20th Century Women
In 1979 Santa Barbara, California, Dorothea Fields is a determined single mother in her mid-50s who is raising her adolescent son, Jamie, at a moment brimming with cultural change and rebellion. Dorothea enlists the help of two younger women – Abbie, a free-spirited punk artist living as a boarder in the Fields' home and Julie, a savvy and provocative teenage neighbour – to help with Jamie's upbringing. From TMDB
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56 of 56 · most liked firstYour favorite Mike Mills film? Thumbsucker Beginners 20th Century Women C’mon C’mon Bonus points for why
unlabelledView post →20th Century Women is not just my favorite Mike Mills film, it’s one of the best, most underrated films of the past decade. I knew it would be a forever favorite the first time I saw it, tears streaming down my face at the end. Life-affirming.
unlabelledView post →#LastFourWatched for this week's #LetterboxdFriday. Battleship Potemkin was a first-time watch and lived up to its reputation. I've seen Godland and 20th Century Women multiple times. Both films are superb and continue to resonate. Also, trying to watch at least one film for #JanuaryGiallo!
unlabelledView post →#AprilFilmChallenge #MovieSky Day 20: a film with your favorite soundtrack ~ 20th Century Women~ I have yet to see this movie but did buy the motion picture soundtrack at a record store a few years back. Siouxie, Bowie, Talking heads, Devo, the Germ's...to name a few.
unlabelledView post →Happy Birthday #AnnetteBening❤️ Just rewatched THE GRIFTERS her 1st of 5 Oscar Noms! Also nom. for AMERICAN BEAUTY, THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT, BEING JULIA, & NYAD. In 20th CENTURY WOMEN & BUGSY. Below in THE GRIFTERS and as Gloria Graham in FILM STARS NEVER DIE IN LIVERPOOL #TCMParty #FilmSky 📽️ #MovieSky
unlabelledView post →here's 15 more Robocop Hackers Lost Highway Strange Days Terminator 2: Judgement Day S.F.W. Drive My Car 12 Monkeys (movie or tv show) Apple Cider Vinegar When Life Gives You Tangerines Police Story Harakiri 20th Century Women Gone Girl Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
unlabelledView post →Movie years project Year 2016 (107/122) Now Watching 📽️ #1/12 20th Century Women dir. Mike Mills rec'd by @hunsweasel.bsky.social
unlabelledView post →My ★★★★½ review of 20th Century Women on Letterboxd boxd.it/6UX7Xp
unlabelledView post →Either I'm misremembering the look of 20th Century Women, but the Criterion 4K disc for the film appears very dark. Maybe this is an HDR problem, but I certainly don't remember the film looking rather dark. The film is still great, by the way.
unlabelledView post →20TH CENTURY WOMEN is a movie so breathlessly perfect that I've never found a way to write about it, but Jason nails it here:
unlabelledView post →10 non-horror movies to get to know me: Magnolia 20th Century Women Blindspotting Terminator 2: Judgement Day Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Mermaids (favorite movie when I was a kid) Superman (1978) All of us Strangers Boyhood Party Monster
unlabelledView post →Best anyone has looked in a movie, too mee, Russell Crowe in LA Confidential + Greta Gerwig in 20th Century Women.
unlabelledView post →A movie from the year I turned 18 20th Century Women An absolute life changer for me youtu.be/wEw5cUoGwVI?...
unlabelledView post →You have summarized my inability to get interested in the movie 20th Century Women.
unlabelledView post →I just had to run in from yardwork (okay, I also needed some water and AC) to tell you I have a really great one that spoke to me. In the film 20th Century Women, "Drugs," from the Talking Heads Fear of Music album absolutely captures what it was like in those days, high in cars between places.
unlabelledView post →20th Century Women is the most 1979 movie I have ever seen. How have I not seen this movie until now. Thank You Criterion Challenge on @letterboxd.social for helping me find this .
unlabelledView post →20TH CENTURY WOMEN Lovely, lovely *lovely* film. Absolutely baked in nostalgia but less for a period and it's trappings, and more how that period and it's very specific politics, products and attitudes shaped the people in it. "They don't know this is the end of punk."
unlabelledView post →My favorite film of the last ten years. Best film I've seen since 20th Century Women.
