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Filmmaker Aaron Rose celebrates the independent spirit of D.I.Y. (do-it-yourself) culture in this documentary detailing how a group of like-minded American artists emerged from the underground in the early 1990s to have an enormous impact on the worlds of fashion, film, art, music, and pop culture in general. With virtually no connection to the mainstream art world, the ten artists featured in Beautiful Losers somehow managed to become the strongest creative voices of their generation. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
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KarinaKarina DNC: Affleck, Brolin & Moore Br ...
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 "Ben Affleck. Photo by Karina Longworth. The film related-events surrounding the 2008 Democratic Convention reached their zenith on Wednesday with a pair of sessions devoted to The People Speak, Project Greenlight/Good Will Hunting producer Chris Moore’s theatrical documentary inspired by the writings of Howard Zinn, which has its official premiere next week at the Toronto International Film Festival. The afternoon began with a panel on progressive media, featuring Moore, actor Josh Brolin (who commented extensively on his recent experience playing George W. Bush for filmmaker Oliver Stone), artist Shepherd Fairey (the man responsible for that screenprinted Barack Obama “Hope” poster, as well as a subject of the doc Beautiful Losers) and former Clinton operative Mike Lux. Then, after a brief intermission, Brolin and Moore were joined by a host of boldfaced names, including Ben Affleck, Rosario Dawson, Taye Diggs and Kerry Washington, for a live presentation of the historical readin ... " [More]
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 "Ben Affleck. Photo by Karina Longworth. The film related-events surrounding the 2008 Democratic Convention reached their zenith on Wednesday with a pair of sessions devoted to The People Speak, Project Greenlight/Good Will Hunting producer Chris Moore’s theatrical documentary inspired by the writings of Howard Zinn, which has its official premiere next week at the Toronto International Film Festival. The afternoon began with a panel on progressive media, featuring Moore, actor Josh Brolin (who commented extensively on his recent experience playing George W. Bush for filmmaker Oliver Stone), artist Shepherd Fairey (the man responsible for that screenprinted Barack Obama “Hope” poster, as well as a subject of the doc Beautiful Losers) and former Clinton operative Mike Lux. Then, after a brief intermission, Brolin and Moore were joined by a host of boldfaced names, including Ben Affleck, Rosario Dawson, Taye Diggs and Kerry Washington, for a live presentation of the historical readin ... " [More]
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 "The Midnight Express snack stand from Wong Kar Wai’s Chungking Express has been turned into a 7-11. Wouldn’t it be amazing if they did a promotion with that film the way they turned US stores into Kwik-e-Marts for The Simpsons Movie? Beautiful Losers producer Jared Moshe links to images of the 22 Nike Dunk Hi models produced in connection with the doc’s release. The Spongebob angle makes this movie-related: “There’s a new exhibit at Coney Island that’s fun for the whole family: the “Waterboard Thrill Ride.” Greeted by Spongebob exuding “It don’t Gitmo better!” you walk in to peer through bars at dude in dark sweats leaning over another guy in an orange suit, his face wrapped in a towel. Slip a dollar into the machine, and for 15 seconds, “Dark Hood” pours water into Orange Jumpsuit’s nose and mouth while he convulses.” Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » Karina Longworth " [More]
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 "The Midnight Express snack stand from Wong Kar Wai’s Chungking Express has been turned into a 7-11. Wouldn’t it be amazing if they did a promotion with that film the way they turned US stores into Kwik-e-Marts for The Simpsons Movie? Beautiful Losers producer Jared Moshe links to images of the 22 Nike Dunk Hi models produced in connection with the doc’s release. The Spongebob angle makes this movie-related: “There’s a new exhibit at Coney Island that’s fun for the whole family: the “Waterboard Thrill Ride.” Greeted by Spongebob exuding “It don’t Gitmo better!” you walk in to peer through bars at dude in dark sweats leaning over another guy in an orange suit, his face wrapped in a towel. Slip a dollar into the machine, and for 15 seconds, “Dark Hood” pours water into Orange Jumpsuit’s nose and mouth while he convulses.” Originally posted on:SpoutBlog " [More]
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 "So: Sidetrack Films, the producers of Aaron Rose and Joshua Leonard’s doc Beautiful Losers (see our SXSW coverage here), have signed a deal with Nike to sponsor the film’s release in five cities, starting with its New York premiere this Friday. Like Mark Rabinowitz, who wrote a post on indieWIRE’s new Docsider blog pondering What This All Means in relation to the state of documentary film distribution, I have mixed feelings about this. The most obvious, knee-jerk response is, of course, something about how big bad corporations are big and bad, long live indie DIY poverty integrity, etc. But Beautiful Losers is a film about artists (Harmony Korine, Mike Mills, Barry McGee, Shepherd Fairey, etc) who started as cultural reactionaries very much in line with a DIY ethos, and then found ways to work within the system and for corporations (designing ambiguously racist sneakers for Adidas, directing Bud Light commercials starring members of the Silver Jews, etc) without losing their ident ... " [More]
