the adolescent ( film )
city of san fernando - - the commission on population (popcom) is now accepting entries to the adolescent health and development (ahd) film festival .
the best film shall be the official entry of popcom - central luzon to the national level adolescent health and development film fest. all films produced by participating schools in the region will become property of popcom as communication and information materials for ahd program .
the commission on population is proud to announce the 2 nd adolescent health and development (ahd) film festival which will take place in quezon city on december 6 - 7, 2016 .
for cultural alarmists of the 1990s clinton era, the film “kids” represented a culmination of fears .
following the footsteps of natalie mitchell’s play germ free adolescent, created as part of farnham malting’s greenhouse project, this film takes us back to medway, kent, months after the play was last performed, to learn about its legacy as well as about young lives in medway today .
from left, assa sylla, lindsay karamoh, karidja touré and marietou touré in “girlhood, ” a socially conscious french drama about a troubled adolescent, directed by céline sciamma .
in world war ii italy, four fascist libertines round up nine adolescent boys and girls and subject them to one hundred and twenty days of physical, mental and sexual torture .
romania' s official submission to the 42nd academy awards (1970) for best foreign language film .
harvey weinstein, who purchased and distributed the movie, wrote in an email: “ ‘kids’ was the most controversial film i’ve ever been associated with. ” his company, he said, was threatened by state courts that asserted that the film violated certain nonfederal laws. “the vitriolic reactions only reinforced its importance and further affirmed how special the film was, ” mr. weinstein said .
during a rescue mission into the amazon rainforest, a professor stumbles across lost film shot by a missing documentary crew .
reviewed at edinburgh film festival (best of british), june 23, 2015. (also in karlovy vary film festival — forum of independents, competing .) running time: 97 min .
srpski film is a movie starring srdjan' zika' todorovic, sergej trifunovic, and jelena gavrilovic. an aging porn star agrees to participate in an
art film
in order to make a clean break from the business, only to discover that he has been drafted into making a pedophilia and necrophilia themed snuff film .
eiji okuda (b. 1950, aichi) has until now chiefly devoted himself to acting. he debuted in the lead role of the film motto shinayakani (dir. toschihachi fujita, 1979). he also became famous outside his native japan and in 1987 won a silver bear - the special jury prize at the berlin film festival for his role in the film sea and poison (umi to dokuyaku, dir. kei kumai, 1986). he worked with director kei kumai on another successful film entitled the death of a tea master (sen no rikyu - honkakubo ibun, 1989). for his role in this film he won the silver lion at the venice iff in 1989. filmography (selection) deep river (fukaikawa, dir. kei kumai, 1994), koi gokudo (dir. rokuro mochizuki, 1997), puraido: unmeui no syunkan (dir. toshiya ito, 1998), mina zuki (dir. rokuro mochizuki, 1999). the film an adolescent is his directorial debut .
urton originally wanted to make the film musical, claiming that it “seemed big and operatic to me”. he dropped the idea, but went on to prove quite the master of musical films with sweeney todd. he originally asked the cure’s robert smith to score the film, but smith was too busy working on the band’s eighth album, disintegration .
jennie, the film’s tragic heroine, who learns that she contracted h. i. v. from telly. in the film’s final scene, after she tracks him down at a house party, jennie passes out on a couch and is raped by casper .
urton didn’t want to film in his native burbank, because he felt it had changed too much to provide the warped suburbia seen in the film. after weeks of scouting similar settlements around america, the crew settled on a real neighbourhood in lutz, a town east of tampa in florida .
“it makes almost any other portrait of american adolescence look like the picture of dorian gray, ” janet maslin wrote of the unrated film in her review for the new york times .
just before world war ii, a 12 - year - old girl leaves paris with her parents for a summer vacation in the country. instead of playing with her friends there, she develops an adolescent (hence the film' s title) infatuation with a 30 - year - old doctor that has recently joined the village. the older man, understandably, does not return her affections but instead manifests an even less - advised interest in the girl' s dutch mother .
unflinching in its quasi - vérité realism, “kids” opens with telly, a pale and rawboned lothario, deflowering an adolescent girl and ends with a drug - fueled rape at a house party. there is no thunderous moral reckoning, only observational detachment .
the film’s power to horrify has been diminished not by time, but by the recognizability of its cast, not one of whom was a professional actor in 1995 .
those issues—parents, class, authority, peer pressure—never leave the teenage experience. the empathetic way the breakfast club handles them means the film will resonate with future generations almost as much as it did—and still does—with mine .
cassavetes' jazz - scored improvisational film explores interracial friendships and relationships in beat - era (1950s) new york city .
