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20th Century Women - Screenplay
97 pages, ebook
Published January 1, 2016
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Mike Mills
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Mike Mills was born in 1966, Berkeley, California. He graduated from Cooper Union, 1989.
He works as a filmmaker, graphic designer and artist. As a filmmaker, Mike has completed a number of music videos, commercials, short films, documentaries, and the feature film Thumbsucker (2005). Architecture of Reassurance (2000), a short film he wrote and directed, was in the 1999 Sundance Film Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Oberhausen short film festival, and The New York Museum of Modern Art's New Directors New Films. Paperboys (2001), documents the daily life of six boys in rural Minnesota. Deformer (2000) documents the life of the world-famous skateboarder Ed Templeton, was featured in the Edinburgh and Rotterdam International film festivals, and Air: Eating, Sleeping, Waiting and Playing (1999), a tour documentary of the French band Air and their audiences is available on DVD. The connected documentaries "Hair Shoes Love and Honesty" (1998) and "Not How Or When Or Why But Yes" (2004) have been presented at The Alleged gallery, the Mu Museum, and Res Fest Internationally. Other works include a short film documenting the music theory of jazz composer Ornette Coleman, as well as several short films for Marc Jacobs.
In 1996 Mike co-founded The Directors Bureau with Roman Coppola, a multidisciplinary production company that also represents Geoff McFetteridge, Shynola, Sofia Coppola and Mark Borthwick. His commercial work includes international campaigns for clients such as Levis, Gap, Volkswagen, Adidas and Nike. Mike has directed many music videos for bands such as Air, Pulp, Everything but the Girl, Les Rythem Digitales, Moby, Yoko Ono, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. "The Directors Series" will distribute a retrospective DVD of his videos and short works. In 2005 Mike retired from the Bureau and from directing advertisements. Mike's first feature film, Thumbsucker (2005), which he adapted from the novel by Walter Kirn, won acting awards at the 2005 Sundance film festival, the Berlin International film festival, and Mike received the 2005 Guardian New Directors award at the Edinburgh International film festival. As a graphic artist, Mills has designed CD covers for bands such as Sonic Youth, The Beastie Boys, Boss Hog, Buffalo Daughter and others. Until 1998, Mike created all the graphics for X-girl, Kim Gordon and Daisy Von Furth's clothing company. Mike has designed scarves and fabrics for Marc Jacobs, skateboards for Subliminal, Supreme, and Stereo, and he has designed books such as "Hyper Ballad" and "Baby Generation" featuring the photographs of Takashi Homma.
In 1996 Mo Wax records released a 12" album filled with posters and other graphic items created by Mike entitled "A Visual Sampler: Posters by Mike Mills". This one-of-a-kind release was accompanied by a touring exhibition in the summer and fall of '96 in New York City at the Andrea Rosen Gallery, The Adam Bray Gallery in London, as well as galleries in Tokyo and Sydney. In 2003 Mike stopped working for clients and began his own graphic line "Humans" (www.humans.jp) which includes fabrics, shirts, posters and ribbons. Based in Tokyo, Humans has been exhibited at clothing stores and galleries such as Nieves in Zurich, Trip in Milan and Cow Books in Tokyo. Mills work was included in the Cooper Hewitt Museum's, 2003 National Design Triennial. Other gallery exhibits include: 1996 solo exhibit, "Help" at The Alleged Gallery, New York. 1997 "Teenage Objects" at Gallery Collette in Paris. 1998 solo exhibit "Hair, Shoes, Love and Honesty" at the Alleged Gallery, New York. 2001 solo exhibit, "What Will You Do Now That You Know It's The End". 2004, solo exhibit, "Not How Or When or Why, But Yes" at the MU Gallery in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. 2004 Group show, "Beautiful Losers" Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati, and
Please see: Mike Mills
Mike Mills was born in 1966, Berkeley, California. He graduated from Cooper Union, 1989.
He works as a filmmaker, graphic designer and artist. As a filmmaker, Mike has completed a number of music videos, commercials, short films, documentaries, and the feature film Thumbsucker (2005). Architecture of Reassurance (2000), a short film he wrote and directed, was in the 1999 Sundance Film Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Oberhausen short film festival, and The New York Museum of Modern Art's New Directors New Films. Paperboys (2001), documents the daily life of six boys in rural Minnesota. Deformer (2000) documents the life of the world-famous skateboarder Ed Templeton, was featured in the Edinburgh and Rotterdam International film festivals, and Air: Eating, Sleeping, Waiting and Playing (1999), a tour documentary of the French band Air and their audiences is available on DVD. The connected documentaries "Hair Shoes Love and Honesty" (1998) and "Not How Or When Or Why But Yes" (2004) have been presented at The Alleged gallery, the Mu Museum, and Res Fest Internationally. Other works include a short film documenting the music theory of jazz composer Ornette Coleman, as well as several short films for Marc Jacobs.
