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Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman

Bruce Robinson

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Thomas Penman is the acclaimed autobiographical debut novel by Oscar-winning screenwriter Bruce...

Big Mouth - Season 1

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Teenage friends find their lives upended by the wonders and horrors of puberty in this edgy comedy...

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Ana Lily Amirpour recommended Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) in Movies (curated)

Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)

1966 | Drama

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"In film school, I took a critical-studies course on Bresson. He's a filmmaker I'm certain I would never have experienced if I hadn't been forced to. And I really fell in love. This is my favorite of his films. There's a distance in his filmmaking, an artifice in his staging, that makes it feel mythic. This story felt so familiar to me, like it echoed my own teenage experience of being a girl, the terror of sex, puberty, love, industrialization, cultural apathy."

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Jessica Erdas (463 KP) rated The Perks of Being a Wallflower in Books

May 16, 2018

This book is one you can read time and time, again. Simultaneously beautiful and tragic. It details growing up, suicide, puberty, depression, anxiety, relationships, sex, drugs, and secrets. Told by way of secret letters in a diary style, each one showing more and more clearly the daily life of Charlie, a strange outcast who wants to belong but also just wants to observe. I highly recommend putting yourself through this wonderfully written adventure. Get ready to be heart broken by almost every page and uplifted by the moments of elation as though they were your own.