Michael (“The Hours”) Cunningham has insisted Scott Heim, the author of “Mysterious Skin,” “is a serious writer who’s unafraid to swim in the darkest waters.” Put director Gregg Araki into a pair of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Few films get banned in multiple countries and then, twenty years later, become the subject of theories as how they might have ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Marking the 20th anniversary of Mysterious Skin's theatrical release, writer and director Gregg Araki is revisiting one of his ...

“Mysterious Skin” had its world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival this summer, followed by its North American debut in September at the Toronto International Film Festival. In the ...

Spoiler Alert: This post contains major plot spoilers for Mysterious Skin. Scott Heim’s 1995 novel Mysterious Skin, which was later adapted into a film by Gregg Araki, tells the story of two Kansas ...

Gay writer Scott Heim has a couple of reasons to celebrate. First is that his acclaimed 1995 debut novel “Mysterious Skin” has been reissued by Harper Perennial in an anniversary edition featuring a ...

Of all the representations of pedophilia in movies recently, from "Mystic River" to Kevin Bacon's powerful performance as a recovering abuser in "The Woodsman" to Todd Solondz's treatment of the ...

Few films get banned in multiple countries and then, twenty years later, become the subject of theories as how they might have influenced a later Steven Spielberg movie. "Mysterious Skin" has managed ...

Toward the end of my interview with Gregg Araki, I remind him of his scene from Michael Almereyda and Amy Hobby’s 1995 documentary At Sundance. Sitting on a couch next to Todd Haynes, Araki is at that ...