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Series. Gregg Araki’s Teen Apocalypse Trilogy. Sep 15-16, 2023. Born in Los Angeles to Japanese American parents in 1959, Gregg Araki entered high school concurrently with the emergence of punk rock and a cultural moment well-suited to his teenage angst.
Gregg Araki’s Teen Apocalypse Trilogy. Take the conventions of the American teen movie, transpose them to Los Angeles’s freaky fringes, anchor them in an unapologetic vision of sexual fluidity, and top it all off with heavy doses of Gen X disillusionment, gonzo violence, and hallucinogenic surrealism, and you’ll end up with something like ...
Sep 15, 2023 · The world premiere of a new 4K restoration of the 1997 film “Nowhere” will be the highlight of this weekend’s presentation of Gregg Araki’s “Teen Apocalypse” trilogy at the Academy Museum.
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Mar 18, 2024 · New Queer Cinema icon Gregg Araki made his Teenage Apocalypse Trilogy in the 90s, including 'Totally Fucked Up', 'The Doom Generation' and 'Nowhere'.
Explicit, beautiful, and visceral, Gregg Araki’s Teen Apocalypse Trilogy comprises a unique ensemble portrait of queer Los Angeles youth navigating 1990s nihilism amidst the fallout from the Reagan/Bush era, the culture wars, and the mounting death toll from AIDS.
The films, later referred to as the “Teen Apocalypse Trilogy,” with their psychedelic production design and iconic dialogue (“Eat my fuck,” “Who pissed in your Fruit Loops?” “This party’s as much fun as an ingrown butthair,”) sounding as if it came from the mouth of John Hughes’s bratty younger brother, achieved a cult ...
Jun 17, 2024 · Gregg Araki‘s lusty, nihilistic, darkly funny and very influential mid-’90s “Teen Apocalypse Trilogy” of films — 1993’s Totally Fucked Up, 1995’s The Doom Generation and 1997’s ...
