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my boyfriend and i watched mysterious skin a few days ago and i can't get it out of my head. i can't recall ever being as titlated and nauseous simultaneously. joseph gordon-levitt was pretty great i thought, anyone seen it? what did you think?
anyone familiar with araki's earlier work? tom says its much more diy, i've never seen any of the films, recommendations very much appreciated
anyone familiar with araki's earlier work? tom says its much more diy, i've never seen any of the films, recommendations very much appreciated
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Thu, October 5, 2006 - 10:05 AMDoom Generation
Splendor
Nowhere
are ones I enjoy alot
All Araki's stuff before Mysterious SKin were things Araki wrote himself. Mysterious Skin is the 1st movie he has directed that was based on someone else's writing. -
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Sun, October 8, 2006 - 1:12 PMI liked those, but really didn't like Totally F**ked UP. I found it amatuerish, predicatible and boring. I thought it was his first film and then I would say he just got better. But I discovered he did "The Living End" the year before and I really liked that film. -
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Sun, October 8, 2006 - 10:03 PMForgot about The Living End.
I agree about Totally F**ked Up. I found it painful for the most part. I only watched it because of Araki and his little muse James Duvall. -
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Mon, October 9, 2006 - 9:33 AMReally? F***ed Up is the only one of his early films I actually like. The Living End just seemed so amateurish and poorly made, and Doom Generation and Nowhere just tried way too hard to outrage and just ended up boring me.
I loved Mysterious Skin, though.
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Mon, October 9, 2006 - 11:53 AMI loved Mysterious Skin. Joseph G-L was fantastic. The whole film was incredibly intense... beautiful images. The Fruit Loops being scattered all over the floor was humorous but haunting at the same time.
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Tue, October 10, 2006 - 12:45 PMwe brought his first film (film school final project) to the Milwaukee LGBT festival last year. It's called "Three Bewildered People in the Night' and was shot in LA exclusively on 16mm b/w. It's really a lovely film about a romantic triad.
I've loved his stuff for years, and I think that there's an interesting arc that's happened in his process... TBPITN is oddly bisexual, but then The Living End really isn't... He plays with mostly "gay" themes in that and in Totally Fucked Up, then in Nowhere (my favorite) and The Doom Generation and Splendor he explores bisexuality in some interesting ways...
Mysterious Skin was a novel first, and just as haunting as the film.
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Tue, October 17, 2006 - 6:10 PMgod i loved Totally F*cked up, but Doom Generation and Nowhere are classics, discovered Arakin in undergrad back in the early 90s. Splendor sucked balls so hard, i hated it!!!! But Mysterious Skin was smart, terrifying and gorgeously directed.
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Tue, October 24, 2006 - 5:37 AMI like this that all Araki's movies were liked or disliked by all of us. It shows how films can speak to differnt needs and desires and expectations and satisfactions. I think that is way kewl.
