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The first American retrospective for New Queer Cinema provocateur Gregg Araki will come to the Museum of Arts & Design, at New York's Columbus Circle, this September and October.  The series will feature rare films from Araki's oeuvre, including his classic film "The Living End," his first feature "Three Bewildered People in the Night," and a pilot for a television show that never came to be, described as "Twin Peaks for MTV."   Araki will also host a master class on Saturday, September 28. "God Help Me: Gregg Araki" was curated by Mad's Director of Public Programs, the filmmaker Jake Yuzna.  The entire lineup, with links to more information on the Mad website, is below. The Living End Thursday, September 19, 2013, 7 p.m. Araki's entry into the New Queer Cinema movement, The Living End humorously and honestly tackles the effects of HIV on Generation X through the experiences of star-crossed lovers that take to...

Though mainstream acclaim escapes him, daring writer-director Gregg Araki has proven prolific in the world of indie cinema, making 11 films since his first, Three Bewildered People in the Night, in 1987. His best-known feature is undoubtedly the uncompromising Sundance-selected drama Mysterious Skin, which starred Joseph Gordon-Levitt in his first noteworthy dark turn. Araki's last movie was the trippy, sci-fi infused sexual awakening comedy Kaboom, which won acclaim at the Cannes Film Festival in 2010, and his next is a thriller called White Bird in a Blizzard. Written by Araki, the film will follow a young woman whose life is thrown into absolute chaos when her mother vanishes. Shailene Woodley, the ingénue who earned major acclaim earlier last year for her eye-opening turn opposite George Clooney in The Descendants, signed on to star last June, and soon thereafter Shiloh Fernandez (Red Riding Hood) became the male lead. Now Deadline reports Law & Order: ...

Attention Toronto area fans of Greg Araki: The Tiff Bell Lightbox will be hosting a full retrospective of Araki's work from April 8 - 20th and the man himself will be kicking things off with an extended on-stage dialogue April 9th. Check all the details below!In Conversation With...Gregg Araki: Saturday, April 9 at Tiff Bell Lightbox Kicking off Tiff Cinematheque's full retrospective of his films, Gregg Araki joins Tiff Bell Lightbox Artistic Director Noah Cowan onstage for an in-depth look at his career - from his scrappy beginnings to his current status as one of the recognized pioneers of American independent cinema. Araki will take the stage to discuss his career including the ultra-low budget Three Bewildered People in the Night and The Long...

One of the angriest, most unconventional, and relentlessly intriguing voices in independent cinema, filmmaker Gregg Araki has begun filming [1]on his latest project, a small indie film centered on teenage sexual awakening, gay or otherwise. Joining the cast as the group of college students is Thomas Dekker (The Sarah Connor Chronicles), Kelly Lynch (Drugstore Cowboy), Rooney Mara (A Nightmare On Elm Street 2010) and French actress Roxane Mesquida (Fat Girl) in her English language debut. The film seems to take Araki back to his roots. In 1987 he made his directorial debut  with Three Bewildered People in the Night. With a budget of only $5,000 and using a stationary camera, he told the story of a romance between a video artist, her lover and her gay [2] friend. Two years later, Araki made a name for himself on the festival circuit with Long Weekend (o' Despair, a very small-scale Big Chill [3] derivation involving a...