Teen Spirit

It is, to put it charitably, a formula. There’s this Small-Town Kid from a working-class background who, despite a lack of know-how or means has Very Big Dreams, and while no one Believes In Her, just maybe, with the help of a Unlikely Mentor,…

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How Does it Start

“I have all these feelings wrapped up inside of me. I just don’t have anyone I can trust my feelings with.” The mysteries of female adolescence are explored with concentrated poignancy in the short How Does It Start, as a curious twelve-year-old girl comes…

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Diane

Life and death in a small New England town haunt a beleaguered Mary Kay Place in Diane, an assured debut from New York film festival honcho turned feature writer/director Kent Jones, who gives us a doozy of a titular character, a well-meaning caretaker filled…

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