John Hughes 1950-2009

divNYT bit a href="http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/06/john-hughes-director-of-the-breakfast-club-and-sixteen-candles-dies-at-59/?hp"here/a./divdivbr //divIt may be a generational thing, but when I think about John Hughes, there's a certain subset of his oeuvre that I think about.  In some ways, these films are nothing more than a guilty pleasure, in others, evocative of a certain time and place, (naturally).  Having graduated from high school in 1986, I was a card carrying member of his target market.divbr //divdivOddly enough, I think a line from Dylan Moran's a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_books"Black Books/a captures, in a sense, Hughes' characterization of high school:/divblockquoteBernard: "But you hated school, you had a terrible time."br /br /Fran: "I've never said that."br /br /Bernard: "You didn't have to say anything, I just look at your life now and work backwards."/blockquote divMy favorite of Hughes films is strikeHome Alone/strike, erm, Some Kind of Wonderful, if only because I had a crush on Mary Stuart Masterson.  (But then SKoW is a guilty pleasure; Planes, Trains, and Automobiles is a clearly superior film)./divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7163938-3005510077435711694?l=lefarkins.blogspot.com'//div