![]() ![]() The Malingerers, he said, were a cult of fishermen living in Panama who had dedicated themselves to searching for a fish with golden scales. When he did return, with 2007's Mister Lonely, a tender movie about a Michael Jackson impersonator, played by Diego Luna, living a solitary life in Paris, Korine told interviewers about the Malingerers. (He also remembers, fondly, eating a McRib on the Rue de Rivoli.) He wouldn't make a film again for nearly a decade. “At that time, I thought it would be the greatest comedy the world had ever seen,” Korine told me.Īs the '90s ran out, Korine left New York for Europe, where he spent years in the grips of paranoia and drugs. Two of the cameramen on the project were Leonardo DiCaprio and the magician David Blaine. The third film was called Fight Harm: It was going to consist entirely of real footage of Korine being beaten up in various violent confrontations that he initiated. In the Connecticut fire, he lost most of the footage of what was to be his third feature as a director, after 1997's Gummo, a series of unrelated and often disturbing vignettes that took place in Ohio and were inspired by the neighborhoods he'd grown up in around Nashville, and 1999's Julien Donkey-Boy, about a schizophrenic boy and his unhinged family, the patriarch of which was played by the German director and Korine mentor Werner Herzog. Two of his homes in the '90s, in New York and Connecticut, burned down under mysterious circumstances. He refused most work within the Hollywood system, except on his own abstruse scripts. ![]() Like many things with Korine, the precise truth remains elusive.Īs Korine's career went on, he did his best to live up to the fictions. So I just wrote it.” Later, Korine would be banned from the show, for pushing Meryl Streep backstage-or maybe it was for going through her purse. But once, I was walking down the street and he said ‘You're a sinner!’ like that. “And I used to live by this guy and he was Hasidic Jewish and he always played with basketballs, and also his father was a dentist. “I just wanted to make a sequel to Caddyshack,” Korine told his host. Letterman, bemused at the tiny person in a giant suit who'd appeared in front of him, asked Korine how he had come to write Kids. In 1995, while promoting Kids, the controversial Larry Clark film for which Korine had written the screenplay as a 19-year-old living in his grandmother's apartment in Queens, Korine was invited onto the Late Show with David Letterman. Some of these stories, in retrospect, were probably truer than others. Throughout his career he has also continued as a mixed-media artist whose fields included music videos, paintings, photography, publishing, songwriting, and performance art.When the filmmaker Harmony Korine was young, and interviewers would ask him about his past, he would tell stories. Surviving an early career burnout, he resurfaced with a trifecta of insightful works that built on his earlier aesthetic leanings: a surprisingly delicate rumination on identity ("Mister Lonely"), a gritty quasi-diary film ("Trash Humpers"), and a blistering portrait of American hedonism ("Spring Breakers"), which yielded significant commercial success. With his audacious 1999 digital video drama "Julien Donkey-Boy," Korine continued to demonstrate a penchant for fusing experimental, subversive interests with lyrical narrative techniques. Now approaching middle age, and more influential than ever, Korine remains intentionally sensationalistic and ceaselessly creative.He parlayed the success of "Kids" into directing the dreamy portrait of neglect, "Gummo," two years later. He both intelligently observes modern social milieus and simultaneously thumbs his nose at them. Ever since his entry into the independent film scene as the irrepressible prodigy who wrote the screenplay for Larry Clark's "Kids" in 1992, Korine has retained his stature as the ultimate cinematic provocateur. 1973) remains one of the most prominent and yet subversive filmmakers in America. Bringing together interviews collected from over two decades, this unique chronicle includes rare interviews unavailable in print for years and an extensive, new conversation recorded at the filmmaker's home in Nashville.After more than twenty years, Harmony Korine (b. "Harmony Korine: Interviews" tracks filmmaker Korine's stunning rise, fall, and rise again through his own evolving voice. ![]()
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