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Issue 16: School

September 2014

Letter from the Editor

Chad Perman·
Issue 16: School
It’s September again, and I want to go back to school.
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Heirs Apparent

Sophia Nguyen·
Issue 16: School
Hardly anyone remembers The Emperor’s Club, but this was the moment it was born for. Its noncommittal morality tale suits our fretful mood.
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I’m Just a Teenage Dreamkid, Baby.

Michelle King·
Issue 16: School
I become so flush with nostalgia anytime I see She's All That that it’s difficult to discern whether it's actually a good or if it's simply a fun film.
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There’s No Crying in Marching Band

Fran Hoepfner·
Issue 16: School
Richard Linklater's School of Rock is a comedy, but it also takes music very, very seriously.
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Cast Yourself Down

Gray Hendryx·
Issue 16: School
I wanted to laugh out loud the first time I met Lucas. I walked into my office on the first...
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You Already Have Your Poetry

Elisabeth Geier·
Issue 16: School
Il Postino is about love, lust, and politics, but most of all it's about discovering the power of language, the way the right string of images can elicit a feeling for which there are no words.
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The True Measure of a Monster

Christopher Fraser·
Issue 16: School
My formative years didn’t follow the simplicity of a Pixar movie. Watching Monsters University, though, is more about grasping a principle – that, more often than not, the way you approach your past is more flexible than you might think.
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I’m Wild Again, Beguiled Again

Tarra Martin·
Issue 16: School
What our movies and our memories make us feel—the warmth and the hurt—that’s the realest thing we can ever know.
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Concrete Roads

Adam Boffa·
Issue 16: School
Whisper of the Heart, Yoshifumi Kondō's sole directing credit before his untimely death in 1998, is something remarkable.
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I Feel Old, But Not Very Wise

Taylor Hine Barretta·
Issue 16: School
I watch An Education to learn from Jenny’s mistakes.
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Dear Diary

Arielle Greenberg·
Issue 16: School
I don’t really like my friends: Swatch-dogs and Diet Cokeheads. I got paid in puke, no fags allowed. You were...
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