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112-543: Korine is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Harmony Korine (born 1973), American film director, producer, screenwriter, writer and actor Rachel Korine (born 1986), American actress Raph Korine (born 1994), reality TV personality, runner-up of Big Brother 2017 UK, lived in Zurich, Switzerland See also [ edit ] Corine (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with

224-505: A collage of perspectives. This is often presented experimentally, with many of Korine's films incorporating Polaroids , Super 8 , 35mm film and VHS recordings, such as in Gummo and Julien Donkey-Boy . Improvisation is also an important filmmaking technique for Korine, as a way to maintain his films as "living thing[s]." Korine has described the social, psychological and subcultural aspects of his films as constituting what he describes as

336-425: A German to English translator. When she was working, she often sent her son to the cinema to pass time. Later in life, Fassbinder claimed that he saw at least one film a day, sometimes as many as four per day. During this period, Pempeit was often away from her son for long periods while she recuperated from tuberculosis . In his mother's absence, Fassbinder was looked after by his mother's tenants and friends. As he

448-624: A Year of 13 Moons (1978), and Querelle (1982), all of which dealt with homoerotic themes. He also directed the TV series World on a Wire (1973) and Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980). Fassbinder died on 10 June 1982, at age 37, from a lethal cocktail of cocaine and barbiturates . His career lasted less than two decades, but he was extremely prolific; between 1967 and 1982, he completed over 40 feature films, 24 plays, two television serials, three short films, and four video productions, winning five of

560-537: A boy burying his dog, kids in satanic dress vomiting on a Bible , and a man in blackface dancing and singing " My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean ". It utilizes some of the same actors and themes as Gummo , and can be considered a companion piece as the film utilises footage that didn't make the final cut of Gummo . The film "further disgusted critics" and solidified his status as a notoriously shocking and experimental director. Julien Donkey-Boy , released in 1999, included

672-545: A budget of $ 8.2 million, it received mixed reviews and earned $ 386,915 in its first 9 months. The film is the story of "a young American man lost in Paris. He scratches out a living as a Michael Jackson look-alike, dancing in the streets, in public parks, at tourist spots and trade shows. Different from everyone else, he feels as if he's floating between two worlds. During a show at a geriatric home Michael Jackson meets Marilyn Monroe . Haunted by her angelic beauty he follows her to

784-471: A child, Korine watched movies with his father, who rented Buster Keaton films for Korine and took him to see Werner Herzog 's Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970) in the theater. Korine reminisced that "I knew there was a poetry in cinema that I had never seen before that was so powerful." Korine spent his early childhood in the San Francisco Bay Area living with his family on a commune . In

896-497: A commercial for Dior Addict Fragrance in 2014. In February 2020, Korine directed and photographed a Gucci tailoring campaign starring Tyler, the Creator , A$ AP Rocky and Iggy Pop . In 2021, Korine directed a commercial for 7-Eleven featuring the song "Fred Sanford" by hip hop duo Marlowe, which subsequently went viral. Korine has directed a number of music videos for artists such as Sonic Youth , Will Oldham , Cat Power and

1008-579: A commune in the Highlands, joining her husband Charlie Chaplin and her daughter Shirley Temple . The commune is a place where everyone is famous and "no-one gets old". Here, The Pope , The Queen of the United Kingdom , Madonna , James Dean and other impersonators build a stage in the hope that the world will visit and watch them perform. Everything is beautiful. Until the world shifts, and reality intrudes on their utopian dream." Korine also appeared in

1120-460: A creative and technology company, in 2023. Korine was born to a Jewish family in Bolinas, California , the son of Eve and Sol Korine. His father was an Iranian Jewish immigrant. His father was a tapdancer and produced documentaries for PBS in the 1970s about an "array of colorful Southern characters"; he would take Korine to carnivals and circuses and taught him how to use a Bolex camera. As

1232-589: A creative and technology company, in 2023. The company is based in Miami, Florida. Korine met Chloë Sevigny in Washington Square Park in New York City during her senior year of high school in 1993. The two became close friends, which resulted in her being cast in the low-budget independent film Kids (1995). They had a romantic relationship that ended in the early 2000s though they are still friends. He

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1344-409: A dozen or so scenes, most of which are either theatrical tableaux where there is no movement of the characters and the camera darts from speaker to speaker or are shots where characters pace back and forth while giving revolutionary speeches about Marxist struggles and debates on economic theories. Set in 1876, Whity centers on the title character, a mulatto who works as the obsequious servant in

1456-511: A familiar name among cinephiles and campus audiences throughout the world. He lived in Munich when not traveling, rented a house in Paris with ex-wife Ingrid Caven. He was often seen in gay bars in New York, earning him cult hero status, but also a controversial reputation in and out of his films. His films were a fixture in art houses of the time after he became internationally known with Ali: Fear Eats

1568-632: A film about 24 hours in the sex- and drug-filled lives of several Manhattan teenagers in New York City during the AIDS crisis. Kids received mixed reviews at the time of its release in 1995, but has since become a significant cult film . Among others, the film features Chloë Sevigny and Rosario Dawson in their first movie roles. The film, while controversial, jumpstarted Korine's career. This put him into contact with film producer Cary Woods who budgeted about $ 1 million to produce Gummo , Korine's personal vision. In 1997, Korine wrote and directed Gummo ,

