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AFI La 09: Review of Harmony Korine's Trash Humpers

4 November 2009 5:58 PM, PST | QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news »

Year: 2009

Directors: Harmony Korine

Writers: Harmony Korine

IMDb: link

Trailer: link

Review by: Hal MacDermot

Rating: 8.8 out of 10

Right. Trash Humpers is a snapped work of brilliance and you will either be blown away or absolutely hate it. For me, the earth moved. Korine’s movie was shot on VHS and edited on VHS machines, and in the director’s own words, it’s like a piece of “found footage,” like some kind of crazy old VHS tape “you find in a ziploc bag in the attic.” The grainy analogue look immediately creates a scary marginal aura that’s more effective than several million dollars of CGI. Tell you what, if I found one of those tape in my attic I’d be well jumpy.

There is no story to this whacked out vision of the underclass, but there are a series of amazing scenes. Two old guys and an »

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Nyff '09 Podcast: Harmony Korine

2 October 2009 4:42 PM, PDT | GreenCine Daily | See recent GreenCine Daily news »

Since first making his name as the screenwriter of Larry Clark's Kids, Harmony Korine has been slapped with the provocateur label for directing such oddball films as Gummo, julien donkey-boy, and last year's Mister Lonely, all of which are filled with subversive imagery, off-kilter characters, and confrontational moments that are unclear whether they're meant to be laughed with or cringed at. Korine's latest is the as-yet-undistributed curio Trash Humpers, which screens at the 2009 New York Film Festival: The title is to be taken literally. Harmony Korine revisits the backwater horrors of Gummo, this time with a cruddy, bargain-basement form to match the degraded content. The episodic tale of a band of cretins (among them a masked and wigged Harmony and Rachel Korine) who go around brutalizing dolls, molesting plant life, and—yes—rubbing up against garbage cans, Trash Humpers suggests an exhumed underground movie, or a new form of freak-folk art. »

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Tiff ‘09: Short Takes

24 September 2009 9:54 AM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »

Trash Humpers Directed by Harmony Korine Anyone who enjoyed Korine's previous feature, the funny, surreal Mister Lonely, may have been looking forward to what he was to do next in anticipation of a further expansion into pseudo-accessible territory. Instead, Korine decided to jump off the arthouse deep end with Trash Humpers, a reasonably well-executed conceptual short that somehow found its way to an incredibly tortuous 78 minutes. An "artifact" rather than a film, Humpers is meant to act as a simulation of found art, an odd relic from an unknown universe bestowed to us through some incredibly unfortuitous happenstance. Perhaps if Korine had issued the film (shot on deliberately primitive video) anonymously in a soiled plastic bag, the film might have accomplished just such an effect after being rediscovered by the bored film students of future decades, but as it stands it's merely an intermittently funny but mostly agonizing collection of »

- Simon

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Tiff 2009 Day 8: Harmony Korine's Trash Humpers

21 September 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »

- I'm unlikely to forget any of the films in Harmony Korine's filmography. This happens to be the case for Trash Humpers. It was perhaps the taxing film festival experience (little sleep and many movies) that was a factor for my immense dislike for Korine's obscure, filmed on VHS offering, but I like to think hat I came into the film with a clean slate sort of speak, Like his previous film Mister Lonely, this wore me down, tested my tolerance level beyond what the worst in mainstream crap normally does. I'm looking forward in seeing how many critics champion this irritating 80 minutes of "trash" cinema. Full review coming soon.... »

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Review | For the Love of Trash, Korine’s “Humpers” Fetes the Freak

12 September 2009 7:17 AM, PDT | IndieWIRE | See recent indieWIRE news »

If “Mister Lonely” suggested that Harmony Korine had developed a sentimental streak, “Trash Humpers” proves that his original subversiveness was merely in hibernation. The movie, a succession of incomplete scenes shot on lo-fi video, plays like a first person version of “The Devil’s Rejects.” A psychotic family with shriveled mugs resembling Freddy Kruger live together in an undisclosed suburban setting, mulling about their deranged existence while engaging in eerie behaviors and … »

