Norwegian series ‘Skam’ is a refreshingly realistic teen series that paints a genuine portrait of adolescence.…
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Edson Oda’s feature debut is a fantastic meditation on how people experience movies, using filmed life as a metaphor for performance.…
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Advertisements This piece was originally published in the Film Daze Digital Magazine, Issue 6: Adolescence. Enjoy! – The Film Daze Team In Greta Gerwig’s coming-of-age gem Lady Bird, Sacramento is a character. It can’t be heard or spoken to, but the Californian county…
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The “Southern Raiders” episode of 'Avatar: The Last Airbender’ defies the ubiquitous notion that forgiveness is essential, allowing Katara to not only refuse to forgive the man who murdered her mother, but also exact revenge upon him.…
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The most beloved teen Shakespeare films are successful because they generate new meaning out of their adaptational changes.…
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Watching this film about a suicidal woman living in London after WWII the same winter her dad attempted suicide for the second time paradoxically taught this writer how to survive a suicide in her present-day life.…
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Although Asami is the villainess of ‘Audition’ by all conventional standards, her character’s past — and the previous actions of protagonist Aoyama — blur the lines between victim and perpetrator for both characters.…
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Celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, Richard C. Sarafian’s magnificent, exhilarating American odyssey captures this country’s confounding paradoxes like nothing else.…
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Michael Mann’s early works in the 1980s signify his most impressive filmmaking feats and perfectly exemplify an exciting era of provocative neo-noir thrillers.…
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The iconic music film foreshadowed our current discussions about how teenage girls engage with pop music… and why it matters.…
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