1680-528: A film based on life in Xenia, Ohio , a town devastated by a tornado in the early 1970s. Forgoing conventional narrative, Gummo is a nonlinear, fragmented series of sketches written by Korine. Only five experienced actors worked on the movie; much of the cast was found during preproduction in Tennessee. The film is notable for having unsettling, often bizarre scenes, as well as its dreamlike soundtrack, which strengthens

1792-404: A guest worker from Greece, leads to a growing curiosity on the part of the women and the antagonism among the men living in a suburban block of apartments in Munich. This kind of social criticism, featuring alienated characters unable to escape the forces of oppression, is a constant throughout Fassbinder's oeuvre. Katzelmacher was adapted from Fassbinder's first produced play – a short piece that

1904-409: A married couple who are fruit sellers. Hans faces rejection from his family after he violently assaults his wife for not bending to his will. She leaves him, but after he suffers a heart attack they reunite, though he now has to employ other men. His restricted ability to function leads him to ponder his own futility. He literally drinks himself to death. The Merchant of Four Seasons uses melodrama as

2016-427: A narrative is formed, and Korine has said that Gummo and his subsequent films were written in this fashion, striving to retain a "margin of the undefined." In 2009, he summarized an ideal setting in his aesthetic as "an abandoned parking lot and a soiled sofa on the edge [...] with a street lamp off to the side. America seems like a series of abandoned parking lots, streetlights and abandoned sofas." Ensuing from this,

2128-427: A number of Blaine's specials. He first met his wife, Rachel (Simon) Korine , a 17-year-old from Nashville , around this time. His third feature film, Mister Lonely , was co-written by his brother, Avi Korine, and starred Diego Luna , Samantha Morton , Denis Lavant , Anita Pallenberg , David Blaine , Werner Herzog and Mal Whiteley. The movie was released in 2008 and debuted at Cannes. His largest film, with

2240-413: A number of undesirables. Eventually he ends up killing the girlfriend of one of the policemen with his friend Franz Walsh (Fassbinder). The film closes with the music of the song "So much tenderness", written by Fassbinder and sung by Gunther Kaufmann. The American Soldier is the third and final installment of Fassbinder's loose trilogy of gangster pictures formed by Love Is Colder Than Death and Gods of

2352-612: A power struggle of deception and betrayal. The story centers on Hanni, a precocious 14-year-old schoolgirl who starts a relationship with Franz, a 19-year-old worker in a chicken processing plant. Their romance faces the opposition of the girl's conservative parents. Franz is sentenced to nine months in prison for having sex with a minor. When he is released on probation, they continue their relationship and Hanni becomes pregnant. Afraid of her father's anger, she persuades Franz to kill him. When Franz returns to prison for this murder, Hanni tells him that their child died at birth and that their love

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2464-419: A revolution in the language of cinema." Korine was initially frequently labeled as an enfant terrible and was often accused of exploitation and self-indulgence; he responded in 1997, asking "How can an artist be expected not to be self-indulgent? That's the whole thing that's wrong with filmmaking today [...] To me, art is one man's voice, one idea, one point-of-view, coming from one person." Korine feels there

2576-567: A self-conscious and assertive formalism . Influenced by Jean-Luc Godard , Jean-Marie Straub and the theories of Bertolt Brecht , these films are austere and minimalist in style. Although praised by many critics, they proved too demanding and inaccessible for a mass audience. Fassbinder's rapid working methods had begun by this stage. Shot in black and white with a shoestring budget in April 1969, Fassbinder's first feature-length film, Love Is Colder Than Death (1969) ( Liebe ist kälter als der Tod ),

2688-684: A short film entitled Umshini Wam , which is a popular Zulu struggle song meaning "bring me my machine gun". The film starred Ninja and Yo-Landi of Die Antwoord . In September 2011, Korine released a short film entitled Snowballs , sponsored by the Proenza Schouler fashion label. Korine's next project was the crime drama Spring Breakers , which was produced in 2012 in Florida , and starred James Franco , Selena Gomez , Vanessa Hudgens , Ashley Benson , and Korine's wife, Rachel Korine . In looking at early scenes being filmed and in speaking toward

2800-635: A side of the artist's creative process that remains largely unexamined. Depicting an unnamed, mysterious young girl moving through a televised landscape of shifting contexts, Pigxote further illustrates Korine's interest in replacing plot lines and expected narrative tropes with intuitively arranged "experiential moments." They also provide a unique insight into the poetic mind of Nashville's most compelling prodigal son." In 2003 his works were presented at an exhibition at agnès b 's Galerie du jour in Paris, with whom Korine has often been associated. In 2010, Korine collaborated with New York Visual Artist Bill Saylor on

2912-439: A signed Dogme 95 manifesto. While it broke a number of the movement's basic tenets, Lars von Trier lauded Korine's ability to interpret the rules creatively. The story is told from the perspective of a young man suffering from untreated schizophrenia , played by Ewen Bremner , as he tries to understand his deteriorating world. Julien's abusive and arguably hypersensitive father is played by Werner Herzog. At one point, Korine

3024-405: A small number of them. Working with a regular ensemble of actors and technicians, he was able to complete films ahead of schedule and often under budget and thus compete successfully for government subsidies. He worked fast, typically omitting rehearsals and going with the first take. Fassbinder's first ten films (1969–1971) were said to be an extension of his work in the theater, shot usually with

3136-424: A stalled production, temperamental actors, and a frustrated crew. When asked what the movie he is making is about, he replies: "brutality." The film ends with a typical Fassbinder-esque irony, as the crew gang up on the director. Beware of a Holy Whore marked the end of Fassbinder's avant-garde period. It presented such an embittered and radical self-critique that his future films would have to be quite different from

