bully ( 2001 film )
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bully (larry clark, 2001, us  115 minutes, color, 1. 85 aspect ratio  suspense )
bully hunter: one does have to agree with the characters here, bobby kent was a bully after all .
the 2001 remake of ocean’s eleven, starring george clooney and a bunch of his mates .
thoughts on larry clark? (kids, bully, etc .) just watched bully (2001) and was blown away. almost all the backlash towards him seems to be for the content of his films rather than their quality
bully is a 2001 drama film directed by larry clark, based off the true crime novel bully: a true story of high school revenge by jim schutze. the film is very loosely based upon the real life murder of bobby kent, a notorious bully and jerk who was murdered by his so - called friends, who got sick and tired of his abusive treatment of them .
thoughts on larry clark? (kids, bully, etc .) just watched bully (2001) and was blown away. almost all the backlash towards him seems to be for the content of his films rather than their quality: truefilm
the film was released on vhs and dvd on november 20, 2001. a blu - ray / dvd combo pack was released on october 13, 2009 .
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with its lingering shots of naked teenage bodies, bully feels more sordidly exploitative than realistic .
summary: a group of teenagers decide to kill a bully who has been plaguing them .
the karate kid: daniel is the real bully [ j. matthew movies, ep 3 ]
alex is one of the subjects of the documentary
bully ,
directed by lee hirsch .
for comparison with strangers on a train, i recommend larry clark' s stunning bully (2001). like strangers it is all about a murder - with strong homoerotic undercurrents - but bully is based on actual, recent events in florida when a band of rootless, giggling teenagers decide it might be cool to kill the school bully. clark' s style - all saturated color, jagged editing, and hyper - real performances - could hardly be more different from hitchcock' s, yet bully is worthy of comparison to strangers on a train .
not to be confused with the 2011 documentary. for the video game also named
bully
, which is unrelated to the films, go here. for the character trope, see the bully .
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since today is pink shirt day or anti - bullying awareness day, i thought i’d share with you the most powerful film that i have ever seen that tackles the subject. and it tackles it hard. larry clark’s 2001 ‘bully’ is one of the most disturbing and hard to watch movies from my lifetime. but it’s essential .
the international jury of the 7th rome film festival has conferred the golden marc’aurelio for best film to marfa girl by larry clark .
larry clark' s true - life tale of a savage teen murder brings together the edgiest young stars in film. glenn waldron follows the troubled progress of bully' s untamed cast
i swear i am pigeonholed into seeing actor nick stahl play the role of the “bully” bobby kent. ever since this film i can’t shake the level of darkness that he gives exhumes .
larry and bret easton ellis discuss making bully, photographing tulsa, controversy as a gateway to success and john cassavetes .
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bully is a 2001 drama film, based on actual events, starring brad renfro, rachel miner, bijou phillips, nick stahl, and michael pitt. the screenplay was written by david mckenna (under the pseudonym zachary long) and roger pullis, who adapted the book bully: a true story of high school revenge (isbn 0 - 380 - 72333 - 6) by jim schutze. the story concerns the plot to murder the title character, in revenge for his continual abuse and psychological torture of others .
alice willis: second - degree murder and conspiracy (forty years imprisonment. reduced on appeal to 17 years in prison. released on parole in 2001. currently under community supervision for 40 years) .
i think this film is pretty solid evidence that larry clark is an asshole .
the film will premiere at the festival on tuesday, november 12th at 10pm .
i mean, i’m doing interviews to help the film, and i think they do help the film, so i can’t complain. but it isn’t…it’s… it’s difficult .
bully is a 2001 drama film, based on actual events, starring brad renfro, rachel miner, bijou phillips, nick stahl, and michael pitt. the screenplay was written by david mckenna and roger pullis, who adapted the book bully: a true story of high school revenge by jim schutze. the story concerns the plot to murder the title character, in revenge for his continual abuse and psychological torture of others. the film was directed by larry clark, whose other credits include kids and ken park. the two songs are song for shelter by fatboy slim during the police raid. fatboy slim - talkin bout my baby in the court house
in viewing any firm with dead bodies, and out of control teens my thoughts turned quickly to the film “river’s edge”. but unlike “rivers edge” which bordered more on surreal “bully” is stark, shocking and based on reality .
bully easily stands as one of the more favorite dark cult films ever created. for me it was my first introduction to larry’s work which would of course lead me on to “kids” and “ken park”. though still to this day “ bully ” is by far my favorite clark film. the film if you didn’t know already from looking at it is actually taken from a true story. the extras on the dvd feature profiles of the real teens who are portrayed in the film. but i do suggest watching the film first to get the whole sequence of events and character profiles before looking into the real occurrences .
