Harmony Korine

(Annapurna) The Bottom Lines Should you see it? Yes. Why? Behind a shallow facade, Korine's film is a sweaty mess of sex, guns, and hyperbolic machismo. It's huge fun. The marriage of Dogma 95 disciple Harmony Korine, the shallow idiocy of Spring Break, and three squeaky-clean young actresses is so weird it's easy to dismiss Spring Breakers as a thoughtless way to simply get chicks in bikinis and asses in theater seats. That kind of thinking, however, gives little credit to Korine, a...Read Full Story

It’s been a busy year for Harmony Korine. When not editing, premiering and promoting his hyperreal fantasia of the American Dream “Spring Breakers,” he’s been something of a “career” promoter for the obnoxious ATL Twins, shooting them for Dazed & Confused and casting them in his film. Now the prototypical hipster is reissuing his 1998 book “A Crackup at the Race Riots” on Drag City.Fresh off the indie success of “Gummo,” and three years after writing the controversial film “Kids,” Korine...Read Full Story

“Spring Break forever…”Over and over James Franco’s character, Alien, utters that phrase in Harmony Korine’s film “Spring Breakers“. The first few times it sounds comical; but the soft, dreamlike repetition soon renders it the movie’s mantra. In fact, it might as well be the mantra of the American dream, which, of course, is the world dream, undiluted in pure megalomania-fueled rapture.Surface level, it may seem to the viewer that “Spring Breakers” is about youthful partying and the...Read Full Story

(Getty Images)You think you know your favorite celebrities so well when BANG! All of a sudden you see them give interviews and hear the real way they pronounce their names. MINDS are BLOWN this way. Don't be surprised by interviews ever again. Study up below:Amanda Seyfried (Amanda SIGH-fred)Saoirse Ronan (SEER-shuh Ro-nuhn)Harmony Korine (Harmony Kor-een)Zooey Deschanel (Zoey Day-shuh-nell)Shia LaBeouf (Shy-uh La-BUFF)Lindsay Lohan (Lindsay Low-en)Demi Moore (Duh-me Moore)Ralph Fiennes (RAY...Read Full Story

(Photos by miskan) Purple Fashion 10 Fall/Winter 08-09 (Including Harmony Korine Purple Book) purple magazine – click on the image below for more information. Purple Fashion 10 Fall/Winter 08-09 (Including Harmony Korine Purple Book) – he intimate portrait of Kate Moss and Mario Sorrenti on the front cover sets the tone for what the reader is in stall for in this issue. Intimate interviews with Nobuyoshi Araki, Ed Ruscha and Ryan McGinley; a visual essay by Richard Prince of his st See...Read Full Story