…on First Stripes and Boys State. Courtesy of NFB First Stripes begins and ends with the same military graduation parade. A Steadicam shot marches along the ceremonial procession of solemn-looking army…
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Ruben Östlund: ‘It’s more interesting to have someone do something stupid or amoral out of pure candour or naivety’
…I was making a film called Play that was about really young boys robbing other young boys in the city where I lived. These robberies were kind of special because…
Bright Young Things: Geraldine Viswanathan’s intelligent young women
…plays Becky, a kind of straight-man teenage girl whose comedic force derives from clever digs and sarcastic comebacks. In her first scene, when Becky crashes her brother’s all-boys camping trip,…
InsideOut Reviews: Sandbag Dam, The Nature of Invisible Things
…Film at InsideOut, Young Hearts, was another standout film that also hailed from the Generation program. It was about two fourteen-year-old boys and their burgeoning sexual identities, set in a…
Best of TIFF14: Lone Scherfig’s The Riot Club explores the darker side of privilege
…a hotel before sleeping with his barely consenting step-sister. Like Chuck Bass, these boys were raised in the lap of luxury and privilege. As they say in Britain, they’re posh,…
Ferit Karahan revisited his time at a Turkish boarding school for the chilling Brother’s Keeper
…help you do just that. → Send me the guide In Brother’s Keeper, eleven-year-old Kurdish boys are treated more like prisoners than students at an Eastern Anatolian boarding school. They’re…