an ironic pink heart dots the “i” in the troubled - teen tale “the violators” — perhaps the sole playful touch in this stern, striking debut from british novelist - turned - helmer helen walsh. treading ground initially derivative of works by andrea arnold and pawel pawlikowski before going on its own genre - tinged tangent, this study of adolescent desire and alienation [ … ]
the film was banned in brazil. the first legal screening was scheduled for october 1, 2011, in a special cine sesi dawn screening in the city of maceió, alagoas, but the government forced the screening to be canceled the day before. the ban was overturned on july 3, 2012 .
the ballad of narayama
is a japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. what a space it opens…
reservation of slots for the orientation will be on a first come - first served basis. only schools which participated during the orientation will be allowed to come up with their film entries .
upon the story written by nicolae breban, the film is using a pseudo - psycho - analytical approach for a personal story of doctor palaloga (a love story). unlike the communist movies of the 70ies and 80ies, which were bringing the political system into characters' inner clashes, the mischievous adolescent is more in tune with french and italian movies of that time. characters say important things, do not wallow around shallow and petty conversation (for big dialogue see also suta de lei, the hundred lei). music is also used brilliantly - an urban, rhythmic music to pace the story up and down. camera movements and angles, the non - linear editing - just like la capătul liniei, at the end of the train tracks - are creating an urban environment for the urban story .
rebel, like the breakfast club, also focuses on vital but unlikely friendships that form over the course of a single day. dean’s loner character, jim stark, starts at a new school, hoping for friends, but instead gets immediately embroiled in knife fights and chickie runs, the adolescent transgressions for which the film is best remembered. what really stands out in rebel from a wider perspective, though, is the tumultuous relationship between the movie’s parents and their offspring. when jim and judy pretend to be a young couple shopping for a house, jim asks about children, and judy remarks, “they’re such a bother. ” plato remembers lying in his crib, listening to his parents fight. jim is embarrassed and let down by his hen - pecked father (jim backus), and he erupts at his parents in the film’s climactic scene: “you’re tearing me apart! ”
the ahd film festival was originally conceived to provide a venue for creativity among young people and at the same time raise their awareness on various issues affecting them such as teenage pregnancy, early sexual encounters, climate change among others .
the festival was adopted by popcom central office as one of the advocacy activities for the ahd component of the philippine population management program .
this short documentary studies the fate reserved to young people through the ages. drawing from paintings, archival footage and various other documents, the film demonstrates that during the 16th and 17th century, young people lived happily alongside their elders. this equilibrium was broken in the 19th century, when the defense of the young and the protection afforded by reformers and educators created the generation gap evident in western society today. will dialogue between society’s young and less young ever resume
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the ahd film festival, now a national event, aims to create awareness on the status of today’s adolescents and young people and provide a creative venue where they can express themselves on issues like teenage pregnancy, sexuality and reproductive health .
director. “kids” was mr. clark’s directorial debut. “my idea was to make a film that had never been made, ” he said. “by hanging out with these kids so long, they finally let me into a world where no adults were allowed. ” other than the story line about jennie, nearly everything in the film was based on events that he and mr. korine had witnessed .
i don' t really know where to start... at first i didn' t know what to think. there are so many nasty, nasty scenes in this film. so it took quite a while to really
digest
it. it truly is a nasty film. i didn' t think it was possible to make such a film and get away with it! but there' s more to it. it' s not just a nasty film. it' s a nasty film with something to say. it' s got something to say about money, about art, about family and about life in the
not - as - rich
parts of the
civilized
world. i think this movie is a part of a cleansing. a cry to the world; don' t let sick stuff happen. it might just be me, but i thought i could see all that through out the film. it is a very well made movie. the acting is solid to the end. the camera - work is just superb. lighting, sets and costumes are just delicious! it' s got texture. a look of it' s own. the gore effects are also unbelievably well made. that is why this film is so hard to watch. it all seems a little too real to be entertaining. i love gore film, i do. but i prefer the campy ones with obviously fake gore. it' s just too real to be comfortable. so i' ll give this movie a solid 7 out of 10. it' s really good but it' s also really hard to watch .
brown sugar ,
which charts romantic passages in these lives, is a romantic comedy, yes, but one with characters who think and talk about their goals, and are working on hard decisions. for both sidney and dre, hip - hop music symbolizes a kind of perfect adolescent innocence, a purity they' re trying to return to as more cynical adults .
as well as painting the houses, the crew also had to install a lot of shrubs for edward to sculpt into his creations in the film. the finished works, however, weren’t real, but the creation of the art department. welch said: “we designed them in the art department. we said, ‘okay, how about one is a dinosaur and one is a turtle and whatever? ’ they tended to be fantastical animals .
