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Prestige International Pictures, a film sales, financing and production company, will be launching at the Marché du Film during the Cannes Film Festival. The company will be headed by sales industry veteran Carlos Rincon as the president and co-founder. Prestige will be announcing its Cannes slate in the coming days.

Joining Rincon at Prestige as partners and co-founders are producers Chris Lemos, Luis Guerrero, William Knochel and Brad Friedlander of Vital Pictures.

Prestige describes itself as being a distribution company “by filmmakers, for filmmakers” as the producing founders have “lived through all the experiences and challenges that filmmakers face while seeking distribution for their film,” according to a statement. In addition to representing third-party content, Prestige will also represent Vital’s slate of in-house titles.

The company will be based on the West Coast (Los Angeles) and East Coast (Atlanta) to “further enhance relationships with filmmakers on both coasts.”

Previously,...

Exclusive: Larry Clark, the filmmaker behind the Harmony Korine-scripted Kids and Brad Renfro starrer Bully, has come aboard the music documentary It Was Them, from filmmakers Edgar Morais (Heatstroke) and Luke Eberl (Choose Connor), as an executive producer.

Currently in production, It Was Them is a portrait of the highs and lows of Jonathan Velasquez, Eddie Velasquez, Frank Navarrette and Carlos Ramirez, a group of musically talented Indigenous-Latino friends from South Central L.A. who look to find their footing as immigrants in the foreign and labyrinthic streets of Paris. The film spans over a decade in the lives of the nomads and features an original soundtrack written and performed by the subjects.

In addition to co-directing, Morais has contributed writing to the film and is producing alongside Eberl. The U.S.-Portugal-German co-production’s team also includes producers Sol Tryon, Rodrigo Areias, and co-producers Andre Hörmann and Max Milhahn.

Morais and Eberl previously collaborated on the award-winning narrative short We Won’t Forget, in which a woman’s frustrations boil to the surface while hosting a party for her friends, culminating in a public freak-out that turns into collective hysteria. The short screened at over 25 festivals worldwide, including the Oscar-qualifying Palm Springs ShortFest, and was selected as Short of the Week and Vimeo Staff Pick. It also won various awards, including the Grand Jury Prize and award for Best Editing at the Castrovillari Film Festival, and was nominated for a Portuguese Academy Award for Best Short Film. Prior to It Was Them, Morais and Eberl also collaborated on music videos for bands such as Mothxr and the Grammy-nominated Shiny Toy Guns.

A filmmaker, photographer and actor, Morais’ directorial debut, the short film Heatstroke, won the CinEuphoria award for Best Screenplay. As an actor, he has worked with directors such as Teresa Sutherland, Victoria Mahoney, and Tiago Guedes in films that have screened at Cannes, Venice, Fantasia, Gothenburg, Vila do Conde, and Rotterdam.

Also an actor-filmmaker, Eberl’s feature directorial debut, Choose Connor, was released theatrically and on video by Strand Releasing following a successful festival run. That film followed an idealistic 15-year old who accepted the opportunity to serve as the youth spokesman for a U.S. Senate candidate, only to be exploited in a fierce campaign of TV and radio ads, posters, interviews, and speaking engagements. As an actor, he’s worked with directors such as Tim Burton, Alfonso Arau, Vincent Paterson, Peter Hoar, and Clint Eastwood.

Known for his unflinching explorations of youth culture, addiction, and rebellion, Clark first gained recognition with Tulsa, a book of photography documenting teenage drug use and disaffected lifestyles in his hometown. He transitioned to filmmaking with the iconic drama Kids, chronicling the lives of teenagers in New York City, which became a cultural flashpoint in 1995. Other works from the filmmaker include Bully, as well as Ken Park, Another Day in Paradise, Wassup Rockers, Marfa Girls, and The Smell of Us.

