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	Gregg Araki - Films as Director:
		Yutani, Kimberly, "Gregg Araki and the Queer New Wave," in
		Araki's passionate commitment to his characters ("totally f***ed up" as their lives may be) is anything but nihilistic.
		But Araki's characters are no longer "the children of Marx and Coca-Cola": they inhabit the desolate landscape of America in the 1990s, where Marx is not available, consumerism has overwhelmed the culture, concepts no longer apply, and the only fragile hope lies in the precarious and elusive possibility of an ever-more-vulnerable human contact.
	www.filmreference.com /Directors-A-Ba/Araki-Gregg.html (982 words)

	Gregg Araki - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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".
		Araki's fifth film, The Doom Generation, was a fl comedy brimming with graphic violence, cultural symbolism and relentless eroticism.
		At around this time, Araki began dating actress Kathleen Robertson, whom he had cast in Splendor; the relationship sparked a certain degree of controversy in the tabloid media, as Araki had previously defined himself in interviews as "queer", which many took to mean homosexual.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gregg_Araki (764 words)

	Indie filmmaker goes somewhere
		Araki's latest feature "Nowhere," which opened May 9 in Los Angeles, is the grand finale of what Araki calls his "Teen Apocalyspe" trilogy, which began with "Totally Fucked Up" (1994) and "The Doom Generation"(1995).
		Ultimately Araki said that his filmic style is a reflection of reality "taken to a higher plane." This is visually apparent through the use of color, lighting and costume that brings a superluscious packaging of mise-en-scene in Araki's films.
		Araki said that his inspiration to make films about lost youth is related to the youth of the `60s, as in renowned French auteur Jean Luc Godard's "Masculine-Feminine." Araki admits he is a big fan of Godard next to Buster Keaton, Howard Hawks and Alfred Hitchcock.
	www.usc.edu /dept/DT/V131/N02/01-indie.02d.html (978 words)

	Inner Space: Gregg Araki's "Mysterious Skin"
		Araki's aggressive, militantly queer, often violent and violently stylized movies were an inspiration to some, and purposefully alienating to others.
		Gregg Araki's films have a tendency to provoke love 'em or loathe 'em reactions, and even those who fall into the former category typically cling more to their appreciation of the ballsy auteur's intentions than they do his execution.
		Araki does deserve a modicum of credit for offering up a far more multifaceted version of the current circus mentality swirling about issues of abuse, but the end result is something like a scar from an supposed alien experiment -- real enough to touch but difficult to invest in.
	www.indiewire.com /movies/movies_050503myst.html (1575 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Film \| Interviews \| 'I'm not making Chicago'
		(Araki is a compulsive storyboarder.) Obviously, he could not have his child actors in the same shot as the coach during the sex scenes.
		Listening to the short, pumped-up filmmaker speak is to hear an intelligent, articulate variant of a recognisable southern Californian type: the lilting voice that moves toward a question mark even when the sentence is not interrogative, the "likes" and "uhs," the too-cool bits of babble.
		Ninety-eight per cent was done, in Araki's words, "in the depths of the San Bernadino Valley" near Los Angeles, and the remainder in New York.
	film.guardian.co.uk /interview/interviewpages/0,,1490465,00.html (1362 words)

	glbtq >> arts >> Araki, Gregg
		Central to Araki's queer aesthetic are extreme and unpredictable shifts in relationships and moods, from comic to tragic, sensitive to torturous.
		Described by Araki as "Twin Peaks for the MTV generation," he was pleased that a truly radical program might enter millions of homes.
		When one boy embraces the coach's advances, Araki questions the accepted "evil" image of a pedophile in a disturbing manner; viewers are confronted by a pedophile who elicits contradictory and unsettling emotional responses.
	www.glbtq.com /arts/araki_g.html (1232 words)

