Larry Clark

Dirty Girls: How a Bizarre 1996 Film About Santa Monica Punk-Feminist Eighth Graders Became a YouTube Sensation

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American Idol Meets the Museum

The Hammer's Mohn Award is a grand experiment in art-world democracy

Gregory Bojorquez Happened Upon a Hollywood Shooting Spree. Good Thing He's a Photographer

Here in the land of moving pictures, fine art photographer Gregory Bojorquez works to capture frozen moments of existence. His images of street life, neighborhood personalities and gritty landscapes are uncommon, unforgiving and, despite our beautiful weather, sometimes laden with wanton, icy sentim ... More >>

Go West, Young Shutterbug

L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema

UCLA's comprehensive retrospective of alternative African-American filmmaking is the crown cinematic jewel of Pacific Standard Time

East L.A. Backyard Punk Scene Rages On

As uninhibited and intoxicated as ever

Azazel Jacobs Interview

DESTRICTED

The Future Is Odd

Missing the energy and vision of early Wu-Tang? Meet L.A.'s Odd Future, your new favorite hip-hop anarcho-surrealists

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

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

Behind the Burly Q, Breath Made Visible, Mother and Child

Also, OSS 117: Lost in Rio, Babies, Multiple Sarcasms, The Lightkeepers and more

Movie Reviews: American Cowslip, Deadgirl, In the Loop, Orphan

Also, Afghan Star, Shrink, Yoo-Hoo Mrs. Goldberg and more.

Now We Sample the Season's Picture Books ...

The Coffee Table

Yosi Sergant and the Art of Change: The Publicist Behind Shepard Fairey's Obama Hope Posters

The facilitator talks Obama, art, the DNC and Fairey's Denver arrest

Freaky Friday

Party at Houdini's; Henry Rollins on Target; All Girl at the Echo

Kids Today: A Harmony Korine Retrospective

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

Passing Through Again

A legendary underground jazz movie returns

Too Cute for Their Own Good

Little children in the movies

Dave Naz

The big uneasy

The Temptations

The Tempt One benefit

Between the Covers

Books on photography

Skater Boyz 'n the Hood

Teenage rebels rule in Larry Clark’s Wassup Rockers

Pollo Libre

Pretty Punk

How the hood rats in Wassup Rockers learned to skate, rock, turn their world upside down . . . and give Larry Clark the biggest wedgie of his life

In Defense of Da Vinci Hair

Kids Do the Darnedest Things

Larry Clark

Child Care

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

Armand and Dangerous

An interview with Hammer director Ann Philbin

Not Showing at a Theater Near You

A cinephile goes looking for the films that got away

Triumph of the Ill

“Beautiful Losers” in Newport Beach

Sexy Beasts

Larry Clark, John Waters and Bruce Hainley on their big, big . . . books

Mr. Fantastic, Superduper Star

Chris Jackson is a Backyard wrestler. All he wants from this media-saturated world is a little bit of glory, a little bit of fame. Even if it takes blood. Or having a fluorescent-light tube jammed

Heroes, Villains and the Rest of Us

Now playing at the Pan African Film & Arts Festival

Straight Outta Ipanema

Revelation versus exploitation in City of God

The Dinner Fight

What set off Larry Clark and Hamish McAlpine that November night?

The Misfits

Four killer producers on the cutting edge of independent film

One Band, Under God

To Live and Skate in L.A.

Tweakers in The Salton Sea and the wild boys of Dogtown

Pussy Galore

The year of the vagina

Lust and Liberty

Larry Clark’s teen dreams

Sympathy for the Devil

Michael Cuesta on his new film, L.I.E.

Snow Princes

Strong, sexy, scarred and psycho

Outfest

Edited by Kateri Butler

Nowhere To Hide

Filmmaker Floyd Mutrux

Resurrection

Scorsese updates Travis Bickle; Kimberly Peirce revives Brandon Teena

Tyro Mania

The teen dreams of Popular, Freaks and Geeks and Roswell

Paradise Lost

Weekly columnist, his director both hit bottom

Hypeless in Toronto

Under the Influence

High Art's glamorously seedy aesthetic

Trouble In Paradise

They Say You Write What You Know