Morais is repped by Eleven Dot Eight, Middleweek Newton Talent Management, and Robert Stein Management; Eberl by Phoenix Artists, Blue Ridge Entertainment, and Hit Management.

Exclusive: Los Angeles-based Premiere Entertainment Group has taken international rights to This Game’s Called Murder, Adam Sherman’s (Happiness Runs) thriller starring Ron Perlman. Also starring are Vanessa Marano (Switched at Birth), and Natasha Henstridge (Species).

The movie follows the daughter (Marano) of iconic women’s luxury footwear designer Mr. Wallendorf (Perlman) who sabotages her sadistic father’s business in a dark tale of murder, greed, and betrayal based in a consumer-crazed society. Henstridge plays Wallendorf’s wife. James Lastovic, Judson Mills, Tyler Steelman, Annabel Barrett, and Tory Devon Smith round out the key cast.

Sherman, who previously produced Larry Clark’s Marfa Girl and Marfa Girl 2, produces the film alongside Hagai Shaham and Paul Laurens. Noémi Santo co-produced.

Premiere CEO Elias Axume and Carlos Rincon negotiated the deal with producer Adam Sherman and attorney Alana Crow. Rights will be shopped in Cannes.

Sherman said, “The fool who...

Theatrical, premium VOD launch set for July.

Breaking Glass Pictures has acquired North American rights to Tokyo-set thriller She’s Just A Shadow, Adam Sherman’s follow-up to his 2012 SXSW selection Crazy Eyes.

Sherman’s third feature centres on a matriarchal crime family embroiled in a brutal gang war as a deranged killer leaves a trail of victims on railroad tracks all over Tokyo. The only thing more dangerous than the killer is the vicious love triangle within the family itself.

The modern take on the gangster genre plays out against a dreamlike backdrop of ultra-violence and sex as everyone...

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...

Larry Clark has always been a controversial filmmaker. Dating all the way back to when his debut film, “Kids,” was released in 1995, Clark has never been one to shy away from showing graphic depictions of violence and sex in his work. This has led to many of his films receiving adult ratings and/or distribution issues. However, that hasn’t stopped the writer-director, and it looks like 23 years later, he’s still pumping out films, including the recently announced “Marfa Girl 2.”

Read More: ‘Kids’ Director Larry Clark Goes Way Off Script In Insane, Nsfw Bret Easton Ellis Podcast

Back in 2012, Clark released “Marfa Girl” on his website after a successful launch at the Rome Film Festival.

Continue reading ‘Marfa Girl 2’ Trailer: Controversial Filmmaker Larry Clark Is Back With His Sequel To The 2012 Drama at The Playlist.

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,...

In today’s film news roundup, “Whitney” filmmaker Kevin Macdonald is partnering with Docsville, “Marfa Girl 2” is getting distribution, and a Dave Gurney mystery series is heading into development.

Partnerships

Documentary streaming service Docsville has signed a partnership with “Whitney” filmmaker Kevin Macdonald, Variety has learned exclusively.

Macdonald’s credits include “Touching the Void,” “One Day in September,” “The Last King of Scotland,” the thriller “State of Play,” “How I Live Now,” and the upcoming Whitney Houston documentary “Whitney,” which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival this year.

He won an Academy Award for best documentary in 2000 for “One Day in September,” working with Docsville co-founder Nick Fraser on the film.

“It’s been a joy to work with Kevin over many years, from our collaboration on ‘One Day in September’ up until our most recent efforts with Docsville,” Fraser said. “Having such a talented director on board will surely...

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...

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, sex, drama, consequences... yep, it's another movie from Larry Clark, who specializes in narratives about young people living dangerously on the cusp of adulthood (see "Kids," "Ken Park," etc). But for "Marfa Girl," Clark took a slightly more anarchic approach to putting it together. "What happened was the last two films I wrote myself — 'Wassup Rockers' and 'Marfa Girl.' I‘d been talking to writers and I found out that all these writers have these rules, there are certain ways they do things, and I probably should have snapped to this earlier but I don’t need no fucking writers, and I hate rules, and so I said I wanna make a film where I only put in what I’m interested in," he told Jessica Kiang at the Rome Film Festival in 2012. "And I don’t care about getting from here to there, only what I’m interested in,...