coitus ensues: happens often enough that several critics derided the film as borderline pornography .
the film was released by universal pictures on november 17, 2000. it was the first dr. seuss book to be adapted into a full - length feature film .
the american photographer and director larry clark, guest of honor at the 18th dionysian film days, will accompany a retrospective of his films (kids, bully, ken park, wassup rockers …) and marfa girl his latest unreleased film shot in complete independence and the director’s cut version of the smell of us .
bully (2001 film) – cine tonalá / 29 de enero a las 17. 30. kids (1995) – cineteca nacional sala 4 / 30 de enero a las 16. 30. dialogo mas proyección de the smell of us – cine tonalá / 31 de enero a las 12. 00. wassup rockers (con el actor de la película thisisnotrevolt ‘s jonathan velasquez también presente) – cine tonalá / 2 de febero a las 19. 00 .
of the music in the film, i’d have to say i’m more partial to sam the sham’s “wooly bully, ” which is one of the great party records of all time. and “surfin’ bird. ” an amazing piece, isn’t it ?
bully is an extraordinary, haunting film for many reasons. when i watched it again, just before writing this review, it lost none of its power, but did reveal some of the creative ways in which clark constructed his best work to date. (his controversial 1995 debut feature, kids, is easily one of the 20 finest pictures i saw from the 1990s .) bully was written by xachary long and roger pullis, from jim schutze' s book bully: a true story of high school revenge. it should be noted that bully contains many scenes of extreme emotional and physical violence: since those are clark' s themes, they never struck me as gratuitous, let alone titillating .
from his early 1960s black - and - white short to feature films such as kids (1995), bully (2001) and ken park (2002), larry clark, internationally renowned for his work, translates grant the loss of landmarks and drifts of adolescence. in 2010 the museum of modern art of the city of paris, hosted the first retrospective of his photographs in france .
bully is by far my favorite of larry clark' s films, although for some reason i seem to have seen teenage cavemen at least a dozen times .
bully is a 2001 drama film, directed by larry clark. the film follows youngsters who plot to murder their friend who has been physically, emotionally and sexually abusive to them. brad renfro, bijou phillips, rachel miner, michael pitt and nick stahl star in the film. whoa where do i even begin with this film? well first off i loved it, and it’s also kind of haunting in nature. it’s the type of film that leaves you with lingering emotions and has you conflicted inside. the tale is based on actual events of a true crime story. the film is rare in the sense that it’s not afraid of itself and its portrayal of american youth, the violence, sex and drugs they consume and these things are handled in a disturbing ‘in your face’ manner that had me “shooketh” and i say “shooketh” because for 2001 the film was kind of graphic. the raunchy nature of bully is somewhat its downfall as it tries to be unique, we get sometimes sloppy camera work, melodramatic monologues and certain scenes where an actor’s performance makes you cringe. larry clark denied us the resolution that comes with a classic tale of tragedy. however there are shots that makes us appreciate the teenage body and all its growing nature but sometimes the shots do hinge on being inappropriate. working from a somewhat ‘incomplete’ script we got a very discomforting film that i found loving rather than hating. the late brad renfro made me fall in love with him all over again as he took on the role of the “bullied”. overall i recommend this one if you’re looking for something retro to watch .
' bully' demands attention for the way in which it forces us to watch and digest a dark slice of american society. american beauty this ain' t .
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a powerful true to story drama, bully is a stunning and very dark film. with a great cast of actors, director larry clark crafts a memorable drama that is hard to watch as you see a group of teenagers plot to kill one of their friends who is physically abusive and who has raped one of their friends. as the abuse becomes harder to bear, the teens are more determined to kill bobby kent who is the one who abuses all of them. the film goes deeper into dark territory as you see everyone fed up with the way bobby kent treats everyone. kent is brilliantly played by nick stahl who gives a riveting and brutal performance. brad renfro plays marty puccio, bobby kent' s best friend and main target of his abuse. i really enjoyed the film, but i felt it was pretty hard to watch at the same time. the performances are top - notch and bully is a dark, gritty in your face type of film. this is not a film for everyone. the strength of the film lies in the powerful acting, directing and story. if you' re looking for a powerful drama film, then give this one a shot. the film is brutal, and quite depressing, but nevertheless, is a terrific film that has a wonderful cast of actors who light up the screen with their presence. this is not a perfect film, but there' s enough going on on - screen to make it worth watching. bully is a very good film that explores the darkest corners of revenge and it does very well enough to keep you interested till the very end .
