicated bonus disc packed with exclusive extras.

“I always have thought of my films for whatever reason, as being a body of work, an ongoing thing, not just the films as one by one, but as a set of things,” said Anderson. “I used to say, I feel like the characters from one of my films could walk into another of my films and fit into that world.  Eventually, I started making period pictures, where that doesn’t quite make as much sense anymore.”

The presentation of the box set is strikingly reminiscent of a vintage set of World Book encyclopedias—right down to the cloth-bound casing and embossed official seal. And honestly, what could be more fitting? It’s a design choice that feels almost too perfect, echoing Wes Anderson’s signature obsession with symmetry, nostalgia, and meticulous detail. It’s hard to imagine a more Wes Anderson-esque packaging concept if you tried. The set doesn’t just house his films—it curates them like artifacts in a perfectly balanced, pastel-toned museum of cinematic quirk.

The collection spans Anderson’s first 25 years as a filmmaker, from his 1996 debut Bottle Rocket to 2021’s The French Dispatch. Titles included are:

• Bottle Rocket
• Rushmore
• The Royal Tenenbaums
• The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
• The Darjeeling Limited
• Fantastic Mr. Fox
• Moonrise Kingdom
• The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Isle of Dogs
• The French Dispatch

Each double-disc set features over 25 hours of special features—more than 20 hours in total—including in-depth audio commentaries, behind-the-scenes documentaries, deleted scenes, audition reels, short films, interviews, storyboards, and insightful essays that delve deep into Anderson’s distinctive storytelling style and production design.

Please note: Asteroid City, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, and the upcoming The Phoenician Scheme are not part of this box set. Still, the 10-film collection offers a cohesive and symmetrical retrospective of Anderson’s celebrated career—something that surely aligns with his meticulous artistic sensibilities.

Joining the ranks of legendary directors like Ingmar Bergman and Akira Kurosawa, Wes Anderson now receives his definitive Criterion Collection treatment—a must-have for collectors, fans, and lovers of auteur cinema.