	Amazon.com: The Doom Generation: DVD: James Duval,Rose McGowan,Johnathon Schaech,Cress Williams,Nivek Ogre,Cevin ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Araki makes a case for their continuing innocence in a society whose anti-outsider malevolence is barely disguised in the media but is quite naked out in the heartland, where a punishing level of bigotry is not unknown.
		Araki's jokes and techniques are crude yet forceful, and his anger is absolutely clear where Stone's was obscured and overreaching.
		Araki films are often about things not being what they appear to be; and they require the viewer to sort out complexity and revelation in what appear to be one-dimensional characters undergoing no real change.
	www.amazon.com /Doom-Generation-Gregg-Araki/dp/1573624039 (2282 words)

	Gregg Araki
		With his debut feature, The Living End, Gregg Araki became one of the first filmmakers to pry open the cinematic closet and usher out what would become a powerful new wave of gay film.
		Araki's characters are primarily alienated, disaffected teeny-boppers with supercharged hormones.
		In Araki's universe, hope survives only in the look in Duval's eyes and the assurance that someone, at least, is unhappy with what he sees.
	www.geocities.com /SoHo/Cafe/5214/araki.htm (1027 words)

	Siffblog: Gregg Araki Interview - Individual (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		It's Araki's first adaptation and concerns two 18-year-old boys living in Kansas, both of whom are dealing--in very different ways--with sexual abuse suffered as children.
		It was hard for Araki to contain his enthusiasm for the way the film turned out and the overwhelmingly positive response it has been receiving.
		Araki is such a big music fan that he owns over 1,000 albums, but has never been in a band ("I don't play any instruments") or DJ'ed.
	www.siffblog.com /other/gregg_araki_interview_002438.html (621 words)

	Bio for Gregg Araki on MSN Movies
		One of the angriest, most unconventional, and relentlessly intriguing voices in independent cinema, filmmaker Gregg Araki emerged on the film scene with the subtlety of a gunshot to the head with The Living End in 1992.
		Araki followed this modest effort with the aforementioned The Living End (1992), which was shown in competition at Sundance.
		Araki's next film, Totally F***ed Up (1993), was one close to his heart.
	entertainment.msn.com /celebs/celeb.aspx?mp=b&c=172062 (387 words)

	Gregg Araki
		Gregg Araki's self-described "heterosexual film" positively drips with homoerotic undertones as it follows the on-the-run exploits of a tough Valley Girl, her naive boyfriend, and a mysterious bi-guy.
		Araki regular Duval and an eclectic young cast are pessimistic high schoolers mired in pop culture hell as they ditch class and kill an afternoon with sex, deep thoughts and fl forest cake while waiting for a party that evening.
		Araki was born in Santa Barbara, California where he later attended the University of California and earned and M.F.A. in film.
	www.queertheory.com /histories/a/araki_gregg.htm (459 words)

	At the Movies: Gregg Araki: 'Mysterious Skin'
		Margaret Pomeranz talks to director Gregg Araki, local Australian film distributors and Melbourne Film Festival director about the controversial new film 'Mysterious Skin'.
		GREGG ARAKI: It's about a subject that's very dark and a sort of taboo subject.
		But I think that it also, it is very, it's told in a very sort of poetic and sort of beautiful language that kind of transcends its subject matter.
	www.abc.net.au /atthemovies/txt/s1198828.htm (573 words)

	The Films of Gregg Araki
		Billed as "an irresponsible film by Gregg Araki," this vitrolic first effort from the "formerly gay" maverick director remains his most consistent and memorable work.
		Like all of the films directed by Gregg Araki, the alternative Valley Boy poster child, Splendor may be an acquired taste but offers a much safer introduction than his past two efforts, the vicious teen angst dramas Nowhere and The Doom Generation.
		Araki's usual reliance on graphic, acidic dialogue takes a back seat here, and he even deftly sidesteps the issue of exactly what Abel and Zed do with each other when Veronica's not in bed.
	www.mondo-digital.com /splendor.html (1090 words)

