Harmony Korine teased upcoming Venice premiere “Aggro Dr1ft” in Locarno, where he picked up the Pardo d’onore Manor award for outstanding achievement in cinema.
“I am excited. I have never made anything like it. I was trying not to make a movie. I don’t know if it will be a scandal, but it will be its own statement,” he said.
“Aggro Dr1ft” stars Spain’s Jordi Molla and Travis Scott. Korine has already worked with Scott on “Circus Maximus” – as well as his friend Gaspar Noé, surprise guest at the fest, who ended up co-moderating his Saturday masterclass.
“It was pretty wild. It was crazy!,” said Korine about the “last-minute” collab with Scott, also opening up about his humble beginnings.
“I grew up in Nashville, I was born into a commune. My dad made strange documentaries about Southern moonshiners and circus people, and then he sold some weed.
“I am excited. I have never made anything like it. I was trying not to make a movie. I don’t know if it will be a scandal, but it will be its own statement,” he said.
“Aggro Dr1ft” stars Spain’s Jordi Molla and Travis Scott. Korine has already worked with Scott on “Circus Maximus” – as well as his friend Gaspar Noé, surprise guest at the fest, who ended up co-moderating his Saturday masterclass.
“It was pretty wild. It was crazy!,” said Korine about the “last-minute” collab with Scott, also opening up about his humble beginnings.
“I grew up in Nashville, I was born into a commune. My dad made strange documentaries about Southern moonshiners and circus people, and then he sold some weed.
- 8/12/2023
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
James Ransone has been cast in Scott Derrickson’s upcoming film for Blumhouse and Universal, The Black Phone. Derrickson and frequent collaborator C. Robert Cargill adapted the script based on Joe Hill’s short story. Derrickson, Cargill and Jason Blum, for Blumhouse, are producing the film. Universal and Blumhouse will present the Crooked Highway production. Joe Hill is an executive producer.
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Vianney Le Caer/Rex/Shutterstock Scott Derrickson ‘Doctor Strange’ Launch Event, Westminster Abbey, London, UK – 24 Oct 2016
James Ransone has created indelible performances on the big and small screens as well as the stage, performing in a wide variety of projects that span from intimate indies to blockbuster genre films.
Ransone starred in It Chapter Two as Eddie Kasprak, one of the members of “The Losers Club,” opposite Jessica Chastain and Bill Hader, et al. His performance in the movie garnered such praise as “James Ransone...
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Vianney Le Caer/Rex/Shutterstock Scott Derrickson ‘Doctor Strange’ Launch Event, Westminster Abbey, London, UK – 24 Oct 2016
James Ransone has created indelible performances on the big and small screens as well as the stage, performing in a wide variety of projects that span from intimate indies to blockbuster genre films.
Ransone starred in It Chapter Two as Eddie Kasprak, one of the members of “The Losers Club,” opposite Jessica Chastain and Bill Hader, et al. His performance in the movie garnered such praise as “James Ransone...
- 3/20/2021
- by Michelle Hannett
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Based on the short story of the same name by Joe Hill, The Black Phone is shaping up to be quite the Sinister reunion, as James Ransone (who played Deputy So & So in 2012's Sinister and Ex-Deputy So & So in Sinister 2) has joined Ethan Hawke (who played Ellison Oswalt in Sinister) in the cast of the new Scott Derrickson film that he co-wrote with C. Robert Cargill:
James Ransone has been cast in Scott Derrickson’s upcoming film for Blumhouse and Universal, The Black Phone.
Derrickson and frequent collaborator C. Robert Cargill adapted the script based on Joe Hill’s short story.
Derrickson, Cargill and Jason Blum, for Blumhouse, are producing the film. Universal and Blumhouse will present the Crooked Highway production. Joe Hill is an executive producer.
About James Ransone:
James Ransone has created indelible performances on the big and small screens as well as the stage,...
James Ransone has been cast in Scott Derrickson’s upcoming film for Blumhouse and Universal, The Black Phone.
Derrickson and frequent collaborator C. Robert Cargill adapted the script based on Joe Hill’s short story.
Derrickson, Cargill and Jason Blum, for Blumhouse, are producing the film. Universal and Blumhouse will present the Crooked Highway production. Joe Hill is an executive producer.
About James Ransone:
James Ransone has created indelible performances on the big and small screens as well as the stage,...
- 3/19/2021
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
James Ransone isn’t taking it for granted. He’s not taking “It” for granted, either. While the long-time television actor and indie mainstay has been working in Hollywood for nearly two decades, his latest role in Andy Muschietti’s much-hyped “It Chapter Two” is his biggest gig yet. It almost didn’t happen, and not just because of good old-fashioned industry drama or scheduling issues, but because the Indie Spirit winner nearly left the business long before he could dig into a breakout 20 years in the making.
“I’ve just never been in a pop culture thing like this, I’ve never had a moment like this,” Ransone said in a recent interview with IndieWire. “I didn’t know this thing was as big as it was, I had no idea it was going to be as massive as it was. It feels like some like hand of God,...
“I’ve just never been in a pop culture thing like this, I’ve never had a moment like this,” Ransone said in a recent interview with IndieWire. “I didn’t know this thing was as big as it was, I had no idea it was going to be as massive as it was. It feels like some like hand of God,...
- 9/4/2019
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
If you know anything about filmmaker/photographer Larry Clark, the director behind “Kids,” “Bully” and the still-banned/unreleased “Ken Park” — infamous for a scene where actor James Ransone masturbates to release on screen — you know the provocative artist behind these controversial films has zero filter. And now 70 years old, Clark perhaps is even less concerned with his public image than ever, and more than ever willing to fly in the face of a culture that has moved on considerably in terms of how we deal with social issues since his heyday.
Continue reading Listen: ‘Kids’ Director Larry Clark Goes Way Off Script In Insane, Nsfw Bret Easton Ellis Podcast at The Playlist.
