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Back to School!
September 4-8, 2006
Tits. Teachers. Tunes. Goofing off and cutting
school and getting laid and making friends and on and on and
on and on.
There’s a reason why films about high school – entering
it, leaving it, surviving it – are a genre of their
own, and a genre that just won’t die. It’s because
we’ve all been through it. School, that is. We can relate.
It’s a time when we start down the road towards becoming
the adults we’ll be, when some of our deepest friendships
are formed, and when any day could become a memory to last
a lifetime.
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 Ferris Bueller's Day Off: Bueller Bueller Edition
by Jim McDevitt
September 4, 2006
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off has
a reputation as one of the best comedies of the 1980s and
one of the best high school movies ever made. It’s a
well-earned reputation, for sure, but I think it’s much
more than that. I truly and honestly believe that Ferris
Bueller’s Day Off is one of the greatest movies
ever made. Ever. Yes, that is high praise, but I feel it’s
warranted. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is
pitch perfect in every way.
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 Heathers
by John Felix
September 5, 2006
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off has
a reputation as one of the best comedies of the 1980s and
one of the best high school movies ever made. It’s a
well-earned reputation, for sure, but I think it’s much
more than that. I truly and honestly believe that Ferris
Bueller’s Day Off is one of the greatest movies
ever made. Ever. Yes, that is high praise, but I feel it’s
warranted. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is
pitch perfect in every way.
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 Class
of 1984
by Larry Phillips
September 6, 2006
An exploitation film that explores real issues and problems in our
society.
Sounds
like an oxymoron, doesn’t it? But as the great George Romero
has proved time and again in his career, it can be done and done well. By ‘well,’ I
mean that the issues aren’t hammered down anyone’s throats
and all the elements of a good exploitation film are front and center. In
fact, the issues are sometimes discussed so subtly, the average tits ‘n
gore hound could very well miss them entirely.
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 The Faculty
by Cary Christopher
September 7 , 2006
What a great flick! First off, I completely missed the fact that
Robert Rodriguez directed this. I had no clue! If I’d known
that when it was released, I would probably have sobered
up long enough to hit a theater.
Secondly, what a great cast! The talent here is unbelievable. Elijah
Wood, Clea Duvall, Robert Patrick, Josh Hartnett… okay well
he was good in this one. Those are just a few of the names though.
There are even big names in the small parts. Salma Hayek plays a school
nurse who is on camera approximately seven minutes of the whole film.
Usher is on camera even less and his face is plastered across the
DVD cover.
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 The Breakfast Club
by Shawn McLoughlin
September 8 , 2006
There are lots of great teen films from many talented directors.
When it comes down to it though, only one filmmaker truly made a career
out of it – John Hughes. I don’t know if he is the type
of guy who never grew up, or the type who lamented for high school
days gone by. To be honest, I just don’t know that much about
him. Certainly he isn’t celebrated in the same way as Stanley
Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock or Martin Scorsese, and seeing as how his
major successes are almost exclusively in one genre may limit fair
analysis of his directorial talent. But that only brings up a larger
question.
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