Harmony Korine

Chippy Nonstop Wants To Marry Chief Keef (Even Though He Stole Kitty Pryde's Candy)

Editor's note: In "Tweets Is Watching," Phillip Mlynar asks local artists questions based solely on the contents of their Twitter timeline. Chippy Nonstop is back in Brooklyn for the summer! Today she releases her new six-track EP; it's titled Finally Verified and is also being promoted with a Gif- ... More >>

Listen to A$AP Ferg's "Work (Remix)" Featuring Schoolboy Q, French Montana, Trinidad James, A$AP Rocky

With last year's head-nodding "Work" A$AP Ferg became the most visible member of A$AP Mob not named Rocky or A$AP Yam's birthmark. Now, the remix is here, and it, as they say, go hard. How hard? Well, at one point "Pakistan" is rhymed with "Columbine." We'll let you guess whose stroke of genius that ... More >>

A$AP Ferg Wants Harmony Korine to Direct His Next Video

Editor's note: In "Tweets Is Watching," Phillip Mlynar asks local artists questions based solely on the contents of their Twitter timeline. A$AP Ferg is gearing up for the release of his Trap Lord mixtape, which should build on the success of his anthem-in-the-making "Work" and establish him as the ... More >>

QUIZ: Are These Tweets From Cher or Horse_ebooks?

RiFF RAFF may get all the the love as the King of Incomprehensible Tweets, but the title of Queen goes to Cher. While she may not have Harmony Korine ready to pen a book of tweet interpretations, the near-EGOTer has roughly 1.3 million followers who eagerly await her tweets, which, on any given day, ... More >>

Riff Raff vs. Spring Breakers and Other Music Stories We <3

Here's a round-up of the music stories Voice writers have been reading recently. Take a spin through the links below and tip us off if there's something you like that we may have missed.

Harmony Korine On James Franco's Artistic Fearlessness And Oral Skills

The Spring Breakers director explains it all

Harmony Korine On James Franco's Artistic Fearlessness And Oral Skills

If you think Oz The Great and Powerful is a scandal, wait till you see James Franco in Spring Breakers, in which he's Alien, a cornrowed, silver-toothed rapper/dealer who watches Scarface on heavy rotation, goes down on guns on command, and has a lovely artistic side to match his psychotic one. In ... More >>

James Franco's Director Has No Regrets

As you know, this week's column is a wildly informative tete-a-tete with Harmony Korine, the 40-year-old provocateur whose latest act of outrage is Spring Breakers, in which James Franco takes some vacationing babes on an immorality spree. The movie's a big hit and has gotten some raves, so I aske ... More >>

Harmony Korine's Spring Breakers Are Girls Gone Godard

A thrilling corruption of the Disney-princess set

Harmony Korine Explains the "Beauty in Horror" of Spring Break

Spring Breakers’ provocative director on the darkness beneath college partiers’ booze, boobs, and bad decisions.

If Only Oz the Great and Powerful Had A Wizard

Sorry James Franco, this Oz is neither great nor powerful

OFF THE WALL

Buy Larry Clark's skater gems

Once Every Day Catches the Director's Cues

Pazz & Jop: Riff Raff Is Keeping It Surreal

He's believable as a hip-hop star because nothing he says is true

Report From Miami: The Borscht Film Festival Beckoned!

And how could I resist? It was a trip to paradise, after all. And the fest was described thusly: "A quasi yearly event held at iconic Miami venues that showcases films created by emerging regional filmmakers telling Miami stories that go beyond the typical portrayal of the city as a beautiful but ... More >>

THE GODFATHER

Celebrate Jonas Mekas’s 90th

Only the Young

INTO THE WILDERNESS

Silversun Pickups hike 
over to Terminal 5

TIFF: Meet the Monsters

From Toronto, a glimpse of this year's most bracing films

James Franco Vanessa Hudgens Ashley Benson vs. Asia Argento Charlotte Gainsbourg François Cluzet : Threesomes at the Toronto Film Festival

This is a blog post about two movies that were screened for the press within the first 24 hours of the Toronto Film Festival, both of which feature three-way sex scenes. In Spring Breakers, characters played by James Franco, Vanessa Hudgens and Ashley Benson "do it" in a swimming pool; in Do Not Dis ... More >>

A Brief Primer On Riff Raff, The (Really Good) Houston Rapper Who Will Be Portrayed On Screen By James Franco

If Noz and The Onion collaborated, they might come up with a scenario like this one: Gucci Mane and Selena Gomez star in a Harmony Korine-directed film alongside James Franco, whose character is loosely based on the little-known YouTube rapper Riff Raff. But, of course, this is the era of trollgaze, ... More >>

INDIE GEMS

A new film fest opens in Hell's Kitchen

New York Times Continues to Backpedal on 'Grimmest' NY Film Festival

​A few months back, we noted an interesting discrepancy in the New York Times coverage of the last New York Film Festival. While critics A.O. Scott and Stephen Holden were unusually harsh in their characterization of the festival as a whole -- the "grimmest in memory," "a high-minded form of ... More >>

This Week's Voice: The Hold Steady, Flying Lotus, Daddy Yankee In Space, and the Return of the Jazz Rent Party

Flying Lotus, yet another outstanding cultural accessory to smoking weed. Photo by Timothy Saccenti​In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla writes the definitive piece on the Hold Steady's newest, Heaven Is Whenever, while Mike Powell explains the omnivorous electronic headphone music of L. ... More >>

This Week In The Voice: The NYPD Tapes

​Who knows what goes on behind the closed doors, locked file cabinets, and day-to-day routines of the NYPD? Other than them, nobody. Which is one of the reasons why one of New York's Finest saw fit to record his life among their ranks, and shed light on some of the darker aspects of those who ... More >>

Harmony Korine's Trash Humpers Captures Nashville's Roving Gang of Wilding Seniors

Five Must-See Films From the New York Film Festival

Interview: Harmony Korine On His New Collected Fanzines

Beautiful Losers, Aaron Rose's Celebratory Portrait of the Early-'90s L.E.S. Artists

Mister Lonely: Harmony Korine's Moody Neverland

A former enfant terrible, now singular and sincere

Thursday 05/01

EEE! HARMONY

A discussion with a notorious filmmaker

MAN MAN MAN MAN MAN MAN MAN MAN XXXL MAN

Spring Film Preview: Harmony Korine's Odd Squad

On Returning with Mister Lonely

PRETTY WOMEN

Juergen Teller interprets the Ukraine

Movies To Go

Preparing for the onslaught that is the Toronto Film Festival

Provincializm by William Bowers: Bodies of Water

Chatting With Werner

Herzog on his acting career, Mike Tyson, and the hearts of men

Star Spangled to Darth

Anatomy of Hellion

Truck Stop

Best of the Rest!

Memory and Desire

Toronto a Year Later

Body Blows

Looking for Trouble

Swing the Body Electric

Young Blood

Young Blood

Stocking up at the Toronto Film Festival

Parting Shots

Pet Projects

On the Indie Means of Production