Filmmaker Gregg Araki started on the ge of pennt films before eventually fdg mastream regnn for his gonzo take on gay cema. A native of Los Angel, he graduated om the Universy of Southern California film school. He ma his directorial but wh the ultra low-budget "Three Bewilred People the Night" (1987), about a female vio artist who breaks up wh her boyiend who might be terted her gay bt iend. Ma for around $5,000, Araki sentially served as a one-man crew. His follow-up, ma for about the same amount, was "The Long Weekend (O'Dpair)" (1989), the story of three upl of varyg sexualy spendg a weekend together. He secured a slightly larger budget for his next film, "The Livg End" (1992), a road movie about a gay uple, both HIV-posive, on the n after killg a homophobic police officer. His next efforts, referred to as the "Teen Apolypse Trilogy," gaed the director a larger followg. The first film, "Totally F***ed Up" (1993), was done aga wh ltle money but the send entry, "The Doom Generatn" (1995), saw a bigger budget and bigger name actors wh up-and-ers like Rose McGowan, Johnathan Schaech, and Parker Posey. Siarly, "Nowhere" (1997) featured a number of meos cludg Ryan Phillippe, Heather Graham, and Christa Applegate. All three films revolved around young people of fluid sexualy creasgly nihilistic suatns, and wh "Nowhere," aliens enterg the ay. The director took a turn to slightly more tradnal storytellg wh "Splendor" (1999) featurg Schaech, Kathleen Robertson, and Matt Kelar as a tr a polyamoro relatnship. Dpe his films largely failg to turn a prof, the director ntued puttg out films such as "Myster Sk" (2004), starrg Joseph Gordon-Levt, and "Sey Face" (2007), wh Anna Faris and John Krasski. His fatalistic "Kaboom" (2010) earned the first ever Queer Palm award at the Cann Film Ftival. After releasg "Whe Bird a Blizzard" (2014), Araki started workg regularly televisn, directg episos of shows like "13 Reasons Why" (Netflix, 2017-), "Riverdale" (The CW, 2017-), and "Red Oaks" (Amazon, 2014-17). Partnerg wh fellow filmmaker Steven Sorbergh, he created "Now Apolypse" (Starz, 2019-), a show alg wh three of the director's favore them-sexualy, aliens, and the end of the world.
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- GREGG ARAKI WANTS TO MAKE AMERI GAY AGA
- DIRECTOR GREGG ARAKI REFLECTS ON 30 YEARS OF ‘THE LIVG END’ SAVAS ABADSIDIS AUGT 15, 2022SHARE THIS MONTH MARKS THE 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF DIRECTOR GREGG ARAKI’S GROUNDBREAKG AND SEMAL MOVIE THE LIVG END.IT WAS A MOVIE THAT RADILIZED ME AND SHOOK ME OM PLACENCY. THE LIVG END GAVE ME A BLUEPRT FOR A REVOLUTN THAT NEVER ME TO BE AND LERALLY CHANGED MY LIFE THE PROCS. PRR TO ARAKI’S 1992 FILM THE HEADWDS OF DISCRIMATN AND SEEMG EVABILY OF AIDS HELD MY PSYCHE A HYPNOTIC NIHILISM. THE LIVG END SHOWED ME THE EXHILARATG TRANSFORMATIVE POWER OF REVENTN.RELATED: HOW AN ‘IRRPONSIBLE’ MOVIE ABOUT AIDS LERALLY CHANGED MY LIFE
GREGG ARAKI WANTS TO MAKE AMERI GAY AGA
The director reflects on his taboo-filled gay road movie that shaped queer filmmakg the s that followed s 1992 release. * gregg araki gay *
Addg populatn to the teen's so-lled life are a sultry boyiend next door (Shiloh Fernanz), an olr fuck buddy (tective Thomas Jane), BFFs the form of a gay guy and a fat girl (Mark Inlito and Gabourey Sidibeh), and a dad wh some locked drawers (Christopher Meloni).
I knew was an Araki film when I saw a gay bt iend and a hunky guy. I'd probably intify as gay at this pot, but I have been wh did you and your partner meet? )By the way, part of makg the show more accsible to 2014 has been the addn of some gay material, naturally.
This time around, there's a swishy Miss Turnstil ntt announcer, an even more flamg b ctomer, and two gay guys dishg about sex.
DIRECTOR GREGG ARAKI REFLECTS ON 30 YEARS OF ‘THE LIVG END’ SAVAS ABADSIDIS AUGT 15, 2022SHARE THIS MONTH MARKS THE 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF DIRECTOR GREGG ARAKI’S GROUNDBREAKG AND SEMAL MOVIE THE LIVG END.IT WAS A MOVIE THAT RADILIZED ME AND SHOOK ME OM PLACENCY. THE LIVG END GAVE ME A BLUEPRT FOR A REVOLUTN THAT NEVER ME TO BE AND LERALLY CHANGED MY LIFE THE PROCS. PRR TO ARAKI’S 1992 FILM THE HEADWDS OF DISCRIMATN AND SEEMG EVABILY OF AIDS HELD MY PSYCHE A HYPNOTIC NIHILISM. THE LIVG END SHOWED ME THE EXHILARATG TRANSFORMATIVE POWER OF REVENTN.RELATED: HOW AN ‘IRRPONSIBLE’ MOVIE ABOUT AIDS LERALLY CHANGED MY LIFE
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The 14th annual Lbian and Gay Pri para New York, June 27, 1983.
In the early '80s, people were droppg like fli of a horrible "gay ncer"--which manifted self grotque symptoms and a fe ath rate--but for the most part, the verage was bizarrely spotty and/or phobic. As the sualti kept mountg, a gay weekly lled The New York Native was on top of the subject every week (sometim wh crackpot theori, but at least they were tryg), but otherwise, there was not exactly a spree of enlightened reportg about AIDS, largely bee the people gettg the disease the U.
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Seemed to be gays and IV dg ers.
But another ty ltle voice si me wonrs, If Ebola only h gays and IV dg ers, would there be all this fs?
Dcribed as a gay “Thelma and Louise, ” he began the wh “The Livg End” (1992), a sexy road trip edy about two young guys livg wh HIV.
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Those films played the film ftival circu, the gay film ftivals and Lorno. I was talkg to my boyiend about this and even jt the emergence of PrEP mak “The Livg End” feel like ’s pturg a very specific gay psychology g out of the AIDS crisis.
And I wanted to do a “Mascul Fém” about gay kids. When “Livg End” me out, was so polarizg the gay muny. And Jim Stark, the producer, he’d say to me, “You make the gay movi that gay people hate.
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They’re too punk rock for gay people and they hate them.
” So I ma this heterosexual movie, but a very punk rock bratty way, ma so gay. Ahn: It’s so gay.
Araki: The subtext of is so ridiculoly gay, ’s almost mp. This was a long time ago when homophobia was still really real.