Author(s): John Andrew Fredrick

FILM DIRECTORS

Wes Anderson is now seen as one of America's greatest and most stylistic filmmakers. With movies like The Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Moonrise Kingdom, and The Darjeeling Limited, Anderson has solidified his place among the best and brightest of contemporary filmmakers. Anderson's early films, the films that rocketed him to stardom, are often written about separately and in contrast to his later films. In Fucking Innocent, John Andrew Fredrick, who has taught the early films at The University of Southern California, examines Anderson's three earliest films and discusses each individually and as the burgeoning of the art of one of the most talented of American directors. Fredrick's criticism looks at Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, and The Royal Tennenbaums in this fun and sharp critique.