	AfterElton.com - Bad Boy Gregg Araki Grows Up
		The “bad boy of queer cinema,” Gregg Araki, recently joined the ranks of Pedro Almodóvar, Gus Van Sant, John Waters, Todd Haynes and Lisa Cholodenko by being named a recipient of the Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival’s HBO Career Achievement Award.
		Critics have also heralded Araki’s newest film as a departure for the auteur, saying that by abandoning his edgy punk-ridden milieu while making Mysterious Skin, he demonstrates an artistic maturing.
		During a press conference at the Toronto Film Festival, where the film received its world premiere, Araki was asked to respond to claims that “he’s lost his edge.” The director jokingly replied that those critics were simply insulting him.
	www.afterelton.com /movies/2005/5/mysteriousskin.html (440 words)

	iFMagazine.com Features - ARAKI RECONSIDERED
		Now Araki first came on the scene with THREE BEWILDERED PEOPLE IN THE NIGHT, (1987) but since my video store didn’t have it in stock there’s not much we have to say on this piece except I’m sure if Araki directed it, it is the single greatest motion picture in the history of the medium.
		God bless Araki for spewing out this nihilistic rollercoaster ride, it reminds us that not all the killer trash is in the distant past, that even today you can find a filmmaker who’s not afraid of waving his dick in the wind.
		Hopefully Araki will not be discouraged by his own gross incompetence in handling screwball comedy and will continue to try his hand at the many cinematic genres available to him.
	www.ifmagazine.com /feature.asp?article=670 (1445 words)

	In Newsweekly -.- Culture -.- Gregg Araki is a filmmaker on the edge
		Araki, who is being honored at this year's Provincetown International Film Festival, running June 14-18, recognizes the progress that has been made in gay and lesbian cinema since his early days as a radical filmmaker when he pumped out films which would leave many "Will and Grace" fans disturbed and discombobulated.
		Araki and his producing team had to crusade to get the controversial 2004 film made.
		Gregg Araki will be honored at The Provincetown International Film Festival Filmmaker on the Edge Event on Friday, June 16, at 6 p.m., at the Town Hall.
	www.innewsweekly.com /innews/?class_code=Ar&article_code=2093&PHPSESSID=12fd036a1ec83ec149486dd31ae9c905 (701 words)

	grandprixcities - mysterious skin - Gregg Araki - dvd review - critique buy rent trade
		Two teenagers, both victims (singularly and together) of their small town baseball coach's pedophilia 10 years earlier, lead unique and seperate messed up lives, until they come together to expose and begin to come to terms with demons they are left to deal with by their predator.
		And in amongst all this are moments of epiphany, sometimes for the characters and sometimes for the film, leading me to believe that Araki is not the nihilist many critics would paint him.
		When the boys finally meet in the last act of the film, they re-enter the house where the abuse took place and rather than it being the same bachelor play pen of a decade before, it is now a regular small town family home, as if redecoration could cast out the evil.
	www.grandprixcities.com /gpcdvdreview/mysteriousskin2004.html (518 words)

	Bright Lights Film Journal \| The Doom Generation, cast interview (1)
		Is Gregg Araki's new film really "a more radical personal and political film than Oliver Stone could have managed in his wettest of wet dreams?" Matt Severson says so, and Araki agrees.
		Araki has made a more radical personal and political film than the bombastic Stone could have managed in his wettest of wet dreams.
		Araki is an anarchic filmmaker in the tradition of Vigo and Pasolini, showing us areas of human behavior and transgression that test our limits as an audience.
	www.brightlightsfilm.com /15/araki.html (1151 words)

	Amazon.ca: Totally F**ed Up [IMPORT]: DVD: Gregg Araki,Alan Boyce,Nicole Dillenberg,Jon Gerrans,Craig Gilmore,Johanna ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)*
		Independent filmmaker Gregg Araki takes an everday look at several gay and lesbian teenagers (4 gay boys and a very cute baby dyke couple) whose friendship provide a '90s-style family unit.
		Telling the tragic and self-important story of a group of troubled (yet, oh so normal) gay and lesbian teenagers, Araki has created a document for the hndreds of thousands of homosexual teens in the world that are not the stereotypes we normally think of.
		These are cool, tough, confident and fragile characters who echo the swarms of gay kids across America that listen industrial and hardcore music, skateboard, have sex and are just and likely to have a broken heart as the head cheerleader in school.
	www.amazon.ca /Totally-ed-Up-Gregg-Araki/dp/B00005KCBC (1513 words)

