Harmony Korine

Spring Breakers Review: Godard Meets Girls Gone Wild

Spring Breakers Director Harmony Korine Explains the Darkness Behind Partying in Bikinis

See also: Spring Breakers Review: Godard Meets Girls Gone Wild

Oz the Great and Powerful Is Neither of Those Things

See also: Spring Breakers Review: Godard Meets Girls Gone Wild

'The Only Thing Holding Me Back Is the Cost of Color Copies' and Other Bizarre Things Overheard at L.A. Art Book Fair

See also: *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *Best L.A. Novel Ever: The Tournament Last weekend's first annual L.A. Art Book Fair brought more than 200 independent publishers, galleries and booksellers from more than 20 countries to the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA to talk art, hock prints and ... More >>

Hailing Cesar

See also: *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *Best L.A. Novel Ever: The Tournament Last weekend's first annual L.A. Art Book Fair brought more than 200 independent publishers, galleries and booksellers from more than 20 countries to the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA to talk art, hock prints and ... More >>

Why Holy Motors's Denis Lavant Should Be Nominated for the Best Actor Oscar

We'd Like to Help the Academy is our Oscar column highlighting the outliers that should be nominated (but probably won't be). In February of this year, the Academy gave their Best Actor award to a Frenchman whose film was both a celebration of cinema and a lamentation if its bygone days (Jean Dujar ... More >>

Die Antwoord - Meltdown Comics - 11/13/12

Die Antwoord Music Video Marathon Nerdist Showroom inside Meltdown Comics 11-13-12 Better Than...Shark Week hosted by Dr Dre. It's easy to dismiss South African rap group Die Antwoord as a novelty act, since at first glance, they come off as little more than an extended Ali G skit: silly hip-hop p ... More >>

Penny Marshall, E.T. and More: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Our weekly list of special event movies to check out this week: Friday, Sept. 28 How do you examine the nature of time on film? VICE and Grolsch Film Works asked three filmmakers -- Russia's Alexy Fedorchenko, the U.S.' Harmony Korine and Poland's Jan Kwiecinski -- to do just that in three 30-minut ... More >>

Toronto Film Festival 2012 Report: The Master, Spring Breakers and More

Our weekly list of special event movies to check out this week: Friday, Sept. 28 How do you examine the nature of time on film? VICE and Grolsch Film Works asked three filmmakers -- Russia's Alexy Fedorchenko, the U.S.' Harmony Korine and Poland's Jan Kwiecinski -- to do just that in three 30-minut ... More >>

James Franco Vanessa Hudgens Ashley Benson vs. Asia Argento Charlotte Gainsbourg François Cluzet : Threesomes at the Toronto Film Festival

This is a blog post about two movies that were screened for the press within the first 24 hours of the Toronto Film Festival, both of which feature three-way sex scenes. In Spring Breakers, characters played by James Franco, Vanessa Hudgens and Ashley Benson "do it" in a swimming pool; in Do Not Dis ... More >>

The Secret Meeting Between Skrillex, James Franco, Harmony Korine and Gucci Mane

Provocateur Harmony Korine has again reached deep inside his bag of WTF for his latest feature, Spring Breakers. Set for release in 2013, the movie's casting has generated quite a buzz already: It features Disney star Selena Gomez being bad, James Franco in cornrows, and Georgia rapper Gucci Mane sh ... More >>

Is Riff Raff Serious?

One thing's for certain: This maddeningly inscrutable white rapper is more entertaining than you are

James Franco's MOCA Show Opening Night: 'There's Just a Lot of Dicks in There'

"There's just a lot of dicks in there. A lot of porno," the painter Ty Williams says, shaking his head. "But I get it, though. I understand the prevalence of penises." We're standing in the alleyway behind JF Chen, a collectible furniture showroom and exhibit space, at the opening party for "Rebel ... More >>

Sundance Film Festival 2012: Beasts of the Southern Wild and Compliance

Broken social and economic systems, and the broken lives and homes they leave in their wake, have been a big theme at Sundance this year. Across documentaries and fiction features, broached directly and indirectly, it seems the new American dream is a longing for the old normal; accumulation or adva ... More >>

New Year's Eve: Ten Mystical Songs For Making Out With Your Hippie Boyfriend

From the film Zabriskie Point​See also: What To Do This New Year's Eve With a galactic alignment and Mayan prophecy fulfillment on the horizon -- not to mention the Aquarian dawning -- 2012 is poised to be a pretty cosmic year. So as you embrace your turquoised-out, biker hippie wizard love ... More >>

Dragonslayer: Interview With Director Tristan Patterson

From the film Zabriskie Point​See also: What To Do This New Year's Eve With a galactic alignment and Mayan prophecy fulfillment on the horizon -- not to mention the Aquarian dawning -- 2012 is poised to be a pretty cosmic year. So as you embrace your turquoised-out, biker hippie wizard love ... More >>

50 Reasons Los Angeles Is the Best Effing City in America

Timothy Norris​John Lennon once said of Los Angeles, "That's just a big parking lot where you buy a hamburger for the trip to San Francisco." Pretty rough stuff from a supposedly nice guy. Clearly, the Eggman (or was he the Walrus?) missed the endless taco stands, the pupusas, the pho, the don ... More >>