Larry Clark, best known for collaborating with Harmony Korine on "Kids" and "Ken Park," will return to the south-central U.S. for his latest film, "Marfa Girl," which is being released by Breaking Glass Pictures.  Like Clark's previous films, "Marfa Girl" constructs a gritty sexual portrait of the youth in a particular community -- in this case, a Texas border town named Marfa. Here's the film's official synopsis: "The new film from visionary director Larry Clark follows Adam, a directionless 16-year-old living in the working class U.S./Mexico border town of Marfa, Texas, and his sexual relationships with his teenage girlfriend, twenty something neighbor, aggressive local artist and high school teacher, while an unhinged, misogynistic border patrol agent watches over the neighborhood. What ensues is a web of sex, drugs, and violence as the Latino skater punks adjust to their gritty, aimless life in the dead end town." Check out.

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,...

Screen Media Films has taken Us rights to Michael Winterbottom’s The Face Of An Angel starring Daniel Brühl, Kate Beckinsale, Valerio Mastandrea and Cara Delevingne. In other news, Breaking Glass has picked up Larry Clark’s Marfa Girl.

The film premiered in Toronto and will screen at the London Film Festival on October 18. BBC Films financed alongside Multitrade, Ypsilon Films, Lipsync, Revolution Films and the Tuscan region.

The story centres on a filmmaker who endures torment and a change of focus when he sets out to adapt a book about the trial of an American woman charged with murdering her flatmate. Paul Viragh wrote the screenplay.

Melissa Parmenter produced The Face Of An Angel and the executive producers are Christine Langan, Eric Anidjar, Leon Benarroch, Roberto Mitrani, Norman Merry, Ed Wethered, Anthony Jabre, Reza Safinia and Susana Hornil.

Screen Media negotiated the deal with WestEnd Films and plans a second quarter 2015 release.

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A prime example of what we’ve just now dubbed “le cinema du entre-jambes,” or “crotch cinema,” Larry Clark’s “The Smell of Us” is a film so horrible it manages to significantly outdo the repulsiveness of its title. Having waded through Clark’s entire back catalogue some time ago (the things we do for Film Criticism), we were semi-apologists for his last movie, “Marfa Girl,” in which amid the sine qua non teen sex we thought we detected the green shoots of a more narrative-based direction, as well as some coherent characterization. “The Smell of Us” however, jettisons all of that in its portrait of disaffected youth (what else?) in Paris in favor of mindlessly repetitive and 100%, no-question-about-it exploitative, sequences of pretty young men engaging in various sexual activities. But that’s not to say Clark has nothing new up his crusty sleeve — this time out he's added himself to the mix,...

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...

by Seth Metoyer, MoreHorror.com

What looks to be a killer new indie horror film, The Suffering has completed filming and in now in post production. In order to complete the movie, the producers have a Kickstarter campaign going. See how you can get involved here. Check out all the details below and keep your eye out for this one.

Official Details

The Suffering follows a man’s descent into madness after accepting a mysterious assignment to assess the aristocratic, supernatural property of a reclusive shut-in. The film combines thematic elements of The Shining and Shutter Island while remaining original in its perspective on morality and redemption.

The Suffering is the second production brought to you by Rob Hamilton, who directed in 2012 the indie mystery Key, which secured two awards at the World Music and Independent Film Festival in Washington DC. Production includes Marco Scola (Project X), Ian Coyne (Nuclear), and David Newbert (Marfa Girl,...

