The recent passing of John Hughes has elicited fond memories of his legacy.  Comedies like Sixteen Candles, Breakfast Club, Weird Science, and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off captured the essence of teen angst.  His characters, awkward and clumsy, were filled with doubts, fears, and desires. 
The complex psyches of teens have been explored often in the horror genre as well, but often as a device used in the systematic set-up of a violent and bloody end.  In Battle Royale, for example, the plight of each teen is revealed through flashback only moments before said teen meets brutal demise. In movies like Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and Halloween, teens are routinely punished for their promiscuity and rebelliousness; while in the new generation of torture/porn, kids are lured like dogs into unbearable situations.
But the best coming of age stories are born from scripts that borrow from
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Molly Ringwald has revealed that she and late director John Hughes hadn't spoken to one another in 20 years. The 59-year-old filmmaker died after suffering a heart attack in New York last week. Ringwald and fellow actors that also starred in his movies paid tribute to the helmer. In an article for The New York Times, the actress admitted that Hughes, who directed her in Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club, held a grudge against her and that the pair had not talked to each other for two decades. "Most people who knew John knew that he was able to hold a grudge longer than anyone - his grudges were almost supernatural things, enduring for years, even decades," she
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-- Wait... you mean an IESB rumor has been debunked?! I don't believe it. A weekend rumor that Steven Spielberg is interested in at the very least producing an adaptation of the hit video game "Halo" has been officially put to rest. Microsoft commented on the "news," stating that any "Halo" motion picture projects are officially on hold while the publisher concentrates on making games. I can't imagine why. Maybe it's the $60 price tag vs. the $10 movie ticket. (Kotaku)
-- Molly Ringwald wrote out a lengthy, heartfelt remembrance of her tragically fallen "Breakfast Club" and "Sixteen Candles" director, John Hughes. A lot has been said of Hughes in the past week, but Ringwald's reminiscence eclipses them all. (The New York Times)
-- "The Hangover" star Ed Helms is following up his summer adventure for Todd Phillips with a starring role in "Central Intelligence." In a Social Network-y twist, the movie
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John Hughes made Molly Ringwald the "It" Girl of the 1980s - though he was also capable of making her feel just awful, she revealed Wednesday. Detailing their working relationship in a tribute to the late writer-director, who died of a heart attack on Aug. 6, Ringwald, 41, writes for the Aug. 12 edition of The New York Times, "In life, there is always that special person who shapes who you are, who helps to determine the person you become. For me, that person was John Hughes." Now starring on ABC Family's The Secret Life of the American Teenager, Ringwald was a
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What will define the late John Hughes as a seminal screenwriter and filmmaker is his remarkable string of films that defined comedy for a generation. He cannily outlined teenagerhood for the 1980s generation by casting as his protagonists real, awkward-looking teenage actors (the type of casting that would turn into twentysomethings-playing-high schoolers by the time Beverly Hills 90210 came around). Hughes' work stands out because he stayed rooted in his native Chicago suburbs: He wrote what he knew. He covered family (Planes, Trains and Automobiles), childhood (Home Alone), and the teenage years (Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller's Day Off). The films centered around extremely relatable and realistic insecurities: from feeling ignored to feeling like a fake and far, far more. Bonus: They were funny! It was a magazine that led to 'John Hughes'; after Hollywood took notice of his National Lampoon piece Vacation '58, it led to

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There are two things I remember best about early-to-mid-1980s movies: slasher films and teen comedies. While the slasher films bring back fond memories they never quite compare to the quality of the teen angst flicks which made for repeated viewings. Everything from Porky's to the top-notch entertainment of Fast Times at Ridgemont High, the teen flicks of the 80's have never been matched to date. One of the most consistent writer/directors to contribute to the '80s teen fad was John Hughes who in one way or another, was responsible for the likes of Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink, Some Kind of Wonderful, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Breakfast Club and Weird Science. Today on Sound On sight we remember the legend and reflect back on our childhood. Listen now [1] Listen to the show in a new window [2] Listen on I-Tunes [3] RSS feeds [4] Sound On Sight Forum [5] Twitter [6] Facebook [7] [1] http://www.
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We told you last Friday about an upcoming John Hughes Film Festival in Tempe, the university-friendly suburb of Phoenix. The Big Picture is proud to partner with Harkins Theaters for this exclusive chance to honor the memory of John Hughes through six of his classic films, which begins this Friday.

When we first broke the news, I thought it would be a couple days, maybe run the full weekend, but Harkins is so committed to the event that for a solid week, the Valley Art is showing nothing but John Hughes movies. Because of its rich history, the 69-year-old theater is one of my absolute favorites, and when it was remodeled a few years ago, they did a tremendous job giving it the modern creature comforts while keeping that link to its history. So it's a perfect place to see these movies.
The schedule is below, but the films you can see beginning this Friday,
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Matt Austin-Sadowski's documentary Don't You Forget About Me has become the benefactor of unfortunate timing. According to Variety, this look at the life and films of John Hughes has been picked up for distribution by Alliance Films of Montreal in the days following the director's untimely death.
Following Hughes passing, director Austin-Sadowski was asked to be interviewed by CNN. This lead to the film being snapped up by Alliance Films. The documentary follows Hughes' legacy through his work on such seminal teen hits as Sixteen Candles and Weird Science. The seventy-five minute retrospective follows Austin-Sadowski and his producers Kari Hollend, Mike Facciolo and Lenny Panzer as they road trip to Illinois in search of the reclusive Hughes.
About the project, Austin-Sadowski said, "(John Hughes) inspired me as a person, going through an awkward adolescence, as many people do. He took affairs of the heart very seriously, and no other

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Hnr's Michael Stevens reporting from Toronto... According to reports from TorontoFilm.Net, a new 75-minute, low-budget feature doc, Don't You Forget About Me, focusing on late writer/director John "Ferris Bueller" Hughes, has been snapped up by distributor Alliance Films of Montreal. Toronto film-maker Matt Austin-Sadowski says the feature looks at the life and work of Hughes, creator of Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Breakfast Club and Sixteen Candles, lensed during a road trip in which Austin-Sadowski and producers Kari Hollend, Mike Facciolo and Lenny Panzer drove to Illinois to track down the reclusive director. Actors interviewed in the doc include Ally Sheedy, Judd Nelson, Mia Sara, Kelly LeBrock and Andrew McCarthy. Hughes' 'muse', actress Molly Ringwald, who shares a February 18 birthday with the director (as well as yours truly), reportedly refused to participate in the project. Sneak Peek the trailer from John Hughes' 1985 feature The Breakfast Club.

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Certain deaths do something weird to the media mind and temperament. John Hughes, a maker of what are essentially genre slapstick films, has, by his early death the other day, become a great auteur and, as well, a saint, without anyone seeming to be remotely nosy about the strange circumstances of his life and untimely end. At the height of his career—he was not just one of the most commercially successful writers and directors in Hollywood but a zeitgeist phenomenon—he drops out. Just leaves. Then, last week, at 59, walking on a Manhattan street, he falls down dead. So, come on, what happened to the guy? Can’t anybody write a decent obit anymore? Somewhere in here there is obviously a very good story—a more compelling one than the one about the brilliance of Sixteen Candles. Continue Reading at Newser.com »

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