3248-480: A static camera and with deliberately unnaturalistic dialogue. In 1971 through 1977, his films brought him international attention, with films modeled, to ironic effect, on the melodramas Douglas Sirk made in Hollywood in the 1950s. In these films, Fassbinder explored how deep-rooted prejudices about race, sex, sexual orientation , politics and class are inherent in society, while also tackling his trademark subject of

3360-504: A strong inspiration on his filmmaking, especially with regards to his realism and use of extensive scenes. In 1999, he listed his top ten films as Pixote by Héctor Babenco , Badlands and Days of Heaven by Terrence Malick , Fat City by John Huston , Stroszek by Werner Herzog , The Killing of a Chinese Bookie and A Woman Under the Influence by John Cassavetes , McCabe and Mrs. Miller by Robert Altman , Out of

3472-516: A style to create critical studies of contemporary German life for a general audience. It was Fassbinder's first effort to create what he declared he aspired to: a cinematic statement of the human condition that would transcend national boundaries as the films of Michelangelo Antonioni , Ingmar Bergman and Federico Fellini had done. It is also his first realization of what he learned from Sirk: that people, however small they may be, and their emotions, however insignificant they may seem, could be big on

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3584-673: A teen, Fassbinder was sent to boarding school . His time there was marred by his repeated escape attempts, and he eventually left school before any final examinations. At the age of 15, he moved to Cologne with his father. Though they argued constantly, Fassbinder stayed with his father for a couple of years while attending night school . To earn money, he worked small jobs ; he also helped his father, who rented apartments to migrant workers . During this time, Fassbinder began to immerse himself in his father's world of culture, writing poems, short plays, and stories. In 1963, aged 18, Fassbinder returned to Munich with plans to attend night school with

3696-452: A toll on him. A visit by a woman neighbor occasions the incident that gives the film its title. Irritated by the incessant chat between his wife and her friend while he tries to watch TV, Herr Raab kills the neighbor with a blow to the head with a candle stick and then kills both his wife and their son. Herr Raab is later found hanged in an office restroom. The main theme of the gangster film The American Soldier (Der Amerikanische Soldat)

3808-401: A wealthy family, in exchange for leading roles. Fassbinder acted in both of these films, which also featured Irm Hermann . In the latter, his mother – under the name of Lilo Pempeit – played the first of many parts in her son's films. At age 22, Fassbinder joined the now defunct Munich Action-Theater in 1967; there, he was active as actor, director and scriptwriter. After two months he became

3920-425: Is a fashion designer who lives in a self-created dreamland and the action is restricted mostly to her lavish bedroom. After the failure of her second marriage, Petra falls hopelessly and obsessively in love with Karin, a cunning young working-class woman who wants a career in modeling. The model's exploitation of Petra mirrors Petra's extraordinary psychological abuse of her silent assistant, Marlene. Fassbinder portrays

4032-563: Is best remembered for a scene unrelated to the plot, as the girlfriend, played by Schygulla, dances to Elvis Presley 's " Jailhouse Rock " on the jukebox in the company of an oafish leather-jacketed youth, played by Fassbinder. Pioneers in Ingolstadt (Pioniere in Ingolstadt) was adapted from an eponymous play by Marieluise Fleißer written in 1927. It follows two young women whose lives are transformed when army engineers (the pioneers of

4144-540: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Harmony Korine Korine's career began when he wrote the screenplay for the Larry Clark film Kids (1995), which was followed by his directorial debut, Gummo (1997). His films typically explore unconventional narratives and themes of dysfunctional families, and also include Mister Lonely (2007), Spring Breakers (2012), The Beach Bum (2019), and Aggro Dr1ft (2023). Korine founded EDGLRD ,

4256-510: Is no need to justify or explain the images he puts to the screen, clarifying that they are simply the result of "a cinema of passion and obsession." He has added that "I mostly just make things to entertain myself and at the same time hope that there's some type of audience that likes what I'm doing." Korine has also stated that "film is like a dead art because of people not taking chances", and has shown his preference for " auteurist works". He stated in 1999 that "In another ten or fifteen years,

4368-591: Is now married to actress Rachel Korine , with whom he has three children. In 2009, Korine received criticism for signing a petition in support of film director Roman Polanski , calling for his release after Polanski was arrested in Switzerland in relation to his 1977 charge for drugging and raping a 13-year-old girl. Self Rainer Werner Fassbinder Rainer Werner Fassbinder ( German: [ˈʁaɪnɐ ˈvɛʁnɐ ˈfasbɪndɐ] ; 31 May 1945 – 10 June 1982), sometimes credited as R. W. Fassbinder ,

4480-713: Is one of the most untamed new directors, belongs on the list with Godard , Cassavetes , Herzog , Warhol , Tarkovsky , Brakhage and others who smash conventional movies and reassemble the pieces ... Harmony Korine is the real thing, an innovative and gifted filmmaker whose work forces us to see on his terms." Korine has published a number of books. A Crack Up at the Race Riots , an experimental book of fragments which he jokingly described in press appearances and interviews as his attempt to write "the Great American Choose Your Own Adventure novel",

4592-432: Is that violence is an expression of frustrated love. A sudden frenzied outburst of repressed passion, the revelation of desire and a need for love that has been thwarted and comes too late is central here. The eponymous hit man of the title (actually a German, played by Karl Scheydt) is a cold-blooded contract killer, who returns from Vietnam to his native Munich, where he is hired by three renegade policemen to do away with