The Smell Of Us

Director: Larry Clark

Writer: Mathieu Landais

Producers: Morgane Production’s Gérard Lacroix, Polyesters’ Pierre-Paul Puljiz

U.S. Distributor: Rights Available

Cast: Michael Pitt, Alex Martin, Lucas Ionesco

Larry Clark is back again, and quite quickly, since his last film was 2012’s Marfa Girl. The often controversial filmmaker turns his sights to skateboarders, which automatically puts us in mind of Gus Van Sant’s Paranoid Park. A cast led by Michael Pitt lends to the intrigue, as well as the presence of Lucas Ionesco, son of Eva Ionesco and grandson of Irina Ionesco, an infamous family in France (and Eva Ionesco directed a 2011 film called My Little Princess starring Isabelle Huppert, which documented her childhood as a nude model for her mother’s photographs).

Gist: Follows a group of self-destructive skateboarders in Paris.

Release Date: Clark’s last film, 2012’s Marfa Girl won top honors at the Rome Film Fest,...

Gray to chair competition jury, Clark on CinemaXXI duty.

Writer-directors James Gray and Larry Clark have been appointed to lead the Rome International Film Festival’s (Nov 8-17) competition and CinemaXXI juries, respectively.

Gray, director of The Yards and The Immigrant, will be joined by six other jurors, to be announced in the coming weeks.

The jury will present the Golden Marc’Aurelio Award for Best Film, the Best Director Award, the Special Jury Prize, the Best Actor and Best Actress Awards, the Award for Emerging Actor or Actress, the Award for Best Technical Contribution, and the Award for Best Screenplay.

Kids director Clark won Rome’s Golden Marc’Aurelio Award last year for his drama Marfa Girl.

Clark, who will be joined by four other jurors, will assign the CinemaXXI Award, the Special Jury Prize – CinemaXXI (both reserved for feature-length films), and the CinemaXXI Award for Short Films.

Artistic director Marco Mueller said of Gray: “To be...

Gray to chair competition jury, Clark on CinemaXXI duty.

Writer-directors James Gray and Larry Clark have been appointed to lead the Rome International Film Festival’s (Nov 8-17) competition and CinemaXXI juries, respectively.

Gray, director of The Yards and The Immigrant, will be joined by six other jurors, to be announced in the coming weeks.

The jury will present the Golden Marc’Aurelio Award for Best Film, the Best Director Award, the Special Jury Prize, the Best Actor and Best Actress Awards, the Award for Emerging Actor or Actress, the Award for Best Technical Contribution, and the Award for Best Screenplay.

Kids director Clark won Rome’s Golden Marc’Aurelio Award last year for his drama Marfa Girl.

Clark, who will be joined by four other jurors, will assign the CinemaXXI Award, the Special Jury Prize – CinemaXXI (both reserved for feature-length films), and the CinemaXXI Award for Short Films.

Artistic director Marco Mueller said of Gray: “To be...

Larry Clark

Controversial American film director Larry Clark, who is making his first film outside the Us in French in Paris over the summer, is to receive a tribute and showings of his complete works at next week’s Deauville Festival of American Cinema.

The new film The Smell Of Us is about “self-destructive skateboarders” in the City of Light. The idea stemmed from poet Mathieu Landais whom he met during an exhibition in Paris and who ended up co-writing the screenplay.

Rocker Pete Doherety apparently plays a role in the film, but, as usual, the main focus for the Kids director is on messed up adolescents. Clark's sojourn at the Festival is geographically convenient as the Normandy watering hole is only two hours from Paris.

Clark, who directed sexually explicit scenes in both Bully and Ken Park, has returned to cinema after a long absence with Marfa Girl last year,...

“Maybe I was straitjacketing myself because even back when I was doing Tulsa or Teenage Lust, I wouldn't go see movies about teenagers. I wouldn't look at books if they were about teenagers, because I was afraid that either I would be influenced or that someone had already done something that I had done, or someone was doing it better. I was just afraid to look at anything, because I didn't want any ideas. I don't know why, but I didn't. Just frightened. Scared to death.”

