I Was A Teenage Werewolf ref 1
If . . . ref 1
Juno ref 1
Kes ref 1
Kids ref 1
Kidulthood ref 1
La Haine ref 1
Le Souffle Au Coeur ref 1
Little Darlings ref 1
Lucas ref 1
Made In Britain ref 1
Martin ref 1
Mean Girls ref 1
Meantime ref 1
Mysterious Skin ref 1
Napoleon Dynamite ref 1
National Lampoon’s Animal House ref 1
Night Of The Comet ref 1
Over The Edge ref 1
Pleasantville ref 1
Precious ref 1
Pretty In Pink ref 1
Quadrophenia ref 1
Rebel Without A Cause ref 1
Red Dawn ref 1
Risky Business ref 1
River’s Edge ref 1
Rumble Fish ref 1
Rushmore ref 1
Scream ref 1
Society ref 1
Spanking The Monkey ref 1
Starship Troopers ref 1
Superbad ref 1
Taps ref 1
Teeth ref 1
That’ll Be The Day ref 1
The 400 Blows ref 1
The Blackboard Jungle ref 1
The Blob ref 1
The Breakfast Club ref 1
The Class ref 1
The Cool and the Crazy ref 1
The Faculty ref 1
The Last Picture Show ref 1
The Loneliness Of The Long-Distance Runner ref 1
The Outsiders ref 1
The Social Network ref 1
The Virgin Suicides ref 1
The Warriors ref 1
The Wild One ref 1
The Young Savages ref 1
Thirteen ref 1
To Sir, With Love ref 1
Totally Fucked Up ref 1
Twilight ref 1
WarGames ref 1
West Side Story ref 1
Where The Boys Are ref 1
William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet ref 1
List of Plates
1. ‘A hairy head in a jock jacket.’ Michael Landon awaits the coming of CGI in I Was A Teenage Werewolf (Underwood & Underwood/Corbis).
2. ‘Cinema’s first visual poem on the subject of adolescence.’ Jean-Pierre Léaud as Antoine Doinel in The 400 Blows (AF Archive/Alamy).
3. ‘A flint-eyed threat, wiry and gaunt, mouth drawn into a constant hard and baleful glower.’ Angry Young Tom Courtenay in The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (Moviestore Collection Ltd/Alamy).
4. ‘Capturing every thrill of young night-time romance.’ The interracial kiss from A Taste of Honey (British Lion/Woodfall/The Kobal Collection).
5. ‘A New World Order of youth gangs and tribal divisions.’ Burt Lancaster points an accusing finger at The Kids in The Young Savages (Photos 12/Alamy).
6. ‘“How do you thank someone/Who’s taken you from crayons to perfume?”’ Sidney Poitier tames the white trash savages in To Sir, With Love (AF Archive/Alamy).
7. ‘A scruffy urchin giving a defiant two-finger salute to the whole fucking world.’ David Bradley invents Liam Gallagher in Kes (Woodfall/Kestrel/The Kobal Collection).
8. ‘“A sexual chip on her shoulder.”’ Cybill Shepherd sirens it up in The Last Picture Show (John Springer Collection/Corbis).
9. ‘A happy film about incest and paedophilia. Who else but the French?’ Lea Massari and Benoît Ferreux in Louis Malle’s Le Souffle Au Coeur (Photos 12/Alamy).
10. ‘Boy-meets-granny, boy-loses-granny.’ Ruth Gordon and Bud Cort as odd couple Harold and Maude (AF Archive/Alamy).
11. ‘Educating teens about gender hypocrisy since 1978.’ The gang’s all here in Grease (Photos 12/Alamy).
12. ‘A nutter in a rubber William Shatner mask with a giant phallic knife.’ Michael Myers plugs Halloween (Pictorial Press Ltd/Alamy).
13. ‘Every girl should just hold out for the right girl.’ Kristy McNichol learns a valuable lesson from Matt Dillon in Little Darlings (Moviestore Collection Ltd/Alamy).
14. ‘Tipping the world into war with one Cruise missile.’ Tommy boy goes postal in Taps (AF Archive/Alamy).
15. ‘The world’s worst boy: a fearless, nihilistic, articulate, violent force of nature with a Swastika tattooed on his forehead.’ Tim Roth in Made in Britain (Moviestore Collection Ltd/Alamy).
