For breaking sexual taboos, for putting dirty queer punks onscreen, and for giving a giant middle finger to the mainstream - all while making it look so sexy, so easy, and like so much damn fun.įor our special ’90s Week package, we wanted to celebrate Araki’s immense contributions to indie cinema. How to Make a Modern Period Piece for $5 Million: Behind the Scenes of ‘BlackBerry’Įvery indie filmmaker working today should bow down in awe at Araki’s immense oeuvre. And as he revealed to Andrew Ahn in an exclusive interview for IndieWire, he even auditioned - and didn’t cast! - a young Matt Damon. Rose McGowan, Margaret Cho, Parker Posey, Guillermo Díaz, Ryan Phillippe, Heather Graham, and Mena Suvari all showed up in the Teenage Apocalypse trilogy. If every rebellious teenager wanted to live in a Gregg Araki film, then every promising young actor wanted to be in one. After making a splash at Sundance with that film, (and with the help of visionary longtime producer Marcus Hu), he churned out a trio of erotically charged teenage dirtbag films, dubbed his Teenage Apocalypse trilogy: “Totally Fucked Up” (1993), “The Doom Generation” (1995), and “Nowhere” (1997).Īt the forefront of the New Queer Cinema, an enduring queerness ignites all of Araki’s films, though he certainly had fun toying with expectations. Described as a gay “Thelma and Louise,” he began the decade with “The Living End” (1992), a sexy road trip comedy about two young guys living with HIV.
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