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Gregg Araki (Japanese: グレッグ・アラキ) (b. December 17, 1959) is a Japanese American film director, known for several successful independent films. He is a seminal figure of the New Queer Cinema genre. Image File history File links Gregg_araki. ...
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December 17 is the 351st day of the year (352nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
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An independent film, or indie film, is a film initially produced without financing or distribution from a major movie studio. ...
The Living End movie poster New Queer Cinema refers to the seemingly simultaneous appearance on the independent film circuit of movies dealing openly and even aggressively with queer culture, politics, and identity that began in the early 1990s. ...
Early Life Araki was born in Los Angeles but grew up in idealic Santa Barbara, California. He completed a Bachelor of Arts in Film Studies at UC santa barbara and a MFA in Film Production from the University of Southern California. Flag Seal Nickname: City of Angels Location Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates , Government State County California Los Angeles County Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D) Geographical characteristics Area City 1,290. ...
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Career Araki made his directorial debut in 1987 with Three Bewildered People in the Night. With a budget of only $10,000 and using a stationary camera, he told the story of a romance between a video artist, her lover and her gay friend. For other articles with similar names, see Gay (disambiguation). ...
Two years later, Araki made a name for himself on the festival circuit with Long Weekend (o' Despair). Produced, directed, written, photographed and edited by Araki (for his own Desperate Pictures Company), this very small-scale Big Chill derivation involved a group of recent college graduates brooding over their futures during one woozy, boozy evening. The Big Rip is a cosmological hypothesis about the ultimate fate of the Universe, in which the elements of the universe, from galaxies to atoms, are progressively torn apart by the expansion of the universe. ...
He followed this up in 1992 with The Living End, a road movie about two HIV-positive men whose paths cross one fateful day and the tumultuous relationship which ensues. The film starred Craig Gilmore and Mike Dytri, and featured Mary Woronov (who appeared in several of "underground" films by Andy Warhol) and cult favorite Paul Bartel. Premiering at the Sundance Film Festival, the film was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize. The Living End is a 1992 film by Gregg Araki. ...
Road Movie is a 2002 South Korean film about a love triangle among a woman, a man who loves her, and a gay man who loves him. ...
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Paul Bartel (August 6, 1938-May 13, 2000) was born in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was an American actor, writer and director well known for his 1982 hit black comedy Eating Raoul, which he wrote, starred in and directed. ...
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Araki's next three films comprised his "Teenage Apocalypse Trilogy."
Totally Fucked Up (1993) (Totally F***ed Up in publicity), chronicled the dysfunctional lives of six gay adolescents who have formed a family unit and struggle to get along with each other and with life in the face of various major obstacles. Araki himself classified it as "A rag-tag story of the fag-and-dyke teen underground....A kinda cross between avant-garde experimental cinema and a queer John Hughes flick". The movie explored the youths' depression and homophobia. Totally Fucked Up (censored title Totally F***ed Up in many references and publicity material) is a 1993 film written and directed by Gregg Araki. ...
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The word queer has traditionally meant strange or unusual. ...
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The Doom Generation, was a black comedy brimming with graphic violence, cultural symbolism and relentless eroticism. The film starred Rose McGowan, Johnathon Schaech and James Duvall (who had starred in Totally Fucked Up), with cameos by indie favorite Parker Posey, comedienne Margaret Cho, 21 Jump Street actor Dustin Nguyen, The Brady Bunch star Christopher Knight, Hollywood madame Heidi Fleiss and musician Perry Farrell. While largely trashed by critics, the piece won a measure of respect in a number of circles and is available on DVD and VHS in both rated and unrated versions due to several intensely sexual scenes as well as the film's extremely violent climax. The Doom Generation is a film by director Gregg Araki. ...