u4u is an innovative mix of educational activities which provides teens critical information and services to help protect them from poor decisions and abuse. it will be followed by an awarding ceremony on december 7 at the up film center .
the houses were painted in faded pastel colours, to represent the aspirations of suburban living, and some were given fake fronts with smaller windows to give a greater sense of paranoia. the vast majority of houses were painted back afterwards, but some liked their scissorhands makeovers. although all inhabitants eventually gave up their houses for the shoot, there was one man – who lived in the middle house – who only allowed the crew to use his at the last minute. the crew were expecting to have to film around the house .
telly, the self - proclaimed “virgin surgeon, ” who spends much of the film trying to seduce pubescent girls. “man, i was so bad with girls before the movie, ” mr. fitzpatrick said. “and it sure didn’t help my cause any. people attached me to the character a lot more than i attached myself to it. ”
the young adolescent melinda sordino arrives at high school feeling confused, depressed and alone. her school peers call her
squealer
, because she alerted the police during a summer party after she was sexually assaulted by andy evans. she refuses to tell anyone the events that took place. her depression and distance from people is made worse by the increasingly large gap between her and her parents. she finds great support with her art teacher mr. freeman and her school friend david petrakis. her feelings threaten to engulf her but melinda learns to grow from her experiences instead of repressing the past emotions that have scarred her for the rest of her life .
they say the clothes make the man, and these are some killer duds .
released 20 years ago this month, the film centers on a cabal of broken new york teenagers who spend 24 hours boozing, rolling blunts, fighting and indulging in unsafe, emotionally vacant sex. it is “lord of the flies” with skateboards, nitrous oxide and hip - hop .
mr. fitzpatrick exiled himself to london after the film’s release, but he returned to new york and acting several years later. after appearing in mr. clark’s “bully” in 2001, he spent three seasons on “the wire” on hbo and had a role on “sons of anarchy. ”
tomokawa works as a policeman in a small town. during the hot summer he lazily strolls the streets, passing the time setting up petty deals and seducing married women. then suddenly the young and beautiful yoko steps into his life with an offer no man can refuse. the fiery affair which ensues radically changes both their lives. the girl falls passionately in love with the policeman and he, unable to conquer his feelings, loses his carefully cultivated mask of sophisticated cynicism. moreover, they have much more in common than was at first apparent. yoko’s mother is tomokawa’s ex - girlfriend and her father, yoko’s grandfather, designed the wonderful tattoo of a single - winged phoenix on the policeman’s back. and it is the old man who becomes enraged when he finds out about his granddaughter’s relationship with tomokawa. the lovers are unprepared for its surprising outcome. eiji okuda on his film: “in developing the story for an adolescent, i focused on the “pure love” between a middle - aged man and a young girl. what i wanted to do was depict the union of two pure souls, where this union is never just sex and will never be fulfilled. i will be very happy if i can get across an important message: be yourself, regardless of the absurdity of the world” .
bo welch, the film’s production designer, told the huffington post how they rented 20 houses in a cul - de - sac by paying the people who lived in them and putting them up in a variety of accommodations: from disneyland to a super - 8 motel. some locals took on work as extras, but many quit after they realised the long hours expected of them in the hot florida weather .
in serbia, the retired porn star milos is married with his beloved wife marija and they have a little son, peter, that is their pride and joy. the family is facing financial difficulties, but out of the blue, milos is contacted by the porn actress lejla that offers him a job opportunity in an art film. milos is introduced to the director vukmir that offers a millionaire contract to milos to act in a film. however, vukmir neither show the screenplay nor tell the story to milos. milos discuss the proposal with marija and he signs the contract. but sooner he finds that vukmir and his crew are involved in sick snuff films of pedophilia, necrophilia and torture and there is no way back to him and maybe it is too late to protect his family .
although burton had drawn a character with sharp implements for hands years before the film and based it on his experiences feeling out of place while growing up in suburban california, scissorhands came to life after the director met with scriptwriter caroline thompson, who had been nurturing a frankenstein - style story .
by the late ’60s, youth broke with establishment almost completely, as did youth - aimed movies like easy rider. the ’70s brought slasher films and musicals like grease, but the movie that best focused on the teen years was also a nostalgia piece: george lucas’ 1973 film american graffiti. hughes picked up the graffiti baton about a decade later for his string of teen films. sixteen candles explored high - school social structure. ferris bueller’s day off, rebellion from authority. pretty in pink and its gender - switched equivalent, some kind of wonderful, classism. but only the breakfast club condensed all of them into a single film, making it hughes’ best .