“he can put his film online and everyone will want to see it—whether they like him or not. ”
this month i recommend one of the most emotionally and visually stunning films of recent years: director larry clark' s bully (2001). like last month' s picture, strangers on a train, it is all about a murder - with strong homoerotic undercurrents - but bully is based on actual, recent events in florida when a band of rootless, giggling teenagers decide it would be
cool
to kill the bully who has been harassing them. clark' s style - all saturated color, jagged editing, and hyper - real performances - could hardly be more different from that of strangers on a train. and these teens are certainly kinder, gentler sociopaths than stranger' s over - the - top murderer, bruno. yet bully is a thriller worthy of comparison to the hitchcock classic. and although it tells a strikingly different story, bully' s themes mesh with the reading group' s current selection, paul bowles' 1949 novel the sheltering sky. both works, on a fundamental level, deal with isolation ,
the sadness inherent in all deracinated things
( sheltering sky, chapter 7), and the tangled roots of violence .
director larry clark, meanwhile, is hoping bully will fare better in europe than in his homeland. with its ultra - violent, near - pornographic content, the film failed to receive a rating from the motion picture association of america, which means bully will never be seen by most of the mixed - up teens that renfro and co seem to so thoroughly represent, on screen and in real life. when clark asked the mpaa for guidelines on cutting the film, he received a fax bearing just eight words .
our advice to america is: hide your children .
et' s get one thing clear: larry clark' s new film, bully, will disturb you. stomach - churning, mind - boggling and heart - wrenching, it has already disturbed us critics, parents, prison protest groups, the religious right and the entire state of florida .
a young michael pitt turns out an awesome supporting performance here too as donny, the constantly stoned comedic relief. but even in a film such as this, the comedy eventually turns a little sad. this isn’t dazed & confused – it’s more along the lines of stoned & sad. the film has sequences of rape, graphic consensual sex, violence and so much cursing that it would give goodfellas a run for it’s money. larry clark made one hell of a movie when he released bully back in 2001. in honour of pink shirt day – if you truly want to embrace raising anti - bullying awareness, this is by far the best and most powerful movie experience to ever handle the subject .
full of authentic environments and faces, larry clark’s bully is suitably grimy and lived in. clearly made by the same man who directed kids, it retains that film’s edginess and aggressive young cast. clark is obviously obsessed by this younger generation and fetishises the aimlessness, the boredom and the technology they are defined by .
wow! what a film. had me hooked from beginning to end. didn' t know till the end that it was a true story. a bunch of kids who get high all the time have an ingenious idea of killing a bully and trying to cover it up. bit gory at times but brilliant portrayal .
“my french film the smell of us that i shot a couple of years ago in paris – halfway through the film we had all kinds of problems. some of the actors went on strike because they were very young and taking drugs, drinking; having to get up in the morning, and they just got so tired and i was like 72 years old, and i’m making it (to set) everyday. so i just rewrote the last half of the film and finished it. the producers were so nervous, they were shaking in their boots. they thought the film was over. so i told producers, ‘watch me go, ’ and so i just re - wrote as i went through the rest of the film. it’s a very good film; a much better film than if i had shot the original script as planned. ”
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but i remember feeling a much deeper sadness and horror at the end of bully, something i don' t think he' s achieved before or since, though i continue to find him a fascinating filmmaker .
arry clark, director of the controversial kids, has delivered another lacerating blow with bully. ased on a true story, to which clark adds his own coldly brilliant sheen of voyeurism, the film has an amoral neon glare in which the only compelling value judgment is the director' s evident rapture at how beautiful his young stars are .
in celebration of larry clark’s new feature film, marfa girl, boo - hooray has published two printed works by larry clark .
there is more “politicianing” on display in “bully” than actual bullying, though mr. hirsch’s camera does capture a few horrifying episodes (one of them so alarming that he shared it with parents and school officials). in spite of its title, the film is really about the victims, their parents and the powerful grown - ups who let them down .
it gets worse. in a small town in oklahoma, ty smalley’s suicide left behind loving parents and a devoted best friend, a self - described former bully whose insights are among the most accurate and devastating in the movie .
