Gregg Araki Filmography

Gregg Araki (b. December 17, 1959) is an American film director of independent films. He is a seminal figure of the New Queer Cinema genre.

Early life
Araki was born in Los Angeles but grew up in Santa Barbara, California. He completed a Bachelor of Arts in Film Studies at UC Santa Barbara and an MFA in Film Production from the University of Southern California in 1985.

Career
Araki made his directorial debut in 1987 with Three Bewildered People in the Night. With a budget of only $5,000 and using a stationary camera, he told the story of a romance between a video artist, her lover and her gay friend.

Two years later, Araki made a name for himself on the festival circuit with Long Weekend (o' Despair). Produced, directed, written, photographed and edited by Araki (for his own Desperate Pictures Company), this very small-scale Big Chill derivation involved a group of recent college graduates brooding over their futures during one woozy, boozy evening.

He followed this up in 1992 with The Living End, a road movie about two HIV-positive men whose paths cross one fateful day and the tumultuous relationship which ensues. The film starred Craig Gilmore and Mike Dytri, and featured Mary Woronov (who appeared in several of "underground" films by Andy Warhol) and cult favorite Paul Bartel. Premiering at the Sundance Film Festival, the film was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize.

Araki's next three films comprised his "Teenage Apocalypse Trilogy."

Totally Fucked Up (1993) (Totally F***ed Up in publicity) chronicled the dysfunctional lives of six gay adolescents who have formed a family unit and struggle to get along with each other and with life in the face of various major obstacles. Araki himself classified it as "A rag-tag story of the fag-and-dyke teen underground....A kinda cross between avant-garde experimental cinema and a queer John Hughes flick". The movie explored the youths' depression and homophobia.

The Doom Generation was a black comedy brimming with graphic violence, cultural symbolism and relentless eroticism. The film starred Rose McGowan, Johnathon Schaech and James Duval (who had starred in Totally Fucked Up), with cameos by indie favorite Parker Posey, comedienne Margaret Cho, 21 Jump Street actor Dustin Nguyen, The Brady Bunch star Christopher Knight, The Love Boat star Lauren Tewes, Hollywood madame Heidi Fleiss and musician Perry Farrell. While largely trashed by critics, the piece won a measure of respect in a number of circles and is available on DVD and VHS in both rated and unrated versions due to several intensely sexual scenes as well as the film's extremely violent climax.

Nowhere (1997) was described by its director as "A Beverly Hills 90210 episode on acid." It centered around a group of bored, alienated Los Angeles teenagers during a typical day of kinky sex, drugs, and the requisite wild party. Duval, Rachel True, Nathan Bexton, Debi Mazar, Christina Applegate, Heather Graham, Ryan Phillippe, Jaason Simmons, Scott Caan and Mena Suvari starred in the film, with cameos by Beverly D'Angelo, Facts of Life star Charlotte Rae, Traci Lords, Shannen Doherty, Rose McGowan, John Ritter and International Male and fitness model Brian Buzzini.

Araki's subsequent effort, the romantic comedy Splendor, told the story of a woman (Kathleen Robertson) who cannot choose between two men (Johnathon Schaech and Matt Keeslar) and so decides to live with them both. Splendor was both a response to the controversy surrounding his relationship with Robertson and an homage to screwball comedies of the 1940s and '50s. Hailed as the director's most optimistic film to date, it made its premiere at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival. The film itself however was considered to be a disappointment (and even a failure with some.) among Araki fans who felt that he sold out by making a more lighthearted piece and by dating Robertson. The two later broke up and Araki has since dated mainly members of the same sex.

Araki's next venture was the ill-fated MTV series This Is How the World Ends (2000), which was meant to have a budget of $1.5 million. The network only gave him $700,000 and hoped to find partners to finance the difference. Araki offered to make the pilot episode for $700,000, and MTV took him up on it. After the pilot was shot, however, it was not picked up for broadcast, there are however circulating the internet bootleg copies of the ill-fated mini series.

Following a short hiatus, Araki returned with the critically acclaimed Mysterious Skin (2005) based on a novel by Scott Heim, which tells the story of a teenage hustler and a withdrawn young man obsessed with alien abductions, and how they both deal with the sexual abuse they suffered from their Little League coach when they were children. With this movie Araki found critical acclaim and a generally good public reaction.

Araki's ninth feature, made in 2007, was the stoner comedy Smiley Face, starring Anna Faris, which he directed with a screenplay by Dylan Haggerty. Araki wanted to make a comic film after shooting the more serious and darker film, Mysterious Skin his eighth movie. Critics have mentioned the potential of this film in becoming a "cult classic." [2] [3].

One consistent feature of Araki's work to date is the presence of music from the shoegazer genre as film soundtracks, first seen on Totally Fucked Up and heavily so on the films Nowhere and Mysterious Skin (even going so far as to employ Robin Guthrie to oversee the latter's score). Both The Living End and Nowhere are named after tracks by shoegazing bands (The Jesus and Mary Chain and Ride respectively).




