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Today’s film is the 2010 short Act Da Fool. The film is written and directed by Harmony Korine. Korine has made a name for himself in the arthouse film community over his 18-year career as both a writer and a director of films such as Gummo and Trash Humpers. His latest feature, Spring Breakers, opened in limited release in North American theatres this weekend.

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[1] Harmony Korine has built up quite a reputation as a polarizing cult filmmaker (writer of Kids, writer/director of Gummo, Mister Lonely, Trash Humpers), but that hasn't stopped him from doing quite well for himself in the relatively safe world of commercials. Among his past high-profile clients are Budweiser, Liberty Mutual, and Axe. His latest commercial effort sees him teaming up with high-end fashion line Proenza Schouler for a four-minute short titled Snowballs, featuring the brand's Southwestern-flavored Fall 2011 collection. Although Snowballs won't drop til next week, we've got an exclusive look at two posters for the film that suggest something artsy, colorful, and hopefully a little twisted. Check 'em out after the jump. [gallery columns="2" orderby="title" exclude="112515"] The new collaboration marks the second time Korine has worked with the brand. Last year, he created a short Super 8 film titled Act da Fool to promote Proenza Schouler's fall 2010 line. Watch it below: Though Korine hasn't...

Oh boy… so short story goes… the totally over-exposed James Franco has apparently been working with indie-film enfant terrible Harmony Korine, on what they’re calling “a violent new art film” titled Rebel, which will premiere at this year’s Venice Biennale. The film reportedly includes a fight between actual L.A. street gangs, with the members being allowed to use real weapons and hurt one another!

And to tease his fans, Franco Tweeted videos previewing the project on his Twitter page, that featured a Notorious B.I.G. soundtrack, and men, including Franco, wearing Tupac t- shirts, all seating on bikes, in an empty car parking lot. But, unfortunately (or fortunately), they were instantly deleted, and few actually got to see them.

Now, this image surfaces, also provided by Franco via Twitter, and was quickly saved by some of his followers, and is now making its way across the web. As you can see,...

Harmony Korine's latest film Trash Humpers caused a bit of a stir on the festival circuit last year due to its odd and disturbing content, and now that it is out on DVD, it has become the focus of another minor uproar as Netflix is apparently refusing to stock it [1]. It seems like a pretty random place to draw the line, especially considering some of the edgy stuff already on Netflix, but I guess these kinds of things just tend to happen to Harmony Korine. If you want to voice your discontent, you can join this Facebook page [2], but in the meantime, we've got another intriguing scoop regarding the casting of Harmony Korine's next project. It turns out, he's got a big name lined up to star in the form of Marlon Wayans... and something tells me this is going to be a little bit different from White Chicks...

File this under “things that make you go hmm…”

The Playlist via indieWIRE via Pajiba are reporting that Marlon Wayans is attached to star in Harmony Korine‘s next film Twinkle Twinkle, which is about a former hitman who dresses up as a dollar bill.

And that’s all the info there is about the project – that single logline, so who knows Wtf it’s really about – whether it’s a comedy, drama, or whatever.

As we already know, Wayans will be playing Richard Pryor in Bill Condon‘s long-in-gestation biopic of the comic superstar, and he did capture our attention after his dramatic turn in Darren Aronofsky’s Requiem For A Dream; so I suppose working with Korine isn’t entirely as odd as it might sound, despite Korine’s provocateur industry status.

The last time he worked with a black cast was in the short film he made...

By now we're used to notable directors pausing from their cinematic schedules to whip some short and fancy advertisement for everything from perfume to cars. David Lynch. Martin Scorsese. Wes Anderson. Terry Gilliam. Kathryn Bigelow. Michel Gondry. Even Frank Miller got into the trend this year.

But there's one name you'd probably never expect to be linked to an ad -- a fashion short no less! -- Harmony Korine. The man who mused up Kids and then wrote and directed the likes of Gummo, Julien Donkey Boy, and Mister Lonely has crafted a short film for the fashion company Proenza Schouler called Act Da Fool.

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So here’s that Harmony Korine short film made as a fall campaign promotion for the high-end women’s fashion brand Proenza Schouler that I told you about last week. You can read that post in full Here, so that I don’t have to rehash.

The film is titled Act Da Fool, and will debut next month on the IFC and Sundance channels.

As my previous post on this suggested, what we’ve apparently got here is a short film about a group of rebellious young black girls, which will be used to promote clothing and other apparel for a high-end women’s fashion line, that is likely being marketed primarily to rich white women, at places like Barneys New York, Neiman Marcus, and Bergdorf Goodman.

I suppose the message is what’s key, and not necessarily the images used to convey the message – the message, in short, being...

Never one to go with the crowd (which in this case would mean making a perfume ad), Harmony Korine has created "Act Da Fool," a short film for high-end clothing brand Proenza Schouler.

You're have to watch it here, there's no embed function. It's very reminiscent of "Trash Humpers," disconnected, low-res late afternoon imagery of abandoned cars in lots, discarded mattresses and shopping carts, and footage of a group of girls wearing Proenza Schouler outfits, spray painting graffiti, drinking 40s and hitting old tires with sticks as an echoey voiceover intones "I believe that the earth is a big ball of shit -- that's why the dinosaurs died out. And everyone gonna die sooner or later. That's why I love cigarettes so much."

It's dreamily hypnotic, but does not fill me with an immediate urge to purchase a $550 pair of Proenza Schouler for J Brand hand-painted high-waisted jeans. But that's probably not even the point.