Harmony Korine: C/D

So. Mister Lonely...

It's been a while and this looks very ambitious even for Korine. The shots of the nuns I've seen look amazing.

Way more interesting than his films though I think are the books he's done (Pass the Bitch Chicken, Crackup at the Race Riots and The Bad Son) That is if I could ever get my hands on a copy of one.

whole swatches of Mister Lonely are kinda unbearable (any scene btwn Luna and Morton), but there's some amazing stuff like the nuns and Werner Herzog's grouchy priest.

how are "the collected fanzines"?

Has anyone seen Trash Humpers? I get to check it out on Tuesday. Not really sure what to expect...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPl-O0Z5hys

looks like a paul mccarthy/mike kelley joint based on the trailer

kinda looks like it has a lot of the stuff i love and don't really enjoy bout korine

haha i'm tired

how was it

it's pretty much what you would expect. entertaining and funny in parts. the trash humping falls pretty flat after the first scene. it feels a little long at 78 minutes but still doable. i would check it out if you get the chance but don't go out of your way to see it.

i'm a little disappointed that korine doesn't deliver on the found footage / quasi snuff film hype. i dont know how he thought he could achieve that vibe with goofballs in old men masks fucking empty recycling bins.

Just saw Trash Humpers. I liked it, but I can see how you could watch it and be real bored by it. It's an like ambient chillwave version of "Gummo".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwhlSw_ofzQ

i'm a little disappointed that korine doesn't deliver on the found footage / quasi snuff film hype.

― It's-a not so bad (jeff), Friday, November 6, 2009 11:35 AM

that didn't work at all. had a few lols throughout. "make it make it don't fake it"

I know I'm a foreigner and all but I actually think Harmony Korine is kind of an American Treasure

That said I mostly hated Mister Lonely

just saw this on the scala forever facebook group (for those of you in london)-

http://stilladvance.wordpress.com/2011/10/21/harmony-korine-vhs-double-bill-at-the-shackewell-arms-061111/

gummo and trash humpers double-screening (from video rather than dvd!). im going just cos i still havent seen trash humpers, but have this weird urge to. and well, id rather see it with other people than at home.

trash humpers is so unpleasant, the vandalism gets boring after five minutes and then it turns bitter and depressing. it's an anti-gummo with 'old' people and death instead of crazy youth, almost horror. have your last fun week before killing yourself thing. really cool proto-witch-house aesthetics. kids still a total classic. haven't seen JDB. the one with the mexican guy was OK but so cute ugh.

the new one looks fun let's hope it's not a mister lonely feelgood stuff pt 2.

Americana goes rancid in writer/director Harmony Korine's tale of three elderly cretins who brutalize dolls, molest fauna, and force themselves on garbage cans.

molest fauna

TRASH HUMPERS more like SHARK JUMPERS amirite? HARMONY KORINE more like HARMONY KORNIE amirite?

but in all/some seriousness, just watched Trash Humpers and I felt like it reeked of bad faith with regards to its rural wasteland US of A setting- everytime the local color folks had a chance to just talk / be, it achieved a certain liftoff, but when the Humpers were muttering their monologues about "sensing the pain of all these people who live out here" it just reeked of coastal condescension towards the flyover zones it fetishizes and abjects. Seeing the female Trash Humper go into her yoga poses, you could just tell that behind the prosthetics there was somebody's precious pampered darling pretend slumming for lolz. It's like he redid "Gummo" but based it all on the smashing stuff scene, but without any actual characters or sense of place/space it just comes off as somebody reheating the leftovers of their earlier hit. Eh.

there's a korine retrospective here and i was considering going to see trash humpers (which I've never seen)

also maybe julien donkey-boy which I've never seen on the big screen

Vincent Gallo is the biggest piece of shit that ever walked this earth, but I still respect his films.
Julien Donkey-Boy is probably my favorite narrative film of the century so far.

― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Friday, December 24, 2004 7:07 PM (thirteen years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

remember how bad of a poster this guy was.

ended up getting the ban hammer for being racist or something too lol

"my favourite narrative film of the century so far"

trash humpers prob the worst thing i've ever seen. i kinda wanna see julien donkeyboy

All you need, really:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2elfKEHWLH4

Impersonating Herzog and calling someone a moody brooder is one of life's great joys.

A winnah doesn't shivah

he has a new one coming out in March

Why if Justin Trudeau wore any more blackface he'd be a Harmony Korine gallery show from the turn of the millennium!

— ℑ 𝔇𝔬𝔫'𝔱 𝔅𝔩𝔞𝔪𝔢 𝔜𝔬𝔲 (@NickPinkerton) September 19, 2019