Rating: 6.5/10
Runtime: 94 min
Language: English (Japanese (?) hardsubs)
Country: USA
Color: Black and White
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094134/

Director: Gregg Araki
Cast:
Mark Howell ... David
John Lacques ... Craig
Darcy Marta ... Alicia

Description: David, Craig and Alicia are a triangle of young lovers who find angst and despair as they sort out their feelings and sexuality in a late-night coffee shop.

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Rating: 6.4/10
Runtime: 92
Language: English
Country: US
Color: Color
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104745/

Director: Gregg Araki
Cast:
Mike Dytri, Craig Gilmore, Mark Finch, Mary Woronov, Darcy Marta, Scot Goetz, Johanna Went.

Description: Billed as «An Irresponsible Movie by Gregg Araki,» this was maybe the first U.S. narrative feature that responded to the AIDS crisis with ACT UP-style radical rage rather than lamentation or case-pleading. It’s also (still) intensely sexy, funny, and romantic.

Gregg Araki`s acclaimed Outlaw Couple romance has been totally revamped in The Living End: Remixed And Remastered.

Featuring 5.1 Dolby Stereo sound, this new version has been personally remastered, re-color-timed and remixed by the director.

The Living End: Remixed And Remastered was presented at both the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and the Berlin International Film Festival.



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Rating: 5.8/10
Runtime: 79 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Color: Color
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108366/

Director: Gregg Araki
Cast:
James Duval ... Andy
Roko Belic ... Tommy
Susan Behshid ... Michele
Jenee Gill ... Patricia
Gilbert Luna ... Steven
Lance May ... Deric
Alan Boyce ... Ian
Craig Gilmore ... Brendan
Nicole Dillenberg ... Dominatrix
Johanna Went ... Excalibur Lady
Robert McHenry ... Andy's Trick
Brad Minnich ... 'don't touch mine' Guy
Michael Costanza ... Everett
Joyce Brouwers ... Deric's Mom
Clay Walker ... Homeless AIDS Guy

Description: User comment from Imdb;
Tracing the progress of innovative filmmakers is a pleasure for movie buffs. Gregg Araki developed a unique voice in film in the early 1990s (this film dates back to 1993), a voice that maintained a sense of immediacy with his actors who he directed with his hand held camera in a manner that gave the illusion that the 'script' was extemporaneous. Careful not to assign controversial roles to inadequate talent, Araki gathered a group of young actors and pulled the very best from them. Many of these early actors still maintain presence in Araki's prolific flow of films.

As is so often the case with Araki's stories, TOTALLY F***ED UP deals with gay sensibilities in a way that displays the entire spectrum of positive and negative response to his characters. He does not preach: he simply voyeuristically reveals lifestyles as though he were a hidden personage who just happened to fall into private moments and turbulent emotions. In this film Araki divides the examination of six teenage gay kids (four boys and two girls) into 15 dialogues, each representing an aspect of what faces his characters and how they cope with being on the fringe. The 15 episodes are related because the characters remain the same and it is this unique manner of making his story that has continued to be a trait of Araki's later, more linear films.

We meet each of the six characters in an interview situation, with only the minimal amount dialogue conveying the maximum amount of information. The primary character is Andy (a superlative James Duval) whose view of life is bleak to say the least: Andy doesn't believe in love, in commitment, believes he is bisexual even though he has never stepped out of his same-sex playing out, grows to depend on his friends, falls in love with a sweet talking fellow Ian (Alan Boyce) only to discover Ian is not at all monogamous, and finally feels the pain of heartbreak and makes a decision about life that ends the film. The other characters include Michele (Susan Behshid) and Patricia (Jenee Gill) who are lesbian lovers and stable figures for the boys, desiring to have children and a wholesome life without the need for male penetration!; Steven (Gilbert Luna) and Deric (Lance May) who are coupled but come apart when Steven has an affair and Deric is gay-bashed; and Tommy (Roko Belic), the one who falls in love too easily with every one night stand he has.

The episodes deal with the characters' sexual attitudes, AIDS, life on the streets, drugs, parental alienation, loneliness, abuse, suicide, and the desperate need for extended family. With Araki's technique we come to care strongly for each of these disparate kids: by the end of the film they feel like close personal friends of ours.

The filming technique is choppy and slips out of focus and seems to idle like a malfunctioning engine at times, but in Araki's sensitive hands these aspects add to the tension of the story. Clearly Gregg Araki is a gifted artist, and his films subsequent to this successful one serve to prove his growth and increased power of heart to heart communication. Highly recommended.

