Tag: Aggro Dr1ft
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‘Aggro Dr1ft’ Review: Harmony Korine Goes Sicko Mode In A Visually Stunning Journey Through Miami Thug Life [Venice]
Ten years after “Spring Breakers,” the neon pinks and greens of Harmony Korine’s mainstream breakthrough return in an Internet-inflected and even more abstract ode to the thug life, with seriously mixed results. To call “Aggro Dr1ft” stupid or silly isn’t wrong, but it is missing the point. The dialogue is incredibly banal and hilariously repetitive,…
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Twerking, Satan and Travis Scott: Harmony Korine’s ‘Aggro Dr1ft’ Earns 10-Minute Standing Ovation at Venice, Despite Walkouts
Harmony Korine’s “Aggro Dr1ft” received a 10-minute standing ovation after its premiere at Venice Film Festival, despite a flurry of walkouts.Though some audience members left as soon as the experimental action film finished (and at least 25 departed before that), Korine’s hardcore fans stuck around for a rousing 10-minute ovation at the midnight screening. As…
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Harmony Korine Sounds Off on ‘Aggro Dr1ft,’ TikToks Being Better Than Movies and More: ‘I Feel Nothing’ and ‘Dead Inside’ Watching Films
Harmony Korine used to be a movie junkie, someone who’d watch anything and everything. These days, when people recommend a movie, “I’ll look at it and I feel nothing, like dead inside,” says the guy whose own films, from “Spring Breakers” to the controversial screenplay for Larry Clark’s “Kids,” are nothing if not disruptive.“Watching a…
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Harmony Korine Reveals Terrence Malick Wrote a Script He Wants Him to Direct
Harmony Korine is done with “normal films,” except possibly a Terrence Malick movie.The “Spring Breakers” and “Kids” auteur told GQ that he is stepping away from Hollywood as a whole, following the more muted reception to 2019’s “The Beach Bum.”“I just lost interest in normal films,” Korine said. “I was like, There’s something else. That…
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Harmony Korine Says Terrence Malick Wrote A Script For Him To Direct
Harmony Korine has never made “normal” films. Even his most straightforward feature, probably 2019’s “The Beach Bum,” is pretty subversive by traditional standards. But then you look at things like “Gummo,” “Spring Breakers,” and “Trash Humpers,” and you realize Korine just clearly doesn’t have any interest in making anything the general public would embrace. So,…
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World premiere of Garth Davis’s ‘Foe’, Benny Safdie series ‘The Curse’ in NYFF Spotlight line-up
Fest previously announced North American premiere of Bradley Cooper’s Maestro.The world premiere of Garth Davis’s sci-fi drama Foe starring Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal and Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie’s series The Curse with Emma Stone are among New York Film Festival’s (Nnyff) line-up.The roster includes Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy And The Heron, a late-night…
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Harmony Korine Teases ‘Aggro Dr1ft’ in Locarno, Says ‘No’ to ‘Spring Breakers 2’ During a Masterclass Crashed by Friend Gaspar Noe
Harmony Korine teased upcoming Venice premiere “Aggro Dr1ft” in Locarno, where he picked up the Pardo d’onore Manor award for outstanding achievement in cinema.“I am excited. I have never made anything like it. I was trying not to make a movie. I don’t know if it will be a scandal, but it will be its…