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Trash Humpers Trailer

10 September 2009 2:53 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »

The last film by Harmony Korine Mister Lonely almost made it's way into my 2009 top 10 list ranking at number 15. The buzz on his latest film has it compared to the works of William Eggleston and his video piece Stranded in Canton. Described as a down n' dirty, lo-fi project or: "handheld video of a loser-gang cult-freak collective who do antisocial things in a non-narrative way, except for the song-and-dance numbers." Visit the Tiff web site [1] [1] http://www.tiff.net/filmsandschedules/schedule?sdate=10/09/2009 »

- Ricky

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Trailer, Stills From Harmony Korine’s Trash Humpers

10 September 2009 9:36 AM, PDT | Beyond Hollywood | See recent Beyond Hollywood news »

Regardless of what you may think of Harmony Korine’s cinematic output, the guy has a natural gift for capturing the warped, the weird, and the truly disturbed. “Mister Lonely,” on the other hand, was a breath of fresh air, a lighter, more focused departure from his previous efforts, namely the 1997 cult freak-out “Gummo” and 1999’s “Julien Donkey-Boy.” However, the days of sane, well-adjusted cinema appear to be behind him, as the writer/director’s latest endeavor, the undeniably bizarre “Trash Humpers,” promises more unstable hijinks from the fringe of the American lower class. Rob Zombie ain’t got nothing on Harmony Korine. Before we tackle the trailer, here’s the synopsis: A film unearthed from the buried landscape of the American nightmare, Trash Humpers follows a small group of elderly Peeping Toms through the shadows and margins of an unfamiliar world. Crudely documented by the participants themselves, we follow »

- Todd

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I Am Afraid Of Harmony Korine

10 September 2009 8:52 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

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And that's precisely how he likes it, I assume.

Ja from Mnpp here. If y'all are familiar with my tastes at all at this point - and if you are, my prayers are with you - then you know I don't hesitate at reveling in garbage. Often. Deeply. That vile and base genre that is the horror film is my true love (and the gorier, the bad-tastier they are, there's a pretty decent chance that I will stand loud and proud to champion them), but I roll around like a pig in muck in all manner of cinematic trash whenever I can. It's a living.

And yet... somehow I'd actively avoided all of Korine's films - at least those he'd directed - for a good long while. Something about them creeped me out. Even if it was just the names. Gummo. Julien Donkey-Boy. They promised split lips and acne scars »

- JA

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Tiff 09: Trailer for Harmony Korine's Trash Humpers

9 September 2009 7:25 PM, PDT | QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news »

[Update: Added a new video with 3 minutes of various clips.]

Utter madness from the man behind Gummo and Mister Lonely. This is the kind of weirdness I love, just like Psychotropica.

The description from the Tiff website:

Tired vocabulary like “enfant terrible” and “provocation” is a constant threat when writing about Harmony Korine and his films. Trash Humpers is no exception: creepy masks, low-grade torture, frequent public urination, senseless vandalism and the title, acted out on defenseless garbage cans, all have a confrontational panache about them to be sure. But the film is also full of poetry, dance, song and moments of aching poignancy.

Such is the dilemma with Korine and his remarkable career; for all the fireworks, there is an impressive coherence in the subject matter of his work. His four feature films all seek to shed light on a certain class of people: unique and bizarre individuals usually lumped under the heading of “subculture.” Poor but not destitute, »

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Tiff 2009 Must See List: Trash Humpers