all that said, there is something lurid and crude about clark’s eye that makes some scenes feel a bit leering. it all goes tad terry richardson at times but that unease actually enhances a lot of the film’s moments. it’s got a great, big budget soundtrack which offsets the rough aesthetic nicely and some of the most effective scenes are when you’re just watching a bunch of 20 somethings exist in the tableu that is 2001. i kept thinking about sofia coppola’s the bling ring in a lot of scenes. the later film might be based on a lighter crime but the scrutiny is just as on - point and bracing .
check out the trailer for the new film the smell of us by larry clark – coming out in french cinemas on 14 january 2015 .
a great film and one that is a true story, a lot of this happens all the time and is quite fu * * ed up and disturbing the violence is on quite a high level in this film so be warned, great acting from the cast as well .
so your purpose wasn’t to poke the viewer in the ribs, point out certain similarities… oh, god, no. i’m trying to be true to the material. you know, there’s another extraordinary accident. cowboy is dying, and in the background there’s something that looks very much like the monolith in 2001. and it just happened to be there .
these are all young stars who deliver astonishingly intense performances in bully through their own lived experience. and at a time when hollywood ensures only the blandest, pr - friendliest teen actors break through, that feels like quite an achievement .
forsyth’s intelligent political thriller revolves around the planned assassination of charles de gaulle. zinnemann’s classic film adaptation has a rakish edward fox playing the eponymous hired killer, with the ever - appealing film set that is paris as a backdrop. every bit as cunning and stylish as the novel .
since that time, he has made a host of award - winning movies, including another day in paradise (1998), wassup rockers (2005), and marfa girl (2012), which won the marcus aurelius award for best film at the 2012 rome film festival .
i looked all over for this soundtrack and could not find it. the cd is great, and in great condition. i consider this cd excellent in the music and sound. i am just happy i had found the bully cd .
larry clark' s
bully
calls the bluff of movies that pretend to be about murder but are really about entertainment. his film has all the sadness and shabbiness, all the mess and cruelty and thoughtless stupidity of the real thing. based on a real story from 1993, it tells the story of a twisted high school bully and a circle of friends who decide to kill him. but this is not about the evil sadist and the release of revenge; it' s about how a group of kids will do something no single member is capable of. and about the moral void these kids inhabit .
i envy you the first experience of howards end, whether it is forster' s great novel or merchant / ivory' s luminous film .
no film version of dickens has ever matched lean’s superlative realisation of great expectations. from the jumpy graveyard scene to the weirdness of satis house, and with actors such as john mills and alec guinness giving their all, there is no level at which this utterly brilliant film doesn’t deliver .
great songs from the movie bully! i watched the movie and wanted the music from the movie. i came across the cd on ebay as i have not seen it sell in canada. i bought the cd and the music is great !
kubrick’s breakthrough film was paths of glory (1957). during the filming, he met an actress, christiane harlan, whom he eventually married. christiane sings a song at the end of the film in a scene that, on four separate viewings, has brought tears to my eyes .
if you haven & apos; t been the victim of a bully in your lifetime, chances are you were one. bullying & apos; s existed since david and goliath times, when goliath famously stole david & apos; s milk money .
for your interview, i got the portrait - thank you! i still need high res film stills from marfa girl, to accompany the interview .
to close this edition of the retrospective with music, after the screening of larry clark’s wassup rockers, in the presence of the director, the rebel rebel dionysian film days will host an exceptional concert by thisisnotrevolt, a punk blues band composed of actors from the film, jonathan velasquez and eddie velasquez .
in this interview, i talk about my new feature film, marfa girl, and how i came to marfa, texas in may 2011. i talk about how i was inspired to make a film in marfa. i went back five times working on the screenplay and meeting the people of marfa .
the ballad of narayama
is a japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. what a space it opens…
the film received mixed reviews from critics but was a box office success, spending four weeks at # 1 in the united states and grossing $ 260 million in the united states and over $ 345 million worldwide, becoming the second highest - grossing holiday film of all time, with home alone being the first .
most critics also use that word to describe the two features that followed, 2001: a space odyssey (1968) and a clockwork orange (1971). some reviewers see a subtle falling off of quality in his barry lyndon (1975) and the shining (1980), though there is a critical reevaluation of the two films in process. this seems to be typical of his critical reception .
the moral wasteland of suburban youth has been examined, earlier and better, in the river' s edge. clark' s leering leads nowhere: in bully, he has nothing new to say, and, in the end, no real point to make .
tv commercials have figured that out. leave content out of it, and some of the most spectacular examples of film art are in the best tv commercials .
