Gus Van Sant and author Bret Easton Ellis will team to write a feature about the double suicide of artists Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake.
PalmStar Entertainment, Celluloid Dreams and K5 Film have acquired screen rights to “The Golden Suicides,” a Vanity Fair article written by Nancy Jo Sales. [...]
The couple descended into a paranoid spiral when the artists developed a consuming belief that government and religious organizations were conspiring against them. She killed herself in 2007. Blake found her body on the floor of their bedroom, and walked into the Atlantic Ocean a week later, ending his life.
Variety: Scribes make suicide pact
Previously:
Vanity Fair coverage of the deaths of Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake
Dead Woman Blogging: Theresa Duncan at 10 Zen Monkeys
(via Jorn Barger)
We would talk at great length every time Alan started to script an issue, he’d run by how he thought it might be broken down, then I’d give him my suggestions on that, and then based on the various thing we were talking about – we would both go off into reminiscences, and speculations about how we came through music to comics to childhood experiences to vague feelings about things – somehow we’d come back to the topic of Watchmen again, and this stuff, largely contextual and largely sort of, er, mood as much as anything, would find its way into the finished comic book. We just talked and talked a lot, and then Alan typed and typed a lot and I drew and drew a lot. And then John Higgins – I shouldn’t leave him out – he coloured and coloured a lot, and I very much would talk things through with him, and then just leave him to his own devices. I think good collaborations are like that; you have to trust what the other guy’s going to do, have him put into it, stir the pot, throw in what you’ve got and leave it alone.
Full Story: The Quietus
Plus: New Dave Gibbons art on Ain’t It Cool
Another Philip K. Dick movie is coming soon: Radio Free Albemuth, starring Alanis Morissette as Sylvia, Jonathan Scarfe as Nicholas Brady, and Shea Whigham as Philip K. Dick himself.
Official movie site
IMDB entry
(Thanks Joe)
“Twentieth Century Fox is bringing the Japanese anime TV series Cowboy Bebop to the big screen, with The Day the Earth Stood Still star Keanu Reeves attached to star as a bounty hunter traveling through space in 2071, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
One of the big titles in anime, Bebop is set in a time where “astral gates” make interstellar travel possible. Humanity, decimated by a lunar explosion resulting from a gate accident, spread out across the solar system, as did crime, which gave rise to the use of bounty hunters. Reeves would play Spike Spiegel, a bounty hunter and former member of a crime syndicate.”
(via SciFi Wire. Thanks JK!)
“New, controversial footage, from within the Church of Satan, has been released. It has been more than forty years since in-depth footage of the Church was shot, and a new Satanic ritual has been documented and publicly presented for the first time. It’s revealed and confirmed that public servants and various celebrities are, or have been, members of the Satanic Church, including Sammy Davis, Jr. and Jayne Mansfield. In interviews leading up to the un-cut ritual, one Satanist says, if there is a God who feels Satanists should roast in hell, “He can go _ himself,” and that all people are not created equal. Another said Christianity is “like a rabies.”
The footage was captured by independent filmmaker Joshua P. Warren. He was granted unprecedented access to the Church, traveling internationally to live with Satanists and document the most intimate aspects of their philosophy. He has now released it in his new documentary, Inside the Church of Satan.”
(via Alternative Approaches)
(“Inside The Church of Satan” site)
I consider myself a fan of Stanley Kubrick, and I find this revelation, while outlandish, fascinating.
Admittedly, when I was a young man, I did not enjoy Eyes Wide Shut as a plodding and ludicrously turgid movie.
The strange circumstance of Kubrick’s March 7, 1999 death at his home — and the family refuse to release the exact cause of death other than natural cause (may be sudden cardiac arrest) — shortly after approving the lock on final cut and before the film was released in theatres in North America and some regions on July 16 provide a new perspective that might explain his reclusive & somewhat eccentric lifestyle beginning in the early 70’s and why it led naturally to the subject of his final film.
Full Story: Awake From Your Slumber.
(via Robot Wisdom)
s the lead singer from Iron Maiden the new Rob Zombie? Bruce Dickinson, the old school hard rock band’s lead singer, penned the screenplay for Chemical Wedding, an occult thriller which, according to Variety, “stars Simon Callow as the reincarnated Aleister Crowley, an occult scholar who was once labeled as the most evil man in Britain.” Crowley wasn’t just “an occult scholar.” His very existence struck fear into the hearts of the U.K. residents throughout his lifetime.
Full Story: Monster Fest.
(Thanks Danny Chaoflux).
Deliver Us from Evil is a documentary about the Catholic sexual abuse scandal. Winner of the LAFF Best Documentary and tells the story of one of the most notorious paedophile priests in the history of the Catholic Church.
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Torrent: 703.05 MB AVI (RAR compressed).
You probably already know what this is: Robert Greenwald’s excellent documentary challenging Fox News’s “Fair and Balanced” doctrine.
Buy on DVD for $9.95.
See also:
The Corporation.
magical assault on corporations by Wu.
The Corporate Egregore by LVX23.
“My Love War with Fox News” by LVX23 in Generation Hex.
Torrent: 676.82 MB avi file.
An excellent documentary about Hunter S. Thompson filmed in the late 90s. Official site.
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