—Larry Clark

“I am a complete man, having both sexes of the mind.”

—Jules Michelet

When you have nothing, the very wise Luc Moullet tells us, you should cultivate relentless artifice. These days, Larry Clark is almost there, down to one thing: Marfa, a bitty town in Texas. And Marfa has been oft blessed, first just obliquely by Edna Ferber, then harder by George Stevens,...

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,...

In the 17 years and 6 films since his excoriating debut "Kids," Larry Clark has gradually slipped off many radars, as detractors claimed that precisely what had so shocked and impressed in his early work (explicit sex, violence and drug taking amongst photogenic teenagers) was becoming irrelevant at best, and exploitative at worst. But perhaps his latest film, "Marfa Girl," the first in a mooted trilogy, which won the top prize at the Rome Film Festival, will change their minds (read our review here). While the film does offer the green shoots of a new direction for the helmer, his fascination with teenage subcultures and the grungy glamour of his aesthetic are still present. Clark in person, is, as you might expect, almost truculently unapologetic about his recurring thematic concerns, and in fact proudly considers "Marfa Girl" to be "a film where I only put in what I’m interested in." We got to talk to the.

Director Larry Clark gained international notoriety for his 1995 film Kids, which featured a candid depiction of sexually active teenagers in New York City. That film was the subject of considerable controversy and received an Nc-17 rating, but it was a commercial success and clips from the movie have been viewed millions of times on YouTube (for all the wrong reasons? Possibly.) 17 years later, Clark is making a different sort of splash. He is releasing his latest film, Marfa Girl, exclusively through the Internet, with no releases planned for theaters or home video. Marfa Girl, which tells the story of a culture clash in the small town of Marfa, Texas, made a big splash at the Rome Film Festival, where it won top honors. Clark wasn't the only person at Rome who embraced online video; the festival itself featured plenty of online footage in hopes of making it less of an insider experience.

News.

The Rome Film Festival has come to a close and the awards have been handed out. David Hudson has the details at Keyframe. The big winner? Larry Clark's Marfa Girl, which as of today has been independently released online. The Berlin Film Festival has announced its retrospective for February, and it's a particularly inspired choice: "The Weimar Touch," which is "devoted to how cinema from the Weimar Republic influenced international filmmaking after 1933. It will focus on continuities, mutual effects and transformations in the films of German-speaking emigrants up into the 1950s." A welcome surprise in casting news: Viggo Mortensen has signed up for Lisandro Alonso's next feature, on which he will also serve as producer.

Finds.

Above: via Three Colors, Jean-Luc Godard on the set of his next film, Adieu au langage. On the very left is cinematographer Fabrice Aragno, whom I interviewed here in the Notebook.

Filmmaker interviewed controversial director Larry Clark last week while he was at the Rome Film Festival with his latest feature, Marfa Girl, which ended up winning the festival’s prize for Best Film. Now, in the wake of this success, Clark is releasing the film on his website, and it will premiere tonight at 6pm Est. In his interview, Clark said that he made the movie specifically to play online: I wanted to make a movie for the Internet. These days everyone one is on it — emails, social networks and all that. I have kids and they are constantly connected …...

“This is the future and the future is now,” declares director Larry Clark on the website for his new film, the Rome Grand Prize-winning Marfa Girl. And when Clark says “now,” he means now — the film will stream today, at 6:00 Pm Eastern time, for 24 hours, and that may be the only time you’ll ever get a chance to see it. From the site: 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 seventh edition of the Rome Film Festival came to a close this weekend in the Italian capital. Larry Clark’s latest doodle about youngsters enjoying sex, drugs and skateboards, “Marfa Girl,” was crowned the winner of a weak competition, capping a disappointing edition that many had hoped would signal a new beginning under former Venice head Marco Muller. Purely judging programming and the festival's organization, it did not seem all that different from previous years, even though, on paper, the number of world premieres was much greater than in previous editions (over 60 in all). Clearly, though, the premiere status of films says absolutely nothing about their quality. This year’s program was again mediocre and incoherent, and the festival is still an organizational mess. On top of that, the usually starry event was very low-key when it came to red-carpet decoration, with the biggest attending star 66-year-old Sylvester Stallone,...