Continue reading Listen: ‘Kids’ Director Larry Clark Goes Way Off Script In Insane, Nsfw Bret Easton Ellis Podcast at The Playlist.
- 10/28/2016
- by Rodrigo Perez
- The Playlist
Cinematographer Edward Lachman may not be a household name, though he undoubtedly should be. One of the most highly regarded directors of photography in the business, Lachman has collaborated with some of the best filmmakers of his generation: Steven Soderbergh, Todd Haynes, Todd Solondz, Paul Schrader, Sofia Coppola, Robert Altman, Werner Herzog, George Sluizer, Wim Wenders, Mira Nair, Ulrich Seidl, and Andrew Niccol — to name a handful.
His career began in 1975 by photographing the infamous Sylvester Stallone–Henry Winkler Brooklyn gang cult-fave, The Lords of Flatbush. In the last 40 years, he’s carved out a truly varied résumé. For example: in 2002, Lachman co-directed Ken Park with filmmaker Larry Clark, before moving onto direct the exercise video Carmen Electra’s Aerobic Striptease in 2003.
Lachman’s most recent feature, Carol — his third partnership with Haynes, and perhaps his finest work — just entered a limited release, so there’s no better time to...
His career began in 1975 by photographing the infamous Sylvester Stallone–Henry Winkler Brooklyn gang cult-fave, The Lords of Flatbush. In the last 40 years, he’s carved out a truly varied résumé. For example: in 2002, Lachman co-directed Ken Park with filmmaker Larry Clark, before moving onto direct the exercise video Carmen Electra’s Aerobic Striptease in 2003.
Lachman’s most recent feature, Carol — his third partnership with Haynes, and perhaps his finest work — just entered a limited release, so there’s no better time to...
- 11/23/2015
- by Tony Hinds
- The Film Stage
It was the summer of 1995. Bill Clinton was president, Rudy Giuliani was mayor of New York, and Oj Simpson was on trial. That summer’s youth-oriented movies included Pixar's first movie Toy Story, the Disney musical Pocahontas — and Kids, in which wayward, stoned teens fuck each other senseless and head-stomp random strangers.
It might be hard to remember just how notorious Larry Clark's indie-skater odysey was. The movie grossed a modest $7 million at the box office that summer — a wild success when you account for the fact that it...
It might be hard to remember just how notorious Larry Clark's indie-skater odysey was. The movie grossed a modest $7 million at the box office that summer — a wild success when you account for the fact that it...
- 7/16/2015
- Rollingstone.com
Read More: Sundance Review: 'Tangerine' is a Charming Buddy Comedy About Transgender Prostitutes in L.A. While you may not recognize his name, you're sure to know his face. Glance over his credits and you might be inclined to assume that actor James Ransone is much older than 36, his actual age. In just a little more than a decade, Ransone has worked with some of the most well-respected behind-the-camera creative talents across independent film and cable television, including Larry Clark, David Simon, Spike Lee and, as of late, Sean Baker, who cast Ransone in his latest film, "Tangerine," which opened in theaters on Friday, July 10. Ransone burst on to the independent film scene with Clark's 2002 film, "Ken Park," but is perhaps most widely known for playing the character of Ziggy Sobotka on the second season of Simon's HBO series, "The Wire." It was a breakout role for Ransone,...
- 7/12/2015
- by Shipra Harbola Gupta
- Indiewire
Days Go By: Clark Returns to Apathetic Adolescence for Latest
After having won the top prize at the 2012 Rome Film Festival, controversial filmmaker Larry Clark’s Marfa Girl was available for streaming directly from his official website. Now, nearly three years later, Breaking Glass Pictures is distributing the title in limited theatrical release. For those familiar with Clark’s work, the title doesn’t feel like anything new from the director, navigating a milieu of loosely connected adolescents and the peripheral adults in their environment as they conquer their all-consuming boredom with illicit drugs and promiscuity. The customarily blatant yet generally believable crude conversations revolving around sexuality present in all of Clark’s work is full force here.
Seeing as this is the filmmaker’s first feature in seven years, following 2005’s Wassup Rockers (though it should be noted a 2014 title The Smell of Us premiered in last fall’s...
After having won the top prize at the 2012 Rome Film Festival, controversial filmmaker Larry Clark’s Marfa Girl was available for streaming directly from his official website. Now, nearly three years later, Breaking Glass Pictures is distributing the title in limited theatrical release. For those familiar with Clark’s work, the title doesn’t feel like anything new from the director, navigating a milieu of loosely connected adolescents and the peripheral adults in their environment as they conquer their all-consuming boredom with illicit drugs and promiscuity. The customarily blatant yet generally believable crude conversations revolving around sexuality present in all of Clark’s work is full force here.
Seeing as this is the filmmaker’s first feature in seven years, following 2005’s Wassup Rockers (though it should be noted a 2014 title The Smell of Us premiered in last fall’s...
- 3/26/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Made just on the cusp of his turning 70, photographer-filmmaker Larry Clark's latest reckless-youth provocation (see also: Kids, Bully, Ken Park) proves Matthew McConaughey's immortal Dazed and Confused adage: He gets older, but those skinny, objectified adolescents stay the same age. Within this loosely paced West Texas portrait of lyrical desolation (its grungy panoramas quite beautiful when not looking like advertising gloss), smoking pot, fucking, and spanking the boredom away is still the modus operandi for Clark's largely nonprofessional ensemble. Half-Hispanic teen Adam (Adam Mediano) skateboards from one hedonistic distraction to the next and is occasionally bullied by sadistic, racist Border Patrolman Tom (Jeremy St. James). Everyon...
- 3/25/2015
- Village Voice
Kids, sex, drama, consequences... yep, it's another movie from Larry Clark, who specializes in narratives about young people living dangerously on the cusp of adulthood (see "Kids," "Ken Park," etc). But for "Marfa Girl," Clark took a slightly more anarchic approach to putting it together. "What happened was the last two films I wrote myself — 'Wassup Rockers' and 'Marfa Girl.' I‘d been talking to writers and I found out that all these writers have these rules, there are certain ways they do things, and I probably should have snapped to this earlier but I don’t need no fucking writers, and I hate rules, and so I said I wanna make a film where I only put in what I’m interested in," he told Jessica Kiang at the Rome Film Festival in 2012. "And I don’t care about getting from here to there, only what I’m interested in,...