unlabelledView post →20th Century Women (2016) 4.5/5. This film deserves much more in terms of plaudits and flowers as the kids say. Genuinely beautiful and so human. #filmsky
unlabelledView post →20TH CENTURY WOMEN is such an amazing, intimate, touching film that is an absolute must watch for everyone. It’s a phenomenal period piece about growing up in southern California In the 70’s but it’s so timeless in its exploration of motherhood & growing up. Mike Mills is one of the greats #FilmSky
unlabelledView post →Some from my current watchlist: Down The Drain The Wind Rises Voyage of the Rock Aliens Tag: The Assassination Game A Matter of Life or Death (or Stairway to Heaven, as it's known in come countries) Nope (Actors looking up on the poster) 20th Century Women (or any movie starring Billy Crud-”Up”)
unlabelledView post →Remember the Crisis in Confidence speech scene in 20th Century Women… good movie
unlabelledView post →I'm only gutting it out for the sake of auteur completion. You make a movie like 20TH CENTURY WOMEN, I'll give you a lot of leeway.
unlabelledView post →I interviewed Greta Gerwig. She made a tiny film called BARBIE —you might’ve heard of it. My 3rd time talking to her (after 20th Century Women & Lady Bird)—always a delight. On her directing style, making personal films at any budget & her love of Shakespeare. For W Mag. 🎀🌸💅🏻👠👛💕
unlabelledView post →I kind of like how the trailer makes it look like Mike Mills (of 20th Century Women fame) decided to make a horror film.
unlabelledView post →They nicked that u from the word menstruation (there’s a movie clip where everyone says menstration - 20th Century Women)
unlabelledView post →20th Century Women feels like the last movie of the Obama years, it's a film that takes place in a time period just before there's a skyrocket in social conservatism, and the film came out in the final days of 2016, right after Trump won his first term
unlabelledView post →Rewatching 20th Century Women (2016) for the umpteenth time. You just gotta love this beautiful film. Worth watching for this scene alone. youtu.be/rqEQa3a_lXM?...
unlabelledView post →I have cute 20th Century Women artwork hung in my bathroom. I adore that movie
unlabelledView post →My ALT text always has great detail for my image posts: "... Elle Fanning, born on this day in 1998, as Julie Hamlin in a scene from the film 20TH CENTURY WOMEN (2016)"
unlabelledView post →The Bluesky 20-Day Film Challenge: Choose 20 films that have stayed with or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just movie posters. 12/20 #filmsky #20thcenturywomen #20dayfilmchallenge 🎥 💙
unlabelledView post →I just want to say that a friend recommended the movie 20th Century Women and she was totally right, great movie.
unlabelledView post →I am having the most profound conversations with Claude about books and films. Just spent 90 minutes exploring the movie 20th Century Women, the novel Crossroads, Lasch, Sontag, Sennett, and Taylor. Incredible.
unlabelledView post →A quality film, #Maria is pretty easily the weakest of Pablo Larraín’s informal 20th Century Women trilogy (with Jackie and Spencer). Jolie is very good but doesn’t reach the charisma of the real Callas. Pierfrancesco Favino and Alba Rohrwacher are particularly strong in support.
unlabelledView post →Been watching the movie “20th Century Women”, on rotation on the cables, and though set in 76, it gives vibe of start of the ‘80s you describe.
unlabelledView post →On Home Video: Last week, @criterion.bsky.social released a three-film boxset of Mike Mills titles - BEGINNERS, 20TH CENTURY WOMEN, and C'MON C'MON. EoM Contributor @dubsreviews.bsky.social does a full breakdown of the set, the films, and the features in this full home review. #CriterionCollection
unlabelledView post →Last week, @criterion.bsky.social released a three-film boxset of Mike Mills titles - BEGINNERS, 20TH CENTURY WOMEN, and C'MON C'MON. EoM Contributor @dubsreviews.bsky.social does a full breakdown of the set, the films, and the features in this full home review. #CriterionCollection
unlabelledView post →Watching the movie 20th Century Women and I could be way off base here, but this has a very John Irving vibe to me for some reason…
unlabelledView post →We watched "20th Century Women" last night. I really enjoyed this movie. It was an absolute delight.
