Harmony Korine has been openly bored with movies as we know them since the first time that he directed one.
Real ’90s kids remember when he went on “Late Show with David Letterman” to promote “Gummo,” and insisted to the befuddled host that “things need to change.
We can make films differently.” Korine may not have been wrong on either score back in 1997, but he’s a hell of a lot more right today.
We live in a time when Hollywood offerings have become more stale than ever, and traditional cinema is beset on all sides by new technologies, novel coronaviruses, and — in Korine’s case — even some of the same artists who’ve helped to push the medium forward over the last several decades.And, in theory, there’s nothing wrong with that.
The movies wouldn’t exist if not for the 19th century visionaries who recognized that photography…
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