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3 days ago · Rank these movies about teenagers and high schoolers, enjoyed by people of all ages. Over 1K filmgoers have voted on the 50+ Best Teen Drama Movies, Ranked. Current Top 3: The Breakfast Club, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Dead Poets ...
5 days ago · Over 8.1K Ranker voters have come together to rank this list of The 75+ Best Movies About Suicide. Movies have the power to tackle difficult and sensitive subjects with sensitivity and nuance, offering viewers a profound understanding of complex issues.
3 days ago · Contemporary teen cinema introduces compelling narratives that appeal to both young audiences and the young at heart. With a focus on authenticity and relatable plotlines, these movies offer a balance of humor, drama, and the all-important life lessons that often accompany the transformative teenage years.
5 days ago · Interview: Gregg Araki on the Teen Apocalypse Trilogy’s Generation-Defying Sense of Doom. Araki discusses how society has and hasn’t caught up with his incendiary trilogy of films. When Gregg Araki last spoke with Slant in 2011, he remarked, “A pet peeve of mine is when filmmakers keep making the same movie over and over without any kind ...
5 days ago · Totally F***ed Up (1993), The Doom Generation (1995), and Nowhere (1997)—collectively known as the Teen Apocalypse Trilogy—take certain stylistic cues from Jean-Luc Godard’s youth movies of the sixties but are more decisively marked by Araki’s highly specific subcultural sensibility. His tribe of misfits pledge allegiance to the codes of goth, punk, industrial, and shoegaze music; they are styled in Doc Martens, torn black jeans, leather chokers, BDSM cuffs, ironic crucifixes, and ...
3 days ago · Teenage indignation, queer loneliness and cultural repression are the lifeblood of Araki’s “Teen Apocalypse Trilogy,” which includes “The Doom Generation” (1995) and “Nowhere” (1997), set to screen Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 28-29, at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.
5 days ago · Wonder (2017) If your tween needs some reminders in the old empathy department, show them this film, based on the blockbuster book by R.J. Palacio. The movie follows the struggles of a boy with a ...
