Lawrence Donald "Larry" Clark (born January 19, 1943) is an American film director, photographer, writer and film producer who is best known for the film Kids and his photography book Tulsa. His most common subject is youth who casually engage in illegal drug use, underage sex, and violence, and who are part of a specific subculture, such as surfing, punk rock or skateboarding.
Kids, Another Day in Paradise, Bully, Teenage Caveman, Ken Park, Wassup Rockers, Marfa Girl, The Smell of Us, Just a Measure of Faith, Impaled
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I wondered about the availability of porn everywhere and how it affected what they thought about sex, what it was, what influence it had.
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Directed his first film at the age of 52.
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An autographed poster of his film Wassup Rockers hangs in Circle Theater, a small theater in Tulsa, Oklahoma (his hometown) that plays independent films and, occasionally, films by University Of Tulsa students.
Got into an argument during a dinner with Hamish McAlpine, the British distributor of his upcoming movie Ken Park (2002), over politics. Clark punched him, which prompted McAlpine to pull the movie from the London Festival.
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