16. Gary Oldman as ‘the gobbing, flobbing, belching and squelching Coxy’ in Mike Leigh’s Meantime (Moviestore Collection Ltd/Alamy).
17. ‘The world’s prettiest teen gang.’ Messrs Estevez, Lowe, Howell, Swayze and Cruise beat up the ’80s in The Outsiders (Sunset Boulevard/Corbis).
18. Left: ‘The desperate acts of an empty vessel.’ Bizarrely awful publicity poster for Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (Pictorial Press/Alamy).
19. ‘The girl that gets laid gets killed. The girl that doesn’t, doesn’t.’ Bathtime fun with Freddy and Nancy in A Nightmare On Elm Street (AF Archive/Alamy).
20. ‘Would the end of our world really be so terrible? Especially for kids?’ Night of the Comet laughs at the zombie apocalypse (Moviestore Collection Ltd/Alamy).
21. ‘Bright, shiny, vibrant playgrounds for the head games of unusually self-analytical, articulate and media-savvy children.’ The muse of Hughes reaches its peak in The Breakfast Club.
22. ‘He’s frolicking in the woods with his friend in a cowboy hat, who keeps dropping to his knees and beckoning his penis on.’ Kevin Bacon and Chris Penn do a dance called The Brokeback Mountain in Footloose (Paramount/The Kobal Collection).
23. ‘The perfect metaphor for the raging war between hormonal desire and fear of sex that every young girl must overcome.’ Johnny Depp’s class act as Edward Scissorhands (Pictorial Press/Alamy).
24. ‘Political and philosophical bon mots while encountering numchuck-wielding coke dealers.’ Vincent Cassell and friends in La Haine (Photos 12/Alamy).
25. ‘To grasp the moment and abolish tomorrow.’ Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy get real in Before Sunrise (Moviestore Collection/Alamy).
26. ‘Victims of recruitment into the homosexual lifestyle.’ A different kind of Pink Power in But I’m A Cheerleader (AF Archive/Alamy).
27. ‘“I never did it with baked goods . . .”’ Jason Biggs gives fatherly advice the finger in American Pie (Photos 12/Alamy).
28. ‘Killing each other for kicks, drugs and chump change.’ The teen gang movie grows up in City Of God (AF Archive/Alamy).
29. ‘Everyone dances on her estate. They make life where it doesn’t exist.’ Katie Jarvis steps out in FishTank (BBC Films/ The Kobal Collection).
30. ‘Making bad taste parody into family fun.’ Dame Edna Travolta offers dieting tips to Nikki Blonski in Hairspray (Moviestore Collection/Alamy).
31. ‘From horrified shame to enjoying the power.’ Brad Renfro turns gay stripper in Bully (Photos 12/Alamy).
32. ‘You’ll definitely never watch Flashdance in quite the same way ever again.’ Dystopian dancing in Dogtooth (AF Archive/Alamy).
Plates
1. ‘A hairy head in a jock jacket.’ Michael Landon awaits the coming of CGI in I Was A Teenage Werewolf (Underwood & Underwood/Corbis).
2. ‘Cinema’s first visual poem on the subject of adolescence.’ Jean-Pierre Léaud as Antoine Doinel in The 400 Blows (AF Archive/Alamy).
3. ‘A flint-eyed threat, wiry and gaunt, mouth drawn into a constant hard and baleful glower.’ Angry Young Tom Courtenay in The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (Moviestore Collection Ltd/Alamy).
4. ‘Capturing every thrill of young night-time romance.’ The interracial kiss from A Taste of Honey (British Lion/Woodfall/The Kobal Collection).
5. ‘A New World Order of youth gangs and tribal divisions.’ Burt Lancaster points an accusing finger at The Kids in The Young Savages (Photos 12/Alamy).
6. ‘“How do you thank someone/Who’s taken you from crayons to
perfume?”’ Sidney Poitier tames the white trash savages in To Sir, With Love (AF Archive/Alamy).
7. ‘A scruffy urchin giving a defiant two-finger salute to the whole fucking world.’ David Bradley invents Liam Gallagher in Kes (Woodfall/Kestrel/The Kobal Collection).