as a teenager in west orange, n. j. , mr. fitzpatrick would ride the bus to new york and skateboard in washington square park. there, he befriended mr. clark, whose proclamations about making a film were initially dismissed as idle chatter. the decision to cast mr. fitzpatrick (16 at the time) was initially met with resistance from the film’s producers. “they wanted ricky schroder or something, whoever the hot kid was, ” mr. fitzpatrick said. “they wanted somebody who was probably more charismatic, better looking, that you could understand what he was saying. but larry knew that wasn’t authentic. ”
the films screened were already regional winners and competed in the national level for the following categories: best film, best director, best cinematography, best musical scoring, best screenplay, best actor, best actress, best supporting actor, best supporting actress, best editing, best poster, best trailer, best production design and best sound design .
the vampire lestat becomes a rock star whose music wakes up the queen of all vampires .
the ahd film festival was originally conceived to provide a venue for creativity among young people and at the same time raise their awareness on various issues affecting them such as teenage pregnancy, early sexual encounters, climate change among others. this year’s theme, kabataan, kalusugan, kalikasan: magkaugnay, highlights the interrelationship among population, health and environment (phe) and its effects in the context of sustainable development .
“if you look at all my work, i’m always about three years early, ” mr. clark said. “so the kids who saw the film said: ‘gee, man, this gets what’s happening. this is real. ’ whereas a lot of parents said, ‘it’s a dirty old man’s fantasy. ’ all you had to do was read the newspapers over the next few years, and everything was true. ”
as a tentative friendship builds between the two, rachel’s motives remain opaque, even as walsh elegantly toggles the pic’s point of view between them. whether the more well - heeled girl is acting out of genuine loneliness, passive - aggressive spite or unarticulated sexual curiosity is enticingly open to question, though a critical revelation in the film’s rushed, somewhat ungainly final reel reframes their acquaintance in a manner more dramatically startling than it is psychologically satisfying. on the surface, shelly’s nervous relationship with mikey is easier to parse, but it comes with its own moral fractures and complexities: the depth of affection on either end isn’t immediately clear. while comparisons to pawlikowski’s “my summer of love” are tempting, every romantic angle in walsh’s less seductive film is a potential bluff .
an ironic pink heart dots the “i” in the troubled - teen tale “the violators” — perhaps the sole playful touch in this stern, striking debut from british novelist - turned - helmer helen walsh. treading ground initially derivative of works by andrea arnold and pawel pawlikowski before going on its own genre - tinged tangent, this study of adolescent desire and alienation across class lines takes its time nurturing a tensely ambiguous relationship between its two young female leads — alertly played by newcomers lauren mcqueen and brogan ellis — only to squander a measure of that intrigue on a blunt third - act twist. early berths in edinburgh and karlovy vary portend a healthy festival run for this auspicious arrival, though distributors may hold back .
basically the story of a man forced to finally see the injustice around him. riley’s movie is designed to do the same thing to you. …
colin firth is both ludicrously british and modern - day hollywood in kingsman: the secret service, the wildly enjoyable new film from matthew vaughn. his harry hart muses on the importance of a bespoke suit one moment and dispatches a band of villains with precise alacrity and nifty gadgets the next. this movie stands in reverence of the english upper classes and the seeming ease with which they gracefully solve problems, yet is so wonderfully absurd that, if one were ever to speak so coarsely, one would say they were “taking the piss”. kingsman quite neatly has its scone and eats it, too .
when milos drives back to vukmir' s mansion, the camera crew is reflected in the car .
this time the family was that of jay silverman, an accomplished film and tv producer, director and writer, and he has brought his keen skills to this semi - fictionalized movie. silverman directed and co - wrote girl on the edge. his admiration for his traumatized daughter, (second) wife and the clinicians who helped them is palpable, lends pathos and provides hope for others traveling a similar path .
the silvermans are privileged people and did the right thing for their daughter, and that was very hard. but few families will be able to afford a private ranch for months of treatment; others may but only by having to mortgage their home or accrue large debt. however, the silverman' s story need not be for those of financial means alone: what the film illustrates are the necessary elements for any troubled teenager, or adult, to rebuild a life after trauma or with a mental or addictive disorder .
