Tag: teenagers

The Tribe: Nothing New Under the (Bleak) Sun

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Film Poster for The Tribe, showing a stack of overlapping transparent B/W images of one young man, one young woman, and multiple hands making signs. All images aggregate in the middle, where the film's title appears, subtitled with "Love and Hate need no translation."

|Olga Tchepikova-Treon| As far as I’m concerned, every week at the cinema should be Bleak Week. Well, not every week, but let’s say maybe 40 out of 52 weeks of the year could easily be Bleak Week, and it would be wonderful, cathartic, exhilarating, moving, and maybe even sublime. I like Bleak Week, and bleak movies in general, for mostly… Continue reading

Donnie Darko and the Inevitability of Teenagers

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|Ryan Sanderson| When I began this process, I did not know how personal writing about Donnie Darko would feel. It was never one of my favorite films. I was introduced to the film by my freshman roommates alongside a rolling festival of late 90s/early aughts male angst… Continue reading