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mybigjacket · 10 months

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Louise Glück, “Unpainted Door” Poems 1962-2012 / Ingmar Bergman, Bergman On Bergman interviews with Stig Bjorkman, Torsten Manns and Jonas Sima / Moonlight 2016 dir. Barry Jenkins / Fiona Apple, Second Bite interview by Craig McLean, The Guardian / Eighth Grade 2018 dir. Bo Burnham / Norman Rockwell, Little Girl Looking Downstairs at Christmas Party / Anne Carson, “The Anthropology of Water” in Plainwater

#louise glück #ingmar bergman #moonlight #barry jenkins #fiona apple #eighth grade #bo burnham #norman rockwell #anne carson #web weaving #parallels #cringe posting #w #films

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filmperidot · 1 year

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My Favorite Coming of Age Movies

10 Things I Hate About You (1999)- One of the only rom-coms out there that I don’t feel guilty about loving. Its also one of the only rom-coms that I find laugh out loud funny, and where I genuinely really like both the protagonist and the love interest (I feel like at least one of them typically annoys me).

Booksmart (2019)- Great characters, and a fun new version of a pretty classic plot. It’s extremely funny, and highly enjoyable.

Easy A (2010)- Honestly one of my all time favorite comedies. Emma Stone is an absolute icon, and Stanley Tucci and Patricia Clarkson play the best parents known to cinema.

Eighth Grade (2018)- My god is this movie painful to watch. Prepare to cringe the whole way through, but it’s also quite sweet, and easily the most accurate depiction of middle school I’ve ever seen.

Lady Bird (2017)- The hype is real for this one. Saorise Ronan is amazing. It makes you laugh, tugs at your heartstrings, and does an incredible job depicting the high school experience.

Moonrise Kingdom (2012)- I love Wes Anderson’s style. If you generally aren’t a fan of his work, you won’t be a fan of this one either. But if you’re a fan of his cinematography, campiness, and awkward humor, this one’s for you. It’s a great summer movie.

Stand By Me (1986)- What a classic. It’s nostalgic, poignant, and funny. For me, this is a movie that defines the genre.

The Edge of Seventeen (2016)- Hailee Steinfeld and Woody Harrelson made a hilarious duo. Similar to the other movies on this list, it’s funny, relatable, and slightly heartbreaking in just the right way.

The Kings of Summer (2013)- This ones an underrated gem. It’s a bit of an acquired taste, but overall it’s a great experience. The atmosphere is amazing, and it’ll bring you back to your childhood summers.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)- God I love this movie. It’s incredibly heartbreaking, and the acting is great (especially from Logan Lerman)! Yes I cry every single time, no not at the part you’d think.

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mayaishiipeters · 2 years

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Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) / Eighth Grade (2018) / Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)

#fantastic mr fox #eighth grade #eeaao #everything everywhere all at once #parallels #i just rlly like these scenes :')#thought bubble #my edit

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cinematicmasterpiece · 9 months

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eighth grade (2018)

#eighth grade #film #movie #cinema #art #edit #screencaps #photography #cinematography #indie #2010s #a24 #bo burnham #elsie fisher

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jackhughes · 2 years

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Our Fathers.  how do we forgive our fathers? by dick lourie // vanishing acts by jodi picoult // interior study of father and daughter by pierre laprade // snow and dirty rain by richard siken // eighth grade dir. bo burnham // giovanni’s room by james baldwin // fleabag: 2.06

#web weaving #dick lourie #jodi picoult #richard siken #eighth grade #bo burnham #giovanni’s room #james baldwin #fleabag #phoebe waller bridge #father #poetry

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grctagerwig · 8 months

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the trials and tribulations of a preteen girl

are you there god? it’s me, margaret by judy blume // eighth grade // never grow up by taylor swift // moonrise kingdom // shameika by fiona apple // stranger things

#a collection that pleases me #web weaving #girlhood #are you there god? it's me margaret #speak now taylor’s version #stranger things #eleven stranger things #bo burnham #eighth grade #fiona apple #moonrise kingdom

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hamiltonandpercyjackson · 2 months

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is there a bo burnham fanbase? i have been a fan for YEARS and literally think he is one of the greatest writers/producers like ever

and don’t even get me STARTED on eighth grade that movie is a freaking MASTERPIECE

#bo burnham #eighth grade bo burnham #eighth grade #what bo burnham #what #inside bo burnham #inside #make happy bo burnham #make happy #words words words bo burnham #words words words

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edlynbot · 1 year

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'what was in there?' 'nothing really. just sorta my hopes and dreams.'

eighth grade (2018) dir. bo burnham

#edlynbot #artists on tumblr #animation #film #fanart #eighth grade #bo burnham

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standupcomedyhistorian · 6 months

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Bo Burnham in 2018 with Douglas Rushkoff:

To me, the most embarrassing people right now are 30 years old. Like the most embarrassing people on the Internet are 30 year olds that like are trying to reconcile the two sides [real world and online], and they just come off incredibly embarrassingly.

