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Welcome to the New Araki Age
I love how many beefcake photos there are of director Gregg Araki when you go looking. But that does beg the question -- why haven't I been looking??? All these years I've been a fan, decades now, and this is the first time I've ever seen these photos from the set of Nowhere. Harumph, I say. Anyway last night broke news I have been waiting decades indeed for -- Strand Releasing will be releasing restored versions of all 3 films in Araki's "Teen Apocalypse" trilogy! The Doom Generation already played theaters earlier this year (and it's hitting blu-ray in a month!) and we'd heard (and posted about) the news that Nowhere was coming too. But this is the first confirmation I've seen of a restoration of the first film in the trilogy, 1993's Totally F***ed Up. All masterpieces, and all deeply formative for yours truly. I don't care how they release these things -- if they release each movie one by one and then drop a box-set down the road -- I will buy every filthy fucking copy I can get my grubby mitts on. And now let's start clanging the bell for Araki's other movies -- Splendor for instance! Anyway, like, hit the jump for the official press release on this legendary and spectacular news, or whatever...
Gregg Araki’s THE TEEN APOCALYPSE TRILOGY will screen at the Academy Museum with the restored versions of all three works, TOTALLY F***ED UP, THE DOOM GENERATION and the World Premiere of the newly restored NOWHERE on September 15 and 16th. Araki’s beloved cult trilogy comes to theatres across the country.
September 15th - TOTALLY F***ED UP and
THE DOOM GENERATION
with conversation between filmmaker Gus Van Sant and Gregg Araki.
Buy tickets here.
September 16th - NOWHERE
RESTORATION WORLD PREMIERE
with conversation between Gregg Araki and Andrew Ahn
Buy tickets here.
September 23rd NOWHERE - Fantastic Festival
Austin, Texas - NOWHERE - Texas Premiere
Conversation following screening with filmmaker Rick Linklater and Gregg Araki. Time and location TBA.
Details
for the theatrical release of NOWHERE and special presentations of THE
TEEN APOCALYPSE TRILOGY in cities and venues to be announced shortly on www.strandreleasing.com
“L.A.’s like nowhere. Everyone who lives here is lost.” From the opening Slowdive music cue to its outrageous finale, Gregg Araki’s
long under-screened queer cult classic reverberates with rage and
sexual frustration throughout, though it’s tempered, naturally, by a
healthy dose of 1990s ennui. Like an episode of “Beverly Hills, 90210 on
acid” or “California’s version of Kids,” Nowhere’s Los Angeles-dwelling
cast of dozens—including an actual Baywatch star and a character named
Jujyfruit—exchange sexual partners, discuss addiction, party their
brains out, and grapple with an alien invasion accompanied by the
era-essential tunes of Hole, Blur, Portishead, and Massive Attack.
About the Restoration
Due to circumstances beyond my control, NOWHERE was never properly
distributed on DVD in the US - just VHS (!) and I guess, laserdisc (?!).
So, for the past 20 or so years, every time I appeared for a panel or
Q&A, fans have been asking if/when NOWHERE will get a proper
release. Well, I’m thrilled to say that day is finally here!
Thanks to Marcus and Jon at Strand Releasing (who also did the recent DOOM GENERATION restoration), we’ve created a brand new 4K remaster of NOWHERE, color-timed from camera original 35mm negative at Roundabout Entertainment with totally remixed sound done at Monkeyland Audio.
In addition, we have also restored footage removed prior to the film’s original theatrical release. After NOWHERE’s world premiere at Sundance in 1997, the distributor and MPAA demanded we make cuts to “tone down” several scenes or lose our “R” rating. This remastered edition marks the first time the original, uncensored Director’s Cut has been available since then.
It is truly humbling and amazing the love and support out there for NOWHERE which has survived for all these years on the basis of crappy VHS copies, YouTube uploads, Russian torrents, etc. I am so grateful to finally be able to give the fans the ultimate, uncensored, beautifully restored and remixed 4K version of NOWHERE they deserve. Let the love feast begin!
-Gregg Araki
Thanks to Marcus and Jon at Strand Releasing (who also did the recent DOOM GENERATION restoration), we’ve created a brand new 4K remaster of NOWHERE, color-timed from camera original 35mm negative at Roundabout Entertainment with totally remixed sound done at Monkeyland Audio.
In addition, we have also restored footage removed prior to the film’s original theatrical release. After NOWHERE’s world premiere at Sundance in 1997, the distributor and MPAA demanded we make cuts to “tone down” several scenes or lose our “R” rating. This remastered edition marks the first time the original, uncensored Director’s Cut has been available since then.
It is truly humbling and amazing the love and support out there for NOWHERE which has survived for all these years on the basis of crappy VHS copies, YouTube uploads, Russian torrents, etc. I am so grateful to finally be able to give the fans the ultimate, uncensored, beautifully restored and remixed 4K version of NOWHERE they deserve. Let the love feast begin!
