Harmony Korine Filmography

Born:: January 1, 1974 in Bolinas, CA
Occupation:: Director, Screenwriter
Biography:: Christened "the future of American cinema" by Werner Herzog, writer/director Harmony Korine matured from film's youngest credited screenwriter (for 1995's Kids) into one of its most controversial independent filmmakers. Born in 1974 in Bolinas, CA, Korine is the son of documentary filmmaker Sol...Read More

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Beautiful Losers

Synopsis: 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 Read More

8/8/08
Mister Lonely

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Diego Luna, Samantha Morton, Denis Lavant, James Fox, Melita Morgan

Synopsis: When a Michael Jackson impersonator (Diego Luna) living in Paris falls for a Marilyn Monroe impersonator (Samantha Morton) during a performance at a retirement home, the lovestruck pair retreats to a seaside castle in the Scottish highlands populated by a commune of reclusive impersonators. Read More

3/14/08
Last Days

Actors: Michael Pitt, Lukas Haas, Asia Argento, Scott Patrick Green, Nicole Vicius

Synopsis: Filmmaker Gus Van Sant wrote and directed this meditation on stardom and its costs, inspired in part by the life and death of rock musician Kurt Cobain. Blake (Michael Pitt) is the leader of an influential alternative rock band who has unexpectedly won a large degree of fame and fortune. Depressed Read More

7/22/05
Ken Park

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: James Ransome, Tiffany Limos, Stephen Jasso, James Bullard, Mike Apaletegui

Synopsis: Filmmaker Larry Clark reunites with Kids screenwriter Harmony Korine, with some additional directorial assistance from cinematographer Ed Lachman, for this look at a group of troubled teens and their guardians living in Southern California. Ken Park takes its name from the skate park where an Read More

2002
Julien Donkey-Boy

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Ewen Bremner, Chloë Sevigny, Werner Herzog, Evan Neumann, Joyce Korine

Synopsis: In his second directorial effort, writer/director Harmony Korine embraces the hyper-realist aesthetic of Lars Von Trier's Dogma 95 film movement, which mandates handheld photography using only available lighting, among other restrictions. As in the controversial Gummo (1997), Korine Read More

10/8/99
Gummo

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jacob Reynolds, Nick Sutton, Jacob Sewell, Darby Dougherty, Chloë Sevigny

Synopsis: In this elliptical ensemble piece, which marks the directorial debut of indie bad boy Harmony Korine, the teens of tornado-scarred Xenia, OH, kill cats, tape their boobies, arm-wrestle, bathe, cross-dress, huff glue, avoid perverts, pay to have sex with retarded girls, lift makeshift dumbbells to Read More

1997
Kids

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Leo Fitzpatrick, Justin Pierce, Chloë Sevigny, Sarah Henderson, Rosario Dawson

Synopsis: Kids offers a bleak, unblinking view of a group of vacuous, thoughtless New York City teens in their ceaseless quest for sex, drugs, and trouble. The film primarily follows Telly (Leo Fitzpatrick), who, having just realized the conquest of his latest virgin, brags that by day's end he will claim Read More

1995