watched: remember the daze.  writer/director jess manafort apparently shot this when she was 24 or so, fresh out of nyu undergrad, and as such, it’s the first high school film i’ve seen since dazed and confused that really gets the combination of maturity and silliness that comes with the threshhold to adulthood.  shahine ezell, wild palms’s amber heard, and a stoned leighton meester are highlights.