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MISTER LONELY-Harmony Korine
Highlights:
In MISTER LONELY A Michael Jackson impersonator lives alone in Paris and performs on the streets to make ends meet. At a performance in a retirement home, Michael falls for a beautiful Marilyn Monroe look-alike who suggests he move to a commune of impersonators in the Scottish Highlands. At the seaside castle, Michael discovers everyone preparing for the commune's first-ever gala - Abe Lincoln, Little Red Riding Hood, the Three Stooges, the Queen, the Pope, Madonna, Buckwheat, Sammy Davis, and also Marilyn's daughter Shirley Temple and her possessive husband Charlie Chaplin. Meanwhile, a miracle is happening somewhere in a Latin American jungle.
Happenings:
Director, screenwriter and author, Harmony Korine has proven himself to be a seminal figure of modern film, music and art. GUMMO, Korine's 1997 directorial debut, took an uncompromising look at alienated youth in Middle America. Korine was praised for his inventive storytelling and use of hand-held video, Super 8, and Polaroids. 1999's Julien Donkey-Boy, the story of a schizophrenic young man, was hailed for its innovative take on the Dogma 95 manifesto. Shot in chronological sequence with hand-held cameras in natural light, Korine's second feature starred Ewen Bremner and Werner Herzog.At the age of 22, Korine first gained notoriety in 1995 as the screenwriter of Larry Clark's KIDS. Focusing on a 24-hour period in the sex and drug-filled lives of a group of Manhattan teenagers in the age of AIDS, Korine was praised for documenting the attitudes and lack of perspective of contemporary American youth.
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Stay tuned for interviews with Jim Sturgess (21, ACROSS THE UNIVERSE), Brendan Sexton III (THE MARCONI BROS., WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE), Kevin Corrigan (THE TOE TACTIC, RSO, THE DEPARTED), Mark Webber (EXPLICIT ILLS, DEAR WENDY), Lou Taylor Pucci (EXPLICIT ILLLS, THUMBSUCKER), Greta Gerwig (YEAST, NIGHTS AND WEEKENDS, HANNAH TAKES THE STAIRS) and many, many more.
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Director, screenwriter and author, Harmony Korine has proven himself to be a seminal figure of modern film, music and art. GUMMO, Korine's 1997 directorial debut, took an uncompromising look at alienated youth in Middle America. Korine was praised for his inventive storytelling and use of hand-held video, Super 8, and Polaroids. 1999's Julien Donkey-Boy, the story of a schizophrenic young man, was hailed for its innovative take on the Dogma 95 manifesto. Shot in chronological sequence with hand-held cameras in natural light, Korine's second feature starred Ewen Bremner and Werner Herzog.At the age of 22, Korine first gained notoriety in 1995 as the screenwriter of Larry Clark's KIDS. Focusing on a 24-hour period in the sex and drug-filled lives of a group of Manhattan teenagers in the age of AIDS, Korine was praised for documenting the attitudes and lack of perspective of contemporary American youth.
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Stay tuned for interviews with Jim Sturgess (21, ACROSS THE UNIVERSE), Brendan Sexton III (THE MARCONI BROS., WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE), Kevin Corrigan (THE TOE TACTIC, RSO, THE DEPARTED), Mark Webber (EXPLICIT ILLS, DEAR WENDY), Lou Taylor Pucci (EXPLICIT ILLLS, THUMBSUCKER), Greta Gerwig (YEAST, NIGHTS AND WEEKENDS, HANNAH TAKES THE STAIRS) and many, many more.
Also join us as we follows filmmaker Josh Weinstein at his first film festival with his first feature documentary, Flying On One Engine. We'll be with the young New Yorker as he navigates Austin, Texas, attempts to rally a posse around the film and, of course, take South by Southwest by storm. Will he survive the festival madness? Will he fill seats? Will he sell the film? FIND OUT HERE DAILY.
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