Main Competition

Golden Marc.Aurelio for Best Film: "Marfa Girl" by Larry Clark

Best Director Award: Paolo Franchi, "And They Call It Summer" ("E la Chiamano Estate")

Special Jury Prize: "Ali Has Blue Eyes" ("Alì ha gli occhi azzurri") by Claudio Giovannesi

Best Actor Award: Jérémie Elkaïm, "Hand in Hand" ("Main dans la main")

Best Actress Award: Isabella Ferrari, "And They Call It Summer" ("E la Chiamano Estate")

Best Emerging Actor Award: Marilyne Fontaine, "A Child With You" ("Un enfant de toi")

Best Technical Contribution: Arnau Valls Colomer, for the cinematography of "Never Die" ("Mai morire")

Best Screenplay Award: Noah Harpster and Micah Fitzerman-Blue for "The Motel Life"

Cinemaxxi Competition

The International Jury, chaired by Douglas Gordon and composed of Hans Hurch, Ed Lachman, Andrea Lissoni and Emily Jacir, awarded:

CinemaXXI Award (for feature-length films): "Avanti Popolo" by Michael Wahrmann

Special Jury Prize . CinemaXXI (for feature-length films): "Picas...

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...

Larry Clark's "Marfa Girl" won the top prize at the Rome Film Festival, which came to an end this weekend. Read Indiewire's review of the film here. Full press release below. The Prizes Awarded To The Films In Competition The International Jury, chaired by Jeff Nichols and composed of Timur Bekmambetov, Valentina Cervi, Edgardo Cozarinsky, Chris Fujiwara, Leila Hatami and P.J.Hogan, has conferred the following awards: - Golden Marc’Aurelio for Best Film: Marfa Girl by Larry Clark - Best Director Award: Paolo Franchi for E la chiamano estate - Special Jury Prize: Alì ha gli occhi azzurri by Claudio Giovannesi - Best Actor Award: Jérémie Elkaïm by Main dans la main - Best Actress Award: Isabella Ferrarifor E la chiamano estate - Best Emerging Actor or Actress Award: Marilyne Fontaine for Un enfant de toi - Best Technical Contribution: Arnau Valls Colomer, for the cinematography of Mai.

Larry Clark movie, controversial "Italian Shame" win at Rome Film Festival 2012 Larry Clark’s Marfa Girl, a loosely structured drama featuring intertwining stories, boozing, spanking, and teen sex in a small Texan border town, won the Marcus Aurelius Award for Best Film at the 2012 edition of the Rome Film Festival. Instead of finding its way into theaters in the United States, Marfa Girl will be made available (for $6 or so) via Clark’s website. (Photo: Isabella Ferrari, Jean-Marc Barr E la chiamano estate.) The [...]...

Rome – Larry Clark’s small-town drama Marfa Girl won the Marcus Aurelius Award for Best Film at seventh edition of the International Rome Film Festival Saturday, while Italian films had a strong -- and controversial -- showing after taking home several major awards. The first edition of the festival under the artistic director of former Venice head Marco Mueller had been criticized locally for the quality of films in the lineup and the relative lack of star power. But the festival finished on a mostly high note, with such a packed house for the closing ceremony in the festival’s largest venue,

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Border patrol police and racial tension are not your usual ingredients for a teen movie. Like the adolescent characters they feature, teen dramas tend to be self-referential: they are rarely concerned with anything beyond drugs, unprotected sex, and emotional confusion. Larry Clark, best known for his 1995 film Kids, specializes in this genre, but his latest feature, Marfa Girl, somehow eludes the teen canon to offer a diagonal take on an oft-predictable format. Marfa Girl takes place in a small Texas border town that is home to a community of artists and a threatening number of border policemen. While hostility …...

