HARMONY KORINE & HIS NEW FILM AT BELCOURT

Korine also curating two of his favorite pix to show at the Belcourt..

TRASH HUMPERS
Opening Night 7:30 screening:  Director Harmony Korine in attendance.

Catchy title, eh? Take it literally. By his own admission, Nashville-based director Harmony Korine isn’t certain that his latest work is even “a film”. Made to resemble a playback of a discarded old VHS (shot and edited in that same format), the eerie blowup to 35mm comes complete with tracking lines and 8-bit text and the horrors that lie within come in snippets: multi-generationally degraded images as might be recorded and recorded over. At the core are four self-documenting “elderly” miscreants who, between various seemingly senseless acts of vandalism, murder, and visits with fellow outcasts do just that: fixate their gaze and their pelves on our fair city’s distributed trash and recylcing recepticles: an outlet routinely taken to after a long summer’s day of treachery. Having divided festival audiences around the world since it’s premiere at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival, TRASH HUMPERS will no doubt do the same back home. After all, that might be your trash bin they’re banging.

In conjunction with the release of TRASH HUMPERS, Belcourt asked Harmony to curate two of our Weekend Classics slots. Here’s what shook out…

WEEKEND CLASSICS: Korine’s Picks –

THUNDERBOLT AND LIGHTFOOT  Sat-Sun, May 29-30.
An ex-thief (Clint Eastwood) and a fun-loving drifter (an Oscar-nominated Jeff Bridges) team up with shady old associates to restage a robbery of an armored bank.

THE MOTHER AND THE WHORE  Sunday, June 6th @ 7pm – ONE SCREENING ONLY.
A rare screening of Jean Eustache’s critical portrait of French youth in the wake of late 60’s Parisian cultural and sexual revolutions.