In 1996 Mike co-founded The Directors Bureau with Roman Coppola, a multidisciplinary production company that also represents Geoff McFetteridge, Shynola, Sofia Coppola and Mark Borthwick. His commercial work includes international campaigns for clients such as Levis, Gap, Volkswagen, Adidas and Nike. Mike has directed many music videos for bands such as Air, Pulp, Everything but the Girl, Les Rythem Digitales, Moby, Yoko Ono, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. "The Directors Series" will distribute a retrospective DVD of his videos and short works. In 2005 Mike retired from the Bureau and from directing advertisements. Mike's first feature film, Thumbsucker (2005), which he adapted from the novel by Walter Kirn, won acting awards at the 2005 Sundance film festival, the Berlin International film festival, and Mike received the 2005 Guardian New Directors award at the Edinburgh International film festival. As a graphic artist, Mills has designed CD covers for bands such as Sonic Youth, The Beastie Boys, Boss Hog, Buffalo Daughter and others. Until 1998, Mike created all the graphics for X-girl, Kim Gordon and Daisy Von Furth's clothing company. Mike has designed scarves and fabrics for Marc Jacobs, skateboards for Subliminal, Supreme, and Stereo, and he has designed books such as "Hyper Ballad" and "Baby Generation" featuring the photographs of Takashi Homma.
In 1996 Mo Wax records released a 12" album filled with posters and other graphic items created by Mike entitled "A Visual Sampler: Posters by Mike Mills". This one-of-a-kind release was accompanied by a touring exhibition in the summer and fall of '96 in New York City at the Andrea Rosen Gallery, The Adam Bray Gallery in London, as well as galleries in Tokyo and Sydney. In 2003 Mike stopped working for clients and began his own graphic line "Humans" (www.humans.jp) which includes fabrics, shirts, posters and ribbons. Based in Tokyo, Humans has been exhibited at clothing stores and galleries such as Nieves in Zurich, Trip in Milan and Cow Books in Tokyo. Mills work was included in the Cooper Hewitt Museum's, 2003 National Design Triennial. Other gallery exhibits include: 1996 solo exhibit, "Help" at The Alleged Gallery, New York. 1997 "Teenage Objects" at Gallery Collette in Paris. 1998 solo exhibit "Hair, Shoes, Love and Honesty" at the Alleged Gallery, New York. 2001 solo exhibit, "What Will You Do Now That You Know It's The End". 2004, solo exhibit, "Not How Or When or Why, But Yes" at the MU Gallery in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. 2004 Group show, "Beautiful Losers" Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati, and
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October 11, 2017
I really enjoyed this script, but it failed to captivate me fully as I found it a little confusing. Whether it was the complexity of the format, or the fact that it's solely character driven, I can't pinpoint at this moment.
It was still a nice read, and I'm definitely watching the movie tonight.
It was still a nice read, and I'm definitely watching the movie tonight.
April 21, 2019
lovely writing, the dialogues are so brilliant and sweet and thought-provoking. just overall incredible.
November 13, 2023
I want to see this modern world. (58:00)
February 21, 2017
Much more of a character based script than a plot based one. Aside from some of the irritating format issues it knows how to handle VOs and is full of personality.
February 28, 2022
"You get to see him out in the world as a person; I never will."
- Dorothea to Abby, about her son Jamie
This simple sentence encapsulates the paradoxal intimacy and distance of parent-child relationships. Being so close to someone leads to a kind of familiarity that "taints" the full image of them as a whole person, because it is hard to detach yourself from the role you play in their life or the role they play in yours, therefore getting access only to specific bits of it.
There are three reasons why I appreciate 20TH CENTURY WOMEN:
a) the script
b) the soundtrack
c) the blend between both
a) Mike Mills's writing has a kind of sensibility quality that not a lot of writers possess. There are quite a few lines and dialogues in this script that can describe aspects of human nature.
b) The whole soundtrack is legendary (long live Talking Heads!), but Roger Neill's work for the film is absolutely breathtaking and has bred some of my favorite pieces of music of all time; it sounds like nostalgia and melancholy, but also like hope.
c) The voice-overs and the music always come in the right time. For me, this film is a great example of audiovisual poetry.
I think about it a lot.
- Dorothea to Abby, about her son Jamie
This simple sentence encapsulates the paradoxal intimacy and distance of parent-child relationships. Being so close to someone leads to a kind of familiarity that "taints" the full image of them as a whole person, because it is hard to detach yourself from the role you play in their life or the role they play in yours, therefore getting access only to specific bits of it.
There are three reasons why I appreciate 20TH CENTURY WOMEN:
a) the script
b) the soundtrack
c) the blend between both
a) Mike Mills's writing has a kind of sensibility quality that not a lot of writers possess. There are quite a few lines and dialogues in this script that can describe aspects of human nature.
b) The whole soundtrack is legendary (long live Talking Heads!), but Roger Neill's work for the film is absolutely breathtaking and has bred some of my favorite pieces of music of all time; it sounds like nostalgia and melancholy, but also like hope.
c) The voice-overs and the music always come in the right time. For me, this film is a great example of audiovisual poetry.
I think about it a lot.
July 13, 2017
Interesting
September 5, 2025
I loved it - even more than the film itself.
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July 17, 2024i cried a lot while reading only because all the settings were specifically identified within it.
January 2, 2020
Really enjoyed the movie. Gave me a better understanding when reading the screenplay of all the characters and what they were going through
April 1, 2022
Absolute perfection.
April 16, 2023
Telling stories about stories…
April 4, 2017
Love Mike Mills, loved the film (thought it was one of 2016's best), so I read the screenplay. And it is great, as the film is. Surprisingly not much in the way of deleted/changed scenes. It's pretty exact and intact. Sadly, no extras in the book either. I liked that this phrase came up often: "he/she is affected more than he/she expected."
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