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Director: Aaron Rose, Joshua Leonard
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From Time Out London
So, yeah, in the early, like, ’90s there were, like, some artists and filmmakers like Barry McGee and Shepard Fairey and Ed Templeton and and Harmony Korine who made, like, crazy street art and, like, crazy films. Some of these guys, like, loved skating and hanging out at Aaron Rose’s scuzzy gallery in New York called, like, Alleged. It’s Rose who, like, made this vague but, like, likeable film about his friends, who say sweet but dumb things like ‘Why have cancer? Why not be funny?’. But, like, they’re obviously a decent bunch with, like, good hearts. When the ’90s became the ’00s, they got, like, famous and people like Pepsi gave them, like, money to do more crazy shit but with, like, logos. So how do you, like, not sell out? It’s hard, man. Rose, like, lost his gallery, but then in 2004 curated a show in Cincinnatti with these guys and called it, like, ‘Beautiful Losers’. And made, like, this film. So that’s cool.Author: Dave Calhoun
Time Out London Issue 2023, May 28 - June 3, 2009
Cast & crew
Director: Aaron Rose, Joshua Leonard
Cast: Chris Johanson, Ed Templeton, Geoff McFetridge, Harmony Korine, Jo Jackson, Deanna Templeton, Stephen Powers, Thomas Campbell, Shepard Fairey, Cheryl Dunn, Margaret Kilgallen, Mike Mills, Barry McGee
Genre(s): Documentaries
Rated: 15
Duration: 91 mins
UK Release: Aug 7 2009
US Release: Aug 8 2008
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