The New Beverly Cinema presents the Pure Cinema Podcast.

That's right. We are still at it.

Quarantine life, baby.

I know. And it's funny because nothing, being quarantine certainly does, it limits your physical movements,

but your mental movements.

I'm moving plenty into the past, plenty into thinking about, you know, days of youth and travel.

And so doing road movies, I thought, was kind of a strange, dark irony when we did that lap.

But this time we decided to move into coming of age movies, which is, you know,

I think an interesting kind of, whether it's even a subgenre or more of a thematic pairing of movies.

But it's something that so many of our previous picks have touched on,

even if they haven't been on a coming of age list.

Yeah. No, it's definitely a fun one that, like you say, dips into multiple genres.

You know, you can have horror, suspense, whatever, and it could be coming of age, you know.

And it can apply to young people. It can apply to old people. So it's a really kind of a broad spectrum thing that I kind of like in that way, you know. And I think we might have talked about this on first features with Sean Baker. I can't recall. But my feeling was always, you know, just in terms of arts, was that a lot of filmmakers first feature, you know, by 25 year olds, 30 year olds-year-olds, tended to be coming-of-age stories.

They tended to be first love stories. And I often think that's just because it's so hard to

remember much. You have this like amnesia that creeps into your day-to-day life, the older you get,

because most things don't burn very hot. But that that those memories somehow stay very vivid and very accessible.

And I think because of that, so many filmmakers are able to go back to being 16 or 15 and take those feelings and put them on the page, you know, and translate them well.

Yeah. I mean, I do think that it speaks to how impactful those things are. They're all encompassing. They're

all you care about at the time. You can't stop thinking about that person or whoever. It just

takes over completely. And so I get that in terms of bandwidth, you know, when we're at the age

we're at now, you've got less and less. You know, you've got

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