Border patrol police and racial tension are not your usual ingredients for a teen movie. Like the adolescent characters they feature, teen dramas tend to be self-referential: they are rarely concerned with anything beyond drugs, unprotected sex, and emotional confusion. Larry Clark, best known for his 1995 film Kids, specializes in this genre, but his latest feature, Marfa Girl, somehow eludes the teen canon to offer a diagonal take on an oft-predictable format.

Marfa Girl takes place in a small Texas border town that is home to a community of artists and a threatening number of border policemen. While hostility between teenagers and adults often plays out inside the walls of the family home, in Marfa the conflict plays out on the streets. While the clash between border policemen and arty teenagers is by no means peaceful, it offers an opportunity for exploring the cause of the bitter hatred on both sides.

For a filmmaker, being lost in the woods of development or financing is never fun. We always lament the absence of a filmmaker who’s spent far too much time away from the game trying to get a labor-of-love project off the ground (you can see examples of such features here, here and here); the purgatory must be a frustrating type of hell. One filmmaker who hasn’t made a feature-length effort in seven years is Larry Clark of “Kids” fame. While he’s clearly worked in the interim -- he made some shorts in the portmanteau pictures "Destricted" (2006) and "42 One Dream Rush" (2009) -- his last feature was 2005’s “Wassup Rockers,” which saw the often controversial director deliver another film based on the teenage experience, but one in a more jovial mood. The 69-year-old’s latest, “The Marfa Girl” (read our review here), just made its world debut at the Rome International Film Festival,...

Teenagers fuck, get each other pregnant, fight, take drugs, and are disaffected. So far, so very, very Larry Clark. But “Marfa Girl” which premiered at the Rome Film Festival last night, also foregrounds elements that haven’t historically cropped up quite so regularly in the filmmaker’s back catalog, like race relations, spirituality, and adults defined in ways other than their effect on teens, including, rarest of all, a functional and mutually loving parent/child relationship. It also boasts an intriguing structure whereby you might think it’s business as usual for the first two thirds, until in the final act, tension that you hadn’t really been aware of building comes to a head, almost the way you might expect in a genre film -- a psychological thriller or a horror perhaps -- as the bad guy gets what’s coming to him and the harmonious community is thus exorcised of its chief demon.

Marfa is the small Texas town that has been invaded by creative types ever since minimalist artist Donald Judd bought into the town in 1971. Before that, it was probably best known for serving as a location of James Dean’s last film, "Giant," in 1956. In more recent times, Paul Thomas Anderson ("There Will Be Blood") and the Coen Brothers ("No Country For Old Men") have taken advantage of the bygone era's lingering architecture in the main streets of the town. There's even a much-photographed artistic interpretation of a Prada store on the highway. Marfa is hip. Enter Larry Clark, famed for his photographs and films that look at the underbelly of American life, with a particular eye on the behavior of adolescents -- mainly bored teenagers who no longer have to answer to their parents and have discovered sex. The first shot of Clark's latest feature, "Marfa Girl," is of a skateboard,...

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,...

Roman Coppola's Charlie Sheen-led "A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III," Larry Clark's "Marfa Girl" and Takashi Miike's "Lesson of Evil" were among the films announced in competition at the re-vamped 7th edition of the Rome Film Festival.  Headed for the first time by former Venice Film Festival director Marco Mueller, the programming is certainly more high profile than any of the festival's previous editions. Among the films announced today that are screening out of competition were Pj Hogan's reunion with his "Muriel's Wedding" star Toni Collette, "Mental," and Marjane Satrapi's "The Gang of the Jotas." Though one film that many folks had suspected would end up in Rome -- Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained" -- was nowhere to be found in today's announcement. Though it may very well end up one of two "surprise screenings" the festival is...