Growing Pains
By Nijla Mu’min | April 25, 2018
By Nijla Mu’min | April 25, 2018
Growing Pains
Nijla Mu'min makes no apologies for her African-American coming-of-age movie Jinn, which plays at BAM this weekend.
Tag: coming of age
Bruce LaBruce’s Academy of the Underrated: Last Summer
By Bruce LaBruce | August 1, 2017
By Bruce LaBruce | August 1, 2017
Bruce LaBruce’s Academy of the Underrated: Last Summer
LaBruce extols the virtues of Frank and Eleanor Perry’s shocking coming-of-age drama that captures the loss of innocence of the late 1960s.
For All the Girls (Or, How Marielle Heller’s Adaptation of The Diary of a Teenage Girl Helped Me Stop Worrying and Love the Book)
By Mara Wilson | March 15, 2017
By Mara Wilson | March 15, 2017
For All the Girls (Or, How Marielle Heller’s Adaptation of The Diary of a Teenage Girl Helped Me Stop Worrying and Love the Book)
Writer and actress Mara Wilson traces her complex relationship over time with Phoebe Gloeckner's book, and then its big-screen version.
Megan Griffiths (Lucky Them) Talks Marielle Heller’s The Diary of a Teenage Girl
By Megan Griffiths | January 12, 2016
By Megan Griffiths | January 12, 2016
Megan Griffiths (Lucky Them) Talks Marielle Heller’s The Diary of a Teenage Girl
A period coming-of-age dramedy, Heller's debut feature is a portrait of adolescence femininity that embraces complexity.
Screenwriter Kirsten “Kiwi” Smith (10 Things I Hate About You) Talks Eliza Hittman’s It Felt Like Love
By Kirsten Smith | January 16, 2015
By Kirsten Smith | January 16, 2015
Screenwriter Kirsten “Kiwi” Smith (10 Things I Hate About You) Talks Eliza Hittman’s It Felt Like Love
One of 2014's best, this Brooklyn-set portrait of burgeoning female adolescent sexuality examines a moment of transition in a young girl's life.