but while we are on the subject of adult failures, it should be noted that the motion picture association of america’s ratings board, by insisting on an r rating for “bully, ” has made it harder for young audiences to see. the weinstein company, which is distributing the film, has released it without a rating after the association denied its appeal and after a widely publicized petition drive was unable to change the board’s mind .
you may remember clark as the director of 1995’s ‘kids’ – a similarly themed flick that peels the layers back on how shocking the life of a teenager can really get. drugs, sex, violence, foul language that makes foul language blush – clark doesn’t hold back and ‘bully’ is truly a dark and disturbing feature based on a true story. adapted from the novel bully: a true story of high school revenge by jim schutze, clark’s movie details the life and murder of bobby kent – a merciless and abusive youth played incredibly by nick stahl .
i just watched bully because it was late at night and nothing else was on and i was extremely impressed, i plan on rewatching it soon. i was only familiar with larry clark through his super - controversial kids, to which this is somewhat of a companion piece .
découvrez la bande annonce du film the smell of us de larry clark (kids, ken park), prévu sur les écrans français pour le 14 janvier 2015 .
a singularly disturbing film, based on a true story, about a group of white trash teens who decided to murder one of their friends and actually carried it out .
a large selection of unique larry clark photographs will be on sale to fans and followers of the artist’s work at ooga booga in chinatown, los angeles. the photographs date from 1992 – 2010, and were taken by clark on or around the locations of his films from that time – including kids (1995), bully (2001), ken park (2002), and wassup rockers (2005), among others. the pictures document the people, kids and friends he was interacting with during this period, many playing leading roles in his films. the collection of photographs also includes outtakes from a calendar shoot for the street brand supreme, as well as many unique portraits, self portraits and various snapshots .
many exhibitors are terribly guilty of ignoring minimum standards of picture quality. for instance, you now have theaters where all the reels are run in one continuous string. and they never clean the aperture gate. you get one little piece of gritty dust in there, and every time the film runs, it gets bigger. after a couple of days, it starts to put a scratch on the film. the scratch goes from one end of the film to the other. you’ve seen it, i’m sure .
film - maker larry clark has spent 40 years documenting teenage sex, drugs and violence in suburban america. is that any job for a grown man, asks stuart jeffries .
fantasy has a distinguished tradition in film, from georges méliès' one - reel silents (1902' s
a trip to the moon
) to peter jackson' s monumental the lord of the rings trilogy (2001 - 2003); and cocteau created four of the genre' s defining masterpieces. they are beauty and the beast (1945), and three career - spanning films inspired by the mythic poet and musician, orpheus (whom some ancient writers believed
invented
same - sex love). cocteau' s orphic trilogy consists of his avant - garde, and boldly homoerotic, first film, the blood of a poet (1930), which he wrote, directed, acted in, edited, and narrated; orpheus (1949), discussed below (and a striking contrast to another mythic film by a great gay director, pasolini' s medea); and his final picture, the surreally autobiographical, the testament of orpheus (1959) .
“there was this theatre showing bergman’s early films, godard, louis malle and shadows by john cassavetes, his first film which at that time – ’61, ’62 – no one had ever made a film like that. i was just overwhelmed. i said, ‘this guy sees like i see. ’ just seeing the film and knowing that there was someone else out there that saw things the way i saw really started me off. from that point on i really trusted my own visions and have always been true to myself. ”
rather a nasty little shocker from larry clark, a more explicit follow - up to his controversial “kids” and this time based on a real - life crime. with “bully”, clark consolidated his approach to film - making, presenting a gritty, realistically filmed storyline with (then) largely unknown actors; the shock factor comes across through the fairly amoral lifestyles of the teenagers portrayed; middle - class, suburban, drug - taking and engaging in casual sex while their parents appear to be oblivious to what they are up to. when manipulative ali convinces her peers to help murder the sadistic marty the whole lurid tale unfolds before the viewer' s eyes, graphically and with a chillingly casual attitude on the part of the protagonists. “bully” isn' t an easy film to watch; it is intended to make you feel uncomfortable and it certainly does that effectively; the violence, the sense of wasted lives and the utter banality of it all presents a powerful critique of modern america, one that is still valid today and unfortunately has relevance in societies everywhere. the dvd has interviews and “on location” shoots as extras. a bleak, fairly disturbing but powerfully compelling film .