3 September 2009 2:37 AM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »

#1. Trash Humpers [1] Director: Harmony Korine Cast: Rachel Korine, Brian Kotzue, Travis Nicholson, Harmony Korine The last film by Harmony Korine Mister Lonely almost made it's way into my 2009 top 10 list ranking at number 15. The buzz on his latest film has it compared to the works of William Eggleston and his video piece Stranded in Canton. Described as a down n' dirty, lo-fi project or: "handheld video of a loser-gang cult-freak collective who do antisocial things in a non-narrative way, except for the song-and-dance numbers." Here is a video of Korine and his frequent collaborator Werner Herzog whom he is often compared to. Visit the Tiff web site [2] [1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1488163/ [2] http://www.tiff.net/filmsandschedules/schedule?sdate=10/09/2009 »

- Ricky

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First Look: Harmony Korine’s Trash Humpers

30 August 2009 7:51 AM, PDT | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »

Earlier this month, we noted in surprise, as did a number of peers on the web, the sudden announcement of a new film from Harmony Korine, the semi-reclusive director of Mister Lonely. Aforementioned surprise arose because the project, entitled Trash Humpers, was already completed, said to be a 78-min feature, and set to premiere at next month's Toronto International Film Festival. The Tiff has released further details alongside the first photos from Humpers. As seen below, the set pics are John Waters-esque and moderately Nsfw. And personally, I find they recall ancient nightmares of Zeke the Plumber on Salute Your Shorts. So, what exactly are we looking at here? The previous Tiff description said the film was about a "loser-gang cult-freak collective who do anti-social things." Did Korine actually make a film about TalkBackers? Nope. Totally unrelated. After viewing the pics, my main thought is: how will Korine be »

- Hunter Stephenson

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Harmony Korine’s Next Feature Film, Trash Humpers, Already Finished

8 August 2009 11:02 AM, PDT | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »

Update: I just spoke with someone at the Tiff and she confirmed that Trash Humpers is indeed a feature and not a short film. It's official running time is 78-minutes. The film has not yet been rated, but by default, we're guessing it's R. Gummo writer/director, Harmony Korine, will follow up last year's swell Michael Jackson impersonator flick, Mister Lonely, with an already-completed work entitled Trash Humpers. Until yesterday, it appears that no one online, not even his biggest fansite, or IMDb, was aware of the project. Nevertheless, Trash Humpers, being described as a Gummo-esque musical, will make its world premiere next month as part of the Toronto International Film Festival's Visions program. Here's a vague yet intriguing synopsis... Harmony Korine returns to Gummo territory in this handheld video of a loser-gang cult-freak collective who do antisocial things in a nonnarrative way, except for the song-and-dance numbers. All of Korine's films, »

- Hunter Stephenson

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Marilyn. Never Allowed to Rest in Peace

3 August 2009 9:00 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

I've been offline quite a lot this past week so perhaps this is old news but last night I read a rumor that Scarlett Johansson might be offered the part of Marilyn Monroe in My Week With Marilyn. That's a future film based on a posthumously published diary by Colin Clark. He was under Sir Laurence Olivier's employ during the shoot of The Prince and the Showgirl when Marilyn was 30 and Olivier 50.

I love showbiz movies but I often wish that telefilms & movies would leave Marilyn alone. Better that Hollywood promoted Marilyn's actual work (still undervalued) than continually reanimating the corpse of her celebrity.

As for the possible Marilyns, Scarlett still hasn't really proven herself a viable box office commodity but she's held on to the #1 most-sought-after-young-actress title anyway. And for a surprising number of years now. That said, if we must see Marilyn revived again, I'd rather »

- NATHANIEL R

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Could a Trip to 'The Other Side' Help Lindsay Lohan?

14 May 2009 9:02 AM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

There may have been rumblings that Lindsay Lohan could leave acting for good, but she's not done quite yet. Variety reports that she's going to star in a new indie fantasy comedy called The Other Side, which has a rather interesting cast list. La Lohan will be joined by: Woody Harrelson, Giovanni Ribisi, Dave Matthews, and Alanis Morissette. I almost feel like I catapulted back to the '90s.