	< Gregg Araki .com > (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		When searching for info on Gregg Araki, I was mainly finding dead, pop-up clogged geocities pages, so I decided to sort out the good stuff and compile it here.
		Gregg Araki's upcoming film, crEEEEps!, has been added to the IMDB.
		Yes, there was a series in the works in 2000, called "This Is How the World Ends." From what I know, only a pilot was shot, and it is not available for official purchase.
	www.greggaraki.com (480 words)

	Gregg Araki on going Nowhere
		Gregg Araki, the hyper cool filmmaker behind such existentialist MTV movies as The Doom Generation and The Living End, has become a bit weary about all the questions surrounding his personal life.
		He is, after all, trying to promote his latest film, Nowhere, the final instalment in his Teen Apocalypse trilogy (after Totally F***ed Up and The Doom Generation).
		I would prefer people talk about what the film is about, the way it looks, the acting, the camera work, what it's trying to do--coming from film school, from a film theory background, my films are super dense with stuff.
	www.montrealmirror.com /ARCHIVES/1997/071797/film1.html (1034 words)

	Nothing's Shocking: Gregg Araki On His "Mysterious Skin"
		Gregg Araki, director of "Mysterious Skin," at the Intercontinental Hotel in Toronto last fall.
		Michael ("The Hours") Cunningham has insisted Scott Heim, the author of "Mysterious Skin," "is a serious writer who's unafraid to swim in the darkest waters." Put director Gregg Araki into a pair of Speedos, and the same could be said of him.
		Dialing up Araki two days before his film officially opened in New York City (it's already had a few highly successful festival screenings including Tribeca), indieWIRE was confronted with a rather calm helmer.
	www.indiewire.com /people/people_050505araki.html (1734 words)

	“A Vessel of Imagery”: An Interview with Gregg Araki
		During a recent visit to Sydney, Gregg Araki spoke to Damon Young and Gilbert Caluya after a preview of his new film, Mysterious Skin (2004), an adaptation of the novel by Scott Heim, which explores two boys’ experience of sexual abuse.
		Araki is best known for his teen angst trilogy – Totally F***ed Up (1993), The Doom Generation (1995) and Nowhere (1997) – whose “satirical and postmodern” stylistics earned him a reputation as the “Bad Boy of the New Queer Cinema”.
		However, Araki has shied away from this appellation, along with all other attempts to pin him down to a particular political agenda.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/06/38/gregg_araki.html (4147 words)

	Gregg Araki — FactMonster.com
		Independent filmmaker Araki has established himself as one of the leading voices of gay cinema.
		An Asian American, Araki attended the University of Southern California's film school.
		Araki most ambitious project is his “teen apocalypse trilogy,” which includes
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0880653.html (116 words)

	iFMagazine.com Features - GENDER BENDER
		Scratching a bull's-eye tattoo on his left deltoid, Gregg Araki takes a quick sip of his pina colada and then quickly pops the cherry in his mouth.
		GREGG ARAKI, the filmmaker people either love, hate, or love-to-hate is back with SPLENDOR, a nicer film.
		The Asian Araki is the picture of poise and hip.
	www.ifmagazine.com /feature.asp?article=381 (519 words)

	Gregg Araki Biography :: Hollywood.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A self-styled "guerrilla filmmaker" (because he often films without permits and pays his actors very little), Gregg Araki's features are tinged with ironic nihilism and reflect the boredom, despair and inadequacy of segments of American youth who consider themselves outside the mainstream.
		Araki achieved a breakthrough with his third feature, "The Living End" (1992), which also earned him the label as a pioneer of the 'Queer New Wave Cinema'.
		Araki's fourth film, "Totally F***ed Up" (1993), was actually shot before "The Living End" but delayed because of funding difficulties.
	www.hollywood.com /celebs/fulldetail/id/188785 (542 words)

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