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All tagged coming of age
Jenna double features two adaptations of beloved YA novels with Catherine Called Birdy and I Capture The Castle – the first about the actual 13th-century and the second about a girl in the 1930s living in a crumbling 13th century Castle.
Veronica double features two teens experimenting with broadening their horizons in two turbulent decades – Diary of a Teenage Girl and Acid Test.
Jenna attempts to pinpoint when teen movies lost their emotional sincerity, while Veronica shrugs and suggests she simply watch more movies. They discuss coming of age films from the late 1970s to the early 2000s – from early Matt Dillon films to Millennial classics.
Turning 30 can be rough. All that peer pressure, awkward insecurity, fights with mom, not to mention the raging hormones… Wait did I say 30? I meant 16. Sorry, I get those two confused somehow, just like our double feature: Crime in the Streets & The Delicate Delinquent.
Finally a college movie for the rest of us! I’m talking about those of us who spent their so-called “best years” mostly talking on the phone with their parents, eating take-out in their rooms and crying in the shower. Perhaps if I had had Shithouse I wouldn’t have felt so alone.
Kino Lorber has just released three beautifully restored queer films from the Weimar era on VOD: Michael (1924), Mädchen in Uniform (1931) and Victor and Victoria (1933)
If you watch The Party’s Over and Last Summer in a row and you'll come away realizing not only was the dream of the 1960s a lie, but we've never actually accomplished anything.
My Friend Dahmer emphasizes how the culture of cruelty and selfishness in high school can aid in masking real warning signs. But to forgive or not to forgive is another question entirely.
A look at Endless Poetry, Alejandro Jowodrosky's semi-autobiographical coming of age film
Stand By Me and Now and Then faces mortality, while The Transfiguration and Eyes of My Mother accept it head-on.
