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The year 2018 is not what you would call a Larry Clark moment. The director of “Kids,” “Bully,” “Wassup Rockers,” and the new “Marfa Girl 2” — yes, he has made a sequel to a film that virtually no one saw — is now 75 years old, and he may be the cinema’s last shameless mystic of forbidden sexuality. These days, you know you’re watching a Larry Clark film when the sex scenes are real as opposed to simulated, when the close-ups of genitals (mostly male) are multiple and looming and adoring, and when the performers are non-professional actors whose job is to live up to an ideal of skinny hard-bodied youthful tumescence.

That’s been the Larry Clark fetish going back to his two fabled books of transgressive photographs, “Tulsa” (1971) and “Teenage Lust” (1983), and in 50 years of flesh-gazing it hasn’t changed much. Neither has the fundamental controversy that surrounds and...

Leave it to Larry Clark to still have some major tricks up his sleeves, including a surprise sequel to one of his signature films. In 2012, the always-independent director of “Kids” and “Ken Park” premiered his lo-fi “Marfa Girl” at the Rome Film Festival, where it went on to win top honors. Initially, Clark was intent on only making the film available via streaming access on his own website, a natty way to avoid what he called “crooked Hollywood distributors,” but he eventually relented and sold the North American rights to Breaking Glass Pictures.

Two and a half years after “Marfa Girl” debuted at Rome, Breaking Glass released the film on VOD and in theaters, followed by a summer home-video release. Three years later, Clark is back in business with the indie distributor, which is now releasing his unexpected sequel — his first-ever foray into something even resembling franchise filmmaking — “Marfa Girl...

Company also on board for Us DVD/VOD launch of Niels Arden Oplev’s Speed Walking.

Breaking Glass has acquired international sales rights to Larry Clark’s Marfa Girl 2 after picking up North American distribution rights.

The film centres on a family living in Marfa, Texas, who attempt to pull themselves back together after a tragedy, and is a sequel to Clark’s 2012 drama Marfa Girl.

Adam Mediano, Drake Burnette, Mercedes Maxwell, Indigo Rael, and Jeremy St. James are among the cast.

“After making Marfa. Girl, my fans inundated me with requests for a follow up – so I made it,...

Days Go By: Clark Returns to Apathetic Adolescence for Latest

After having won the top prize at the 2012 Rome Film Festival, controversial filmmaker Larry Clark’s Marfa Girl was available for streaming directly from his official website. Now, nearly three years later, Breaking Glass Pictures is distributing the title in limited theatrical release. For those familiar with Clark’s work, the title doesn’t feel like anything new from the director, navigating a milieu of loosely connected adolescents and the peripheral adults in their environment as they conquer their all-consuming boredom with illicit drugs and promiscuity. The customarily blatant yet generally believable crude conversations revolving around sexuality present in all of Clark’s work is full force here.

Seeing as this is the filmmaker’s first feature in seven years, following 2005’s Wassup Rockers (though it should be noted a 2014 title The Smell of Us premiered in last fall’s...

Made just on the cusp of his turning 70, photographer-filmmaker Larry Clark's latest reckless-youth provocation (see also: Kids, Bully, Ken Park) proves Matthew McConaughey's immortal Dazed and Confused adage: He gets older, but those skinny, objectified adolescents stay the same age. Within this loosely paced West Texas portrait of lyrical desolation (its grungy panoramas quite beautiful when not looking like advertising gloss), smoking pot, fucking, and spanking the boredom away is still the modus operandi for Clark's largely nonprofessional ensemble. Half-Hispanic teen Adam (Adam Mediano) skateboards from one hedonistic distraction to the next and is occasionally bullied by sadistic, racist Border Patrolman Tom (Jeremy St. James). Everyon...

Marfa Girl Red Band Trailer. Larry Clark‘s Marfa Girl (2012) red band movie trailer stars Adam Mediano, Drake Burnette, Jeremy St. James, Indigo Rael, and Ulysses Lopez. Marfa Girl‘s plot synopsis: “Marfa Girl follows Adam (Adam Mediano), a directionless 16-year-old boy, in the days surrounding his sixteenth birthday. The film [...]

Continue reading: Marfa Girl (2012) Red Band Movie Trailer: Larry Clark’s Latest Film...

Kids helmer Larry Clark circumvented traditional distribution when he put his latest film, Marfa Girl, online for fans to stream on his own website for $5.99 a pop. Thanks to Breaking Glass Pictures, he’ll see the sexually charged West Texas-set drama hit theaters in limited release next year. Marfa Girl revolves around Adam (Adam Mediano), a directionless 16-year-old living in Marfa, and his relationships with his girlfriend, his neighbor, his teacher, a newly arrived local artist, and a local Border Patrol officer. The film won top honors at the 2012 Rome Film Festival and will open in a 10- to 15-theater run in the spring. “I think Marfa Girl is my best film or at least as good as any film I’ve made,” said Clark in a statement. Breaking Glass CEO Rich Wolff negotiated the deal with Ryan McCombs of Spotlight Pictures.