epp was 27 at the time, and just embarking on a credible film career. in an interview published weeks after scissorhands’ release, he seemed humble and unsure of his career trajectory: “i may be around for 20 or 30 years, or 20 or 30 minutes ,
he said. “who knows? ”
rosario dawson is now a hollywood star; ms. sevigny is accomplished in film and fashion; leo fitzpatrick bounces between acting and art; larry clark, the director, has continued to make films focused on youth counterculture. and harmony korine, who was 19 when he wrote the screenplay in his grandmother’s basement in queens, has directed films including 2012’s “spring breakers. ”
recovery from trauma and mental and addictive disorders is built on trusting relationships, protecting people from their own shame and the shaming of others, and small but clear steps that can be observed and used as anchors and reassurance when the going gets rough. we see that portrayed with care in girl on the edge. that' s a message so many families need to see, and this film offers them a story to believe in .
kingsman is a highly advanced, well - funded independent secret service unaligned with any government. if the bit of exposition in the film is to be believed, it was founded by high - end tailors looking to maintain world security so as to ensure a market for their sharp and fancy wares. it’s preposterous, but you buy it since the info drops during a tour of the very elegant, somewhat steampunky private underground system that can whisk agents from london to their manor outside of town .
much is made of the five leads as generic stereotypes: brain, beauty, jock, rebel, basket case. in classic hughes fashion, the beauty and jock are at the top of the high - school structure, the others further down the ladder. but the fact that “custodial artist” carl is seen in a brief shot at the beginning of the movie as a former high school star is a sly nod to what hughes thinks of people who peak in high school. (ferris bueller is the only hughes hero who’s popular with his classmates. )
instead, burton worked with his career - long collaborator danny elfman on the score, but added three tom jones songs to the soundtrack: a nod to the pallid musical palette of his upbringing, where nobody listened to music, but everyone liked the efforts of the welsh crooner .
events over the course of one traumatic night in paris unfold in reverse - chronological order as the beautiful alex is brutally raped and beaten by a stranger in the underpass .
unlike many new filmmakers from a writing background, walsh (whose 2014 novel “the lemon grove” examined comparable themes of cross - generational longing) has conceived her story in keenly image - based terms. richly shot in unexpected ice - cream tones — a fresh break from the cement palette that dominates this corner of british film — by first - time d. p. tobin jones, the pic lingers on the fallen gambling arcades and muggy factory silhouettes of the region. such ragged environmental texture plays heavily into our restless - but - routeless heroine’s state of mind .
the breakfast club turns 30 this year, which means that its stars are now middle - aged. but those five teens on the screen still resonate with more than one generation, as pitch perfect showed in 2012 when it referenced the film during a few key plot moments. when the breakfast club returned to theaters for a brief run to celebrate its anniversary, it played to both an audience that had grown up with it and to a new generation that could grow to appreciate it. three decades later, the breakfast club still has a lot to offer both of them .
seeing the breakfast club as a teenager was like getting knocked over by a wave of validation. i remember sitting in the theater, sold from the moment the bowie quote smashes through the screen, thinking, “finally, somebody gets it. ” i didn’t understand why everything my parents did at the time drove me crazy, but from what i saw on the screen, i was not alone in this alienation .
despite the presence of grandfatherly michael caine, kingsman’s tone is about as far from the christopher nolan - style superhero film as you can get. verisimilitude is frequently traded in for a rich laugh. the action scenes delight with shock humour. it’s violent, but not gory, ready - made for word balloons reading “ooof” or “krakoom”. this movie is so alive that few will roll their eyes at the message – one that says a true gentleman’s virtue comes from within, and not their accent. (once eggsy dons the proper garb, it isn’t like he loses the “bruvs” .) valentine’s convoluted plan to conquer the world involves hacking our ubiquitous cellphones. but if the spirit of kingsman takes hold of our culture, all we’ll be carrying is a pocketwatch .
the first shot of the movie is of a football game — the american kind, with pads and helmets and hard contact at the line of scrimmage. this may come as a surprise in a french movie. shouldn’t they be playing soccer? another surprise: all of the players are girls, mostly of african descent and residents of a high - rise housing complex on the outskirts of paris. so right from the start, before the plot has gotten underway, “girlhood” insists that the world will not conform to easy categories or lazy expectations .
in one of the film’s few tranquil moments, jennie rides in a yellow taxi driven by a crusty cabby who expresses concern that she looks troubled. after she concedes that “everything is wrong, ” he cheers her up with life - affirming wisdom. “the cabdriver wasn’t an actor, he was a rug salesman that the production designer knew, ” mr. clark said. “he had this incredible voice. when he came in and started reading, i thought i was listening to moses. ”
the backstreet boy singer wasn’t credited for his blink - and - you - miss - it cameo as a boy playing on the slip ‘n slide as edward and peg ride through suburbia. nor can you see his face. but never underestimate the zeal of a backstreet boys fan, nor the power of the internet :
this too is familiar territory, for audiences acquainted with recent french realist cinema or with american television shows like “the wire. ” among other things, “girlhood” is another socially conscious drama about the choices facing a tough, intelligent, basically decent young person in a world that views her with indifference and suspicion. it’s worth noting that the state, which usually shows up in french movies in the form of the police, the educational system or the strongly implied ideals of the republic, is barely present here. and its absence increases the sense that vic and her friends are alone and vulnerable, safe and valued only in the uneasy cocoon they weave together .
