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The Virgin Suicides and The Last Picture Show
The Beauty (Gražuolė)
(Country: Lithuanian; Year: 1969; Director: Arūnas Žebriūnas; Writer: Arūnas Žebriūnas; Stars: Inga Mickyte, Lilija Zadeikyte, Arvidas Samukas)
A girl leads a carefree life in a slightly crumbling old apartment block but her idyll is broken when a sullen-looking and spiteful boy moves to the neighbourhood and refuses to her, undermining her confidence.
Before The Revolution
(Country: Italy; Year: 1964; Director: Bernardo Bertolucci; Writer: Bernardo Bertolucci, Gianni Amico; Stars: Adriana Asti, Francesco Barilli, Allen Midgette, Morando Morandini, Cristina Pariset, Cecrope Barilli, Evelina Alpi, Gianni Amico, Goliardo Padova, Guido Fanti, Enrico Salvatore, Amelia Bordi, Domenico Alpi, Iole Lunardi, Antonio Maghenzani)
A young man struggles to reconcile his militant views with his bourgeoise lifestyle.
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
(Country: US; Year: 1986; Director: John Hughes; Writer: John Hughes; Stars: Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck, Kristy Swanson, Mia Sara, Jeffrey Jones, Jennifer Grey, Charlie Sheen, Cindy Pickett, Lyman Ward)
A teen plots a day off school.
Groundhog Day
(Country: US; Year: 1993; Director: Harold Ramis; Stars: Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Chris Elliott)
A weatherman is condemned to live Groundhog Day over and over again until he gets it right.
The Last Picture Show
(Country: US; Year: 1971; Director: Peter Bogdanovich; Writer: Larry McMurtry, Peter Bogdanovich; Stars: Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd, Ben Johnson, Cloris Leachman, Ellen Burstyn, Eileen Brennan, Clu Gulager, Sam Bottoms, Sharon Ullrick, Randy Quaid, Joe Heathcock, Bill Thurman, Barc Doyle, Jessie Lee Fulton)
The coming-of-age struggle of three kids in small town Texas.
The Spirit Of The Beehive and Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Manila In The Claws Of Light (Maynila: Sa mga kuko ng liwanag, The Nail Of Brightness)
(Country: Philippines; Year: 1975; Director: Lino Brocka; Writer: Edgardo Reyes, Clodualdo Del Mundo Jr; Stars: Hilda Koronel, Bembol Roco, Lou Salvador Jr., Joonee Gamboa, Pio III De Castro, Danilo Posadas, Joe Jardy, Spanky Manikan, Edipolo Erosido, Pancho Pelagio, Purita Yap, Josephine Gutierrez, Gina Zegui, Ronnie Magalong, Anna Marie Nicolas)
A country boy goes to the city in search of his lost love.
Rebel Without A Cause
(Country: US; Year: 1955; Director: Nicholas Ray; Writer: Irving Shulman and Stewart Stern, based on a story by Nicholas Ray.; Stars: James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, Jim Backus, Ann Doran, Corey Allen, William Hopper, Rochelle Hudson, Dennis Hopper)
The film which invented the teenager and introduced the world to James Dean.
Rumble Fish
(Country: US; Year: 1983; Director: Francis Ford Coppola; Writer: S E Hinton, Francis Ford Coppola, based on the novel by S E Hinton; Stars: Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke, Diane Lane, Nicolas Cage, Vincent Spano, Chris Penn, Dennis Hopper, Laurence Fishburne, Diana Scarwid, Tom Waits, William Smith, Michael Higgins)
The heroism of teenage violence against a background of iconic posturing.
Sound And Fury (De bruit et de fureur)
(Country: France; Year: 1988; Director: Jean-Claude Brisseau; Writer: Jean-Claude Brisseau; Stars: Bruno Cremer, François Négret, Vincent Gasperitsch, Fabienne Babe, María Luisa García, Fejria Deliba, Thierry Helene, Sandrine Arnault, Victoire Buff, Françoise Vatel, Albert Montias, Lucien Plazanet, Antonio García, Antoine Fontaine, Luc Ponette)
Trouble brews for two disaffected teenagers.
The Spirit Of The Beehive (El espíritu de la colmena)
(Country: Spain; Year: 1973; Director: Víctor Erice; Writer: Víctor Erice, Ángel Fernández Santos, Francisco J Querejeta; Stars: Fernando Fernán Gómez, Teresa Gimpera, Ana Torrent, Isabel Tellería, Ketty de la Cámara, Estanis González, José Villasante, Juan Margallo, Laly Soldevila, Miguel Picazo)
A screening of James Whale's Frankenstein alters how an impressionable young girl sees her world in 1940s Spain.
Rumble Fish and Rebel Without A Cause
Sugar Cane Valley (Black Shack Alley)
(Country: France, Martinique; Year: 1983; Director: Euzhan Palcy; Writer: Euzhan Palcy, Joseph Zobel; Stars: Garry Cadenat, Darling Légitimus, Douta Seck, Joby Bernabé, Francisco Charles, Marie-Jo Descas, Marie-Ange Farot, Henri Melon, Eugène Mona, Joël Palcy, Serge Abattucci, Samuel Abraham, Albert Adea, Jose Aloha, Dominique Arfi)
Coming of age story about a youngster and his grandmother.
Touki Bouki
(Country: Senegal; Year: 1973; Director: Djibril Diop Mambéty; Writer: Djibril Diop Mambéty; Stars: Magaye Niang, Mareme Niang, Aminata Fall, Ousseynou Diop, Christoph Colomb, Ndou Labia, Mustapha Ture)
Mory, a cowherd, and Anta, a university student, try to make money in order to go to Paris and leave their boring past behind.
Typhoon Club (Taifu kurabu)
(Country: Japan; Year: 1985; Director: Shinji Somai)
One of Somai's masterpieces. As a typhoon approaches their small Tokyo suburb, a group of high-school students confront issues of sexuality, mortality and their place in the world. A riveting work with a rich and beguiling atmosphere, showing the director's full dynamic range. Print courtesy of The National Film Center of The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo.
Vagabond
(Country: France; Year: 1985; Director: Agnès Varda; Writer: Agnès Varda; Stars: Sandrine Bonnaire, Setti Ramdane, Francis Balchère, Jean-Louis Perletti, Urbain Causse, Christophe Alcazar, Dominique Durand, Joël Fosse, Patrick Schmit, Daniel Bos, Katy Champaud, Raymond Roulle, Henri Fridlani, Patrick Sokol, Pierre Imbert)
After a woman's body is found in a ditch, we see her final weeks unfold.
The Virgin Suicides
(Country: US; Year: 1999; Director: Sofia Coppola; Writer: Sofia Coppola, Jeffrey Eugenides; Stars: James Woods, Kathleen Turner, Kirsten Dunst, Josh Hartnett, Hanna Hall, Chelse Swain, A J Cook, Leslie Hayman, Danny DeVito, Michael Pare, Scott Glenn)
The story of sisters and suicide in the American suburbs.
59th New York Film Festival early bird highlights Futura, Jane By Charlotte, James Baldwin: From Another Place and The Velvet Underground
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