MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART AT THE PACIFIC DESIGN CENTER.(Larry Clark)(Brief Article)

LARRY CLARK

The sharpest parts of Larry Clark's movies are nonnarrative moments of disconnect and strange drift. His 1998 film Another Day in Paradise, for instance, was lackluster except for the opening sequence: a hypnotic, ten-minute stare at skinny, droopy-jeaned Vincent Kartheiser in the act of a heist, which would have made a dazzling film projection on its own, without the ensuing baggage of two hours of narration. And in his latest effort, Bully, a high Mike Pitt frolicks with his dog while Bijou Phillips, a girlfriend on the make, slowly approaches. Clark's movies excel ...

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