An unsolved murder at Portland’s infamous Paranoid Park brings detectives to a local high school, propelling a young skater into a moral odyssey where he must not only deal with the pain and disconnect of adolescence but the consequences of his own actions. As director of “My Own Private Idaho”, “Good Will Hunting”, “To Die For” and “Elephant”, Gus Van Sant has created some of the most memorable films about youth ever committed to film. At the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, he was awarded the 60th Anniversary Prize for “Paranoid Park” which is largely considered one of his finest films. Based on the novel by Blake Nelson & photographed by the incomparable Christopher Doyle (”In the Mood for Love”; “2046″), the film has captivated audiences worldwide, becoming a unanimous standout at the Cannes, New York and Toronto Film Festivals.
A teenage art-flick, Paranoid Park proves the most fluent and coherent of Gus Van Sant’s recent experiments. Part crime mystery, part coming-of-age story, it’s positively overflowing with burnished imagery and adolescent turmoil.
Emerson Thorsen, 13, lives with his parents in their eco-home in the wilds of Nova Scotia. He’s just had his first wet dream and completed writing and illustrating his first book, all 1000 pages of it. Meanwhile, the home-schooled youth can barely add 2 + 2, so his mother enrolls him in the local junior high. There, Emerson’s 42-year-old English teacher, Don Grant, has settled into a life of perpetual adolescence, paying regular visits to a park restroom for anonymous sex. In the classroom, Emerson stirs things up. Surprisingly, Don sees a bit of himself reflected in Emerson. Emerson, initially scornful of his teacher, soon develops his first crush on Don. The precociously confident boy, raised in a household of casual nudity and sexual openness, throws himself into this awakening of his heart with dangerous abandon. This is going to be a Whole New Thing. For everyone.
To its enormous credit, the movie remains on high ground. It recognizes that growing pains don’t inevitably lead to scandal and catastrophe. They are discomforts to be endured for as long as they last. If you’re lucky, they can also be valuable learning experiences. — The New York Times
Not your average teen movie. The entire drama unfolds with the sense that these are real people living real lives, not facile movie fictions. The cast is uniformly excellent, but (Aaron) Webber in his first feature role is a stand out, delivering a subtle performance that offers a fully realized portrayal of a smart, sensitive, confused, and sometimes bratty and obnoxious youth. — Pam Grady
This is a typically laid-back Scandinavian coming-of-age film about a school trip to the Swedish wilderness. Vil Du Se Min Smukke Navle? (Do You Want to See My Beautiful Navel?) is pleasant and nothing to get too excited about. There is the usual experimentation with the opposite sex, a couple scenic views of Sweden, but nothing much happens. Happily, the dialogue is refreshingly free of clichés, and director Søren Kragh-Jacobsen — little more than a teenager himself at the time — gets fine performances from a mostly amateur cast. [All Movie Guide]
Some people think Genesis Children don’t has a plot at all but there is a at least some kind of central theme: A priest who teaches at the international school in Rome puts an advertisement in the local paper which is designed to entice boys from the school who are bored, or at least not content, and rebellious enough to take off on their own and skip school. The advertisement is in English, therefore all the responses are from English speaking students at the school. The priest plants the advertisement where one particular student will find it, but the other seven come across it on their own.
When the eight boys (ages about ten to sixteen) arrive at the place indicated by the advertisement, they are lead to a secluded stretch of beach and left on their own for about a week. The Priest leaves one box of food, but does not tell the boys it is there. He does indicate by what he tells the boys when they first arrive that he expects them to learn something by way of this adventure, but is very ambiguous as to what he expects them learn. The movie is narrated by one of the boys, and if you pay attention to what he is saying, you will see something of what the boys are learning, or at least something of what they are thinking.
Punish Me, aptly photographed in rich black and white, is a deftly made German film that raises as many questions as disturbing thoughts, a film that in every definition is a film noir - and a superb one at that. Writer Susanne Billig and director Angelina Maccarone have concocted a tale of disparate matching between a 50-year-old woman and a 16-year-old boy, a relationship that builds on sadomasochism as a means of filling voids in each character. The story could easily have become ’sensational’ in less sensitive hands, but here, with the sound help of a superb and wholly credible cast, it asks us to examine the extremes to which people will go to feel complete.