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 "So: Sidetrack Films, the producers of Aaron Rose and Joshua Leonard’s doc Beautiful Losers (see our SXSW coverage here), have signed a deal with Nike to sponsor the film’s release in five cities, starting with its New York premiere this Friday. Like Mark Rabinowitz, who wrote a post on indieWIRE’s new Docsider blog pondering What This All Means in relation to the state of documentary film distribution, I have mixed feelings about this. The most obvious, knee-jerk response is, of course, something about how big bad corporations are big and bad, long live indie DIY poverty integrity, etc. But Beautiful Losers is a film about artists (Harmony Korine, Mike Mills, Barry McGee, Shepherd Fairey, etc) who started as cultural reactionaries very much in line with a DIY ethos, and then found ways to work within the system and for corporations (designing ambiguously racist sneakers for Adidas, directing Bud Light commercials starring members of the Silver Jews, etc) without losing their ident ... " [More]
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 "On Saturday, Brooklyn, NY-based filmmaker Leah Meyerhoff will be heading to Beantown to present a retrospective of her short films at the Brattle Theatre during the Boston Underground Film Festival. I had the great pleasure to hang out with Leah recently during the South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival in Austin, Texas. I first became familiar with Leah’s work at a screening of short films at the Brooklyn Independent Cinema Series last year where I saw the music video she directed, Team Queen. Soon after, I watched her Student Academy-Award nominated short Twitch, which has played in over 200 film festivals around the world and won numerous awards. Last night, I spoke with Leah about her upcoming trip to Boston and what people can expect there, as well as what’s going on with her feature film in development, Unicorns, and other defining moments in her young career. Leah finds a unicorn in the Enchanted Forest in Austin, Texas, at the Bi The Way World Premiere party during SXSW.TF ... " [More]
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 "In the early 90’s a small group of kids gravitated to Aaron Rose’s Alleged Gallery in New York City. It wasn’t so much a gallery as hang out spot that used to be a storefront, but to pass time this group–loosely knit through skateboarding and punk music–experimented creatively. They were the dispossessed losers of suburban America and as Mike Mills, whose one of them, says, “If you’re not dispossessed, why make art? Why try to save your life by making something?” Having fun creating only to look back and realize that creating was your survival, then having to negotiate getting back to that fun spot so you can survive is the path of Beautiful Losers. Aaron Rose’s documentary is a painfully funny coming-of-age story about some of today’s most influential artists and it follows one rule: Don’t take us seriously. (more…) Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » Paul " [More]
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 "In the early 90’s a small group of kids gravitated to Aaron Rose’s Alleged Gallery in New York City. It wasn’t so much a gallery as hang out spot that used to be a storefront, but to pass time this group–loosely knit through skateboarding and punk music–experimented creatively. They were the dispossessed losers of suburban America and as Mike Mills, whose one of them, says, “If you’re not dispossessed, why make art? Why try to save your life by making something?” Having fun creating only to look back and realize that creating was your survival, then having to negotiate getting back to that fun spot so you can survive is the path of Beautiful Losers. Aaron Rose’s documentary is a painfully funny coming-of-age story about some of today’s most influential artists and it follows one rule: Don’t take us seriously. (more…) Originally posted on:SpoutBlog " [More]
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 "What I didn’t expect from Beautiful Losers was how much fun it would be to watch a documentary of the most unpretentious, unmoody and successful artists of my generation. All the artists (Harmony Korine, Mike Mills, Stephen Powers, Thomas Campbell, Margaret Kilgallen, Shepard Fairey, Jo Jackson, Ed Templeton, Geoff McFetridge, Chris Johanson, Barry McGee, Aaron Rose) seem like they’re unconsciously competing to steal the show and win biggest laugh (Harmony wins, in my book). But the best part of Aaron Rose’s movie is how it transcends its genre and becomes a coming of age movie like I’ve not seen in a doc before. Aaron Rose is the director, but his legendary Alleged Gallery was the incubator for these artists in the early 90’s. I talk to him about being at the center of this scene back then and what it meant for him and his buddies to “grow up.” SXSW 2008: Aaron Rose interview Beautiful Losers SXSW news, reviews, interviews and discussions Originally posted on:SpoutBlog " [More]
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