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4704-472: The bourgeoisie . His father concentrated on his career , which he saw as a means to inspire his passion for writing poetry . His mother largely ignored him as well, spending the majority of her time with her husband working on his career. In 1951, Liselotte Pempeit and Helmut Fassbinder divorced. Helmut moved to Cologne while Liselotte raised her son as a single parent in Munich. To support herself and her child, Pempeit took in boarders and found employment as

4816-409: The surname Korine . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Korine&oldid=1062115999 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description

4928-583: The "American Landscape". Korine credited tap-dance , vaudeville and minstrelsy as influences on his work in the 1990s and 2000s, with him especially naming the comedy of Fanny Brice , Eddie Cantor and Al Jolson as inspirations for his intentionally stilted style of presentation and humor. Like vaudeville, the style of Korine's work is presentational and works purely by thematic association. He has compared with this to viewing picture books of assorted photos, which would be seemingly devoid of context, but because they are compiled and presented in succession,

5040-412: The 1950s: All That Heaven Allows , Magnificent Obsession and Imitation of Life . Fassbinder was attracted to these films not only because of their entertainment value, but also for their depiction of various kinds of repression and exploitation. Fassbinder scored his first domestic commercial success with The Merchant of Four Seasons ( Händler der vier Jahreszeiten , 1971). The film portrays

5152-504: The 1990s, when it began to be screened; now, like almost all of Fassbinder's films, it is available on DVD . A whimsical comedy, Rio das Mortes follows two young men without prospects who try to raise money to realize their dream of finding a buried treasure in Peru using a map of the Rio das Mortes . The girlfriend of one of them finds the notion stupid and wants to put a stop to it, but eventually

5264-500: The 2007 documentary film Beautiful Losers in which his life and career were one focus of the film, along with other artists such as Mike Mills , Shepard Fairey , Margaret Kilgallen , Jo Jackson and Barry McGee . In the documentary, Korine discusses his motivation as an artist and filmmaker, as well as his inspiration for creating films he has never seen. Footage also appears from one of Korine's rare, early, and untitled short films, which preceded his work on Kids . In 2008 Korine

5376-459: The Anti-Theater under Fassbinder's direction . The troupe lived and performed together. This close-knit group of young actors included among them Fassbinder, Peer Raben , Harry Baer and Kurt Raab , who along with Hanna Schygulla and Irm Hermann became the most important members of his cinematic stock company. Working with the Anti-Theater, Fassbinder continued writing, directing and acting. In

5488-515: The Arts at New York University for one semester before dropping out to pursue a career as a professional skateboarder. Korine was skating with friends in Washington Square Park when he met photographer Larry Clark . Impressed, the photographer asked him to compose a script about skaters and to include in the plot a teenage AIDS experience. Korine told Clark, "I've been waiting all my life to write this story." Within three weeks, Korine wrote Kids ,

5600-582: The Bitch Chicken was released, a collaboration with artist Christopher Wool, which consists of Korine's photographs heavily edited by Korine and Wool. In 2009 he published Pigxote in conjunction with the Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery and released by Nieves . The university describes the exhibition, which ran through February 26, 2009, as culling "together a number of photographs from Korine's private files in order to reveal

5712-464: The Black Keys . In addition, he sang on Oldham's Ease Down The Road (2001). In 1999 Korine and Brian Degraw of Gang Gang Dance released a one-off album, SSAB Songs . He also co-authored the lyrics of Björk 's "Harm of Will" from her album Vespertine (2001), and co-wrote Lana Del Rey 's "Florida Kilos" which is featured on the deluxe edition of her album Ultraviolence (2014). Korine directed

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5824-451: The Blue by Dennis Hopper and Hail Mary by Jean-Luc Godard . Despite the scorn of a majority of mainstream reviewers, Korine has won festival prizes at Venice and Rotterdam among others. Established directors such as Bernardo Bertolucci and Gus Van Sant are also outspoken proponents of Korine's work, with Van Sant saying Gummo "changed his life" and Bertolucci saying Korine "created

5936-521: The Gagosian featured a collection of works by Korine titled "Young Twitchy". These works consisted of photographs taken by the artist, mostly around his home in Florida, which were then recreated in oil paint and augmented with different characters. In 2023, The Golfer’s Journal featured a collection of works by Korine titled "Wormburner", consisting of portraits of U.S. Presidents playing golf. Korine directed

6048-609: The Plague . It pays homage to the Hollywood gangster genre, and also alludes to Southern Gothic race narratives. In The Niklashausen Journey  [ de ] ( Die Niklashauser Fahrt ), Fassbinder co-writes and co-directs with Michael Fengler. This avant-garde film, commissioned by the WDR television network, was shot in May 1970 and it was broadcast in October the same year. The Niklashausen Journey

6160-545: The Soul (1974), both of which are considered masterpieces by contemporary critics. Big-budget projects such as Despair (1978), Lili Marleen and Lola (both 1981) followed. His greatest success came with The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979), chronicling the rise and fall of a German woman in the wake of World War II . Other notable films include the lesbian chamber drama The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972), Fox and His Friends (1975), Satan's Brew (1976), In

6272-517: The Soul . In 1977, he was a member of the jury at the 27th Berlin International Film Festival . Starting at the age of 21, Fassbinder made forty-four films and television dramas in 15 years, along with directing 15 plays for the theatre. These films were largely written or adapted for the screen by Fassbinder. He was also art director on most of the early films, editor or co-editor on many of them (often credited as Franz Walsh, though

