Gregg Araki's films are giving the US a crash course in shoegazing

Director of Mysterious Skin and Kaboom is keeping indie pop alive by featuring new music and remixes by his favourite bandsThis week sees the DVD release of two films from the singular talent of Gregg Araki: 1993's Totally Fucked Up and Kaboom, his most recent. It's always tempting to look for patterns and themes in a director's work, but in Araki's case, there's little that connects them all. The disenfranchised gay teens of Totally Fucked Up don't share much common ground with the silly stoner...

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