8. ‘“A sexual chip on her shoulder.”’ Cybill Shepherd sirens it up in The Last Picture Show (John Springer Collection/Corbis).
9. ‘A happy film about incest and paedophilia. Who else but the French?’ Lea Massari and Benoît Ferreux in Louis Malle’s Le Souffle Au Coeur (Photos 12/Alamy).
10. ‘Boy-meets-granny, boy-loses-granny.’ Ruth Gordon and Bud Cort as odd couple Harold and Maude (AF Archive/Alamy).
11. ‘Educating teens about gender hypocrisy since 1978.’ The gang’s all here in Grease (Photos 12/Alamy).
12. ‘A nutter in a rubber William Shatner mask with a giant phallic knife.’ Michael Myers plugs Halloween (Pictorial Press Ltd/Alamy).
13. ‘Every girl should just hold out for the right girl.’ Kristy McNichol learns a valuable lesson from Matt Dillon in Little Darlings (Moviestore Collection Ltd/Alamy).
14. ‘Tipping the world into war with one Cruise missile.’ Tommy boy goes postal in Taps (AF Archive/Alamy).
15. ‘The world’s worst boy: a fearless, nihilistic, articulate, violent force of nature with a Swastika tattooed on his forehead.’ Tim Roth in Made in Britain (Moviestore Collection Ltd/Alamy).
16. Gary Oldman as ‘the gobbing, flobbing, belching and squelching Coxy’ in Mike Leigh’s Meantime (Moviestore Collection Ltd/Alamy).
17. ‘The world’s prettiest teen gang.’ Messrs Estevez, Lowe, Howell, Swayze and Cruise beat up the ’80s in The Outsiders (Sunset Boulevard/Corbis).
18. ‘The desperate acts of an empty vessel.’ Bizarrely awful publicity poster for Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (Pictorial Press/Alamy).
19. ‘The girl that gets laid gets killed. The girl that doesn’t, doesn’t.’ Bathtime fun with Freddy and Nancy in A Nightmare On Elm Street (AF Archive/Alamy).
20. ‘Would the end of our world really be so terrible? Especially for kids?’ Night of the Comet laughs at the zombie apocalypse (Moviestore Collection Ltd/Alamy).
21. ‘Bright, shiny, vibrant playgrounds for the head games of unusually self-analytical, articulate and media-savvy children.’ The muse of Hughes reaches its peak in The Breakfast Club.
22. ‘He’s frolicking in the woods with his friend in a cowboy hat, who keeps dropping to his knees and beckoning his penis on.’ Kevin Bacon and Chris Penn do a dance called The Brokeback Mountain in Footloose (Paramount/The Kobal Collection).
23. ‘The perfect metaphor for the raging war between hormonal desire and fear of sex that every young girl must overcome.’ Johnny Depp’s class act as Edward Scissorhands (Pictorial Press/Alamy).
24. ‘Political and philosophical bon mots while encountering numchuck-wielding coke dealers. Vincent Cassell and friends in La Haine (Photos 12/Alamy).
25. ‘To grasp the moment and abolish tomorrow.’ Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy get real in Before Sunrise (Moviestore Collection/Alamy).
26. ‘Victims of recruitment into the homosexual lifestyle.’ A different kind of Pink Power in But I’m A Cheerleader (AF Archive/Alamy).
27. ‘“I never did it with baked goods . . .”’ Jason Biggs gives fatherly advice the finger in American Pie (Photos 12/Alamy).
28. ‘Killing each other for kicks, drugs and chump change.’ The teen gang movie grows up in City Of God (AF Archive/Alamy).
29. ‘Everyone dances on her estate. They make life where it doesn’t exist.’ Katie Jarvis steps out in FishTank (BBC Films/ The Kobal Collection).
30. ‘Making bad taste parody into family fun.’ Dame Edna Travolta offers dieting tips to Nikki Blonski in Hairspray (Moviestore Collection/Alamy).
31. ‘From horrified shame to enjoying the power.’ Brad Renfro turns gay stripper in Bully (Photos 12/Alamy).
32. ‘You’ll definitely never watch Flashdance in quite the same way ever again. Dystopian dancing in Dogtooth (AF Archive/Alamy).
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