The kicker: This sounds like a cross between Shutter Island and Mister Lonely... So, she'll play a grad student who nabs a summer job working at a science institute on a remote island. There, she comes across an eccentric community (of musicians, one would assume by this roster) who are hiding a big secret about a tragedy that happened years ago. I can only imagine that Dave Matthews went down on Alanis in a theater, driving Harrelson to become a serial killer who kills a discontented, »

- Monika Bartyzel

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Tokyo! Welcomes Back Léos Carax

6 March 2009 6:03 AM, PST | Interview Magazine | See recent Interview Magazine news »

Léos Carax played a Charlie Chaplin impersonator two years ago in Harmony Korine's Mister Lonely—other than that, though, the idiosyncratic French director (best known for 1991's Les Amants du Pont-Neut and often credited, along with Luc Besson and Jean-Jacques Beineix, with pioneering the cinema du look in the 1980s) hasn't had his name attached to much since Pola X, the incest drama he made a decade ago with Catherine Deneuve and Guillaume Depardieu.

 Is he still "French cinema's reigning mad romantic," as the New York Times called him then?  Tokyo!—the three-pack of short films by Carax, Michel Gondry, and Joon-ho Bong (The Host) and set in the Japanese capital—will give Carax-deprived viewers a chance to decide. His contribution, "Merde," focuses on a milky-eyed, red-bearded creature (Denis Lavant) that emerges from the sewers and starts tossing hand grenades around Tokyo. He's "a sort of Godzilla who attacks »

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2009 Evening Standard British Film Awards Announces Nominees

13 January 2009 10:26 PM, PST | Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news »

Hot on the heels of the 66th Golden Globe Awards celebration last Sunday, January 11, British newspaper Evening Standard announced the nominations of the 2009 Evening Standard British Film Awards. On Tuesday, January 13, it was made public that "Frost/Nixon", "Slumdog Millionaire", "Hunger" and "The Reader" are among those vying for the awards.

"Frost/Nixon" and "Hunger" were both up for the Best Film title along with Joanna Hogg-directed "Unrelated". The two had also secured a nod for Best Actor category, Michael Sheen for "Frost/Nixon" and Michael Fassbender for "Hunger". "Frost/Nixon", in addition, had collected a Best Screenplay gong for its scribbler Peter Morgan, while "Hunger" gave its editor Joe Walker a chance to win an award in the Technical Achievement field.

"Slumdog" and "The Reader", on the other hand, were competing against each other and against "Garage" for the Best Director prize. Other than that, "Slumdog" also got two other counts, »

- AceShowbiz.com

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Slumdog Millionaire Is Triple Nominee At British Movie Awards

13 January 2009 7:57 AM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »

Director Danny Boyle's new movie Slumdog Millionaire is continuing to win over critics - he's picked up three nominations at the Evening Standard British Film Awards.

Fresh from his quadruple Golden Globes triumph in Los Angeles at the weekend - where the Indian-based film took home awards for Best Motion Picture - Drama, Best Director for Boyle, Best Screenplay and Best Original Score - Slumdog Millionaire has received recognition for Best Director for Boyle and Most Promising Newcomer for actor Dev Patel.

Its third nomination is for technical achievement for production designer Mark Digby.

Actress Kate Winslet, who won double gold at the Hollywood ceremony, is up for the Best Actress category twice - one for her role in Revolutionary Road, and another for The Reader. She will compete with Samantha Morton (Mister Lonely) and Tilda Swinton (Julia).

The Best Actor award will be fought out between Michael Fassbender for Hunger, Michael Sheen for Frost/Nixon, and Pat Shortt in Garage.

Another Golden Globe winner, actress Sally Hawkins, will go up against her Happy-Go-Lucky co-star Eddie Marsan for the Peter Sellers Award for Comedy, while the winner of the Best Film category will be between Frost/Nixon, Hunger, and Unrelated.

The awards will be handed out at a ceremony in London on 2 February. »

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