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Instead, I’ll pick a few things that deserve far more widespread enthusiasm. I could rattle off a bunch of stuff I love that’s familiar because everyone knows already how great it is. The story, for those unfamiliar, is about a teenage girl and her younger brother who run away from home and spend some time living in the Metropolitan Museum of Art looking back after decades of hardcore cinephilia, it’s easy to see why I identified with Claudia Kincaid’s desire to escape her dull, ordinary life and hide amongst other people’s expressions of beauty. Konigsburg had died, I’ll use this space to pay tribute to what is surely my favorite young-adult novel, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Mike D’Angelo, Las Vegas Weekly, The Dissolveĭon’t know that it’s really my favorite coming-of-age story, but given the pang I felt not long ago hearing that E.L. Anne, Jo and Sybilla leap off page (and screen), dreamy and self-deprecating, perfect embodiments of chance-seizing, imperfect girls who develop into unfinished women. It may be filed as a children’s book, but it’s one of my favorite memoirs, and I still re-read These Happy Golden Years every year.Īs a reader, a three-way tie among Anne of Green Gables, Little Women and My Brilliant Career - the latter two beautifully adapted by Gillian Armstrong into indelible films. Laura’s a teenager when the book begins, but she’s having life experiences that many of us have delayed well into our twenties. It captures the fear of being on your own as Laura takes her first job teaching school where she boards with an isolated, unhappy family, the uncertainty of burgeoning love as Almanzo Wilder begins courting Laura, and the joy of starting a home of your own.
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Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House series is a masterful chronicle of the changing American West, but the final book, These Happy Golden Years, operates at another level.

These Happy Golden Years, now and forever.

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Nightmare Film Shoots: 28 of the Most Grueling Films Ever MadeĮmmy Predictions: Outstanding Television Movie - 'The Fallout' and 'The Survivor' Speak to a Bleak Year Geoffrey Rush: Everyone Wrongly Thought 'My Career Was Over' After Defamation Suit Marc Maron Regrets Not Seeing Maggie Gyllenhaal's Movie Before Her 'WTF' Podcast Interview (Of course, when one grows up one realizes Brief Encounter isn’t boring at all, but he’s a kid.) Just a beautiful, wise movie about being a kid, learning the difference between reality and fantasy, and that they aren’t always mutually exclusive.Īlyssa Rosenberg, ThinkProgress, Women and Hollywood Or that amazing Brief Encounter pastiche Boorman cooked up as a parody of “grownup” movies for his alter ego to be bored by. From “that word is special” to “What do you do with four daughters… a string quartet was the only thing that came to mind” I just smile like a doof the whole movie. My favorite coming-of-age story has, since I was about the age of its protagonist, been John Boorman’s Hope and Glory.

This week’s question: In honor of The Spectacular Now, what’s your favorite coming-of-age story? (The answer to the second, “What is the best film in theaters right now?” can be found at the end of this post.) Send suggestions for future questions to sam at indiewire dot com.
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Every week, the Criticwire Survey asks film and TV critics two questions and publishes the results on Monday morning.
