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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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Kids (Larry Clarke, 1995)
It's pretty fucking brutal but also very truthful about the amorality of adolescence and how some kids can be. And it was also dealing honestly with HIV amongst heterosexuals, which was a first. It launched Harmony Korine and started a whole new genre but made a real stink at the time. A tough film with no feel good factor in sight. It's completely unsentimental.