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Tag: coming of age

How I Rediscovered My Inner Teen at 40

Film
By Anna Mastro | September 23, 2020
By Anna Mastro | September 23, 2020

How I Rediscovered My Inner Teen at 40

For director Anna Mastro, making Secret Society of Second-Born Royals connected her back to her adolescence – and her true superpower.

Don’t Look Now, or My Struggles with Autobiographical Filmmaking

Film
By Jonathan Wysocki | September 16, 2020
By Jonathan Wysocki | September 16, 2020

Don’t Look Now, or My Struggles with Autobiographical Filmmaking

Dramarama writer-director Jonathan Wysocki on the perils and pitfalls of making work that draws from one’s own life.

How the Parental Dating Scene of the 1980s Led Me to Direct To the Stars

Film
By Martha Stephens | May 4, 2020
By Martha Stephens | May 4, 2020

How the Parental Dating Scene of the 1980s Led Me to Direct To the Stars

Director Martha Stephens traces back the roots of her fascination with being a teenager in the '50s and '60s, the focus of her latest film.

Growing Pains

Film
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.

Bruce LaBruce’s Academy of the Underrated: Last Summer

Film
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)

Film
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

Film
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

Film
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.

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