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Baker's Dozen

A Cinema Baker's Dozen: Jon Savage's Favourite Teenage Films
Mat Colegate , March 20th, 2014 11:33

With his new film Teenage released earlier this year, Jon Savage picks the top thirteen films that capture the spirit of adolescence

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American Graffiti (George Lucas, 1973)
A total classic from George Lucas, pre Star Wars. It's the start of pop culture going retro, as it created a whole kind of rock & roll revival with records being reissued and that double LP soundtrack being released. It's the past informing the present so it's important in terms of pop culture and teen films. It influenced a couple of other movies that we're going to talk about later. And I love the music – 'I Only Have Eyes For You' and all those tunes. Fantastic.