| | | Arresting debut film from photographer Larry Clark paints a chilling portrait of amoral New York youth. Leo Fitzgerald plays a Manhattan boy on a mission to deflower as many virgins as possible. He is also HIV positive, which lends brutal immediacy to his activities. Stunning debut for Chloe Sevigny. "Powerful and passionate, colorful and compelling, Larry Clark's KIDS is 24 frenetic hours in the life of a group of contemporary teenagers who, like all teenagers, believe they are invincible. With breathtaking images from one of the world's most renowned photographers, KIDS is a deeply affecting, no-holds-barred landscape of words and images, depicting with raw honesty the experiences, attitudes and uncertainties of innocence lost." DVD FEATURES: Widescreen letterbox . Audio: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo) . Subtitles: English, Spanish, French |
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| | | This is not directed by Larry Clark, but it's written and directed by KIDS screenwriter Harmony Korine, and deals with the same subjects, so it makes sense to categorize it with Clark. Plotless, dream/nightmare excursion through the lives of animalistic and rootless children and teens in Xenia, Ohio, some time after big killer tornado took the life out of the town. Sure-fire antidote to cloying sentimentality about "The Heartland." We found it deeply disorienting, being fortunate enough to have few points of reference when thrust into this landscape of deformity, loss, cruelty and perversion. Many of the post-civilzation white-trash antics depicted here are so extreme they might be cruelly funny were it not for Korine's other-worldly dream-walk style, which left us feeling calm but afraid. We follow two boys who support themselves slaughtering neighborhood cats for a $1/cat bounty, until they get enough money to visit a guy who pimps his obese mentally disturbed sister, and so on. Chloe Sevigny plays one of a pair of near-albino sisters who depilate (or try to enlarge?) their areolas with electrical tape. Drunken rednecks methodically demolish every stick of furniture in their kitchen after one of them loses an arm-wrestling match with a macro-cephalic dwarf. Three girls get a ride with a comically horrible out-of-town pervert. Trying to describe GUMMO, we keep thinking it's the closest thing to an American LAND WITHOUT BREAD-a disturbing 1933 landmark Bunuel faux documentary about sub-human conditions in rural Spain. Ms. Sevigny has a surprising costume design credit, and may be responsible for the incongruent pathetic boy wearing oversized pink rabbit ears who appears throughout the film. Widescreen |
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| | | Contains both the un-rated director's cut and the R-rated theatrical release version. This is Clark's most complete film and his usual obsessions with teenage sexuality and brutal violence seem more humane in the context of a real story. There is even a touch of wholesome (albeit temporary, drug-addicted and criminal) family life and parental affection. Vincent Kartheiser and Natasha Gregson Wagner play young junkies in love in the Midwest, living in flop-houses and funding their habits through Kartheiser's petty high-risk crimes. James Woods and Melanie Griffith take the couple under their wing, involving them in a big-money well-planned drug heist. Of course things begin to go awry in tragic and graphically violent ways. The lengthy sex scene cut by the MPAA (restored in the director's cut) is attention getting but feels so much like a porn scene that it confuses the characterizations and interferes with the general tone. The R-rated version (also included on the disc) is actually a better film. That said, there is much to recommend a lengthy scandalous Natasha Gregson Wagner sex scene. Woods is devilishly charismatic, and Griffith's touching performance as a vivacious but sadly childless mother figure is her best work to date. Woods' and Griffith's characters are so in love! Their giddy interplay while under the influence of some "really good acid" is funny and touching and beautifully acted. DVD FEATURES: Widescreen letterbox 1.66:1 . Audio: English (Dolby Digital 5.1), Director Larry Clark (Dolby Digital 1.0) . Subtitles: English, Spanish, French . Dual version edition: contains the un-rated director's cut and the theatrical release version . Clarence Carter Music Video |
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| | | This isn't directed by Larry Clark, but by Clark collaborator writer/director Harmony Korine. In his second feature Korine embraces the naturalism of Lars Von Trier's Dogma 95 film movement, which mandates handheld photography, available lighting, no special effects, etc.. As in the controversial Gummo (1997), Korine fashions a series of vignettes about bizarre characters. Julien (Ewen Bremner), is a schizophrenic who works in a school for the blind and lives at home with pregnant sister Pearl (Chloe Sevigny) . wrestler brother Chris (Evan Neumann), and their violent father (Werner Herzog), who slaps his children around, hoses them down with water, and offers to pay Chris ten dollars to dress up in his late mother's clothes and dance. Later Julien escapes from his house and interacts with (a kind phrase for "freaks out") people on the street, including some real people who had no idea they were part of a movie production. DVD FEATURES: Confessions of Julien Donkey-Boy . deleted scenes . widescreen |