written and directed by céline sciamma; director of photography, crystel fournier; edited by julien lacheray; music by para one; set design, thomas grézaud; produced by bénédicte couvreur; released by strand releasing. in french, with english subtitles. running time: 1 hour 53 minutes. this film is not rated .
based on the real - life case of the british serial killer john christie, and what happened to his neighbors tim and beryl evans .
for mr. fitzpatrick, it took place at the carmine street swimming pool, where the teenagers had sneaked in and splashed beneath a 1987 mural by keith haring. the setting was also featured in “raging bull, ” by martin scorsese. “the idea of being part of the fabric of new york is really nice, ” mr. fitzpatrick said .
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the king of pop wanted to play scissorhands, as did william hurt and robert downey jr, but the former was ignored and the latter two unsuccessful. tom hanks turned down the role to take on bonfire of the vanities instead. jim carrey was considered but lacked dramatic experience at that point in his career – nobody wanted a more comedic edward than depp offered .
the new administration of president rodrigo duterte has recognized the relevance of population interventions in his platform of national development. as such, he pronounced strong political will to fully implement the responsible parenthood and reproductive health (rprh) law as a component of the national socio - economic agenda during his first state of the nation address (sona). in relation to this, he issued executive order no. 12 to urgently attain zero unmet need for modern family planning as one of the legacies of the philippine health agenda .
mr. clark followed “kids” with other films that depicted wayward youth subculture, including “bully, ” “ken park” and “wassup rockers. ” in 2014, he revisited skate culture, this time adding modernities like online pornography, in the film “the smell of us. ” “i don’t know if any other adults give kids the same respect that larry does, ” said mr. fitzpatrick, who organized a 2014 gallery show of mr. clark’s snapshots, which sold for $ 100 each. “larry is a kid at heart. he just happens to be a lot older than them. ”
there' s a scene in
brown sugar
i never thought i' d see in a movie, where after reese and dre have a
final
fight, and in a more conventional film she would disappear forever from the screenplay, but here she returns to suggest counseling and says they need to work harder at their marriage. how many movie romances are that thoughtful about their characters ?
brown sugar
may be pitching itself to the wrong audience. the ads promise :
the rhythm... the beat... the love... and you don' t stop !
but it' s not a musical and although it' s sometimes a comedy, it' s observant about its people. francine is onto something. they' re all terry mcmillan characters .
but what resonates most from a later viewing of the breakfast club, and the main thing these five have in common, is how their parents cast a pall over the entire proceedings. parents only appear tangentially in hughes’ other teen movies, with nice - guy dads like paul dooley and harry dean stanton sitting in for some heartfelt one - to - ones with molly ringwald. in the breakfast club, viewers only briefly see the parents dropping the kids off in the morning. but much of what the kids talk about, and what appears to upset them most, is how they deal with their parental units .
filmmakers have tried to emulate hughes since the ’80s, but most mainstream efforts have fallen short, relying on shakespearean plays (10 things i hate about you, she’s the man), austen and hawthorne novels (the excellent easy a and clueless), and even fairy tales (beastly) for inspiration. the sunny and popular high school musical movies had no basis in reality. today’s youths are mostly limited to the post - apocalypse (the hunger games, divergent), battling diseases (the fault in our stars, me and earl and the dying girl), and—just like their ’70s and ’80s forebears—getting attacked in horror films (it follows, the cabin in the woods). in this century, so far, no one has picked up hughes’ baton .
as the climactic house party winds down, casper lies in a bathtub with a 40 - ounce bottle of olde english 800 and drunkenly sings the theme to “casper the friendly ghost, ” with improvised lyrics about “the dopest ghost in town” as an ode to himself. moments later, he commits a sexual assault .
ms. dawson, now 36, has emerged as the movie’s most visible alumna. her long list of film credits includes “he got game, ” “sin city, ” “rent” and last year’s “ top five, ” in which she starred opposite chris rock. she is also known for her political activism and philanthropy, and she recently started a sustainable fashion line, studio one eighty nine, with pieces like kimonos that are hand - dyed in ghana and mali .