Bo Burnham in 2021:

#bo burnham #inside bo burnham #bo burnham inside #youtube #douglas rushkoff #read present shock #it's SO good #and everything Rushkoff says about marketing in Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus is correct and true #ask me how i know #bo burnham 30 #eighth grade

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adam-trademark · 1 month

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School Days

(April 5, 2018)

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birdofthunder · 1 year

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Honestly being at a combination middle/high school is ideal. I teach 8th and 11th grade and I adore both.

Everytime I pass one of my 8th graders in the hall we stop and wave saying, "Hello Traveler!" because as he says, it's the main character's world and we're all just NPCs living in it.

Then I see one of my 11th graders and he yells "BAGUETTES" for a reason I still don't understand but high schoolers are the funniest people on the planet so I roll with it.

Then I have a poetry unit at the end of which one student says to me "before this unit I hated poetry with the passion of a thousand burning suns. Now I only hate it with the passion of 999 burning suns." and everything is worth it.

My 11th grade honors class makes pride and prejudice jokes (it was the fall play and most of them were in the cast and/or crew) and they email me memes they make based on class jokes.

My eighth graders are writing horror stories and they're the most amazing things I've ever read.

Being a teacher is amazing, despite the way we're treated.

#i love my job #but i would love to not live paycheck to paycheck #i literally cant afford to live in the school district i teach in #teacher #teachers #teaching #high school #middle school #junior high #school #eighth grade #eleventh grade

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fruitblr · 2 years

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“I thought you hated bananas.” “I don’t hate them anymore”

Eighth Grade (2018) dir. Bo Burnham

#eighth grade #filmedit #underbetelgeuse #uservale #usertreena #ours #banana #banana2 #by raspberry

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whatsnewalycat · 1 year

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Hey I rewatched the movie Eighth Grade this weekend and I want to process my feelings. Totally understand if not one human reads this fucking novella, I just gotta organize my thoughts, and I’m putting them here in case it resonates with anyone. Below the cut because L O N G.

(tldr: this movie is fucking brilliant, a masterfully told coming-of-age story. I mean that. And you should watch it)

First of all, I love how awkward Kayla is.

Elsie Fisher fucking murdered it in this role. It’s palpable how uncomfortable Kayla is in her own skin. The way she carries herself, and projects her online persona, and acts in real life, it’s painful how those things merge and give us a picture of who she is really and who she desperately wants to be. It’s deeply, deeply relatable. The entire movie, but especially the first half, I couldn’t stop squirming in my seat, because I remember feeling exactly like that at that age.

The videos Kayla posts with her tips. Ok. It’s fucking brilliant how Bo Burnham (writer and director) spliced those videos with what she’s really going through. It’s obvious she has no idea what she’s talking about, because she’s just rambling on and really saying nothing at all. And it’s so uncomfortable to sit through. She’s making these videos as a way to inspire herself to be a person she thinks is worthy of connection. It’s establishing authority and “big voice narration” spun on its head and I love it so so so much.

Now the aspect of technology and social media. The first quarter of the movie we see that she is constantly on her phone. She’s scrolling Instagram and liking everything her school mates post, commenting on their pictures, etc. Again, she’s projecting this online persona that is outgoing and cheerful and cool. But we see that none of these people actually acknowledge her presence IRL.

When her phone screen shatters, then she cuts her scrolling thumb on the screen, it’s a turning point in the storyline. Her old way of doing things, only reaching out for human connection through the safety of her online persona, has literally made her bleed. It’s not necessarily a catalyst as much as it is a symbol, but she’s on her phone less from this point onward.

Another thing that happens around this time in the storyline: she gets her Time Capsule. It has “the coolest girl in the world” adorned on the lid, and she knows the video she has on the usb drive inside is her going into 6th grade with the hopes and dreams of becoming cool and making friends. She understands that she’s exactly the same as when she entered middle school, and her way of attempting to make connections has failed.