Paris Is Burning is a 1990 documentary film directed by Jennie Livingston. Filmed in the mid-to-late 1980s, it chronicles the ball culture of New York City and the poor, African American and Latino gay and transgendered community involved in it. Many consider Paris Is Burning to be an invaluable documentary of the end of the "Golden Age" of New York City drag balls, as well as a thoughtful exploration of race, class, and gender in America… read more
Brennt Paris? Ja, Paris brennt. Aber die positive Antwort auf Hitlers insistierende Nachfrage vom August 1944 kam 40 Jahre zu spät und aus einer Ecke, aus der er sie sicher nicht erwartet hätte. "Paris is burning" hieß es auf dem Plakat zu einem jener legendären Bälle der schwulen, schwarzen Subkultur in Brooklyn, die in Jennie Livingstones gleichnamigem Film von 1991 porträtiert wurde. Dieser Titel geht auf René Clements Film Is Paris burning? von 1965 zurück, der mit einem ungeheuren Aufgebot an Stars (Orson Welles, Kirk Douglas, Jean-Paul Belmondo u.v.a.) das Drama um die Befreiung von Paris erzählte. Bedrängt von der Resistance und den nahenden alliierten Truppen weigerte sich der deutsche Kommandeur von Paris, General Dietrich von Choltitz (Gert Fröbe) dennoch, Hitlers Befehl, Paris in Brand zu setzen nachzukommen. Er wollte nicht mehr sinnlos enorme Kulturgüter zerstören. Das Plakat zum Film zeigt einen deutschen Soldaten neben dem von Flammen umzüngelten Eifelturm. Das Plakat aus Brooklyn lässt den Soldaten weg und präsentiert - eine hübsche Obszönität - einen brennenden, stark phallischen Eifelturm, dessen Flammen, die wie Tropfen aussehen, von einer Tunte entfacht werden. Daran lassen sich gut - wie wir sehen werden - einige post-freudianische Spekulationen festmachen… Weiterlesen
It’s 1963. Poor little rich girl Lydia and her 14-year-old love child Sam are banished from North Carolina while her powerful father runs for governor. They end up in Wyoming where she parties and Sam finds he’s one of only two Grosvant High School students who read. Maury is the other, a pre-pubescent girl wanting to discover what sex is about. She and Sam set out to learn with help from Lydia, who tells them it stops when Maury has her first period. Trouble is, pregnancy comes first. In this small town, what can Maury do? And will Sam have any say? Meantime, Hank Elkrunner, a Blackfoot, falls for the feckless Lydia, while her dictatorial dad keeps tabs on them all from afar. [plot summary from IMDb]
Don’t know what to watch tonight? Well, sure: Horror Flicks! There are some classics you shouldn’t miss if you haven’t seen them yet. Some of them are available at archive.org for free :)
I hate the fact Troika is (un)dead but before they died, they gave us the best game ever made! Ok, that’s kinda subjective but I can’t even find words to describe how much I love this game ^^, It has some serious bugs and was released way to early but the atmosphere, oh boy the atmosphere….
Före Stormen is a film about Leo, a guy in the seventh grade gets harassed by a two years older boy in school and seeks revenge. At the same time, Ali, the father of a girl in Leo’s class (who Leo has a crush on) is contacted by a opposition group from his home country that wants Ali to assassinate an important man for them. Otherwise, they’ll kill the family that Ali left when moving to Sweden.
These two stories about morale are connected to each other in Reza Parsa’s remarkable debut. The direction is good, the acting is excellent - especially young Emil Odepark in the difficult role as Leo.
Please excuse the strange voice acting (spanish?) in the clip, I didn’t find the original movie .__.
Since ‘The Ketchup Effect‘ (original title: Hip Hip Hora!) features mostly girls and I havn’t seen it yet you’ll get just an IMDb-comment as descreption. I guess the video below shows one of the best scenes anyways… cum out, cum out… ^^,
This is a Swedish film about three friends who are going to switch to 7th grade after their summer holiday. The friends are all girls and one of them is really looking forward to becoming an "adult" as she sees it. They are going to party and get boyfriends and all that comes with it. She tries to hit on this cool guy in the 9th grade and it results in her being invited to a party. During the party she hooks with a guy and becomes way too drunk, it all ends up in her collapsing on the floor and the 9th grade guys start taking pictures of her. The pictures spread through the school like a fire and she becomes a slut in the eyes of many students. The film is about the friends relationship with each other and how one changes during this period in life. The movie is somewhat predictable but its a nice ride all the way through!
Surreal. Das beschreibt wohl die Atmosphäre die dieser Film vermittelt relativ treffend. Eine ähnliche Stille und manchmal bedrückende Ruhe wie etwa bei Elephant zieht sich durch den Plot. Und genau wie bei Elephant wartet man auf den großen Knall, auf die Lösung und das beruhigende Ende. Und - wie bei Elephant - weiß man doch auch hier von Anfang an, dass es kein Happy End geben kann.
Movies like this are complicated. Just talking about a 12-year-old boy’s sexual identity, it’s complicated. It’s not ‘Well, he likes girls. He’s gonna sneak a Playboy out of his mom’s room. He’s gonna masturbate.’ There’s much more at work than that. If he got the Playboy from his dad there’s some other things at work. There are issues around what fatherhood means, around what manhood means, authority, and all those things get sucked into sexuality. They can’t help but not. (Jeff Erbach, Regisseur von ‘The Nature of Nicholas’)
Nächste Woche kommt ein Film in die Kinos, der uns ein Duo beschert, an das sich viele sicher noch aus Crazy erinnern werden: Robert Stadlober und Tom Schilling. Worum es in Schwarze Schafe geht, kann der Autor dahinter natürlich viel trefflicher in Worte fassen als ich:
Seit wir in Berlin leben, hatten wir den Wunsch, einen kleinen, punkigen Episodenfilm zu drehen, der sich über den schmierigen, sumpfigen Geist dieser Stadt mal so richtig gemein und voller Zuneigung lustig macht. Denn Berlin hat wenig Ähnlichkeit mit der Härte und Coolness von London, der glamourösen Aufschneiderei von New York und schon gar nicht mit der musealen Arroganz von Paris. Was ist das für eine Grosstadt, die einst auf Sand und aus Sümpfen erwuchs, die nun konstant pleite ist, die wohl nie so richtig zu Ende gebaut werden kann, die vor allem durch ihre vielen Unorte sich als Ort definiert und wo man sich Mittwoch Nachmittags um Drei mit vielen anderen überbeschäftigten Menschen im Café zum Kater-Frühstück trifft? Hier, wo niemand so richtig Geld hat, dennoch jede Nacht in Kneipen Bier kippt, spaßige antikapitalistische Diskurse pflegt und dem Amerikanismus abschwört. Hier, wo es eher befremdend als sexy ist, wenn man Karriere macht und es irgendwie peinlich wirkt, wenn man versucht, ein klein wenig ehrgeizig und erfolgreich zu sein.
Ich bin auf jeden Fall gespannt, wie das FSK18-Rating zu Stande kam…
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