The Fantastic Mr. Anderson

Anderson owes this honor to his distinct and unique style as a filmmaker: “I don’t want to have an invisible style... My writing and my way of staging scenes and shooting – people can tell it’s me, but that’s not by my choice. It naturally happens. It’s just my personality as a director.” –Wes Anderson

In this class, we will watch and examine five of Anderson’s most iconic films with an eye toward identifying how that personality manifests through his signature style. Ultimately the goal is to elucidate something like a unifying vision that ties his films together thematically. Does that vision include a nostalgic longing for the past, an alternative model of the nuclear family, a celebration of youthful irreverence? Join us at the Coolidge Corner Theatre and we’ll find out together!

About Andre Puca

Andre Puca received his B.A. in English from Cornell University, after which he earned his MFA in Film Studies from Boston University. He is a Senior Affiliated Faculty member at Emerson College, where he teaches courses on film and media studies. He has also taught film studies at Babson College as a Visiting Lecturer and presented papers at a number of conferences in the U.S. including the largest academic conference for film studies in the country conducted by The Society For Cinema and Media Studies. In the past two years, he has served as instructor for three different Coolidge Education courses, two of them on Alfred Hitchcock. While his primary research focuses on the history of American independent cinema, his most recent publication featured in The Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies was about the sadly overlooked Italian comedian and director, Massimo Troisi.