So she goes forward knowing she has to do the scariest thing: put herself out there. Try to talk to people in real life. She goes to Kennedy’s pool party, even though it gives her a literal panic attack, and the guy she has a crush on acknowledges her existence for the first time ever. And it is exactly the encouragement/reinforcement she needed to show her that this is good. It propels her forward instead of backwards into the safety of her shell.

For her, this is life-changing. She thinks this is a new beginning where these cool people are going to let her into their club and she will have friends. But when Kayla talks to Kennedy the next school day, and gives her a note to thank her for inviting her to the party, Kennedy and Steph are engulfed in their phones and barely acknowledge Kayla’s presence. She’s still fucking invisible to them.

Quick sidebar: the birthday gift Kayla gives Kennedy is a card game that obviously is one she has played with her dad. The cold reaction that Kennedy gives to the gift reinforces Kayla’s belief that the things she genuinely enjoys are not cool. That she is this weird girl (as she puts it in her vlog) and not worthy of belonging.

Another quick sidebar: the fucking school shooting drill, holy fuck. How desensitized all these literal children are to the threat of a mass shooting. WOOF. Again, bravo, Bo Burnham.

Then there’s the high school shadow. We meet Olivia, who is 1) to Kayla, obviously cool, and 2) to me, obviously the kind of person who has a history of intense short-term relationships. The way she so brazenly tells Kayla that she feels like they’re best friends, it’s fucking telling. I had a friend like this in middle/high school. It’s very Evie Zamora in Thirteen. It’s not real. And we know this, but Kayla doesn’t. She wants a best friend so fucking bad. It’s literally on her to-do list, and she (understandably) mistakes Olivia’s faux connection as real.

She hangs out with Olivia and her friends at the mall. She feels like she’s finally cool. But there’s Gabe who tells her “I’m not quiet, you’re quiet” and that’s like… a major tender spot for Kayla. Anyway, Olivia, who should have been a protector for Kayla, leaves her ward in an unsafe situation with Riley, and that’s really shitty of her.

Fucking Riley. He preys on Kayla’s naïvety. He knows that she wants to be cool, especially cool in the eyes of Olivia, and tries to take advantage of that. And here’s the part where I’m going to start crying. Because our girl Kayla says no. She goes against her desire to be cool and vehemently, LOUDLY, insists NO. And, in her skewed understanding, thinks that her saying no was cowardly. But it wasn’t. It was so fucking brave. She listened to her inner knowing and stood up for it, even though it meant potentially giving up the things she wanted the most: being cool and having a best friend.

When she and her dad burn the Time Capsule, she’s burning her dream of being the coolest girl in the world. Being (what she has learned to be) cool isn’t what she thought it would be. She thought it would mean connection and belonging, but time and time again throughout this story, it has only meant she has to compromise her values and her true self.

Ok now let’s talk about Kayla and her dad. Her dad loves her so much. Throughout the story that he’s trying to coax her out of her shell and be herself, but Kayla ignores his advice. But when they’re burning the Time Capsule, she opens up to him. Instead of pushing him away, we see her express her inner pain out loud. This is the first time in the story she allows her real self to be seen. It’s vulnerable, and again, so fucking brave.

And her dad… fuck. He says the most perfect things. He tells her his truth, which is that she’s fucking wrong, and she is cool. It’s just that her previous definition of cool was skewed.

We find out that Kayla’s mom abandoned her as a child. And although her dad tried his hardest, there was always going to be a part of her that thinks her true self is defective and not worthy of connection, love, and belonging. But that’s not true. And her dad helps her see that.

From that point, we see her live her goddamn truth. She’s still awkward and quiet, but that’s not a fault, it’s just part of who she is. She hangs out with Gabe, who is kind of a dork and not obsessed with trying to be cool, and it’s SO FUCKING CUTE I LOVE IT. At graduation, Kayla confronts Kennedy about how shitty she made her feel. It’s amazing.

By the end, she’s transformed into someone who understands that true connection comes from your true self, and anything short of that is unfulfilling.

Anyway. Idk if it’s because I deeply identify with Kayla on so many levels (i had an Olivia, and a Riley, and a mother who abandoned me as a baby, and a single father who raised me, and was just so fucking awkward and lonely throughout childhood), but it’s my favorite goddamn coming-of-age tale, ever. A masterpiece. Please watch lol.

#eighth grade #bo burnham #media analysis #movie rec #coming of age

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angelstills · 5 months

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