- 3/2/2015
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Larry Clark, best known for collaborating with Harmony Korine on "Kids" and "Ken Park," will return to the south-central U.S. for his latest film, "Marfa Girl," which is being released by Breaking Glass Pictures. Like Clark's previous films, "Marfa Girl" constructs a gritty sexual portrait of the youth in a particular community -- in this case, a Texas border town named Marfa. Here's the film's official synopsis: "The new film from visionary director Larry Clark follows Adam, a directionless 16-year-old living in the working class U.S./Mexico border town of Marfa, Texas, and his sexual relationships with his teenage girlfriend, twenty something neighbor, aggressive local artist and high school teacher, while an unhinged, misogynistic border patrol agent watches over the neighborhood. What ensues is a web of sex, drugs, and violence as the Latino skater punks adjust to their gritty, aimless life in the dead end town." Check out.
- 2/27/2015
- by Shipra Gupta
- Indiewire
Larry Clark's The Smell of Us has premiered in Venice Days and the Playlist's Jessica Kiang finds it "so horrible it manages to significantly outdo the repulsiveness of its title." The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw: "The photographer and filmmaker who made his sensational debut with Kids, nearly 20 years ago, returns yet again to the activity of gloating over young people's bodies, with huge amounts of explicit sex. But the party looks to be well and truly over." While "the kinks are far more explicit here than anything but Ken Park," notes Variety's Peter Debruge, "Instead of trying to excite, the helmer chronicles a kind of sickening numbness." » - David Hudson...
- 9/4/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
Larry Clark's The Smell of Us has premiered in Venice Days and the Playlist's Jessica Kiang finds it "so horrible it manages to significantly outdo the repulsiveness of its title." The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw: "The photographer and filmmaker who made his sensational debut with Kids, nearly 20 years ago, returns yet again to the activity of gloating over young people's bodies, with huge amounts of explicit sex. But the party looks to be well and truly over." While "the kinks are far more explicit here than anything but Ken Park," notes Variety's Peter Debruge, "Instead of trying to excite, the helmer chronicles a kind of sickening numbness." » - David Hudson...
- 9/4/2014
- Keyframe
To seek instant satisfaction that fills a void carved out of purposelessness is the perennial remedy for a case of teenage angst. Whether this soothing reward is found in the form of sex, love, drugs, or violence depends on all sorts of social conventions and expectations that shape the transitional years of each tormented adolescent. In the wake of so many disconcerting emotions, there is always an impending need to speed up the process of maturity. Doing the wrong things that seem cool, avoiding the good things that are not, in order to become what the crowd wants you to be. In her impressively layered debut feature Gia Coppolaexplores the idea of premature adulthood and the bewildering search for identity.
Based on several shorts stories by the man that never sleeps, James Franco, Palo Alto centers around three high schoolers growing up and making mistakes in this affluent Californian town. Enchanting Emma Roberts irradiates cautious confidence as the well-behaved April, a smart girl who plays soccer for the school’s team and appears as the most stable character in a sea of hormone-driven youngsters.
Among the latter kind, Teddy (Jack Kilmer)and Fred (Nat Wolff) stand out as pair of troublemakers that couldn’t be more different from one another. Longhaired Teddy is in love with April, but she doesn’t know it, his deviant deeds come as a result of these secret feeling and the need be accepted by his male peers, specifically his best pal. Fred, on the other hand, is incredibly more troubled than any of his comrades. His sexually deviant conduct, drug dependency, and the increasingly dangerous and violent stunts he plans, speak of misguided social skills and unspoken trauma.
Undoubtedly their days are embellished by lots of alcohol, partying, promiscuity, and other mood-altering substances that seem to make them feel alive by covering up a corrosive sense of apathy and entitlement. This is clearly no new ground, but the stylistic choices by a new member of the Coppola cinematic lineage, transcend the premise of wealthy American teens struggling to find themselves. Disturbingly honest and on point about the motivations of its characters' selfish actions, the director contemplates their irrational decisions without passing judgment.
Roberts performance is astounding, she glows with contained vulnerability and clever discretion. April is not the naïve type, yet she lets herself be seduced completely aware of the immoral nature of her actions. Even Franco in a small role as a coach who engages in unlawful relations with his players, serves as evidence that being a grownup is a very relative concept. Desire and loneliness act as stronger forces than responsibility or professionalism.
Completely intoxicating the senses, the music by Devonte Hynes and Robert Schwartzman verges on being a collection of abstract sounds that seamlessly match the images. The film is a ravishing statement from a promising new voice in American cinema. Visually and thematically referencing films like Sofia Coppola’s The Virgin Suicides, Larry Clark’s Ken Park, and even Where the Wild Things Are, it is obvious that this work is more about its aimlessly youthful characters' self-discovery than about any perceptible singular conflict. Within the saturated atmosphere of the film one can see glimpses of harrowing and revelatory truth - timeless and current at once.
The protagonists’ role models are vague, absent, unaware of the laws that govern the lives of those being young in a time and place in which nothing really matters. Punishments and consequences are subjective in the Palo Alto universe, thus each person has a chance to be devoured by remorse or move on nonchalantly. Perhaps such lack of enforced morality or judgmental parameters is even scarier than the imprisoning chains of structure. At least with the latter you know what to expect.
Based on several shorts stories by the man that never sleeps, James Franco, Palo Alto centers around three high schoolers growing up and making mistakes in this affluent Californian town. Enchanting Emma Roberts irradiates cautious confidence as the well-behaved April, a smart girl who plays soccer for the school’s team and appears as the most stable character in a sea of hormone-driven youngsters.