Los Angeles Film Festival 2011 Preview

Timothy Norris​John Lennon once said of Los Angeles, "That's just a big parking lot where you buy a hamburger for the trip to San Francisco." Pretty rough stuff from a supposedly nice guy. Clearly, the Eggman (or was he the Walrus?) missed the endless taco stands, the pupusas, the pho, the don ... More >>

The Residents: World's Oldest Lonely Teenagers

Aging ungracefully, thank God

William Eggleston, Superstar

So much more than a "poet of the mundane"

The Top 10 Films of 2010

Roman Polanski, Martin Scorsese, Sofia Coppola and sex with garbage

Legendary Indie Label Drag City Finds Way To Work "Tila Tequila" and "Juggalo" Into Headline Promoting Bizarre Anti-Comedian Neil Hamburger

This poor man is now the bitch of Tila Tequila and ICP​File this one under: "the Internet and search engines have turned all cool, interesting pop culture into the bitch of the stupidest forms of pop culture." Once upon a time, Drag City was a label that stood for the awesomely weird, from cu ... More >>

Inception's Kiss

And other memories of summer

Trash Humpers: Talking Tall

Harmony Korine on his allegorical, sex-with-garbage horror flick

Movie Reviews: Trash Humpers, A Nightmare in Las Cruces, Letters to Juliet

Also, The Thorn in the Heart, Princess Kaiulani and more

Who Takes a Dump on "Rapper" Joaquin Phoenix in Upcoming Mockumentary?

Our hero, before the rapping, the beard, and the coke-and-escorts diet​Our friends at the LA Times got some reports from people who have been shown I'm Still Here: The Lost Year of Joaquin Phoenix, the presumable phony documentary shot by Casey Affleck and Phoenix over the last couple of years ... More >>

6 SXSW Film Must-Sees

​ If you're heading to Austin for the SXSW Interactive or Music festivals and have a Gold or Platinum badge, you can use it to get into screenings at the SXSW Film Festival, which starts today and runs all the way through the end of the Music fest next week. SXSW Film has made a name for thems ... More >>

The Playlist Names Their Top Soundtracks of the Decade

There is no better place to learn about the comings and goings of the soundtrack world than the estimable website The Playlist. Their news and opinions on all things film score and soundtrack-related set the conversation, draw lines in the sand, etc. So when they offer their list of Best Soundtracks ... More >>

Until the Light Takes Us Will Bring You into the Darkness Tonight

Here's a movie that'll kill your Christmas spirit, though if you're a black metal fan, you ​wouldn't have any to begin with. After screening as part of last year's AFI Fest, the theatrical release of N.Y. filmmakers/musicians Aaron Aites and Audrey Ewell's Norwegian black metal documentary Unt ... More >>

Hellfire and Camp Nation: Jack Smith’s Flaming Creatures

Here's a movie that'll kill your Christmas spirit, though if you're a black metal fan, you ​wouldn't have any to begin with. After screening as part of last year's AFI Fest, the theatrical release of N.Y. filmmakers/musicians Aaron Aites and Audrey Ewell's Norwegian black metal documentary Unt ... More >>

AFI Fest, A to W

Our critics' picks - and pans - from this year's free festival lineup

Required Listening Before Sunn O)))

Required Listening Before Sunn O)))

GO LA: Lewis Black, German Cinema, Sheryl Crow for the Congo, and more

Where to go in L.A., February 13-19

Dwarves + Teenage Ingrates = Great German Cinema

Where to go in L.A., February 13-19

Tonight in Hollywood: World Premiere of Black Metal Documentary Until the Light Takes Us

In the past few years, a Norwegian heavy metal movement has gradually moved into the realm of legend; real life events, including, suicides, murders and church burnings, both horrified and mesmerized the public when they were occurring in the early 1990s, and since then the participants have becom ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Beautiful Losers, Death Note

Also, Another Gay Sequel, Red and more

Mister Lonely, Harmony Korine's Way

The director on flying nuns and his Mexican Michael Jackson

Movie Reviews: The Fall, I for India, Mister Lonely

And other May 9 releases

Harmony Korine's Singular and Sincere Mister Lonely

Finding Neverland

Never Gonna Gibbon Up

What to do in L.A., April 11-17

Kids Today: A Harmony Korine Retrospective

Cinefamily charts the evolution of writer/director "enfant terrible"

Divine Stitches

Trasteverine — when Sophia met Hare Krishna

Child Care

The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things exploits; Duck Season extols

Blood Clot

The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things exploits; Duck Season extols

Snaking Through the Garden of Delight

The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things exploits; Duck Season extols

Love, Not Money

Indie Art Book Publisher Greybull Press Pursues Passion Over Profit

Prodigal Son

Aaron Rose is back, and he's brought his merry band of art-world outlaws with him

The Auteur as Gearhead

Notes on the digital video revolution, Part One

Golly!

David Lynch's The Straight Story