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IMAGINARY LANDSCAPES
There was interesting news in Variety today -- Rick Linklater has been greenlit by Warner Independent Pictures and New York's Thousand Words to film his adaptation of Philip K. Dick's great A Scanner Darkly, which will star Keanu Reeves in his first post-Matrix trilogy project. An earlier script was penned by Charlie Kaufman, and the good folks at Muse Productions had the option once -- and still list a Chris Cunningham-directed version on their website. Now, however, Steven Soderbergh and George Clooney's Section 8 are producing the current project with Thousand Words. Most interesting is the note that the movie will be done in the same filmed animation style as Linklater's earlier Waking Life.
While you wait for the Dick adaptation to hit the screen -- or perhaps after you digest Kaufman's current homage to both Dick and Annie Hall, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Heart -- check out the Sine Fiction series, digital online MP3 downloads of electronic musicians "scoring" famous science fiction novels. The Strutgarski Brothers' Roadside Picnic, filmed by Andrei Tarkovsky as Stalker, has been scored by Jos Smolder, and Galactic Zeit "scores" Dick's last official novel, Radio Free Albemuth. Click on the titles above to download the scores.
Thanks to the folks at Disquiet.com for these links.
# posted by Scott Macaulay @ 3/30/2004 10:56:33 PM
CSI JERUSALEM
Sorry for the lack of blog postings, but the Filmmaker staff has been busy crunching on the next issue of the magazine, which is slated to go to the printer this week.
In the meantime, I got this interesting press release from the folks at Feral House, the scabrous L.A. publisher who can always be counted on for ghoulish esoterica. However, given the various marketing tie-in's -- plastic stakes? -- that The Passion of the Christ has already produced, the reissue described below seems almost tame.
"Feral House, publisher of The X-Rated Bible and Apocalypse Culture,, issued the gruesome Catholic martyrology, Tortures and Torments of the Christian Matyrs, back in 1989. This irreverent release, complete with illustrations by contemporary artists and murderers, also contained a medical investigation into the Crucifixion (reprinted with permission from the Journal of the American Medical Association), a scholarly article evidently appropriated by none other than Mel Gibson for his bloody meditation on Jesus.
"Says Peter J. Boyer in the 9/15/03 issue of The New Yorker: 'Gibson seems to have relied heavily upon On the Physical Death of Jesus Christ, which describes the Roman tools of punishment, the choreography of the infliction, and its severity. All these elements are directly reflected in Gibson's film.'
"In recognition of The Passion of The Christ, Feral House has re-released the bloody martyrology, complete with On the Physical Death of Jesus Christ, the entirety of the 16th-century martyrology with its original engravings, combined with illustrations executed specifically for the Feral House edition by fine artists, underground cartoonists, tattooists and murderers.
" 'Blasphemous and obscene... [caters] to the gags-and-whips crowd... Something to offend almost everyone.' -- Los Angeles Times
"More information available at Feral House."
# posted by Scott Macaulay @ 3/28/2004 12:22:35 PM
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