-Gregg Araki
Synopsis
NOWHERE's weblike narrative charts a day in
the hilarious and tragic life of Dark Smith (James Duval), a gorgeous,
alienated 18-year-old obsessed with the End of the World and finding his
one true and lasting love. The object of his affection, Mel (Rachel
True), feels for him deeply but can't commit herself to any one person
or gender, splitting her time between Dark and her curvaceous,
acid-tongued girlfriend, Lucifer (Kathleen Robertson). Dark, meanwhile,
becomes enthralled by the beauteous Montgomery (Nathan Bexton),
literally a vision to behold beneath the golden California sun.
NOWHERE stars an ensemble cast from the period including Guillermo Diaz, Alan Boyce, Jeremy Jordan, Chiara Mastroianni, Debi Mazar, Christina Applegate, Scott Cain, Heather Graham, Ryan Phillippe, Traci Lords, Shannen Doherty, Rose McGowan, Jaason Simmons and Jordan Ladd to name a few.
NOWHERE stars an ensemble cast from the period including Guillermo Diaz, Alan Boyce, Jeremy Jordan, Chiara Mastroianni, Debi Mazar, Christina Applegate, Scott Cain, Heather Graham, Ryan Phillippe, Traci Lords, Shannen Doherty, Rose McGowan, Jaason Simmons and Jordan Ladd to name a few.
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Reunited...
... and it feels reeeeeeeal good.
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A Good Mescally Morning
Blessings be unto us all this Thursday morning, there's a new Paul Mescal photo-shoot for Esquire UK magazine -- an interview too, but I just sat down at my desk and haven't read that just yet. Gimme a damn minute, yeesh. Figured I'd do the important part first, which was stare into Paul's dreamy eyes and help y'all do the same. On that note...
... there is the trailer for Foe (until this morning I thought this movie was called Poe, huh), Paul's forthcoming movie with Saorsie Ronan -- and no I haven't had time to watch that either. I'm rushing here. But this was obviously the moment to share that. That movie's out October 6th. Now for the Esquire photos!Hit thee jump...
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Eight (No) Mountains, High Enough
There are now (sort of) two Criterion Days per month! Last month they began announcing their "Janus Contemporaries" series, which is an off-shoot of the Criterion Collection that will be putting out Janus movies that premiere in theaters and then on the Criterion Channel -- aka exactly the way you'd pray that streamers would behave with their properties. Give them all physical media releases dammit! Anyway they announced their three November releases today and one of them is one of my favorite films of 2023 so here we are -- Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch's film The Eight Mountains is hitting blu-ray on November 21st (it just hit the Channel this week) and I love love love this movie and cannot recommend it enough. Here is my review at Pajiba from its release earlier this year -- it's about the life-long friendship between two men (Luca Marinelli and Alessandro Borghi) in the Italian Alps and it's one of the best movies about male friendship in years. If you don't have the Criterion Channel and you missed it in theaters, snatch this up! You won't be disappointed. The other two movies they're releasing in November are Godland and the Dardennes'Tori and Lokita, neither of which I've been able to see yet even though, sigh, they're both on the Criterion Channel. I am so far behind on everything!
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Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...
... you can learn from:
Ichi the Killer(2001)
Ichi: Listen, when you're giving pain to someone, don't think about the pain that person is feeling. Just concentrate on how good it feels to be causing someone pain. That's the best thing you can do for a true masochist!
A happy 63 to director Takashi Miike today!
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Quote of the Day
"I knew Paul, certainly, and I have a dinner party every year with [photographer] Greg Gorman in L.A. I had it last week and Paul was supposed to be there. He was there every year. [His recent death is] very sad. And he was right up there with Howdy Doody and Lassie in the history of American television, if you ask me. A great gentleman who celebrated the delightful."
-- John Waters spoke to THR today about his forthcoming exhibit at the Academy Museum (god I wanna go so bad) and the above is the sweetness that he had to say about the passing of our beloved friend Paul Reubens -- and seeing as how those two, alongside Vincent Price, make up my holy trinity... well excuse me if I'm crying again. I had been planning on quoting John from earlier in the piece, the very funny bit where he talks about Pink Flamingos airing on TCM recently, but as soon as Paul came up that was the obvious winner. But make sure you go read the whole chat!
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Good Morning, World
Am I nuts or has this new season of Justified been way more gratuitous than the old seasons? I didn't even post half of the Boyd Holbrook stuff I could've (just this one priceless gif here) and now they got Timothy Olyphant with his boxers falling halfway down to Jesus. Did they bring me in to direct these things and then wipe my memory or what?
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Be My Bayard
Historical biopics aren't usually a genre I'm too interested in -- not until they make that one about tragic Wasp Woman actress Susan Cabot anyway; I'll camp out for that! -- as they're almost always so staid and formulaic. There are excellent ones obviously -- I just can't really get myself super excited about them beforehand. That said I'm pretty on-board for Rustin, the biopic of gay civil rights hero Bayard Rustin starring Colman Domingo, as he's a man who's story I've been longing to see get the respect it deserves for a very long time, and Domingo seems just the actor to do it. And the just released trailer made me tear up! I mean it still looks super formulaic, but in service of an under-served subject. Watch:
Rustin is out in November. What do we think?
