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Oct 23, 2022 · by Dramaddictally. Netflix’s new young love romance 20th Century Girl is both a bubbly smile-fest and a bittersweet take on growing up. It captures the exhilaration and longing of youth, as well as the high emotions that accompany everything from friendships to first loves.
Oct 22, 2022 · ‘20th Century Girl’ Review: A Korean Teenager Navigates First Love and the Complexity of Female Friendship. This nostalgic late-’90s romance tackles the complexities of female adolescent...
- Oliver Sacks, The Mind’s Eye (2010) Toward the end of his life, maybe suspecting or sensing that it was coming to a close, Dr. Oliver Sacks tended to focus his efforts on sweeping intellectual projects like On the Move (a memoir), The River of Consciousness (a hybrid intellectual history), and Hallucinations (a book-length meditation on, what else, hallucinations).
- John Jeremiah Sullivan, Pulphead (2011) The American essay was having a moment at the beginning of the decade, and Pulphead was smack in the middle. Without any hard data, I can tell you that this collection of John Jeremiah Sullivan’s magazine features—published primarily in GQ, but also in The Paris Review, and Harper’s—was the only full book of essays most of my literary friends had read since Slouching Towards Bethlehem, and probably one of the only full books of essays they had even heard of.
- Aleksandar Hemon, The Book of My Lives (2013) Such is the sentence-level virtuosity of Aleksandar Hemon—the Bosnian-American writer, essayist, and critic—that throughout his career he has frequently been compared to the granddaddy of borrowed language prose stylists: Vladimir Nabokov.
- Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass (2013) Of every essay in my relentlessly earmarked copy of Braiding Sweetgrass, Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer’s gorgeously rendered argument for why and how we should keep going, there’s one that especially hits home: her account of professor-turned-forester Franz Dolp.
Jan 19, 2023 · On the brink of a new century, a high schooler finds love by accident. The premise of 20th Century Girl is this: Na Bo-ra is seventeen and loyal to her best friend, Yeon-du. However, Yeon-du is leaving for the United States soon, as she needs a specific kind of surgery for her heart.
- 8 A Corner in Wheat
- 7 Two Or Three Things I Know About Her
- 6 F For Fake
- 5 News from Home
- 4 as I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
- 3 Sans Soleil
- 2 Blue
- 1 Man with A Movie Camera
The 14-minute short A Corner in Wheat (1909) is considered by many to be the world's earliest essay film. Directed by filmmaking pioneer D. W. Griffith, this shot follows a ruthless tycoon who wants to control the wheat market. A powerful portrayal of capitalistic greed, A Corner in Wheatis a bold commentary on the contrast between the wealthy spec...
Described by MUBI as "a landmark transition from the maestro’s jazzy genre deconstructions of the 60s to his gorgeous and inquisitive essay films of the future" (such as Histoire(s) du cinéma, Goodbye to Language, The Image Book), 1967's Two or Three Things I Know About Heris Jean-Luc Godard’s collage of modern life. Related: The Best Jean-Luc Goda...
Orson Welles’ 1973 essay film F for Fake focuses on three hoaxers, the notorious art forger Elmyr de Hory who had a talent for copying styles of noted painters; his biographer Clifford Irving whose fake "authorized biography" of Howard Hughes was one of the biggest literary scandals of the 20th century; and Welles himself with his famous War of the...
An unforgettable time capsule of New York in the 1970s, News from Home features Belgian film director Chantal Akerman reading melancholic, sometimes passive-aggressive letters from her mother over beautiful shots of New York, where Akerman relocated at the age of 21. Released in 1976, after the filmmaker’s breakthrough drama Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai...
Jonas Mekas, the godfather of American avant-garde cinema, made one of the most personal, but at the same time one of the most universal films ever. It is his 2000 experimental documentary As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty. Compiled from Mekas' home movies from 1970-1999, this nearly five-hour essay film shows the lo...
Directed by Chris Marker, king of the essay film, 1983’s Sans Soleil (Sunless) follows an unseen cameraman named Sandor Krasna, Marker's alter ego, who journeys from Africa to Japan, "two extreme poles of survival." The 100-minute poetical collage of Marker’s original documentary footage, clips from films and television, sequences from other filmma...
Made when the filmmaker, Derek Jarman, was dying from AIDS-related complications that rendered him partially blind and capable only of experiencing shades of blue, the great experimental film Blue from 1993 is like no other. Jarman’s 79-minute final feature consists of a single shot of one color — International Klein Blue. Against a blank blue scre...
Dziga Vertov, one of cinema’s greatest innovators, believed that the "eye" of the camera captures life better than the subjective eye of a human. In the 1920s, he started looking for cinematic truth, showing life outside the field of human vision through a mix of rhythmic editing, multiple exposures, experimental camera angles, backward sequences, ...
Jul 18, 2022 · For the unfamiliar, the Coen Brothers are riffing on a real-life frequent 20th-century practice of the literary-minded heading out to Los Angeles in search of big paychecks and fame.
Jan 15, 2024 · 10 Exciting Writing Prompts. 1. The History Of Cinema. 2. Analysis Of My Favorite Movie. 3. The Impact Of Cinema On Life. 4. The Technological Evolution Of Cinema. 5. Cinema And Piracy. 6. How To Make A Short Film. 7. Movies Vs.