popcom executive director juan antonio perez iii believes that this activity will greatly contribute to the improvement and promotion of the total well - being of young people. #
two affluent suburban girls clash with the latino gang culture of east los angeles .
seventeen films produced by grades 10 - 11 students from seventeen regions were carefully judged by film industry’s experts namely: cinekasimanwa festival director elvert bañares; cinemalaya founding member edward cabagnot, award - winning filmmaker and director of crossroads charliebebs gohetia, salamindanaw festival director gutierez mangansakan ii, population, health and development consultant maria corazon dela paz and popcom’s very own, planning and monitoring division chief jackylin robel .
this weird death is part of a nefarious scheme by kingsman’s great nemesis, valentine, a mark zuckerberg - meets - dr evil type and source of some of the film’s most unexpected gags. samuel l jackson’s psychotic baddie has a thick lisp, penchant for wearing baseball caps indoors and adorns his home with portraits of panda bears that look like they’re designed by patrick nagel. when hart and valentine finally meet tête - à - tête at his headquarters, they dine on big macs served on place settings. and they discuss the absurdity of james bond movies .
four months after the death of her husband, a woman on the brink of motherhood is tormented in her home by a strange woman who wants her unborn baby .
at the health clinic where she gets an h. i. v. test, ruby recounts her carnal escapades, sometimes unsure of how many times she engaged in certain acts. “i was playing a character that was really sexually promiscuous, but i was making a movie that was about the perils of childhood, when you think you’re going to live forever, ” ms. dawson said. “the other kids movies, like ‘ferris bueller, ’ they were hokey and silly and fun, but played by adults. this was kids being kids. ” still, some relatives were caught off guard by the film’s graphic sex. “my grandmother was like, ‘you could have warned us before we told all of our church friends. ’ ”
one night, the gang breaks into a closed swimming pool, and harold, clad only in sagging briefs, hushes the group and gyrates so that his private parts make fleshy slapping noises. “harold stole that scene, ” mr. fitzpatrick said. “i’m almost positive that it was written into the script that he did that, but those sound effects aren’t fake. ” the scene also broke the ice among the young, nervous actors. “that was when we started gelling, ” he added .
burton sent price the film, and he appreciated it. he told the la times: “i can' t tell you what (price) meant to me growing up. this sounds dramatic but he helped me live... when you' re a child and a teenager it' s not unusual to go through a melodramatic phase. but by watching (price' s) films, there was a catharsis for me. you' re not just watching a low - budget edgar allan poe movie, there' s something else there that' s not on the screen. i channeled my melodrama into that, as opposed to suicide probably. ”
misfit françois kidnaps young mado and takes her to live with him in the attic of his parents' home. a strange relationship evolves till the police comes upon them .
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two decades later, “kids” has become an art house classic and a cultural touchstone, celebrated by a screening last month at the brooklyn academy of music, which reunited the cast for the first time, and a commemorative skate - wear collection at supreme .
a tribute to the late tab hunter, a gay matinee idol and hollywood trailblazer .
the festival kicks - off with a one (1) day youth - for - you (u4u) teen trail on december 6 at the university hotel, up diliman, quezon city. miguel tanfelix, u4u celebrity ambassador, will grace the event and advocate about
mr. pierce grew up in the marble hill section of northern manhattan. in his teens, he dropped out of school and moved into a basement apartment on 176th street known as “the dungeon” that was teeming with fellow skaters. his self - destructive streak was not fabricated for the screen; the role of casper was written specifically with him in mind .
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the short films should have a maximum running time of 15 minutes including credits and disclaimer. this should revolve around the theme: “post millenial filipinos: renewed hopes versus risk. ”
an interview with terry gilliam, director of
the man who killed don quixote .
the funeral was held at st. patrick’s old cathedral in little italy, followed by a gathering near supreme, the streetwear label founded by mr. pierce’s friends. “justin was great looking, he was charismatic, he was the one everyone wanted to be in the movie, ” mr. fitzpatrick said. “but maybe justin wasn’t that comfortable in his own skin. ”
but while “girlhood” is sad and wrenching, it doesn’t feel like a misery - mongering expression of high - minded (and therefore condescending) concern. this is because karidja touré, evolving from the shy marieme into the assertive vic, carries herself with the kind of dignity that disarms all pity, and also because ms. sciamma, whose previous explorations of female adolescence include “tomboy” and “water lilies, ” is less interested in what marieme might represent than in what she experiences. while the movie has a lot to say about the general condition of being a girl, in the paris banlieues and elsewhere, it never loses sight of the specific girl at its heart .