6384-480: The Westerns made by Sergio Leone . Its production was particularly traumatic for cast and crew. Whity , a mixture of Euro-western and American South melodrama, was badly received by the critics and became Fassbinder's biggest flop. The film was neither picked up for theatrical release, nor was there interest for broadcasting it on television. As a result, Whity was only seen as its premiere. It remained unavailable until

6496-430: The aforementioned responsibilities, Fassbinder served as composer, production designer, cinematographer, producer and editor. He also appeared in 30 projects of other directors. By 1976, Fassbinder had gained international prominence, prizes at major film festivals , premieres and retrospectives in Paris, New York and Los Angeles, and a study of his work by Tony Rayns had been published. All these factors helped make him

6608-470: The book Ho Bags. The book consists of drawing and paintings in which Korine and Saylor drew over each other's works. In 2011 Korine collaborated with the New York brand Supreme , releasing a set of two skateboard decks featuring original artworks by Korine. Since 2014, Korine has taken part in twelve exhibitions at the Gagosian gallery in various locations, including New York, London, Beverly Hills and Geneva. Seven of these have been solo exhibitions. In 2019

6720-454: The bourgeois milieu with his trilogy about women in post- fascist Germany: The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979), The Angst of Veronica Voss and Lola . "I would like to build a house with my films", Fassbinder once remarked. "Some are the cellars, others the walls, still others the windows. But I hope in the end it will be a house." Fassbinder's work as a filmmaker was honored in the 2007 exhibition Fassbinder: Berlin Alexanderplatz , which

6832-623: The contraculture movement and the protests of 1968 . Fassbinder did not clarify the time frame of the action, mixing medieval elements (including some costumes, settings, speech and music) with those from other time periods, like the Russian Revolution, the Rococo period, postwar Germany and the Third World . The Niklashausen Journey , influenced by Jean-Luc Godard 's Weekend and Glauber Rocha 's Antonio das Mortes , consists of only about

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6944-430: The director's films. The last of the four films Fassbinder shot in 1969, was his first in color, Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (Warum läuft Herr R. Amok?) . It was co-directed by Michael Fengler (the friend who had been his cameraman on the short film The Little Chaos in 1967). Only the outlines of the scenes were sketched by Fassbinder. Fengler and the cast then improvised the dialogue. Fassbinder asserted that this

7056-405: The disconcerting atmosphere. It features "an eclectic soundtrack including death metal , Madonna and Roy Orbison . It premiered at the 24th Telluride Film Festival on August 29, 1997. During the screening, numerous people got up and left during the initial cat drowning sequence. Three months later, Werner Herzog called Korine to give praise to the film overall, especially the bacon taped to

7168-851: The early 1980s, they relocated to Nashville, Tennessee , where he attended Hillsboro High School before moving to New York City to live with his grandmother. As a teenager, Korine spent his summers in San Francisco, "skateboarding, living on rooftops, running away from my parents, getting in fights. You know, girls. At that point I was just getting into movies, but the idea of making films happened later in high school." He began frequenting revival theaters, watching films by John Cassavetes , Werner Herzog , Jean-Luc Godard , Robert Altman , Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Alan Clarke . In an interview with Bruce LaBruce , Korine briefly mentioned that he studied Business Administration in college. Other sources state that he studied Dramatic Writing at Tisch School of

7280-526: The efforts of his career as film director , but maintained an intermittent foothold in the theater until his death. He worked in various productions throughout Germany and made a number of radio plays in the early 1970s. In 1974 at age 29, Fassbinder took directorial control over the Theater am Turm (TAT) of Frankfurt; when this project ended in failure and controversy, Fassbinder became less interested in theater. In honor of Rosa von Praunheim , Fassbinder staged

7392-496: The everyday fascism of family life and friendship. The final films, from around 1977 until his death, were more varied, with international actors sometimes used and the stock company disbanded, although the casts of some films were still filled with Fassbinder regulars. He became increasingly idiosyncratic in terms of plot, form and subject matter in movies like The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979), The Third Generation (1979) and Querelle (1982). He also articulated his themes in

7504-525: The government grants needed to continue making films. Unlike the other major auteurs of the New German Cinema, Volker Schlöndorff , Werner Herzog and Wim Wenders , who started out making movies, Fassbinder's stage background was evident throughout his work. Additionally, he learned how to handle all phases of production, from writing and acting to direction and theater management. This versatility surfaced in his films too where, in addition to some of

7616-538: The idea to eventually study drama . Following his mother's advice, he took acting lessons and from 1964 to 1966 attended the Fridl-Leonhard Studio for actors in Munich. There, he met Hanna Schygulla , who would become one of his most important actors. During this time, aged 20, he made his first 8mm short films , worked as a sound man in student films and as an assistant director or in small acting roles in theatre . During this period, he also wrote

7728-518: The lives of his family. In compliance with his mother's wishes, Fassbinder later claimed he was born on 31 May 1946, to more clearly establish himself as a child of the post-war period ; his real age was revealed shortly before his death. He was the only child of Liselotte Pempeit (1922–93), a translator , and Helmut Fassbinder, a doctor who worked from the couple's apartment in Sendlinger Straße , near Munich 's red light district . When he

7840-551: The longing for companionship and love, and the fear and reality of betrayal. Fassbinder's second film, Katzelmacher (1969), (Bavarian pejorative slang term for a foreign worker from the Mediterranean), was received more positively, garnering five prizes after its debut at Mannheim . It features a group of rootless and bored young couples who spend much of their time in idle chatter, empty boasting, drinking, playing cards, intriguing or simply sitting around. The arrival of Jorgos,

