1997 Directed by Gregg Araki
The third film in a trilogy by writer-director Gregg Araki. Described as "90210 on acid", the film tells the story of a day in the lives of a group of high school kids in Los Angeles and the strange lives they lead.
James Duval Rachel True Nathan Bexton Chiara Mastroianni Debi Mazar Kathleen Robertson Jordan Ladd Christina Applegate Sarah Lassez Guillermo Díaz Alan Boyce Jaason Simmons Ryan Phillippe Heather Graham Scott Caan Thyme Lewis Mena Suvari Beverly D'Angelo Denise Richards Traci Lords Shannen Doherty Rose McGowan John Ritter Christopher Knight Eve Plumb Lauren Tewes Gibby Haynes Joshua Gibran Mayweather
Nowhere - Eine Reise am Abgrund
the ~aesthetic~ of this movie is basically just WHAT IF TUMBLR WAS ACTUALLY COOL and i know that sounds lame but get this: it’s actually cool??
like a really fucked up dazed and confused, laced with constant bursts of acid induced adrenaline and nihilistic black humour, saw this twice in three days, one of the best films ever?
One day, people are gonna look back and be like "yooooooooo, we should have liked Gregg Araki so much more than we did!"
makes me think about a lot of people that want queer stories to follow more heteronormative plots so they can be easily consumed and capitalized off to the masses. and to that i say: i hope gregg araki fucking eats all of you.
FUCK this is so good I almost got a computer virus trying to watch but I feel like it’s the way Araki intended
The production designer on this movie should be given a medal. Each new bedroom made my jaw drop a little bit further. Love the pansexual apocalypse.
it always comes back to this, then...one of the movies i'd call truly perfect. every impulse of a countercultural moment of absolute sexual fluidity swept up into araki's most outre sensibilities, a terrified, loving, dissatisfied, and ecstatic attempt to preserve the sense an era by acknowledging its imminent demise. certainly not utopian, for all its surface pleasures (and they are many). self-harm and self-obsession are coequal partners in the denial of the outside world (the windows of these characters' rooms are not windows: they offer the vistas of other worlds entirely than our own), whose impositions (more-or-less metaphorical) in the form of Roscoe the Alien, televangelism, and Jaason Simmons, signal apocalypse.
"it's armageddon day....have you ever heard of the rapture?"
"like the siouxsie and the banshees album?"
Okay, so maybe it's a loose fit for a Halloween film, but I HAD to find an excuse to rewatch this. And having done so, it's absolutely cemented itself as one of the best films I've ever seen, so ooozing with creativity and empathy and unbridled, endearing doomerism.
Few movies feel so comforting despite their atmosphere of raw cynicism and cosmic horror. The surrealist flourishes of Nowhere feel so perfectly integrated with its characters, language, preoccupations, and bleeding heart sincerity. I'm interested to see how Donnie Darko holds up in comparison, because so much of that film's appeal is here in spades, loosened up and given a bit more room to breathe within its suffocating downward trajectory into post-ironic teenage nihilism. It feels like a scream into the unknown we now live in, a vision firmly planted in its present because it can't envision any future. And I'm completely in love with it.
When I was 12-14 years old in the mid-90s I'd occasionally buy a Spin or Rolling Stone magazine. In the back there'd be what were essentially classified ads for third parties that sold Generation-X baiting t-shirts and ephemera. The dumbest of these was an illustration of Alice from The Brady Bunch wrapped in chains with the clever caption "Alice in Chains" (I hope anyone under the age of 25 does not understand a word of the above). I'd never seen an episode of The Brady Bunch (and still haven't), but the goddamn pop culture nostalgia obsession of the oldest Gen-Xers meant that I was exposed to all kinds of references to it.
So when Greg Araki cast the actors who…
Let the love feast begin.
Thank you to Boys for convincing me to make this my first exposure to the work of Gregg Araki. That being said, what the fuck? Utter bewilderment. I can't tell if what I watched was a film or a fever dream masquerading as a film. Nowhere is a full, wackjob embrace of "queer" as both a sexuality and a synonym for "weird." The names of the characters. (Greatest hits include Dark, Lucifer, Dingbat, and Handjob.) The dialogue. (Greatest hits include "How about you sit on my face and cut a nice, big, juicy fart?" and "Dogs eating people is cool.") The sets. (The main wall of our lead character's living space is a spray painting…
Add this to the long list of film worlds I'd die to live in. Pure hyperkinetic bliss. A successor to Liquid Sky and Jubliee and precursor to Donnie Darko and Center Jenny.
Something of an amalgamation of all of my favorite films and all the films I want to make. I immediately reached out to some local actors after watching; I gotta get out there and make more shit like this. The world is a little bit better for things like this existing at all.
Saw this when I was young and couldn’t understand it at all but watching now this movie was so ahead of its time. I think it was an overload for me back then I couldn’t process everything going on. Pretty much everyone is lgbtqia+, it dealt with death, drugs, alien abductions, rape, bulimia, religion, it packs in so much in a short amount of time.
My favorite thing is peoples bedrooms and how all the artwork and scenery in each room represents the characters so well in such a striking and creative way.
The way they had Rachel True’s polka dot wall match her outfit was such a detailed touch just for one short scene. I’ve always thought about it.
Everything, absolutely everything - I said EVERYTHING - in this movie screams "queer and campy ✌🏻😗".
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Tudo, absolutamente tudo - eu disse TUDO - nesse filme grita "queer e campy ✌🏻😗".
The most upsetting thing in this movie full of upsetting things is discount Keanu Reeves leaving that disgusting plate in his room and then later stepping on it
All hail the great 90s Emporer -------------------------------->>> Greggi
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It’s like we all know, way down in our souls, that our generation is gonna witness the end of everything. You can see it in our eyes, it’s in mine, look.. i’m doomed
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