brown sugar ,
advertised as a hip - hop comedy, is more like a slice of black professional life (there' s not even an entire hip - hop song in the whole movie). directed and co - written by rick famuyiwa, the movie returns to a world similar to his
the wood
( 1999), but the characters are deeper and more complex .
the picturesque english county of cheshire is not typically associated with hard urban realism, so it’s fitting that walsh has chosen it as the locale for a story in which the working classes seem pointedly disregarded even by their nearest neighbors. set largely on a council housing estate in birkenhead’s left - to - crumble ship canal region, the pic swiftly sketches the bones of a community marked by absent parents and scant opportunities: when 16 - year - old dropout shelly (mcqueen) is introduced tracking her brothers — adult deadbeat andy (derek barr) and bright preteen jerome (callum king chadwick) — to a boozy weeknight party, she seems less a sister to them than the woman of the house .
portrait of an imaginary painter from the life and work of antoine wiertz (1806 - 1865) .
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lakeith stanfield and his sorry to bother you director boots riley discuss the stress of filming sex scenes .
raised in the east village, mr. hunter was well known in the skating world when he was cast. as with mr. pierce, his character was written for him. “a lot of the feel and essence of that movie is him, ” mr. korine said. “he was just completely fearless. he worked the street, performing, trying to pick up girls or get clothes. ”
then she meets lady (assa sylla), the leader of a clique in need of a fourth member. (the film’s french title, “bande de filles, ” could be translated as “girl gang, ” and the english title plays on several meanings of “hood. ”) lady and her lieutenants, adiatou (lindsay karamoh) and fily (marietou touré), accessorize their black leather jackets with gold chains and wear their hair straight and unbraided. they fight, swear, defy authority and talk back to catcallers, shopkeepers and anyone else who annoys them. in their company, marieme — now known as vic (“as in victory, ” according to lady) — feels brave, protected and understood. she also has fun, and ms. sciamma captures the dizzy sweetness of her first tastes of freedom, as she and her friends dance, drink and lip - sync to rihanna’s “diamonds. ”
epp’s gothy look may seem derivative of that adopted by scissorhands, but turning into the latter was a considerably arduous process. for four months depp spent two hours a day in make - up, to have his eyebrows covered and scars applied (in the dvd commentary, burton jokes that some of the scars were real “because there was an adjustment period for the actor wearing scissors on his hand”) to his ghostly face .
the role came to define depp as the king of kooky, but chances are we wouldn’t still be talking about edward scissorhands had it been cast with one of this esoteric bunch of possibles. burton met with cruise on several occasions at fox’s insistence. “he was interesting, ” the director recalled, “but i think it worked out for the best. a lot of questions came up” – one which concerned scissorhands’ lack of virility .
florence, a young irresponsible mother & and her precocious daughter, eugenia, have an unusual relationship. the roles between the two are reversed. florence is totally inept at caring for... see full summary »
the summer of 1939. marie, at 13, goes with her parents to visit her grandmother in a small town near avignon. although rumors of war reach the countryside, it' s an idyllic place. marie' s parents are constantly making love. surrounded by sexual frankness, marie fancies herself a woman and develops a crush on alexander, the town' s young jewish doctor. she' s despondent when he treats her as if she were a child. after marie' s father abruptly leaves for a few weeks to assist with a relative' s harvest, marie' s mother and the doctor disappear into the woods for hours at a time. marie tries to spy on them. when dad returns, what will the family and the doctor do?
the adolescent ( french : l'adolescente ) is a french drama film directed by jeanne moreau in 1978 , released january 1979 . it was entered into the 29th berlin international film festival . set deep in the french countryside just before the start of world war ii , it shows the often idyllic life of a remote village in the mountainous auvergne where a family from paris have come to spend a holiday with relations , an occasion which marks a coming-of-age for their daughter marie , the adolescent of the title . 
the adolescent (french: l'adolescente) is a french drama film directed by jeanne moreau in 1978, released january 1979. it was entered into the 29th berlin international film festival. set deep in the french countryside just before the start of world war ii, it shows the often idyllic life of a remote village in the mountainous auvergne where a family from paris have come to spend a holiday with relations, an occasion which marks a coming-of-age for their daughter marie, the adolescent of the title.
the adolescent (french: l'adolescente) is a french drama film directed by jeanne moreau in 1978, released january 1979. it was entered into the 29th berlin international film festival. set deep in the french countryside just before the start of world war ii, it shows the often idyllic life of a remote village in the mountainous auvergne where a family from paris have come to spend a holiday with relations, an occasion which marks a coming-of-age for their daughter marie, the adolescent of the title.