Among the latter kind, Teddy (Jack Kilmer)and Fred (Nat Wolff) stand out as pair of troublemakers that couldn’t be more different from one another. Longhaired Teddy is in love with April, but she doesn’t know it, his deviant deeds come as a result of these secret feeling and the need be accepted by his male peers, specifically his best pal. Fred, on the other hand, is incredibly more troubled than any of his comrades. His sexually deviant conduct, drug dependency, and the increasingly dangerous and violent stunts he plans, speak of misguided social skills and unspoken trauma.
Undoubtedly their days are embellished by lots of alcohol, partying, promiscuity, and other mood-altering substances that seem to make them feel alive by covering up a corrosive sense of apathy and entitlement. This is clearly no new ground, but the stylistic choices by a new member of the Coppola cinematic lineage, transcend the premise of wealthy American teens struggling to find themselves. Disturbingly honest and on point about the motivations of its characters' selfish actions, the director contemplates their irrational decisions without passing judgment.
Roberts performance is astounding, she glows with contained vulnerability and clever discretion. April is not the naïve type, yet she lets herself be seduced completely aware of the immoral nature of her actions. Even Franco in a small role as a coach who engages in unlawful relations with his players, serves as evidence that being a grownup is a very relative concept. Desire and loneliness act as stronger forces than responsibility or professionalism.
Completely intoxicating the senses, the music by Devonte Hynes and Robert Schwartzman verges on being a collection of abstract sounds that seamlessly match the images. The film is a ravishing statement from a promising new voice in American cinema. Visually and thematically referencing films like Sofia Coppola’s The Virgin Suicides, Larry Clark’s Ken Park, and even Where the Wild Things Are, it is obvious that this work is more about its aimlessly youthful characters' self-discovery than about any perceptible singular conflict. Within the saturated atmosphere of the film one can see glimpses of harrowing and revelatory truth - timeless and current at once.
The protagonists’ role models are vague, absent, unaware of the laws that govern the lives of those being young in a time and place in which nothing really matters. Punishments and consequences are subjective in the Palo Alto universe, thus each person has a chance to be devoured by remorse or move on nonchalantly. Perhaps such lack of enforced morality or judgmental parameters is even scarier than the imprisoning chains of structure. At least with the latter you know what to expect.
- 5/10/2014
- by Carlos Aguilar
- Sydney's Buzz
Larry Clark
Controversial American film director Larry Clark, who is making his first film outside the Us in French in Paris over the summer, is to receive a tribute and showings of his complete works at next week’s Deauville Festival of American Cinema.
The new film The Smell Of Us is about “self-destructive skateboarders” in the City of Light. The idea stemmed from poet Mathieu Landais whom he met during an exhibition in Paris and who ended up co-writing the screenplay.
Rocker Pete Doherety apparently plays a role in the film, but, as usual, the main focus for the Kids director is on messed up adolescents. Clark's sojourn at the Festival is geographically convenient as the Normandy watering hole is only two hours from Paris.
Clark, who directed sexually explicit scenes in both Bully and Ken Park, has returned to cinema after a long absence with Marfa Girl last year,...
Controversial American film director Larry Clark, who is making his first film outside the Us in French in Paris over the summer, is to receive a tribute and showings of his complete works at next week’s Deauville Festival of American Cinema.
The new film The Smell Of Us is about “self-destructive skateboarders” in the City of Light. The idea stemmed from poet Mathieu Landais whom he met during an exhibition in Paris and who ended up co-writing the screenplay.
Rocker Pete Doherety apparently plays a role in the film, but, as usual, the main focus for the Kids director is on messed up adolescents. Clark's sojourn at the Festival is geographically convenient as the Normandy watering hole is only two hours from Paris.
Clark, who directed sexually explicit scenes in both Bully and Ken Park, has returned to cinema after a long absence with Marfa Girl last year,...
- 8/21/2013
- by Richard Mowe
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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Last years winner sold his screenplay to Christopher Figg, producer of: Hellraiser, We Need to Talk About Kevin, Dog Soldiers & many more.
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- 6/30/2013
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
The films of Ulrich Seidl – including the latest, Paradise: Love – show human behaviour in unsparing and explicit close-up. The aim, he says, is for the viewers to see themselves
Any old auteur can knock out a trilogy but it takes a special kind of genius to make one by accident. This is the position in which the 60-year-old Austrian filmmaker Ulrich Seidl finds himself. He receives me on a rainy afternoon in the Vienna office of his production company. Finger snacks of psychedelic hues (bright purple cabbage, unidentified pistachio-green paste) are spread out before us. A chintzy lamp dangling above us melts the food until the toppings start creeping off the bread; a signed portrait of Erich Von Stroheim looks on magisterially from the wall. Seidl himself is dressed head to toe in black: black waistcoat over a black shirt, black trousers, black shoes. His spiky-fluffy brown hair and bristly beard are speckled with silver.
Any old auteur can knock out a trilogy but it takes a special kind of genius to make one by accident. This is the position in which the 60-year-old Austrian filmmaker Ulrich Seidl finds himself. He receives me on a rainy afternoon in the Vienna office of his production company. Finger snacks of psychedelic hues (bright purple cabbage, unidentified pistachio-green paste) are spread out before us. A chintzy lamp dangling above us melts the food until the toppings start creeping off the bread; a signed portrait of Erich Von Stroheim looks on magisterially from the wall. Seidl himself is dressed head to toe in black: black waistcoat over a black shirt, black trousers, black shoes. His spiky-fluffy brown hair and bristly beard are speckled with silver.
- 6/13/2013
- by Ryan Gilbey
- The Guardian - Film News
Controversy has always existed in cinema. Perhaps the first controversial film was Dw Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation from 1915 which glorified the Ku Klux Klan and was a hateful, racist piece of work. Controversy can come to directors by accident if a film is greatly misunderstood or because of the political climate at the time of contemporary release, only to recover its reputation later. Many films are also deliberately provocative, often either in a way to express a political point or in a self-indulgent way that is far too common.
