Laufzeit: 97 Minuten – Land: USA – Erstmals gezeigt auf dem SXSW Filmfestival
Irgendwie, irgendwo, irgendwann in einer eher ländlichen US-amerikanischen Kleinstadt… hier lebt der junge Tommy Wheeler (Cooper Musgrove) mit seiner Mutter Connie (Deborah Kara Unger), die einen kleines Dessous- und Erotikgeschäft betreibt. Ganz in der Nähe befindet sich das Restaurant von Miss Millie (Laila [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Coming Of Age’
Things That Hang From Trees (2006, Ido Mizrahy)
Posted in Films - Reviews, tagged Boy, Coming Of Age, Cooper Musgrove, Deborah Kara Unger, Desperation, Ido Mizrahy, Laila Robins, Murder, Peter Gerety, Ray McKinnon, Things That Hang From Trees on August 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ikke Naken (2004, Torun Lian)
Posted in Films - Reviews, tagged Adolescence, Coming Of Age, Die Farbe Der Milch, First Love, Girl, Ikke Naken, Julia Krohn, Pubery, The Colour Of Milk, Torun Lian on May 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
AKA: The Colour Of Milk – Runtime: 94 Minutes – Country: Norway
This norwegian film is focusing on a young girl’s coming of age (well, a rare theme – I am glad that I came to discover this one), named Selma (Julia Krohn). Her mother died while giving birth to her, however she does not feel [...]
Ready ? OK ! (2008, James Vasquez)
Posted in Films - Reviews, tagged Carrie Preston, Cheerleading, Coming Of Age, Different, Gay, James Vasquez, John G. Preston, Josh, Joshua, Lurie Poston, Ready OK on April 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Runtime: 91 Minutes – Country: USA
This film is focusing on a young, 10-year-old boy named Joshua (Lurie Poston) – who is none of the ordinary boys indeed. Well, he mainly has one big obsession – and this is cheerleading (besides, not too much of a surprise, if we look at the cover). This brings some [...]
Blöde Mütze! (2007, Johannes Schmid)
Posted in Films - Reviews, tagged Aussenseiter, Blöde Mütze, Coming Of Age, First Love, Johann Hillmann, Johannes Schmid, Konrad Baumann, Lea Eisleb on March 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
AKA: Silly’s Sweet Summer – Laufzeit: 91 Minuten – Land: Deutschland
Der schüchterne Junge Martin Kreitmeier (Johann Hillmann) hat es wirklich nicht leicht. Nachdem er mit seinen Eltern in ein verschlafenes Dörfchen namens Bellbach gezogen ist, hat er Schwierigkeiten sich neu einzuleben. Ein neues Zuhause, eine neue Schule, womöglich neue Freunde… ? Dann begegnet er der [...]
“COA”-Blog Awards 2009
Posted in Blog - Internal Stuff, tagged 2009, Awards, Choice, COA, COA Blog Awards, Coming Of Age, Films, Movies, Random, Titles on March 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Welcome to the Coming-Of-Age Blog Awards 2009 !
So, what you can see there right over my text is the actual logo for the upcoming contest. We are talking about the Coming-Of-Age Blog awards 2009, for the moment 3 blogs are participating. And these are myself, Lucas4You and Skykid.
You are looking out for more information ? [...]
Secretos Del Corazón (1997, Montxo Armendáriz)
Posted in Films - Reviews, tagged Andoni Erburu, Álvaro Nagore, Íñigo Garcés, Coming Of Age, Montxo Armendáriz, Secretos Del Corazón, Secrets Of The Heart on March 15, 2009 | 3 Comments »
AKA: Secrets Of The Heart – Laufzeit: 105 Minuten – Land: Frankreich, Portugal, Spanien
Spanien in den 1960′er Jahren. Der junge Javi (Andoni Erburu) ist 9 Jahre alt, und zieht oft mit seinem Freund Carlos (Íñigo Garcés) umher. Die Geschichte wird komplett aus der Sicht von Javi erzählt, den wir als Zuschauer auf einer wahren Coming-Of-Age [...]
Lockie Leonard (2007) On DVD – With Sean Keenan
Posted in Media - Internet, TV, tagged 14 year old, Australien, Briony Williams, Coming Of Age, Corey McKernan, Lockie Leonard, Rhys Muldoon, Sean Keenan on January 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Runtime Per Episode: 26 Minutes – Country: Australia
I am so glad that ordered this DVD from an australian seller – after it was suggested in the Casperworld-Forum (thanks again @ Caedmon) !
The official australian DVD contains 4 discs with all 26 episodes. To the technical aspects: of course, it has the region code 4. It [...]
Skykid Discussion: “Coming-Of-Age” Films
Posted in Media - Internet, TV, tagged Boys, Coming Of Age, Films, Genders, Girls, Movies, Skykid on December 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today my friend SkyKid has written an interesting post about a theme that I personally am often confronted with – it deals with one essential question about the so called “Coming-of-age” films that are often thematized in my blog too. Click here to get to the post.
Maybe you want to join the discussion ? I [...]
Romulus, My Father (2007, Richard Roxburgh)
Posted in Films - Reviews, tagged Australien, Coming Of Age, Eric Bana, Franka Potente, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Marton Csokas, Outback, Richard Roxburgh, Romulus My Father on May 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Laufzeit: 104 Minuten – Land: Australien
Scroll down for the english version of this review !
Dieser Film fokussiert sich auf das ereignisreiche Leben einer auseinandergerissenen Familie. Angesetzt im australischen Outback der 60er Jahre; leben Romulus (Eric Bana) und sein Sohn Raimond (Kodi Smit-McPhee) in einer sehr ländlichen Gegend. Man erfährt; dass sie hierher ausgewandert sind, und [...]