FilmBuff has acquired writer-director J.C. Khoury’s romantic comedy All Relative,...

Exclusive: Spotlight Pictures acquires world rights to Larry Clark’s coming-of-age tale [pictured].

Spotlight Pictures has secured world rights to Larry Clark’s Marfa Girl and has been in talks with buyers here.

Drake Burnette and Adam Mediano star in the coming-of-age tale of a teenager in small-town Texas.

Carlos Rincon of Spotlight negotiated the deal with producer Adam Sherman. Marfa Girl won the 2012 Golden Marc’Aurelio Award at the 2012 Roma Film Festival.

“I could not be more proud to represent Marfa Girl at Cannes,” said Spotlight CEO Matt McCombs.

“Personally, working with Larry means a lot to me. When I was younger Kids was a huge influence on me and my first job in international sales was working on the sales of Larry’s Another Day In Paradise.”

“In my opinion, the true no-holds barred artists in the film industry are so few that you can count them on your fingers,” said Sherman...

When Rolling Stone met Larry Clark in Rome, he was sitting in the bistro section of the art-house film club Kino, chewing through his vegetable platter and sipping on freshly squeezed fruit juices as part of a new, vegan cleanse. It wasn't exactly what one would expect from the controversial director of Kids and Bully.

However, things are changing for the cult filmmaker, who was preparing that day to talk with director Claudio Giovannesi before an audience of independent film fans as part of the Rome Film Festival. One week later,...

Larry Clark's tale of wild teens in Texas crowned best film, with awards also going to Stephen Dorff-starring The Motel Life

The losers, boozers and casual users of Marfa Girl found a happy ending of sorts as Larry Clark's new picture took the top prize at the seventh Rome film festival. Marfa Girl, a tale of wild teens in small-town Texas, took the Golden Marc'Aurelio award, bringing the curtain down on an event that has faced criticism for both the quality of its films and a perceived lack of big-name guests.

Marfa Girl paints a portrait of a Texas melting-pot near the Mexican border, inhabited by Hispanics, working-class white families and hippie artists. It stars Adam Mediano as the mixed-up teenage hero, Drake Burnette as a libidinous art student and Jeremy St James as a border patrolman on the brink of a meltdown. Clark – whose previous films...

Tonight, Larry Clark premieres "Marfa Girl" at the Rome Film Festival, his first full-length feature in seven years -- his last was 2005's "Wassup Rockers" -- and a picture that is boldly embracing the changing landscape of movie distribution. And we've got a peek behind the curtain with an exclusive clip from the film along with several behind-the-scenes photos from the production. Starring Adam Mediano, Mercedes Maxwell, Drake Burnette, Mary Farley, Jessie Tejada, Elizabeth Castro and more, the film follows the intersecting lives of the residents of the tiny town of Marfa, Texas with sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll, art, violence and racism all coming into play. In this scene from the movie, we get to see both the spiritual and sexual themes that seem to run through the film. "Marfa Girl" premieres tonight 10 p.m. in Sala Sinopoli, where it's screening in competition. And you won't have to wait...

Not even the novelty of a one-off screening at the Rome film festival, ahead of its online release, can shake the impression that Larry Clark's small-town tale of drifters covers familiar Texan ground

If writer-director Larry Clark is to be believed, the Rome premiere of Marfa Girl is both the first and last time his movie will screen before the public. No traditional theatrical roll-out for Clark. Once the final credits roll, Marfa Girl proceeds straight online where it will be accessible on the director's dedicated website for a fee of $5.99 (£3.77). "This is the future and the future is now," says the director, brightly seeking fresh modes of distribution for a film that nods heavily to his own back catalogue.

From torpid opening to explosive finale, Marfa Girl surfs through familiar Clark country, dragging a dilated eye across the wanton youth of smalltown Texas. "You can't do anything in...

"Kids" filmmaker Larry Clark is embracing the digital age. With his latest "Marfa Girl" set to unspool at the Rome Film Festival, the director reveals that will be the only place where you can see his latest on the big screen. "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...." he said in his director's statement. Starring Adam Mediano, Mercedes Maxwell, Drake Burnette, Mary Farley, Jessie Tejada, Elizabeth Castro and more, the film follows the intersecting lives of the residents of the tiny town of Marfa, Texas with the usual Clark hallmarks of sex,...