unlabelledView post →Rank and File Hollywood365 The film Greta Gerwig acted in before making Lady Bird. 20th Century Women reconrank.com/movies/20th-... #Filmsky #Movies
unlabelledView post →20th Century Women (2016) 1hr 58m [15] [Streaming Again] In 1970s Santa Barbara, teenager Jamie learns about life and love from his free-spirited mom, his best friend and the tenants in their fixer-upper. #NowStreaming #Netflix #NetflixUK
unlabelledView post →🎬 The Top 4 Drama Movies Released on January 20! What's your fave? 1. The Artist 2. Missing 3. 20th Century Women 4. A Letter to Three Wives Check out all 64 movies released on this day at https://todayinmovies.com #TodayInMovies #Movies #Film #Drama
unlabelledView post →The (movie) 20th Century Women 1080p (iTunes)(AU) AU$4.99 (Drama) (iMDB) 7.5 Cast: Annette Bening, Elle Fanning, Greta Gerwig, Billy Crudup, Lucas Jade Zumann, Alison Elliott
unlabelledView post →Film Director Mike Mills, known for intimate, deeply human films like 20th Century Women, Beginners, and C’mon C’mon, is getting at the core magic of story telling. You create, you share, then you let the audience finish the story as it lands with them. #MikeMills #screenwriting #DeathorStory
unlabelledView post →Book Suggestions that feel like the movie 20th Century Women https://www.booksns.com/127543/ What are your favorite books that feel similar (whether it's story, tone, etc) to the A24 film 20th Century Women? by EqualSea9035
unlabelledView post →The Mike Mills quote, “our emotional lives are historical,” is seared into my memory. It’s from 2016 when he was discussing his film, 20th Century Women.
unlabelledView post →March 23 Annette Bening an accomplished actress for over three decades managed to out do herself in Mike Mills great indie drama 20th Century Women. Playing the matriarch at the centre of the film she provided the necessary warmth for the audience to love this film and Bening. #AnnetteBening
unlabelledView post →If you watch 20TH CENTURY WOMEN (and you should, great film), you'll hear a huge chunk of Jimmy Carter's infamous malaise speech. And you'll realize it shouldn't be infamous. He nailed what was wrong with us.
unlabelledView post →This film and 20th Century Women capture everything I just love about Bening.
unlabelledView post →I love this scene and i love this #movie "Yeah, it's like they've got all this feeling, and they don't have any skill, and they don't want skill, because it's really interesting what happens when your passion is bigger than the tools you have to deal with it. It creates this energy that's raw. Isn't it great?" Abbie Porter (#GretaGerwig) in #20thCenturyWomen #Movies https://youtu.be/bcxOc9D4dr0
unlabelledView post →20th Century Women https://www.booksns.com/63090/ I recently watched the movie and liked it very much. It has this warm, cozy, mellow feeling, ensemble of great characters and character drama. No YA fiction please. Thank you. by potatoed_punk
unlabelledView post →20th Century Women https://www.booksns.com/63090/ I recently watched the movie and liked it very much. It has this warm, cozy, mellow feeling, ensemble of great characters and character drama. No YA fiction please. Thank you. by cybered_punk
unlabelledView post →Tonight I'll be hanging with #TomPayne to talk The Walking Dead, Prodigal Son, and his new film, Imaginary! Molly Sarle & Run River North also drop by + I'll spin from soundtracks to 20th Century Women, Great Expectations, American Psycho, Amongst Friends, etc 6p ET on 91.9 WFPK #ImaginaryMovie
unlabelledView post →Full review: https://www.tinakakadelis.com/beyond-the-cinerama-dome/2021/12/28/-20th-century-women-review Director Mike Mills has described 20th Century Women as a love letter to his childhood set in a sleepy Santa Barbara of 1979. Dorothea (Annette Bening) runs a boarding house and lives with her son Jamie (Lucas Jade Zimmerman), Abbie (Greta Gerwig), a photographer, and William (Billy Crudup), an auto mechanic. Always hanging around the house is Julie (Elle Fanning), a good friend of Jamie.…
positive · AI labelView post →Rather a 20th century tale! You have seen films like this often. This is where a chick film meets art. Art means not the flick full of inspiration, message, awareness. But the presentation was so pleasant. The screenplay carefully picked the right events, and the dialogues were good. The book fanatics would go and look for the original source it was adapted from. But the truth is it was an originally written screenplay, and that's why it got a nomination at the recent Oscars. Another way to…
positive · AI labelView post →The year is 1979 and Dorothea Fields finds herself in her 50s raising a teenage boy, Jaime, while running a house in Santa Barbara that is always going through renovations. Jaime’s father is not in the picture but who needs a father when your mother rents rooms to a handful of particular individuals ranging from different generations. Director Mike Mills casts three powerful actresses, Annette Bening, Greta Gerwig and Elle Fanning, to fill the roles of the different women in Jaime’s life and…
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