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The I in Mirder
I admittedly buy a lot of posters so I might not be the best judge of such a thing, but I want to buy this here first poster for David Fincher's The Killer immediately, do not stop go, just send me the link to buy it right this minute. LOVE IT. Does this mean we're getting a trailer soon? Oh I will die. Is that how Michael Fassbender's character kills people? He emails the trailer for his movie to them and they drop dead on the spot. It tracks! This is out in November.
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Well I Feel Teased
It's ridiculous of me to even bother posting this fourteen second teaser for a teaser, but since it's fourteen seconds of Barry Keoghan and Jacob Elordi being naked within one's another vicinity my ass is gonna bite. Saltburn is Promising Young Woman director Emerald Fennell's new movie -- I told you about it previously right here but it basically sounds on paper very Talented Mr. Ripley. Gay-ish obsession with class implications. We'll see when we're teased some more on Wednesday I suppose. Anyway this is premiering in Toronto I think? I'm not covering TIFF this year so I didn't pay much attention to their line-up. It's in theaters at Thanksgiving. Circle back on Wednesday when we'll get teased some more!
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Good Morning, Killer
As surmised when we got the poster yesterday, the trailer for David Fincher's The Killerarrived this morning -- and yes, that's a shot of Michael Fassbender from it above. As if I wasn't giffing that immediately. Although, knowing what we all know about Michael Fassbender, well... I just feel as if something has been stolen from us in that shot. Something appears to be missing! Anyway! Moving on. The trailer, unsurprisingly, kicks ass and makes me want to see this movie twice as fast as I wanted to see it before and that was already warp speed. So double warp speed please! Watch:
Quite honestly doesn't Michael Fassbender seem like the Perfect David Fincher Actor though? It didn't really occur to me until watching this -- he's handsome obviously, but in a sort of creepy, decrepit way. (This is not meant as an insult -- all of those words appeal to me.) The sinister is just baked right into him. And he seems like the kind of masochist who would welcome Fincher's infamous shoot-everything-five-thousand-times approach, too. A match made in cinema heaven, I think. The Killer is out in theaters on October 28th and then hits Netflix on November 10th so let's all assume the position...
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We Can Be Strangers, Just For One Day
There's the really very lovely first poster (via) for Andrew Haigh's All of Us Strangers, his movie starring Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal as neighbors with benefits or something. I am trying to be vague both for myself and all of you lovely people, because I think this'll be a movie best served by experiencing it instead of trying to sort out all its details beforehand. Anyway just a couple of weeks for me on that front since it screens at NYFF in about a month! See my previous posts here.
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Nerd Alert
Hey you! Sorry for the quietude today -- I was finally getting my work computer fixed after a week of nerdy nonsense, and it kept me off of here. But now! All fixed! Kind of. I've got a way fancier computer than the one I had been using before that one crumbled into dust, and I've got to figure out how the fuck this thing works now. The biggest issue is going to be figuring out how to make new banners, since I'd been using an ancient version of Illustrator that my new Mac ain't playin' round with. (If anybody has any good free and easy Illustrator / Photoshop alternatives -- emphasis on free and easy, my favorite words -- please share!) Shrug emoji! We'll figure it out as we go -- for awhile I'll probably be using previously made banners. A greatest hits, if you will. Jesus am I still talking? Anyway tomorrow, besides futzing around with all that, I'll be here, blogging and being my usual nonsense self. A reason to get up in the morning for us all!
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Good Morning, World
Hi! From me and Manu! He's here helping me figure out how the hell my new computer works, bless him. He's a tech genius, who knew or could have possibly guessed? Anyway I'm going to be busy with that off and on today (slash for the next several weeks) but we're trying to get ourselves going. Me and Manu, that is. I just like the sound of that. Me and Manu, me and Manu. Poetry.
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Poorerer Things
This is the third poster for Yorgos Lanthimos' movie Poor Things that's been released, and I do believe they're saying this is the final one -- the film premieres in Venice fairly soon, and then I'll be seeing it at NYFF at the end of the month. Anyway all the posters have been great and this one's no exception, but I think I prefer above all the second one... which I'm shocked to realize, after a search, that I never posted? WTF. I'll add it down below. (And here is the first poster.) Actually since we're here and I'm distracted with computer stuff why don't we make a poll? That oughta keep you busy.
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Joe Keery Eleven Times
I know I keep bringing up my new computer with every post today and that's got to be real, real exciting for all of you. And I'm sorry to excite you so very much! But this was my first time editing photos on it and holy shit they looked so much better. The resolution on this machine is insane. I could practically floss my teeth with Stranger Things' Joe Keery's chest hairs and isn't that what we've all been waiting for? Anyway this photoshoot comes to us from WWD (via here) and so Joe's all fancy man dressed up and while we prefer him in his 80s jeans (or less) we'll accept these photos because, well, he's just too gosh-darned adorable not to. Hit the jump for them all...
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