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Flaming Lips' Christmas in Mars playing in NYC theaters
Christmas on Mars screening @ Sasquatch 2008 (more by Chris Graham)
Christmas on Mars screens in a custom-designed screening room within the Kraine Theater of the KGB Complex at 85 East Fourth Street. A former Ukrainian Socialist Social Club, the KGB Complex features two theater spaces, a comedy club, and a bar. For Christmas on Mars, Cinema Purgatorio is converting the KGB's Kraine Theatre into a superb screening room with high definition video and the custom designed Zeta Bootis Mega Supersonic Super-Sound Surround System, which the Flaming Lips created specifically for this film.Showtimes range from 7:00 AM (see it before work) to 10:00 PM. It opens on September 12th. Tickets are on sale. You can also wait for the DVD which will be out for Christmas. More info and videos below...
FIRST NEW YORK CITY SHOWTIMES ANNOUNCED.Many other cities coming soon, although for the northeast, right now we are focusing just on New York City.
Please note that many of our screenings are in the morning. Read the showtimes carefully, make sure you know where you're going and when!
Get up early and go to Mars before you go to work.
Psychedelic rock band the Flaming Lips present Christmas on Mars: A Fantastical Film Freakout Featuring the Flaming Lips, a glorious science fiction film that marks the directorial debut of the Lips' visionary frontman Wayne Coyne. Seven years in the making, Christmas on Mars features original music by the Flaming Lips ("The greatest US band today" - The Guardian), with acting performances by all band members, and many others from their Oklahoma City-based team. Comedian Fred Armisen (Saturday Night Live) and actor Adam Goldberg (Dazed and Confused, Two Days in Paris) also appear.
It's Christmastime, and the colonization of Mars is underway. However, when an oxygen generator and a gravity control pod malfunction, Major Syrtis (the Lips' Steven Drozd) and his team (including the Lips' Michael Ivins) fear the worst. Syrtis also hallucinates about the birth of a baby, and many other strange things. Meanwhile, a compassionate alien superbeing (Coyne) arrives, inspiring and helping the isolated astronauts. [Cinema Purgatorio]
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Posted on August 19, 2008 9:09 AM
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Comments (15)
nice, KGB rocks.
Posted by jp | August 19, 2008 9:15 AM
did anyone see it when it was at the fests over the summer? is it the complete trash that i am expecting?
Posted by Anonymous | August 19, 2008 9:22 AM
Yes! I've been waiting for this for years.
Posted by Anonymous | August 19, 2008 9:27 AM
i smell oscar in the air...
Posted by Anonymous | August 19, 2008 9:29 AM
awesome.
Posted by Anonymous | August 19, 2008 9:40 AM
"i smell oscar in the air..."
Nah, that's just the naked chicks on the stage.
Posted by Anonymous | August 19, 2008 10:48 AM
does anyone feel like the wait for this has been so long that now that it's coming out, you don't really care anymore?
I'll probably still go see it, but this would have been a much bigger deal five years ago.
Posted by FRX | August 19, 2008 10:55 AM
I saw it and it sucked. I was expecting something amazing (like the Lips music) and I set the bar way too high. The movie was made by a few guys with an weird idea, no budget, and a limited knowledge about making movies. Sometimes this recipe works, but not this time.
The sound, however, was very very loud and really cool.
If I can offer advice to anyone going to see it, please get high first.
Posted by Anonymous | August 19, 2008 11:50 AM
don't we all get high before we go to see things?
Posted by Anonymous | August 19, 2008 12:38 PM
i do.
Posted by Anonymous | August 19, 2008 3:49 PM
me too.
Posted by Anonymous | August 19, 2008 3:57 PM
huh?
Posted by Anonymous | August 19, 2008 7:08 PM
I saw this movie at Lollapalooza in Chicago, and it blew me away. It has many meaning on all sorts of levels, and it's recognition of the fragility of life is compelling and beautiful.
While watching, I felt myself transported to another time, place and state of mind. The film becomes unsettling as you realize that the space station is a metaphor for the human body, and you begin to feel like every scene is taking place inside your legs, chest and head.
I have never felt like getting up and walking out (as many certainly did), while being absolutely glued to the screen and my seat. It was the most marvelous feeling in the world.
Posted by Josh | September 12, 2008 5:59 PM
Josh was obviously tripping when he saw it.
It was bizarre and funny and I'd like to see it again under the influence.
Posted by Nashstu | October 16, 2008 3:21 PM
great comments..especially josh and nashstu. ive yet to see it but will most definitely in the comfort of my own home very soon!
and 1000% agreed up above - who doesnt get high for movies anymore? thought we all were when i go. :(
Posted by danyelle | January 17, 2009 7:37 PM