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in casting the film, i use a mix of teenagers from marfa and professional actors from austin, texas. take a listen to the broadcast below to hear some marfa girl stories .
the film also borrowed some music and character elements (such as the grinch' s green skin tone) that originated in the 1966 animated tv special how the grinch stole christmas! .
somewhat slow psychological thriller shot in south florida, directed by larry clark. marty is bullied by his longtime friend bobby... maybe bullied isn’t even a strong enough word. abused. bobby is a lose canon, filled with anger and led by sexual abuse. marty and his girlfriend are tired of being abused so they recruit some inadequate friends to help execute a murder. a thought - provoking film that feels like the kind of movie that a24 would’ve picked up if they were around in 2001. equipped with its fair share of nudity and explicit language... it’s still awesome to see a movie like this made in broward county. wish there were more !
while shooting my new film marfa girl in marfa, tx, i only had one day off, which i spent photographing the actors of marfa girl for v magazine’s summer 2012 americana issue .
most of the rhymes that were used in the book were also used in the film, though some of the lines were to some degree changed, and several new rhymes were put in .
clark creates an ensemble film in which every performance seems particularized and real, from the many supporting parts to leads brad renfro (marty puccio, the high school - dropout surfer), rachel miner (lisa connelly, his pregnant girlfriend), and nick stahl (bobby kent, the
bully ,
who is marty' s best friend: several characters note that they are
queer for each other
). whether this is how
deracinated
teens acted in 1993 florida, i don' t know (although clark did film in hollywood, florida, where the murder took place - sometimes using the actual homes and locations). the cast, and filmmaking, convinced me utterly .
' bully' gives the viewer an insight into a group of maddeningly awful young people. they' re much like the characters from a bret easton ellis novel, only these ones are of a slightly later generation, meaning there is a marked' wannabe black / rapper' theme amongst the group, which is laughably contrived. their incessant exchange of conversation, which seldom exceeds excessive swearing or needless use of the word' like', often becomes grating. the characters are so devoid of any intelligence and have such warped attitudes towards violence and sex that it makes you question whether people this retarded exist - worryingly, if you go to the right area, they do. the first half of the film is crude trash; however it is well - acted crude trash. i wanted to hate the film because i hated every character, but the characters were clearly purposefully constructed to be that way. to hate the film for its ugliness could be deemed as missing the point, i suppose the film acts a cautionary tale, showing what some areas of society can devolve into. in this respect, it' succeeds'. its chief success is how it portrays the ugly messiness of violence; it covers a spectrum of emotions from its characters during the visceral, realistically unpleasant climax, a scene that' s very well constructed by the preceding twenty minutes or so. however, larry clark' s trademark perversion is all over this film, paying gratuitous attention to the bodies and sex of the teenage cast. it' s ultimately rather one - dimensional; its narrative of murder is captivating, but its study of reckless, idiotic culture is unnecessary - viewers are already aware of people like this. its absence of any likeable characters and presence of many detestable ones overshadows the film' s merits of decent acting and engaging murder plot. there is essentially no incentive to watch this film,' bully' is just another instalment in clark' s portfolio of attention seeking controversy .
what became even more striking about bully, on a second viewing, was the sheer fluency of clark' s filmmaking. before making features, he was a highly successful still photographer. but bully is by no means a series of
pretty pictures
strung together to tell a gruesome tale. clark is in complete control of the rhythms of his film, both within shots and in editing. the use of telephoto lenses (only the foreground is in sharp focus) and rapid panning shots are not only visually stunning (whether its marty surfing or nightmarish distortions of row after row of cloned houses or strip malls or palm trees), they also reflect the rootless, superficial lifestyle of these kids, and their empty, materialistic parents. image, sound, and theme are inextricably, and brilliantly, bound together from first shot to last .
a film based on the true - life murder of bobby kent. kent, a hollywood, florida teenager was murdered by his own circle of friends once they tired of being bullied by him .
you might remember jonathan as the star of my film wassap rockers (2005). he was only 15 years old then. i discovered him in south central los angeles walking down the street .
but at the very front of the queue for post - bully therapy is one special group of people who need it more than most - the unsettled individuals who starred in the film. a cast of former child actors, socialite tearaways and homeless dropouts whom clark hand - picked, they represent a new, thoroughly un - hollywood kind of star - a breed of indie players whose lives are as chaotic as those of the characters they portray. youngsters who are just as likely to be caught dealing drugs as appearing in dawson' s creek and who, in the hardcore sex and violence of clark' s film, have found the perfect vehicle for their collective talents. the anti - breakfast club, if you will .