Some directors have made a career out of controversy and have themselves become more individually famous than their films. A way to establish a reputation and to get noticed in the film industry is by being controversial and it worked for numerous directors all over the globe.
Controversy can be a good and a bad thing. It can...
Some directors have made a career out of controversy and have themselves become more individually famous than their films. A way to establish a reputation and to get noticed in the film industry is by being controversial and it worked for numerous directors all over the globe.
Controversy can be a good and a bad thing. It can...
- 5/30/2013
- by Sam Moore
- Obsessed with Film
Harmony Korine's fifth feature film (or seventh when you count the scripts he wrote for Larry Clark's Kids and Ken Park) is about the steadily more wild and debauched behaviour of four nubile young women in bikinis during spring break – a rite of passage that, if several teen movies are to be believed, is one of the main benefits of a Us college education.
- 4/5/2013
- The Independent - Film
We've extolled the virtues of VHS before, and now Michel Gondry praises the value of the medium and reminisces about video stores in a new clip that appeared on Nowness. The whimsical French director, who is currently wrapping up his bizarre love story Mood Indigo, gave fans a glimpse inside his favorite Paris video store, La Butte Video Club. Michel Gondry: A Cinephile's Labyrinth is directed by Tiffany Limos of Ken Park fame and follows Gondry through the aisles as he waxes nostalgic about the production of The Science of Sleep. Apparently he watched all of Wim Wenders' early movies on VHS while creating the movie, which makes us love him more than we already did. The filmmaker's 2008 movie Be Kind Rewind tackled the subject of tapes in an obvious fashion, but...
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- 3/8/2013
- by Alison Nastasi
- Movies.com
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- 1/9/2013
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Selena Gomez is shedding her squeaky-clean Disney image in her new film "Spring Breakers." The movie promises plenty of sex, drugs, violence and -- as shown in an Interview magazine spread -- barely-there bikinis.
Written and directed by Harmony Korine (1995's "Kids"), "Spring Breakers" wrapped production at the end of March. Before shooting even began, 19-year-old Gomez called the role "raw and more about acting" than anything she'd ever done.
"It was getting kind of repetitive in terms of the roles I was picking, and I really wanted to do something that was completely different," said Gomez in the June issue of Interview. "It was a mark thing for me -- like, 'This is what I want to be doing.' I want to take myself seriously as an actress, and this was definitely a stretch."
However, just because Gomez donned an itsy-bitsy bikini and hung out with James Franco...
Written and directed by Harmony Korine (1995's "Kids"), "Spring Breakers" wrapped production at the end of March. Before shooting even began, 19-year-old Gomez called the role "raw and more about acting" than anything she'd ever done.
"It was getting kind of repetitive in terms of the roles I was picking, and I really wanted to do something that was completely different," said Gomez in the June issue of Interview. "It was a mark thing for me -- like, 'This is what I want to be doing.' I want to take myself seriously as an actress, and this was definitely a stretch."
However, just because Gomez donned an itsy-bitsy bikini and hung out with James Franco...
- 5/30/2012
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
Despite being mysteriously listed in the Cannes schedule as simply ‘séance spéciale’, word quickly spread online and at Cannes that the festival had organised a special preview of exclusive footage to be shown to the press attending.
Described on the night by master of ceremonies Thierry Fremaux as an experiment (this was gleamed from the small amounts of French that I was able to understand) the event was a one off screening of trailers, teasers, clips and footage of upcoming films. These included a number of trailers that I won’t go into detail about here as they were all trailers already available online, such as Frankenweenie, Chimpanzee and The Brave but there were also a few exclusives too.
All the clips that played in the presentation had played in the preceding week in the market, in screenings that the press were denied access too. In fact, I had made...
Described on the night by master of ceremonies Thierry Fremaux as an experiment (this was gleamed from the small amounts of French that I was able to understand) the event was a one off screening of trailers, teasers, clips and footage of upcoming films. These included a number of trailers that I won’t go into detail about here as they were all trailers already available online, such as Frankenweenie, Chimpanzee and The Brave but there were also a few exclusives too.
All the clips that played in the presentation had played in the preceding week in the market, in screenings that the press were denied access too. In fact, I had made...
- 5/28/2012
- by Craig Skinner
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
While there are a handful of shock-jock filmmakers (Harmony Korine, for example), few are as brutally honest and uncompromising as Kids and Ken Park director Larry Clark. Best known for pushing content boundaries for what can and can’t be shown on the big screen, it’s been a minute since we saw Clark in the theaters. However, that’s now going to change.
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- 5/22/2012
- by Joshua Brunsting
- GordonandtheWhale
Looks like American enfant terrible Larry Clark is finally stepping up to the plate after a long absence. Independent French cinema group mk2 recently sat down with documentary producers Gérard Lacroix and Pierre-Paul Puljiz, and the two revealed they would be involved in the new project from the often-controversial filmmaker behind "Kids," entitled "The Smell Of Us." Puljiz, who centered doc "Larry Clark, Great American Rebel" on the director, met with Lacroix after he expressed desire in adapting Clark's novel "Tulsa."
There's not much to go on in terms of plot, but the idea stems from poet Mathieu Landais whom he met during an exhibition in Paris. Mostly the producers speak of their trouble getting the script to a point where it wouldn't have to be censored; an obvious hurdle for those at all familiar with the director's work ("Ken Park" starts with a public suicide and ends with a...
There's not much to go on in terms of plot, but the idea stems from poet Mathieu Landais whom he met during an exhibition in Paris. Mostly the producers speak of their trouble getting the script to a point where it wouldn't have to be censored; an obvious hurdle for those at all familiar with the director's work ("Ken Park" starts with a public suicide and ends with a...