7952-546: The mansion of a dysfunctional family in the American South. He is the illegitimate son of the family patriarch and the black cook. Whity tries to carry out all their orders, however demeaning until several of the family members ask him to kill some of the others. He eventually kills them all and runs away to the desert with a prostitute from the local bar. The film was shot in Almeria , Spain , in widescreen, on locations built for

8064-553: The most prestigious prizes for feature film in Germany, including the Golden Bear and multiple German Film Awards . His premature death is often considered the end of the New German Cinema timeframe. Fassbinder was born in the small town of Bad Wörishofen on 31 May 1945. He was born three weeks after US Army occupied the town and the unconditional surrender of Germany . The aftermath of World War II deeply marked his childhood and

8176-500: The movie screen. Loneliness is a common theme in Fassbinder's work, together with the idea that power becomes a determining factor in all human relationships. His characters yearn for love, but seem condemned to exert an often violent control over those around them. A good example is The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant ( Die bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant , 1972) which was adapted by Fassbinder from his plays. The title character

8288-481: The movies eventually produced. Drag City also published a collection of his fanzines called The Collected Fanzines with skateboarder and writer Mark Gonzales in 2008. Korine released a number of photographic collections, usually in conjunction with gallery exhibits. In 1998 he published The Bad Son in conjunction with Taka Ishii gallery in Tokyo, documenting his various photo shoots with Macaulay Culkin . In 2002, Pass

8400-539: The music video for Rihanna 's "Needed Me" which was released on April 21, 2016. In the same year, Korine directed a Supreme commercial starring rapper Gucci Mane (who had previously appeared in Spring Breakers ), and appeared in the music video for Gucci Mane and Travis Scott 's "Last Time". Korine directed the music video for Bladee 's "ONE SECOND" featuring Yung Lean , which was released on April 27, 2024 in collaboration with EDGLRD. Korine founded EDGLRD ,

8512-475: The ones made before. After spinning out ten films in not much more than a year (this film was shot only a few months after Whity ) in a frenzied burst of creativity, his anti-film anti-theater drive seemed to conclude. After Pioneers in Ingolstadt , Fassbinder took an eight-month break from filmmaking. During this time, he turned for a model to Hollywood melodrama, particularly the films German émigré Douglas Sirk made in Hollywood for Universal-International in

8624-444: The parties, and midway through the project Fassbinder lost interest in it. The film suffered as a consequence, and it ranks among Fassbinder's weakest films. The tensions and bitterness that had surrounded the making of Whity led Fassbinder to dismantle the collective project of the Anti-Theater as a production company. Instead, he founded his own production company: Tango films. Pioneers in Ingolstadt , although broadcast before

8736-482: The people that understand and appreciate Gummo or my work will be in positions of power", declaring that the culture presented in his art was going to become more prominent. Korine has said that his films are created with the premise that if there is at least one image that sticks with you after viewing a film and makes you change your perspective on cinema, then it is a success. Roger Ebert subsequently said in his review of Julien Donkey-Boy that "Korine, who at 25

8848-479: The play Dedicated to Rosa von Praunheim . Fassbinder used his theatrical work as a springboard for making films; and many of the Anti-Theater actors and crew worked with him throughout his entire career (for instance, he made 20 films each with actresses Hanna Schygulla and Irm Herrmann). He was strongly influenced by Brecht's Verfremdungseffekt (alienation effect) and the French New Wave cinema, particularly

8960-451: The plot, cast, and earlier works of the filmmaker, Indiewire wrote "this might be the weirdest movie the director has ever made simply by nature of being totally unlike his previous work." "That Mr. Korine appears to be having it both (or many) ways may seem like a cop-out, but only if you believe that the role of the artist is to be a didact or a scold", wrote The New York Times . Principal filming wrapped up on March 30, 2012. The film

9072-439: The respect of noted filmmakers such as Gus Van Sant , among others. It has been called "unlike anything you've seen in a while – maybe ever" – and that "if you're the kind of person who claims to be frustrated by the predictability of commercial filmmaking, [it presents] a rare opportunity to put your money where your mouth is." In 1998, Korine released The Diary of Anne Frank Pt II , a 40-minute three-screen collage featuring

9184-492: The setting appears frequently in his film Trash Humpers (2009). In 1997, Korine's favorite writers were listed as the humorists James Thurber and S. J. Perelman , as well as the Southern Gothic novelist Flannery O'Connor . He also credited the philosopher Walter Benjamin as an influence. In recent years, Korine has praised rapper and collaborator Gucci Mane . Korine has noted British filmmaker Alan Clarke as

9296-480: The shootout, but Franz and Joanna escape. Love Is Colder Than Death is a low key film with muted tone, long sequences, non-naturalistic acting and little dialogue. Success was not immediate. Love Is Colder Than Death was ill-received at its premiere at the Berlin Film Festival . The film, however, already displays the themes that were to remain present through the director's subsequent work: loneliness,

9408-458: The short film Korine Tap for Stop For a Minute, a series of short films commissioned by Dazed & Confused magazine and FilmFour Lab. The film featured Korine tap dancing while wearing blackface . In 2002, Larry Clark made Ken Park , based on a script Korine had written several years earlier. The film, another adult tale of youth gone awry, was not distributed in the United States. At