the film i bring up most in meetings is ocean’s eleven. i really think it’s the quintessential bank heist film; there are others like the italian job or inside man which are also great, but ocean’s eleven has the right tone. we want players to walk out of small time criminals feeling like george clooney’s crew. i also keep bringing up the videogame fallout 4 (bethesda). i want players to be able to hack into computers, open boxes, to explore a fully realised world. there’s also the tabletop roleplaying game fiasco (jason morningstar, bully pulpit games) which is so much fun; in a game like that you talk through what we want to have players actually do in small time criminals !
he had agreed to meet and talk about his latest movie, full metal jacket, a film about the vietnam war that he produced and directed. he also co - wrote the screenplay with michael herr, the author of dispatches, and gustav hasford, who wrote the short - timers, the novel on which the film is based. full metal jacket is kubrick’s first feature in seven years .
you’ve quoted pudovkin to the effect that editing is the only original and unique art form in film. i think so. everything else comes from something else. writing, of course, is writing, acting comes from the theater, and cinematography comes from photography. editing is unique to film. you can see something from different points of view almost simultaneously, and it creates a new experience .
bully co - star bijou phillips, however, has a rather different take on him :
he' s just a big kid ,
bijou says, explaining why she demanded a separate hotel from renfro and the rest of the bully cast .
when we made tart [ a little - seen scream - like horror affair ] together, he' d come over to my room and want me to put him in the bath and get him sober. or he' d cut himself and we' d be in the hospital at four in the morning and we would have to shoot at six. it was just too much. i needed my space .
each month i highlight one exceptional glbt film from a wide range of genres (comedy to drama, musicals to suspense) and periods (from early cinema, by such masters as eisenstein, murnau, and cocteau, to contemporary works). when possible, i select a film which in some way  such as theme, historical period, or style  connects with the g & l reading group' s book of the month. i hope you enjoy these reviews! here is the full index to all recommended glbt films of the month; for more on cinema, see the film resources page .
about photographs of tomasso… you don’t understand because i am an artist and not a fashion cunt photographer… it is just a portrait of a boy but a beautiful italian boy that i will go back to rome and build a film around… he is my new star and inspiration to make a film next year in roma… i am writing the screenplay now… the photographs of him are like a section of images from a film… if you don’t publish them somebody else will right away… you asked for 8 pages and i made this for you… if you don’t get it it’s not my fault… don’t underestimate your audience… they will come around and if a few years the issue will be worth a lot a money and a collectors item because of the suite of photographs i took of my new film star the first minutes i met him… tomasso… .
that’s just another notch on his belt of having to deal with the unintelligentsia who didn’t see things his way. the photographer poked the eyes of the art community in 1971 with his book tulsa, exploring the intensely personal lives of wayward youth. he followed that streak with kids (1995), one of the most controversial and powerful films ever made about the “secret life of kids that adults are not allowed into. ” its subject made national news and was denounced by a britsh mp as a “trend almost verging on the paedophilic”. again and again – with his photography and films like bully (2001), ken park (2002), and marfa girl (2012) – clark has shit all over stereotypes and inhabited a world he’s created all his own, one he now shares with all the outliers who identify with his take no prisoners approach to creating .
he spends so much of this film shoving the camera into (ostensibly teenaged) genitalia that you begin to worry for the actors. it' s not even attached to anyone' s gaze when he does it. the camera just lingers on crotch shot, ass shots, chest shots, and little else for most of the first half of the film. it' s a vastly more gross film in that regard than half the most blatant porns i' ve seen. clark just seems to be getting his own jollies off, which is a presumption i hate making. it just feels that way, though .
initial reviews of most of your films are sometimes inexplicably hostile. then there’s a reevaluation. critics seem to like you better in retrospect. that’s true. the first reviews of 2001 were insulting, let alone bad. an important los angeles critic faulted paths of glory because the actors didn’t speak with french accents. when dr. strangelove came out, a new york paper ran a review under the head moscow could not buy more harm to america. something like that. but critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what i would call subsequent critical opinion. which is why i think audiences are more reliable than critics, at least initially. audiences tend not to bring all that critical baggage with them to each film .
i will put the film on my first and only website, larryclark. com, which is the only place one will ever be able to see the film…. it will stream for $ 5. 99 for access to the film for 24 hours…. this is the future and the future is now…. most and very soon almost all the small theaters that show indie and art films will be gone…. everyday another goes out of business because everything is digital now and it is quite expensive for the wonderful old smaller theaters to bear the cost of switching to digital…. anyway i think i am one of the very first directors to release a new film this way, on a website who’s only purpose is to show his new films…. i think this could be very successful and it also cuts out the crooked hollywood distributors .
