Kids. A film by Larry Clark. London, Faber & Faber, 1995. 160 pp. 20,7 x 18 cm. First British edition containing the Korine screenplay and many full-color film stills starring Rosario Dawson, Justin Pierce and a 19-year old Chloë Sevigny, whose film debut this was.
A very good copy. Tight book block. Pages and cover clean. Bottom right cover corner is slightly dog-eared. The top edges show some dust soiling. Protected by mylar envelope.
Kids is a film by Larry Clark with a screenplay by Harmony Korine. The New York Times called it 'Lord of the Flies with skateboards, nitrous oxide and hip-hop.' Clark always wanted to make a coming-of-age film with real kids instead of teenage movies like City Across the River with older actors playing teenagers. He asked Harmony Korine (that 'kid writer' he knew from skateboarding in a park) to do the screenplay. Korine completed the screenplay in 1993. The shooting took place during the summer of 1994.
bell hooks was fascinated by the film. "because when you heard about it, it seemed like the perfect embodiment of the kind of postmodern, notions of journeying and dislocation and fragmentation," she wrote, "and yet when you go to see it, it has simply such a conservative take on gender, on race, on the politics of HIV."
Harvey Weinstein (who bought and distributed the film) called Kids "the most controversial film I’ve ever been associated with.”
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