9520-585: The slow meltdown of these relationships as inevitable, and his actresses (there are no men in the film) move in a slow, trance-like way that hints at a vast world of longing beneath the beautiful, brittle surface. Jail Bait  [ de ] ( Wildwechsel , 1972), also known as Wild Game , is a bleak story of teenage angst, set in industrial northern Germany during the 1950s. As in many other of his films, Fassbinder analyses lower middle class life with characters who, unable to articulate their feelings, bury them in inane phrases and violent acts. Love turns into

9632-414: The space of 18 months he directed 12 plays. Of these 12 plays, four were written by Fassbinder; he rewrote five others. The style of his stage directing closely resembled that of his early films, a mixture of choreographed movement and static poses, taking its cues from musicals, cabaret, films and the student protest movement. After he made his earliest feature films at age 24 in 1969, Fassbinder centered

9744-450: The spelling varies), and he acted in 19 of his own films as well as for other directors. He wrote 14 plays, created new versions of six classical plays, and directed or co-directed 25 stage plays. He wrote and directed four radio plays and wrote song lyrics. In addition, he wrote 33 screenplays and collaborated with other screenwriters on 13 more. On top of this, he occasionally performed many other roles such as cinematographer and producer on

9856-471: The theatre's leader. In April 1968, now 23, he directed the production of his play Katzelmacher , which tells the story of a foreign worker from Greece who becomes the object of intense racial , sexual , and political hatred among a group of Bavarian "slackers". A few weeks later, in May 1968, the Action-Theater was disbanded after its theater was wrecked by one of its founders. It promptly reformed as

9968-436: The theatrical release of Beware of a Holy Whore , was the last film made by Fassbinder during his formative period. In the following year, 1971, Fassbinder shot only one film: The Merchant of Four Seasons . Beware of a Holy Whore was based, like many of Fassbinder's films, on a personal experience – the shooting of his earlier film, the revisionist western Whity (1970). The film shows an egomaniacal director, beset by

10080-599: The time of its release, Clark and Korine had long since parted ways, and Korine had no involvement in its production. In 2003, he made the television documentary Above the Below about his friend and collaborator David Blaine and his 44-day stunt in a park over the bank of River Thames in London inside a suspended plexiglas box. A documentary commissioned by Sky Television and Channel 4 , it also includes jokes, visual poetry, and music. In addition, Korine has worked with Blaine on

10192-564: The title) arrive to their town to build a bridge. One of the women flirts from soldier to soldier, but her friend falls in love only to be abandoned. Shot in November 1970, Pioneers in Ingolstaldt was commissioned for television. Fassbinder wanted to bring the plot from the 1920s to contemporary Germany, but the producers, fearing to offend the German army, refused. A compromise did not satisfy any of

10304-733: The tragic-comic play: Drops on Hot Stones . To gain entry to the Berlin Film School , Fassbinder submitted a film version of his play Parallels . He also entered several 8 mm films including This Night (now considered lost ), but he was turned down for admission, as were Werner Schroeter and Rosa von Praunheim who would also have careers as film directors. He returned to Munich where he continued with his writing. He also made two short films, The City Tramp ( Der Stadtstreicher , 1966) and The Little Chaos ( Das Kleine Chaos , 1967). Shot in black and white , they were financed by Fassbinder's lover, Christoph Roser, an aspiring actor from

10416-513: The two friends find a patroness to finance their adventure. Based on an idea by Volker Schlondorff , Rio das Mortes was shot in January 1970 following Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? , but was broadcast on television a year later in February 1971. The film feels casually constructed; the humor is bland and the plot has been criticized for its sloppiness and poor character development. Rio das Mortes

10528-469: The wall during the bathtub scene. He told The New York Times , "When I saw a piece of fried bacon fixed to the bathroom wall in Gummo , it knocked me off my chair. [Korine's] a very clear voice of a generation of filmmakers that is taking a new position. It's not going to dominate world cinema, but so what?" Although a majority of mainstream critics derided it as an unintelligible mess, it won top prizes at that year's Venice Film Festival and earned Korine

10640-485: The works of Jean-Luc Godard . He also praised The Damned (1969) by Luchino Visconti his favorite movie. Other filmmakers who influenced Fassbinder included Howard Hawks , Michael Curtiz , Raoul Walsh , and Nicholas Ray . Fassbinder developed his rapid working methods early. Because he knew his actors and technicians so well, Fassbinder was able to complete as many as four or five films per year on extremely low budgets. This allowed him to compete successfully for

10752-455: The wrong crowd. He teams up with his best friend, a black Bavarian criminal who killed his brother, to raid a supermarket. Both men are betrayed by Franz's jilted lover Joanna who tips off the police. Franz is killed, and the film ends at his laconic funeral. Similar in plot and characters to both Love is Colder than Death (1969) and The American Soldier (1970), Gods of the Plague ' s theme of homoerotic love would reappear repeatedly in

10864-448: Was "only physical". Originally made for German television, Jail Bait was based on a play by Franz Xaver Kroetz , who violently disagreed with Fassbinder's adaptation, calling it pornographic. The luridness of its theme furthered the controversy. His only science fiction film , World on a Wire ( Welt am Draht , 1973), was a departure for Fassbinder. An adaptation of the pulp sci-fi novel Simulacron-3 by Daniel F. Galouye , it

10976-460: Was a deconstruction of the American gangster films of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. Fassbinder plays the lead role of Franz, a small-time pimp who is torn between his mistress Joanna, a sex worker played by Hanna Schygulla, and his friend Bruno, a gangster sent after Franz by the syndicate that he has refused to join. Joanna informs the police of a bank robbery the two men have planned. Bruno is killed in