based on a true story, this is a teen story with a difference. sexually charged and drug fueled teens seek revenge on the bully who controls them and don' t quite think their plan through. watching the uncut version of this, certainly highlights the extreme levels of bullying and control, which you may otherwise not experience with the uncut version .
on september 26, 1999, it was announced that ron howard would direct and produce a 2000 american fantasy comedy christmas film titled how the grinch stole christmas or dr. seuss' how the grinch stole christmas (promoted theatrically as the grinch) with brian grazer and also with the budget of $ 123 million based on the 1957 story of the same name by dr. seuss which would be released in cinemas on november 17, 2000. jeffrey price and peter s. seaman would write the film. it was also announced that the film would star jim carrey (who plays the title character), josh ryan evans, taylor momsen, jeffrey tambor, ben bookbinder, christine baranski, landry allbright, bill irwin, molly shannon, frank welker, clint howard, reid kirchenbauer, mindy sterling, bryce dallas howard, jim meskimen, jeremy howard, kelley and t. j. thyne with narration by anthony hopkins. universal pictures acquired distribution rights to the film. james horner would compose the music for the movie. imagine entertainment co - produced the film .
i’m very pleased to announce that marfa girl has been selected to premiere in competition at the international rome film festival which runs from nov. 9 to nov. 17. the announcement made headlines in indiewire and variety .
it may be that
bully
helps to explain the high school shootings. we sense the chilling disconnect between an action and its consequences, the availability of firearms, the buildup of teenage resentments and hatreds, the moral vacuum, the way they can talk themselves into doing unthinkable things, and above all the need to talk about it. (so many high school shooters leave diaries and web pages, and tell their friends what they plan to do .) yes, bobby kent is a bully (and one of the most loathsome characters i' ve seen in a movie). but he dies not for his sins, but because his killers are so bored and adrift, and have such uncertain ideas of themselves .
i think bully succeeds where his other films struggle is both in the quality of the actors he got got (a then relatively unknown michael pitt, and nick stahl before he furlong' d) and the story itself, which manages to avoid a lot of the proselytizing that kids and ken park get into, while being just a heartbreaking look at destroyed youth .
dr. seuss' how the grinch stole christmas opened at number - one with a weekend gross of $ 55, 082, 230, for an average of $ 17, 615 from 3, 127 theaters and staying at # 1 for a total of 4 weeks. it closed on april 30, 2001, after five months, with a final gross of $ 260, 044, 825 in the united states and canada and an additional gross of $ 85, 096, 578 in other territories, for a total worldwide gross of $ 345, 141, 403.
bully is a 2001 american psychological crime drama film directed by larry clark , and starring brad renfro , bijou phillips , rachel miner , michael pitt , leo fitzpatrick , kelli garner , and nick stahl . based on the 1993 murder of bobby kent , the plot follows several young adults in south florida who enact a murder plot against a mutual friend who has emotionally , physically and sexually abused them for years . the screenplay was written by david mckenna ( under the pseudonym zachary long ) and roger pullis , who adapted the book bully : a true story of high school revenge by jim schutze . the film was released in the united states on june 15 , 2001 , and met with mixed critical responses , though many critics noted the film 's disturbing and straightforward handling of youth crime and murder . 
bully is a 2001 american psychological crime drama film directed by larry clark, and starring brad renfro, bijou phillips, rachel miner, michael pitt, leo fitzpatrick, kelli garner, and nick stahl. based on the 1993 murder of bobby kent, the plot follows several young adults in south florida who enact a murder plot against a mutual friend who has emotionally, physically and sexually abused them for years. the screenplay was written by david mckenna (under the pseudonym zachary long) and roger pullis, who adapted the book bully: a true story of high school revenge by jim schutze. the film was released in the united states on june 15, 2001, and met with mixed critical responses, though many critics noted the film's disturbing and straightforward handling of youth crime and murder.
bully is a 2001 american psychological crime drama film directed by larry clark, and starring brad renfro, bijou phillips, rachel miner, michael pitt, leo fitzpatrick, kelli garner, and nick stahl. based on the 1993 murder of bobby kent, the plot follows several young adults in south florida who enact a murder plot against a mutual friend who has emotionally, physically and sexually abused them for years. the screenplay was written by david mckenna (under the pseudonym zachary long) and roger pullis, who adapted the book bully: a true story of high school revenge by jim schutze. the film was released in the united states on june 15, 2001, and met with mixed critical responses, though many critics noted the film's disturbing and straightforward handling of youth crime and murder.