The Substance of Style: Wes Anderson - Museum of Moving Image
Matt Zoller Seitz’s video series ‘The Substance of Style,’ showing a variety of influences on Anderson, is up in its entirety. Watch the videos. They’re pretty darn good.
update (via jkottke):
Part 1: Bill Melendez, Orson Welles, and Francois Truffaut
Part 2: Martin Scorsese, Richard Lester, and Mike Nichols
Part 3: Hal Ashby
Part 4: J.D. Salinger
Part 5: The Royal Tenenbaums, annotated