11088-467: Was a German filmmaker, dramatist and actor. He is widely regarded as one of the major figures and catalysts of the New German Cinema movement. Versatile and prolific, his over 40 films span a variety of genres, most frequently blending elements of Hollywood melodrama with social criticism and avant-garde techniques. His films, according to him, explored "the exploitability of feelings". His work

11200-713: Was deeply rooted in post-war German culture: the aftermath of Nazism , the German economic miracle , and the terror of the Red Army Faction . He worked with a company of actors and technicians who frequently appeared in his projects. Fassbinder began leading the acting troupe Anti-Theater in 1967, with whom he staged some of his earliest productions. His first feature-length film was a gangster movie called Love Is Colder Than Death (1969); he scored his first domestic commercial success with The Merchant of Four Seasons (1972) and his first international success with Ali: Fear Eats

11312-399: Was expanded from forty minutes to feature length, moving the action from a country village to Munich and delaying the appearance of Jorgos. Gods of the Plague ( Götter der Pest ) is a bleak gangster film with a winter setting, shot mostly indoors and at night. The character of Franz (from Fassbinder's first film, but now played by Harry Baer ) is released from prison, but falls back with

11424-492: Was loosely based on the real-life of Hans Boehm , a shepherd who in 1476 claimed that the Virgin Mary called him to foment an uprising against the church and upper classes. Despite a temporary success, Boehm's followers were eventually massacred and he was burned at the stake. Fassbinder's intention was to show how and why revolutions fail. His approach was to compare the political and sexual turmoil of feudal Germany with that of

11536-433: Was made as a two-part, 205-minute production for television using 16mm film stock during a hiatus from the lengthy production of Effi Briest and in the same year as Martha and Ali: Fear Eats the Soul . A story of realities within realities, World on a Wire follows a researcher, working at the institute of cybernetics and future science, who begins to investigate the mysterious death of his mentor. He falls deep into

11648-420: Was often left alone, he became used to the independence and thus, became a juvenile delinquent . He clashed with his mother's younger lover Siegfried, who lived with them when Fassbinder was around eight or nine years old. He had a similar difficult relationship with the much older journalist Wolff Eder (c.1905–71), who became his stepfather in 1959. Early in his adolescence, Fassbinder came out as bisexual. As

11760-524: Was organized by Klaus Biesenbach at the Museum of Contemporary Art together with Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art , Berlin. For his exhibition at MoMA, Klaus Biesenbach received the International Association of Art Critics (AICA) award. Working simultaneously in theater and film, Fassbinder created his own style from a fusion of the two artforms. His ten early films are characterized by

11872-533: Was produced and distributed by his company EDGLRD . Korine's next feature film, also with EDGLRD, is Baby Invasion , shot from a first-person shooter perspective. Korine has not primarily regarded himself as a director, instead describing a "unified aesthetic" that his filmography explores as much as his art and photography. Much of his filmography, including his screenplays, explores themes of dysfunctional families, mental disorders, abuse, hedonism, poverty and various subcultures, with unreliable narrators and

11984-585: Was published in 1998 by Drag City. The screenplay for Kids (1995) was published by Grove Press the same year, followed by a collection of the screenplays for Gummo (1997), Julien Donkey-Boy (1999) and an unfinished screenplay named Jokes in Collected Screenplays , published by Faber and Faber in 2002. The screenplay for Mister Lonely (2007) was released by Swiss publisher Nieves with photographs by Rachel Korine and Brent Stewart in 2008. The majority of these books differ substantially from

12096-408: Was really Fengler's work rather than his. Nevertheless, the two were jointly given a directorial award for the project in the 1971 German Film prize competition, and Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? has always been considered among Fassbinder's films. Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? portrays the life of Herr Raab, a technical draughtsman married and with a small child. The pressures of middle-class life take

12208-911: Was selected to compete for the Golden Lion at the 69th Venice International Film Festival . Spring Breakers received its world premiere at the 2012 Venice International Film Festival , and later was shown at the Toronto International Film Festival before being released to the general public in March 2013. Korine's feature The Beach Bum was released in 2019, starring Matthew McConaughey as Moondog, Isla Fisher as his wife Minnie, Martin Lawrence as Captain Wack, and Snoop Dogg as Lingerie. In 2023, Korine released Aggro Dr1ft starring Catalan actor Jordi Mollà and Travis Scott . The film

12320-492: Was signed to MJZ for worldwide commercial representation. On 6 September 2009 Korine's film Trash Humpers premiered as part of the Visions section of the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival . Despite being a work of fiction, the film went on to win the top award at the prominent European documentary film festival CPH:DOX – Copenhagen International Documentary Festival – in November 2009. In March 2011, Korine released

12432-523: Was three months old, he was left with a paternal uncle and aunt in the country, since his parents feared he would not survive the winter with them. He was one year old when he was returned to his parents in Munich. Fassbinder's mother came from the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk , Poland ), whence many Germans had fled following World War II. As a result, a number of her relatives came to live with them in Munich. Fassbinder's parents were cultured members of

12544-551: Was to play the son, but he backed down and was replaced by Bremner. Like Gummo and Kids , it too has since become something of a cult classic, a go-to film for those seeking cinema that is, as Roger Ebert said in his three star review, "shocking for most moviegoers", unlike "the slick aboveground indie productions" that are now the norm. In 2000, The Devil, The Sinner, and His Journey premiered, which featured Korine in black metal corpsepaint as O. J. Simpson and Johnny Depp as Kato Kaelin . That same year, Korine directed

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