It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.

You believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?

We may be true with the past, but the past is not through with us.

Welcome to the next picture show, a movie the week podcast devoted to a classic film and how it shaped our thoughts in a recent release. I'm Scott Tobias here with... Genevieve Kosky. And... Toshar Robinson. Keith Phipps is at home listening to his 78s, but he'll return for the next pairing. Here on the next picture show, we believe that no film exists in a vacuum and that all culture is more interesting in context. So every other week, we get together to talk over a classic film and consider how it

relates to a current movie. This week, we're looking at two coming-of-age films set in the early

aughts about creatively-minded outcasts who are leaving high school and uncertain about what the

future holds for them. One of them is a semi-autobiographical period piece about the Catholic schoolgirl from Sacramento. The other is a contemporaneous film that she probably would have liked a lot. Genevieve, tell us more. This week, we're firing up our Netscape browsers, popping a Dave Matthews CD single into the Sony Discman and revisiting the early 2000s, with two coming-of-age comedies about misfit seniors who are trying to find a place for themselves in a world they felt comfortable rejecting. In Ghost World, Terry Zweigov's adaptation of Daniel Klaus's graphic novel, or naroglyphic picto assemblage, as he calls it, Thorough Birch plays Enid, a sardonic teenager who knows what she hates, but doesn't know what she wants. In Greta Gerwig's Ladyberg, Shersha Ronan plays Christine Lady Bird McPherson, a sardonic teenager who knows what she wants to go to college as far away from Sacramento as possible, but isn't sure how to get there. To quote Iony Sky's valedictorian address and say anything, quote, I've glimpsed our future, and all I can say is, go back. But that's a third senior year comedy, and we're sticking with two this week. On the first of this week's episodes, we'll look at Ghost World and what it's like to be a young nonconformist in a consumerist hellscape. Then later in the week, we'll bring in Lady Bird about the perils and uncertainties of growing up on the wrong side of the tracks.

We'll be back after the break.

Sometimes I think I might be going crazy from sexual frustration.

You just hate every single guy in the face of the earth.

That's not true. I just hate all these extroverted pseudo-bohemian losers.

You guys up for some reggae tonight?

Do you have any other old records besides these?

Seymour does.

Who does? Oh, uh, him.

He's the man with the records.

What are we in slow motion here?

Come on, what are you hypnotized?

Have some more kids, why don't you?

Jan Pahe-chan-hoo.

Gina A-san-hoo.

I'm allowed to place one student from your graduating class for a full one-year scholarship,

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