- 5/22/2012
- by Christopher Bell
- The Playlist
So, a couple of former Disney teen princesses in a movie written and directed by Harmony Korine of “Kids”, “Ken Park”, and “Trash Humpers” fame? Oh yeah. Nothing could possibly go wrong here. Of course, “wrong” is subjective. If you’ve ever wanted to see former teen princesses like Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens let their hair out and “do it for the art”, then “Spring Breakers” is probably the movie you’ve been waiting for. Of course, it remains to be seen just how, ahem, committed both actresses are to shedding their manufactured Disney images (*cough*Anne Hathaway in “Havoc”*cough*). But if you could judge by these set images from the movie, it sure looks like they’re letting it all hang out. The plot of “Spring Breakers” finds four college girls landing in jail after robbing a restaurant in order to fund their spring break vacation. Have no fear,...
- 3/28/2012
- by Nix
- Beyond Hollywood
James Ransone ("Treme," "The Wire," "Ken Park") has signed on to Scott Derrickson's untitled found-footage thriller at Summit Entertainment reports Variety.
Ethan Hawke stars in the story of a journalist who moves his family into a house where another family was murdered. He soon uncovers found footage that leads to clues about the murders.
Ransone will play a deputy. Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill penned the script while Jason Blum is producing.
Ethan Hawke stars in the story of a journalist who moves his family into a house where another family was murdered. He soon uncovers found footage that leads to clues about the murders.
Ransone will play a deputy. Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill penned the script while Jason Blum is producing.
- 9/6/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
The inaugural New York Hell’s Kitchen Film Festival kicks off next week on September 1, and in advance of ten days of films and fun, the festival has released their full lineup. The festival will open with Jay Duplass’ Kevin and will close with Craig Vivieros’ Lost in Italy (starring Glen Murphy and Ray Winstone). The festival’s centerpiece film is Josh Hyde’s Postales (an Official Selection at the Edinburgh and Shanghai International Film Festivals). In between those three framing films, the festival will show over 140 features and shorts, along with a number of interesting and unique panels. Duplass’ documentary Kevin is the director’s first foray into documentary features, and its opening night screening will be followed by a performance by Kevin Gant himself (a talented performer that both the Duplass brothers idolized as kids). Gant and Duplass will also participate in a Q&A moderated by Matt Singer. Other...
- 8/23/2011
- by Kate Erbland
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
The inaugural New York Hell's Kitchen Film Festival, boasting a lineup of over 140 features and shorts, will kickoff September 1. Highlights include a screening of "Ken Park" with director Larry Clark in person on September 2, the opening night screening of Jay Duplass' documentary "Kevin," and the closing night screening and world premiere of Craig Viveiros' "Lost in Italy." Josh Hyde's Peruvian drama "Postales" will be the centerpiece film. ...
- 8/23/2011
- Indiewire
The one new piece in the latest exhibition from the photographer and film-maker Larry Clark is a typically ripe collage entitled I Want a Baby Before U Die. An extreme close-up of a woman's pubic hair, beneath which is visible the tattooed name "Larry", competes for our attention with images of guileless teenagers having sex. Elsewhere, newspaper reports of violent adolescent deaths jostle for space with pictures of buttocks caked in a substance one hopes is Nutella.
Oddly, there's also a cinema ticket for Harry Brown, 2009's British vigilante thriller. Its title character, like Clark, is a pensioner preoccupied with teenage delinquents. But, whereas Brown guns down thugs, Clark would be more likely to take them skateboarding and then snap them with their junk hanging out.
This exhibition, entitled What Do You Do for Fun?, is culled from a retrospective that opened in Paris last year to the sort of...
Oddly, there's also a cinema ticket for Harry Brown, 2009's British vigilante thriller. Its title character, like Clark, is a pensioner preoccupied with teenage delinquents. But, whereas Brown guns down thugs, Clark would be more likely to take them skateboarding and then snap them with their junk hanging out.
This exhibition, entitled What Do You Do for Fun?, is culled from a retrospective that opened in Paris last year to the sort of...
- 2/14/2011
- by Ryan Gilbey
- The Guardian - Film News
News that Canadian fringe filmmaker Bruce La Bruce's latest cinematic offering, L.A. Zombie, was pulled from the 2010 "Night Shift" program of the Melbourne International Film Festival (Miff) has reportedly put a smile on the controversial director's face, despite being the cause of widespread outrage amongst the Australian film community. This is the first time a film has been banned from the unapologetically bold, but never gratuitous festival, since Larry Clark's Ken Park (2003), which enjoyed massive underground popularity as a result. However, at a time in which the freedom for Australians to self censor their media consumption is under threat of a government imposed internet filter, the ban has come as yet another blow to the ideal of civil liberty in Australia.
- 7/22/2010
- FilmInk.com.au
James Ransone ("The Wire," "Ken Park") and Jake Cherry ("Friends with Money," "Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian") have joined Dito Montiel's crime drama "Son of No One" for Nu Image/Millennium Films says The Hollywood Reporter.
The story follows a young cop (Channing Tatum) assigned to the working class neighborhood where he grew up. He soon finds an old secret has begun to resurface and threatens to destroy his family.
Ransone will play Tatum's police partner, while Cherry plays the childhood incarnation of Tatum's cop.
Al Pacino, Katie Holmes, Ray Liotta, Tracy Morgan and Juliette Binoche also star. Filming is underway in New York City.
The story follows a young cop (Channing Tatum) assigned to the working class neighborhood where he grew up. He soon finds an old secret has begun to resurface and threatens to destroy his family.
Ransone will play Tatum's police partner, while Cherry plays the childhood incarnation of Tatum's cop.
Al Pacino, Katie Holmes, Ray Liotta, Tracy Morgan and Juliette Binoche also star. Filming is underway in New York City.
- 4/2/2010
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
I told my brother I was reviewing a film called Trash Humpers, and he said, "Oh, they're probably using 'hump' to mean carrying or hauling, like, 'I gotta hump this trash out to the landfill.'" And I told him that knowing what I do about the filmmaker, no, it's probably about people who literally hump trash. In fact, I said, I should be grateful if the trash humping is the least unpleasant thing that happens.
