not sure whether you want/need this but I went and translated some passages that seemed to ask to much of the automated systems Native German, which means you have to check the English, I am afraid…

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In the five parts of the Anderson-analysis he now traces the influences of other auteur styles on Anderson more systematically.

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Part 5 is already in the title distinguished from the previous parts. “The prologue to The Royal Tenenbaum, annotated,” is the 6-minute sequence called.

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Zoller Seitz write an overabundance of comments, notes and analytical hints into the images of the opening sequence; especially in the soberly designating cases, the joins Anderson's own practice of captioning. Furthermore, as small pictures-in-picture, moving or nonmoving, parallels from other film-historical references are added (from Citizen Kane via movies by Hal Ashby to Bill Melendez). It is impossible to process this wealth in a single passage through Zoller Seitz' film exercise; this in itself already hints at Wes Anderson's love of playful details and precisely localizable cinematic procedures like the emphasized-emphasizing camera movement, which Zoller Seitz calls “emphatic dolly”. Zoller Seitz' annotated version orients itself – ironic in its excess, yet very earnestly focussed on its matter – on the critical annotation, which is known in literature in the case of classic editions, in which the apparatus often far exceeds the original text in length.

The effect of almost baroque richness is also created by the fact that in all intervations and overwritings of the image, two components are not touched: the timing and the soundtrack of Anderson's film. Seitz adds to the film no slow motion sequences, does not stop the picture, and does not interfere with the course of the perfectionist exposure of this wunderkind-family. His annotations, which scurry past in a fleetingness best described by the American adjective “hilarious”, are the erudite-astonished result of a fascinated, again and again the “rewind” button-pressing cinema enthusiasm. Repeat viewing for repeat viewers.