Harmony Korine





Harmony Korine

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born
in Bolinas, California, The United States
January 04, 1973

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male

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John Cassavetes, Werner Herzog, Jean-Luc Godard, Rainer Werner Fassbin...more


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Best known both as the writer of films "Kids" (1995) and "Ken Park" (2002) and as the director of films "Gummo" (1997), "julien donkey-boy" (1999), and "Mister Lonely" (2007), Harmony Korine has been deemed as the "enfant terrible" of modern independent dramatic film. Raised in Nashville, Tennessee, the son of PBS cinematographer Sol Korine spent many of his days at revival theaters, drawing vast inspiration from a wide variety of envelop-pushing filmmakers. After reaching a break-through opportunity as a screenwriter for Larry Clark's first highly controversial film "Kids" in 1995, Korine quickly became viewed as one of America's most bizarre and inventive creative entities, especially with the release of his directorial debut "Gummo" in 1...more


Average rating: 3.75 · 525 ratings · 49 reviews · 15 distinct works · Similar authors
A Crackup at the Race Riots
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 348 ratings — published 1998 — 5 editions
The Collected Fanzines
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3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions
Collected Screenplays 1: Jo...
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4.21 of 5 stars 4.21 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2002
Pass the Bitch Chicken
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2.79 of 5 stars 2.79 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions
Mister Lonely
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3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2008
Trash Humpers
4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2010
Devils and Babies
3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2009
The Bad Son
4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1998
Pigxote
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2009
A Crack-Up at the Race Riots
2.67 of 5 stars 2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2013
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“I never cared so much about making perfect sense. I wanted to make perfect nonsense. I wanted to tell jokes, but I didn't give a fuck about the punchline. ”
Harmony Korine

“After 100 years, films should be getting really complicated. The novel has been reborn about 400 times, but it's like cinema is stuck in the birth canal.”
Harmony Korine

“The first time I hung out with [David Blaine], he took me to this condemned building, and it had a pizza oven and he crawled into the pizza oven and turned the heat on to 400 degrees or something like that, and he stayed in it for I guess a half hour. He came out, and except for one or two second-degree burns, he was unscathed. You meet a lot of musicians and filmmakers and actors, but it's rare to meet someone who can step inside a pizza oven and take the heat. I was intrigued by that.”
Harmony Korine



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