The filmmaker is Harmony Korine, who wrote Larry Clark's Kids and Ken Park and made his own Gummo, Julien Donkey-Boy, and Mister Lonely. He's a provocateur, a mix of John Waters, Werner Herzog, and Lars von Trier, only (in my opinion) not as talented as any of them. Trash Humpers is not only pointless but, it would seem, intentionally pointless, a tedious slog that appears to have been made for the express purpose of annoying the audience.
The filmmaker is Harmony Korine, who wrote Larry Clark's Kids and Ken Park and made his own Gummo, Julien Donkey-Boy, and Mister Lonely. He's a provocateur, a mix of John Waters, Werner Herzog, and Lars von Trier, only (in my opinion) not as talented as any of them. Trash Humpers is not only pointless but, it would seem, intentionally pointless, a tedious slog that appears to have been made for the express purpose of annoying the audience.
- 3/24/2010
- by Eric D. Snider
- Cinematical
Mickey Rourke's post-Oscar glory shows no signs of fading away. The formerly washed-up actor is getting cast all over the place, and now will have another starring role in Mona Lisa, a remake of the 1980s gangster movie about an ex-con who winds up as a chauffeur for a high-class escort. According to Variety, Eva Green is in talks to play the escort, which must have a ton of fanboys thrilled at the idea of seeing her naked again. Perhaps the most interesting part of this story is that Larry Clark, the director of Kids, Ken Park, Bully and other depressing movies about teenagers, will be directing this one. Is he ready for a change of pace after terrifying a generation's worth of parents? Or just wanting to work with Mickey Rourke? Filming begins in July in New York, which means another hilarious series of tabloid reports about Rourke's...
- 5/15/2009
- cinemablend.com
Apparently tired of digging into forgotten (and some not so forgotten) ’80s horror dumpster, Hollywood producers have now turned their attention towards Britain’s dumpsters, and they’ve come up with 1986’s “Mona Smile”. The film originally starred Bob Hoskins and Cathy Tyson, and was directed by Neil Jordan of “Crying Game” fame. The remake will star Mickey Rourke in the Hoskins role, playing an ex-con who gets a job driving a high-priced call girl (Eva Green in the remake); the two eventually become friends and run afoul of a local kingpin. Variety says Larry Clark (of “Kids” and “Ken Park” infamy) will write and direct the remake, so you should probably expect more than a little skin from ex-Bond girl Eva Green or Larry Clark isn’t doing his job. Then again, it’s not like Green is new to nudity. Her first movie was “The Dreamers”, an Nc-17 affair.
- 5/15/2009
- by Nix
- Beyond Hollywood
Having been away from films for a couple of years, it looks like Kids/Ken Park/Wassup Rockers helmer Larry Clark is back – and with a remake of Neil Jordan’s 1986 drama Mona Lisa, to boot. According to Production Weekly’s Twitter feed, Clark has set Mickey Rourke and Eva Green to take over roles made famous by Bob Hoskins (below) and Cathy Tyson in the original. Jordan’s film saw Hoskins’ freshly released ex-con relegated to being a driver for a high-priced call girl (Tyson). At first, the pair...
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- 5/12/2009
- by jwhite
- TotalFilm
There's this little film made back in 1986 called Mona Lisa. Bob Hoskins starred as George, a man just out of prison who takes a job chauffeuring a high-price call girl named Simone (Cathy Tyson). As first, they're opposites who argue, but then they foster a friendship which leads him to help her out and get embroiled in a mess with the underworld. Michael Caine co-starred as an underworld boss, and Hoskins earned himself his only Oscar nomination.
23 years later, Production Weekly's Twitter feed reports that the film is getting a remake. Mickey Rourke will add another film to his ever-increasing roster and star alongside the radiant Eva Green. That should throw the whole relationship into another dynamic. Hoskins might be able to show the toughness, but he's no ex-wrestler and tough guy of Sin City. The big kicker, however, is the director. Larry Clark, helmer of Kids and Bully, will grab the directorial chair.
23 years later, Production Weekly's Twitter feed reports that the film is getting a remake. Mickey Rourke will add another film to his ever-increasing roster and star alongside the radiant Eva Green. That should throw the whole relationship into another dynamic. Hoskins might be able to show the toughness, but he's no ex-wrestler and tough guy of Sin City. The big kicker, however, is the director. Larry Clark, helmer of Kids and Bully, will grab the directorial chair.
- 5/11/2009
- by Monika Bartyzel
- Cinematical
- No one will argue with the fact that Harmony Korine isn't very concerned with making his audiences feel comfortable. Some might say the director goes to lengths to make you squirm in your seat. But Korine's gritty, grotesque and bizarre depictions of the downtrodden, the different and the troubled simultaneously carry a visually delicate and honest beauty, for instance, when Korine opted for a Dogme technique in the highly acclaimed Julien-Donkey Boy (1999). While the glue-sniffing, cat-killing "Tom and Huck" duo in Korine's directorial debut Gummo (1997) would make anyone want to go cry in a corner, the young director infuses his characters, such as the wandering "Bunny Boy," with a helpless vulnerability that keeps you watching (perhaps against your own will). Korine's next feature, Mister Lonely, opens to limited release today after playing at SXSW and Tribeca. The pic is certain to make some kind of cinematic impression. Diego Luna
- 5/2/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
PARIS -- The French directors, producers and screenwriters body ARP on Tuesday expressed concern about the "remarks and motivation" behind a decision by France's highest court to change the film certification of Ken Park, restricting it to adults older than 18. Last week's decision came months after the film had received certification for it to be shown to audiences older than 16 (HR 2/7). Clarifying that it did not intend to challenge the Conseil d'Etat's ruling or comment on the decision, ARP called in a statement for the strengthening of future film certification commissions by including a representation of directors, who would help maintain a balance between "the freedom of creation and the protection of minors."...
