Larry Clark Pushes ‘Mona Lisa’ Remake Aside For Disaffected Youth Drama, ‘Wild Child’

Rodrigo Perez — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:38:00 +0000

Larry Clark has a new movie in the works and it’s not his remake of Neil Jordan’s classic ’80s post-gangster love story, “Mona Lisa” (post-gangster: he’s reformed, not so many bullets in this relationship and class tale, but it’s still great, fyi).

It’s a — SHOCKER — film about teenage disaffected youth. You didn’t see that one coming did you? The director already notoriously well-known for his shocking, yet insightful (“Kids”), sometimes exploitatively skeevy (“Ken Park”) and occasionally optimistic and bright (“Wassup Rockers”) examinations of teenage life has another adolescent tale on tap.

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‘Ken Park’: Larry Clark’s Teen Porno With Boners, Cumshots & All

Rodrigo Perez — Tue, 13 May 2008 14:26:00 +0000

There’s a retrospective of the works of estimable cinematographer Ed Lachman (“The Virgin Suicides,”The Limey”,” “I’m Not There”) currently happening at the Brooklyn Academy Museum so we went to go check out the opening night screening of the little-seen 1995 film “Ken Park” on Friday, a flick we didn’t realize was co-directed with sleazebag degenerate director Larry Clark (well known for his proclivity for photographic young boys in their tighty-whiteys – the veritable godfather of sleazy Calvin Klein and American Apparel ads; we just thought it was a Clark film).

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Larry Clark Pushes ‘Mona Lisa’ Remake Aside For Disaffected Youth Drama, ‘Wild Child’

‘Ken Park’: Larry Clark’s Teen Porno With Boners, Cumshots & All