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| | | Larry Clark's most serious artistic works are hopelessly sleazy, so you can imagine what a Larry Clark B-movie is like. Is this self-parody or madness? When Showtime ordered a package of R-rated remakes of 6 Samuel Z. Arkoff 1950s sci-fi movies with new with Stan Winston fx somehow Larry Clark got one of the jobs. Clark choose to remake-what else? -TEENAGE CAVEMAN. (Originally directed by Roger Corman in 1958 starring Robert Vaughn.) Clark simply transferred his standard 1990s foul-mouthed horny naked crazy teens to a tribe of post-apocalyptic cave people. It's a wonderful sleaze melt-down that plays like a pervert's idea of the Flintstones. The age-inappropriate predations of the tribe's leader drive six attractive teenagers out on their own in a barren world where rain storms are poisonous. When they seek shelter in a strange cave they all mysteriously pass out. Next thing you know they are all lying around unconscious in a disco era bachelor-pad wearing nothing but fancy 1990's underwear, looking like one of Clark's banned Calvin Klein ads. It seems they were discovered by a super-powered teen couple (played by Richard Hillman and Clark's real-life girlfriend Tiffany Limos) left-over from medical experiments done before the nuclear holocaust. From that point on everyone is nude and stoned in a non-stop cocaine and sex party. Clark even re-did the AIDS bit from KIDS, introducing a sex and needle spread contagion that makes people explode. Stan Winston had to do something, so some of he kids turn into monsters and fight. On balance this is a horrible excuse for sci-fi but a first-rate nudie exploitation type movie, which is all Clark seems to have shooting for. MGM hilariously promotes this as if it was somehow a real science-fiction movie, including featurettes about the fx work and such. |
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| | | Directed by Larry Clark. There is no point watching this film except in this unrated form. The R-rated edit just doesn't pack the same punch. Clark seems to be the real deal. KIDS was powerful, ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE was superb, and BULLY, is an overwhelming body-blow that sticks with you for days. Grueling true story of how Bobby Kent, a bossy Florida teenager came to be beaten to death by a group of his peers; aimless, stoned, pathologically amoral white Floridians. The post-moral sub-society depicted is bewildering and shocking. like watching a troop of monkeys. Violence erupts casually and is forgotten in moments, and sexual pairings are equally random and volatile. Bully stars Brad Renfro, Nick Stahl, Bijou Phillips, Rachel Miner and Leo Fitzpatrick DVD FEATURES: Widescreen anamorphic - 1.85:1 . Audio: English (Dolby Digital 5.1) . subtitles: English, Spanish This following comment is not to detract from this movie (which is marvelous): No mainstream American film has ever contained more nudity and sexual behavior than BULLY, and, like most sexually daring mainstream films, it's stark and pathological. Can't anyone, just once, make a light romantic American film with this much sex and nudity? It's a bad sign when crime stories always contain more sex than love stories. |
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| | | Larry Clark's (KIDS) controversial film KEN PARK examines the lives of several California teenagers and their dysfunctional family environment. KEN PARK has not been picked up for US distribution mostly due to its strong sexual themes. "My first film Kids was about the secret world of children, where parents are not allowed. In Ken Park we go inside the houses of four families and meet the parents. Ken Park is the story of children and their parents in Visalia, California, an isolated inland town between Los Angeles and Fresno. The story flows through the lives of three young boys and one girl, all childhood friends, and their parents. The children's and parents' lives are unmasked and you see the ascent of violence, sex, hatred, love and the manic episodes of emotional confusion." - Larry Clark. Written by professional rebel Hormony Korine. Directed by Larry Clark and Far From Heaven"s and Erin Brokovich's Ed Lachman. DVD FEATURES: Uncut Anamorphic (16:9) Widescreen Version . English 5.1 & Russian 5.1 Audio Options . Optional Russian Subtitles . (The packaging says REGION 5 but it is actually REGION FREE) 
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| | | A compilation of erotic short films illuminating the point where art meets sexuality... The most controversial and sexually explicit film ever to receive an 18 certificate from UK censors, Destricted pushes straight through the boundaries that were only hinted at in 9 Songs and Battle In Heaven. A wide range of vignettes from the most acclaimed directors of our time, Destricted boasts a heavyweight lineup as the distinctive and entirely uncensored films portray very different points of view to reveal diverse attitudes about how we represent ourselves sexually. The result is a collection of sexy, humorous, stimulating and provocative scenarios from Larry Clark (KIDS, KEN PARK), Gaspar Noe (IRREVERSIBLE), Marina Abramovic, Matthew Barney, Marco Brambilla, Richard Prince & Sam Taylor Wood.
DVD FEATURES: Anamorphic (16:9) Widescreen Version . English audio
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