- 2/11/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
LONDON -- Alexander Walker, film critic for the London Evening Standard for 43 years, died early Tuesday. He was 73. One of the most widely known critics in the country and author of more than 20 books, he died at the London Clinic while having tests for cancer. An influential and often controversial figure, Walker felt that film censors should be stricter in protecting the public from shocking material. He fell out with director Ken Russell, who hit him with a newspaper during a television broadcast after Walker described his 1971 film The Devils as "monstrously indecent." He famously described David Cronenberg's Crash as "a movie beyond the bounds of depravity," and his viewing of the explicit teen drama Ken Park last September prompted further comments on censorship.
- 7/16/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
SYDNEY -- An illegal screening of Larry Clark's teenage drama Ken Park was stopped by New South Wales police Wednesday night just minutes into the event, which was staged by Free Cinema, an anti-censorship body comprised of filmmakers and critics. Ken Park was banned from screening at the recently concluded Sydney International Film Festival after censorship authorities declined to classify the film due to its depiction of under-age sex and sexual violence. Having no classification effectively means the film is banned from being shown in Australia. However, the Free Cinema group decided to screen a version from a DVD projected at a suburban town hall, adjacent to a police station. Hundreds of people turned up for the highly publicized screening but it was stopped when neighboring police cut the power and told the crowd to disperse. No charges were laid against the members of Free Cinema, which includes prominent film critic Margaret Pomeranz. New South Wales premier Bob Carr told local press that he was "not happy" about overbearing censorship, but noted that state police were obliged to comply by commonwealth legislation, under which censorship rules come, and that he would be lobbying for festivals to be exempt from classification rulings. Ken Park has been sold for distribution in more than 30 countries. Its withdrawal from the Sydney film festival, as well as up the upcoming Melbourne International Film Festival, is the first time in 30 years that a film has been pulled from a festival in Australia due to censorship problems.
SYDNEY -- An illegal screening of Larry Clarkis teenage drama Ken Park was stopped by New South Wales police Wednesday night just minutes into the event, which was staged by Free Cinema, an anti-censorship body comprised of filmmakers and critics. Ken Park was banned from screening at the recently concluded Sydney International Film Festival after censorship authorities declined to classify the film due to its depiction of under-age sex and sexual violence. Having no classification effectively means the film is banned from being shown in Australia. However, the Free Cinema group decided to screen a version from a DVD projected at a suburban town hall, adjacent to a police station. Hundreds of people turned up for the highly publicized screening but it was stopped when neighboring police cut the power and told the crowd to disperse. No charges were laid against the members of Free Cinema, which includes prominent film critic Margaret Pomeranz. New South Wales premier Bob Carr told local press that he was "not happy" about overbearing censorship, but noted that state police were obliged to comply by commonwealth legislation, under which censorship rules come, and that he would be lobbying for festivals to be exempt from classification rulings. Ken Park has been sold for distribution in more than 30 countries. Its withdrawal from the Sydney film festival, as well as up the upcoming Melbourne International Film Festival, is the first time in 30 years that a film has been pulled from a festival in Australia due to censorship problems.
VENICE, Italy -- British independent distributor Metro Tartan has acquired U.K. rights to U.S. directors Larry Clark and Ed Lachman's Ken Park, sales house Fortissimo Film Sales said. The deal marks the first major territory sale for the hard-core sex-filled American art film set in Visalia, Calif., focusing on four dysfunctional families. The film was met with a generally good critical response after unspooling Tuesday in the Venice Film Festival's competitive Upstream section. "Several American indie distributors are circling it, but we are waiting for Toronto to close a U.S. deal," Wouter Barendrecht, co-chairman of the Amsterdam and Hong Kong-based sales company, said of the deal, which was announced Friday. In Venice, Fortissimo also closed deals on Chinese director Tian Zhuangzhuang's Upstream competition entry Springtime in a Small Town, a drama featuring Chinese teenagers that has been acquired by indie British distributor Artificial Eye for the United Kingdom, by Cinelibre for Benelux and by Ocean for Israel.
TELLURIDE, Colo. -- From teenage suburban skateboarders to aboriginal runaways, many of the young actors appearing in Telluride Film Festival premieres during the holiday weekend were nonprofessionals. Cast from their real life environments, the actors were not big name stars meant to attract audiences -- at least, not yet. "I don't hate actors," said director Larry Clark, who startled moviegoers once again with an unflinching look at the angst and sexuality of kids in Ken Park. Like his controversial 1995 feature, Kids, Ken Park, written by Kids author Harmony Korine, played like a documentary. It was cast almost entirely from urban streets and skateboard parks. "In most cases, you spend most of your directing getting them not to act," said Clark. "The trick is to get them to do the material as if it was them." Director Phillip Noyce visited Telluride with the low budget Miramax Films feature, Rabbit Proof Fence, the true story of three young aboriginal girls who escaped from the Australian government's program to train indigenous children to be domestic workers. Like Clark, Noyce used real kids -- three girls from outback villages -- to recreate the 1,500-mile journey home. Ironically, one of the young girls ran away from the set twice during the film's making.
In conjunction with its opening day, the Telluride (Colo.) Film Festival has unspooled its program for the 29th annual fest -- scheduled to run today through Monday -- with a roster that includes a mix of retrospectives, world and North American premieres and special tributes to filmmakers Paul Schrader and D.A. Pennebaker. Programmed by Bill Pence, Tom Luddy and guest director Alberto Barbera, a former director of the Venice International Film Festival and Italy's Torino Film Festival, the fest's high-profile selections include Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine, Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe's Lost in La Mancha, Ed Lachman and Larry Clark's Ken Park, Fernando Meirelles and Katia Lund's City of God, Bertrand Tavernier's Safe Passage, David Cronenberg's Spider, Philip Noyce's Rabbit Proof Fence and Aki Kaurismaki's The Man Without a Past. "This year, perhaps more than ever, the program touches on the themes we have always held dear at the festival," Pence said. "This year's schedule explores the work of filmmakers who many consider mavericks, affectionately spotlights several well-loved classics and presents works by longtime friends of the festival and features films that explore issues that profoundly touch our country and the world."...
- 8/30/2002
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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