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Rating: User Rating: 4.9/10 (3,899 votes)
Runtime: 85 min / USA:72 min (R-rated version)
Language: English
Country: USA / France
Color: color
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112887/

Director: Gregg Araki
Cast:
James Duval ... Jordan White
Rose McGowan ... Amy Blue
Johnathon Schaech ... Xavier Red
Cress Williams ... Peanut
Dwayne R. Goettel ... Gang of Goons (as Skinny Puppy)
Cevin Key ... Gang of Goons (as Skinny Puppy)
Nivek Ogre ... Gang of Goons (as Skinny Puppy)
Dustin Nguyen ... Quickiemart Clerk
Margaret Cho ... Clerk\'s Wife
Lauren Tewes ... TV Anchorwoman
Christopher Knight ... TV Anchorman
Nicky Katt ... Carnoburger Cashier
Johanna Went ... Carnoburger Co-Worker
Perry Farrell ... Stop \'n\' Go clerk
Amanda Bearse ... Barmaid

Description: Jordan White and Amy Blue, two troubled teens, pick up an adolescent drifter, Xavier Red. Together, the threesome embark on a sex and violence-filled journey through an America of psychos and quickiemarts

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Rating: 5.5
Runtime: 82 min
Language: English
Country: USA / France
Color: Color
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119809/

Director: Gregg Araki
Cast:
James Duval ... Dark Smith
Rachel True ... Mel
Nathan Bexton ... Montgomery
Chiara Mastroianni ... Kriss, S&M Girl
Debi Mazar ... Kozy, S&M Girl #2
Kathleen Robertson ... Lucifer
Joshua Gibran Mayweather ... Zero, Mel's Brother
Jordan Ladd ... Alyssa
Christina Applegate ... Dingbat
Sarah Lassez ... Egg / Polly
Guillermo Díaz ... Cowboy (as Guillermo Diaz)
Jeremy Jordan ... Bart Sighvatssohn
Alan Boyce ... Handjob
Jaason Simmons ... The Teen Idol
Ryan Phillippe ... Shad, Allysa's Brother

Description: A group of teenagers try to sort out their lives and emotions while bizarre experiences happen to each one, including alien abductions, bad acid trips, bisexual experiences, suicides, bizarre deaths, and a rape by a TV star. All of this happens before "the greatest party of the year"

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Rating: 5.1/10
Runtime: 93 min
Language: English
Country: UK | USA
Color: Color
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0127296/

Director: Gregg Araki
Cast:
Kathleen Robertson ... Veronica
Johnathon Schaech ... Abel
Matt Keeslar ... Zed
Kelly Macdonald ... Mike
Eric Mabius ... Ernest
Dan Gatto ... Mutt
Linda Kim ... Alison
Audrey Ruttan ... The Gloved One
Nathan Bexton ... Waiter
Amy Stevens ... Nana Kitty Cat
Adam Carolla ... Mike's Stupid Boss (as Adam Carola)
Julie Millett ... Supermarket Cashier (as Julie Millette)
Jenica Bergere ... Model #1
Paige Dunn ... Model #2
Emile Hamaty ... The Wizard Cashier

Description: An average, calm mid-20s girl named Veronica restarts her dead dating life all of the sudden, but with two guys: a sensitive failed writer named Abel and an airheaded drummer named Zed. At first she despairs. Then she finds a way to date both without their finding out. Then she tells both about it. Then Abel and Zed meet each other, and, after much initial conflict, they wind up living together and evolve into a very odd yet happy threesome. However, as time goes by Veronica starts growing apart from them, while Abel and Zed become brother-like (and kid-like). So when a director starts courting a pregnant Veronica, strains ensue. Will Abel and Zed be able to grow up and save the day?... Written by Parca Mortem {icy_shadow@rocketmail.com}

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Rating: 8.0
Runtime: 99
Language: english
Country: USA | Netherlands
Color: color
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0370986/

Director: Gregg Araki
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Description: Mysterious Skin is a 2004 film concerning the effect of childhood sexual abuse on two boys from Hutchinson, Kansas. The film received extensive critical acclaim. The film is California filmmaker Gregg Araki's eighth, debuting at the Venice Film Festival in 2004 although it was not more widely distributed until 2005. It is based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Scott Heim.

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Rating: 5.7/10
Runtime: 88 min
Language: English
Country: USA | Germany
Color: Color
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0780608/

Director: Gregg Araki
Cast:
Anna Faris ... Jane F.
Roscoe Lee Browne ... Himself (voice)
Danny Masterson ... Steve the Roomate
Ben Falcone ... Agent
Adam Brody ... Steve the Dealer
Brian Posehn ... Bus Driver
Rick Hoffman ... Angry Face
Matthew J. Evans ... Bobby (as Matthew Evans)
Davenia McFadden ... Bus Passenger
Joey Diaz ... Security Guard (as Joey Coco Diaz)
Jim Rash ... Casting Assistant
Jayma Mays ... Actress in Waiting Room
Jane Lynch ... Casting Director
John Krasinski ... Brevin
Kai Cofer ... Man with Weird Beard

Description: Jane eats her roommate Steve's 14 weed muffins, uses money for an electricity bill to buy weed and then burns it in a pan. She fails an audition, gets thrown out of a sausage factory, steals the original Communist Manifesto and ends up doing community service.

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