Gregg Araki's Kaboom at the Red VicSee Gregg Araki's newest, "a hyper-stylized Twin Peaks for the Coachella Generation": Kaboom at the Red Vic, 1727 Haight http://www.redvicmoviehouse.com/ Plays Thursday, Friday and Saturday, March 31, April 1 and 2 Thurs.: 7:15 and 9:15 p.m. Fri.: 7:15 and 9:15 p.m. Sat.: 2:00*, 4:00, 7:15 and 9:15 p.m. Dir. Gregg Araki US 2010 The latest film from iconoclastic independent filmmaker Gregg Araki (Mysterious Skin) Kaboom has been called a hyper-stylized Twin Peaks for the Coachella Generation, featuring a gorgeous young cast. A wild, witty and sex-drenched horror-comedy thriller, Kaboom tells the story of Smith, an ambisexual 18-year-old college freshman who stumbles upon a monstrous conspiracy in a seemingly idyllic Southern California seaside town. Kaboom shares key touchstones with Araki's early films, including scatological and absurd Valley-inflected dialogue, elements of campy gore and Araki's troupe of arrestingly sexy guys and girls. With his sophisticated synthesis of various experiments in tone and cinematography, Araki has reached a new level of artistic maturity. (86 min). Andrew O'Hehir, writing at Salon.com said: "A delirious and lighthearted pop spectacle with a dark undercurrent of apocalyptic horror, Kaboom is about 95 percent of the movie that writer-director Gregg Araki's fans have been waiting for. Now, it's not like there are so damn many Araki fans out there at this point -- I probably know a lot of you personally, with your apartments in Silverlake or the Lower Haight, your exhaustive collections of offbeat pop music and your dioramas involving Japanese monster figurines. So it probably behooves me to explain the deal with this giddy, hilarious and stylish SoCal fever dream, which is partly glossy teen fantasy and partly nostalgia for a future that never quite got here. "Kaboom" is a deliberately unstable fusion of every teen-oriented prime-time soap you can remember from the last 15 years, and others you can't, with more than a dash of creepy, hidden-reality paranoia out of David Lynch or David Cronenberg thrown in. Araki and cinematographer Sandra Valde-Hansen foreground the actors, in bright light and primary colors, and make the dorm rooms and cafes and nightclubs behind them seem dim and distant, like dream-world locations. The balance of absurdity and delicacy, of trashy and sweet and downright disturbing, is not quite like anything else I've ever seen. (OK, here's a parallel, in idiosyncratic ambition if not in tone: Brick, the Hammett-goes-to-high-school indie starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt.). ""Kaboom" is a psychedelic reverie that celebrates a world where the fluid nature of human sexuality -- i.e., the very basis of "queerness," which seemed so revolutionary and confrontational in the days of Araki's HIV-renegade odyssey, "The Living End" -- has become a semi-acceptable element of pop culture, and even a cliché. It's by far the funniest and warmest movie Araki has ever made…". And Noel Murray writing for The Onion A.V. Club said, "Kaboom is pure fantasy in every sense of the word: It's a riff on sexy, sassy teen movies and conspiracy thrillers that at times seems to exist only so Araki can get his beautiful young cast to strip off their clothes and pair off in every conceivable combination, just as he used to do in his earlier, more scandalous films.
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Friday, April 1, 2011
Reminder: Gregg Araki's Kaboom at the Red Vic @ Fri Apr 1 7:15pm - 8:15pm (Queer Things)
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