Reconnecting with childhood joy in Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom
The truth is complicated, and especially so for children. They see things through the lens of their own limited experience.
Where the Wild Things Are is perhaps the most personal film Spike Jonze has made to date, even if he’s coy about saying so directly. It’s also one of the most accurate portrayals of childhood ever put on screen.
On Ingmar Bergman's humane and discursive Fanny and Alexander.
It's easy to project one's entire childhood onto the child stars one loved most, and to imagine them growing up into the kind of person you want them to be, maybe even a person like yourself.
On Toy Story, Pokemon, and the cyclical, branded buying cycle.
Young children are much more fluid in their expression of gender than is assumed, too young to know or really understand societal norms or essentialist behavior.
Last Action Hero and the screen icons that "are most welcome in the stretch of life when childhood feels painfully untriumphant."
In Sparrows, the 1926 silent film starring Mary Pickford and directed by William Beaudine, “normal” for the children is pretty close to a living hell.