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Nowhere (1997), was described by its director as "A Beverly Hills 90210 episode on acid." It centered around a group of bored, alienated Los Angeles teenagers during a typical day of kinky sex, drugs, and the requisite wild party. Duvall, Rachel True, Nathan Bexton, Debi Mazar, Married With Children breakout Christina Applegate, Heather Graham, Ryan Phillippe, Baywatch heartthrob Jaason Simmons, Scott Caan and Mena Suvari starred in the film, with cameos by Beverly D'Angelo, Facts of Life star Charlotte Rae, porn star Traci Lords, Shannen Doherty, Rose McGowan, John Ritter and International Male and fitness model Brian Buzzini. Nowhere is a 1997 film by director and screenwriter Gregg Araki. ...
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Rachel True (born November 15, 1966) is an Bi-racial her father white her mother african-american actress originally from New York. ...
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Araki's subsequent effort, the romantic comedy Splendor, told the story of a woman (Robertson) who cannot choose between two men (Johnathon Schaech and Matt Keeslar) and so decides to live with them both. Splendor was both a response to the controversy surrounding his relationship with Robertson and an homage to screwball comedies of the 1940s and '50s. Hailed as the director's most optimistic film to date, it made its premiere at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival. Romantic comedy films are a sub-genre of comedy films as well as of romance films. ...
Johnathon Schaech Johnathon Schaech is an American actor. ...
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The screwball comedy has proven to be one of the most popular and enduring film genres. ...
The Sundance Film Festival is a film festival in the United States, and ranks alongside the Cannes, Moscow, Venice, Berlin, and Toronto festivals as one of the most prestigious in the world. ...
Araki's next venture was the ill-fated MTV series This Is How the World Ends (2000), which was meant to have a budget of $1.5 million. The network only gave him $700,000 and hoped to find partners to finance the difference. Araki offered to make the pilot episode for $700,000, and MTV took him up on it. After the pilot was shot, however, it was not picked up for broadcast, there are however circulating the internet bootleg copies of the ill-fated mini series. MTV (Music Television) is an American cable television network headquartered in New York City. ...
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Following a short hiatus, Araki returned with the critically acclaimed Mysterious Skin (2005) based on a novel by Scott Heim, which tells the story of a teenage hustler and a withdrawn young man obsessed with alien abductions, and how they both deal with the sexual abuse they suffered from their Little League coach when they were children. With this movie Araki found critical acclaim and a generally good public reaction. Mysterious Skin is California filmmaker Gregg Arakis eighth film. ...
Scott Heim (born 1966) is a writer from Hutchinson, Kansas currently living in Massachusetts. ...
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One consistent feature of Araki's work to date is the presence of music from the shoegazer genre as film soundtracks, first seen on Totally Fucked Up and heavily so on the films Nowhere and Mysterious Skin (even going so far as to employ Robin Guthrie to oversee the latter's score). Both The Living End and Nowhere are named after tracks by shoegazing bands (the Jesus and Mary Chain and Ride respectively). Shoegazing is a style of music that emerged in Britain in the late 1980s. ...
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1989 promo shot for the album Automatic The Jesus and Mary Chain were a British Indie rock band that revolved around the songwriting partnership of brothers Jim Reid and William Reid. ...
Ride is a 1980s and 90s British shoegazing band. ...
Personal life At around this time, Araki began dating actress Kathleen Robertson, whom he had cast in Splendor; the relationship sparked a certain degree of controversy in the tabloid media, as Araki had previously defined himself in interviews as "queer", which many took to mean homosexual. Kathleen Robertson (born July 8, 1973 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian actress. ...
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Filmography The Long Weekend is the title of an episode of the Disney television series American Dragon: Jake Long. ...
The Living End is a 1992 film by Gregg Araki. ...
Totally Fucked Up (censored title Totally F***ed Up in many references and publicity material) is a 1993 film written and directed by Gregg Araki. ...
The Doom Generation is a film by director Gregg Araki. ...
Nowhere is a 1997 film by bisexual director and screenwriter Gregg Araki. ...
Mysterious Skin is California filmmaker Gregg Arakis eighth film. ...
References - Yutani, Kimberly. "Gregg Araki and the Queer New Wave." In Leong, Russell. Asian American Sexualities: dimensions of the gay & lesbian experience. New York, NY: Routledge, 1996.
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