Antichrist - Gigola - King Shot
three upcoming movies
Lars von Trier, one of my all time favorite directors, is currently working on Antichrist, a film starring Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg. He wrote and directed it and he's expected to show it at this years Cannes Festival which is sometime in May.

In the village of filmdom Lars' films fly far above the fray. Dancer In The Dark is my favorite one of his.

Trailer

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And Gigola has just started in early 2009 and is taken from a steamy novel by Laure Charpentier.

The plot: George, a young woman loses herself in the nightlife of 1960s-era Paris after the suicide of her female lover, and eventually becomes a gigolo catering to women.

It stars the toxic Asia Argento and the smoldering Anne Parillaud, Marisa Berenson, and Tchéky Karyo.

Asia Argento is so enigmatic -- wow! Many of her characters remind me of a younger version of myself, I hesitate to add. I saw her again in Transvylvania a few nights ago.
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She's also working on Alejandro Jodorowsky's King Shot, that's been in production for-ev-er.

Keep churning the good stuff out. We'll be waiting.

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Werner Herzog and David Lynch

David Lynch making new films with Herzog, Jodorowsky

Werner Herzog and David Lynch are teaming for "My Son, My Son," a horror-tinged murder drama based on a true story.

Herzog and his longtime assistant director Herbert Golder co-wrote "Son," loosely based on the true story of a San Diego man who acts out a Sophocles play in his mind and kills his mother with a sword. The low-budget feature will flash back and forth from the murder scene to the disturbed man's story. A guerrilla-style digital video shoot on Coronado Island is tentatively set for March.

In a separate development, Lynch's Absurda production company has attached Asia Argento and Udo Kier to star with Nick Nolte in Alejandro Jodorowsky's metaphysical gangster movie "King Shot."

Marilyn Manson is touted to appear as a prophet in the "Sin City"-style film, which producer Eric Bassett said has enough sex and violence to guarantee an NC-17 rating.

Lynch is executive producing both projects, and Absurda is repping their sales rights in the Cannes market.

"Son" is produced by Eric Bassett, who also is producing "King" with his Absurda colleague Norm Hill and Clavis Films' Simon Shandor.

Herzog, repped by Gersh, is having a busy 2008. He was set to film "Son" in the summer but postponed it to direct Nicolas Cage in a remake of Abel Ferrara's "Bad Lieutenant" starting in July. In the fall, he will shoot the Victorian-era drama "The Piano Tuner" for Focus Features.

All kinds of good film news! [via], link

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Last Days, directed by the great Gus van Sant (Drugstore Cowboy, My Own Private Idaho, Even Cowgirls Get The Blues), is about the last days of Kurt Cobain. Great cast. Asia Argento (stunning), Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon, Harmony Kormine, and Michael Pitt in the title roll.

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Joe Coleman is giving a special performance tonight at Virgin Megastore Union Square (NYC). And celebrating the launch of his controversial DVD R.I.P. Rest in Pieces, with added clips, directed by Robert-Adrian Pejo and featuring Jim Jarmusch, Hasil Adkins & Asia Argento.

R.I.P. Rest In Pieces is director Robert-Adrian Pejo's intimate portrait of painter Joe Coleman, who is known around the world as a shamanic, moral voice diagnosing the ills of 21st century America.

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Good Sunday morning....

movies
I finally got to see Signs, with Mel Gibson last night and enjoyed it. Braveheart is certainly in my top 10 favorite movies list.

And I've seen 3 movies with Asia Argento in them recently. I first saw her in B. Monkey. Then, XXX, and the New Rose Hotel.

I wasn't aware that Director David Lynch had directed so many commercials. [via greencine]

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art
Nice, dark illustrations.
[via anne]

Surreal and Dark Art from Illustrator Jason Beam.

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Avocado Lite-nobody does it better. Seriously. [via anne]

Garbage Pail Kids return. Including "Fartin' Martin," "Metallic Alec," and "Harry Potty." Weren't they originally out in the mid-80s?

Badfads Museum is a fun visit of bad fads from the past 100 years. Guess I better unload these leisure suits, hot pants and ditch this Farrah Fawcett do.

Quote For Today
Art is the reproduction of what the senses perceive in nature through the veil of the soul. ~Edgar Allen Poe

Sag, You're it.

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