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Naked Youth

Naked Youth

10 Apr 2008

TEEN DRAMA (15) 97min (Yume DVD retail) As Noel Burch in his key tome on Japanese cinema, To The Distant Observer, has noted, the disaffected youth film was popular in the aspirant years of the late 50s and early 60s. This film, Nagisa Oshima’s 1960…

Joanne Proulx - Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet

Joanne Proulx - Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet

(3 stars)10 Apr 2008

TEEN DRAMA (Picador) Hot on the heels of Academy Award-winning comedy Juno comes another enjoyable tale of a smart-mouthed North American trying to make sense of the adult world. Joanne Proulx’s debut centres around Luke Hunter who, in the opening…

Kisses

Kisses

(4 stars)15 Nov 2007

TEEN DRAMA (15) 74min (Yume Pictures DVD retail) In some ways resembling a Japanese Rebel Without a Cause, Yasuzo Blind Beast Masumura’s sweet romantic debut feature film from 1957 offers hyperbolised family problems to bring out the best in the…

Stewart/Wiseman/Brigg

Cathy’s Book (Bloomsbury)

(3 stars)26 Feb 2007

TEEN DRAMA It’s not enough to just write a book these days, it would seem. With this quirky little multimedia project, a melange of peripheral paraphernalia is wielded to keep our involvement levels unusually high in this identity saga/crime mystery…

Molly McGrann

Exurbia (Picador)

(3 stars)29 Jan 2007

TEEN DRAMA The 80s may have been the decade that taste forgot (unless you reckon that was the 70s or 90s), but it’s been wildly in vogue for writers looking to pick on an even meaner, reckless period than the one we are currently dragging ourselves…

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