The Flaming Lips - Christmas On Mars (CD/DVD)
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Artist: The Flaming LipsBrand: Warner Brothers
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2008-11-11
Music Label: Warner Bros.
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- Christmas On Mars is a fantastical and disturbing film freakout. You expected something less from The Flaming Lips? Seven years in the making, Christmas On Mars was directed and written by The Flaming Lips visionary frontman Wayne Coyne and features the band members and many of their associates as actors in a story set during the colonization of Mars. The 86-minute film and its original score are
Music CD 1
- Once Beyond Hopelessness
- The Distance Between Mars And The Earth-Part One
- The Horrors Of Isolation: The Celestial Dissolve, Triumphant Hallucination, Light Being Absorbed
- In Excelsior Vaginalistic
- Your Spaceship Comes From Within
- Suicide And Extraordinary Mistakes
- The Distance Between Mars And The Earth-Part Two
- The Secret Of Immortality: This Strange Feeling, This Impossible World
- The Gleaming Armament Of Marching Genitalia
- The Distress Signals Of Celestial Objects
- Space Bible With Volume Lumps
- Once Beyond Hopelessness
- Christmas On Mars (Film)
Music reviews of Christmas On Mars (CD/DVD)
Music Review: Pretty Bad
Rating: 1 Stars
I suppose that if you have a belly full of booze this movie could be amusing, but any campy charm it has is offset by the boredom you will encounter watching it. I consider myself a Flaming Lips fan, but this just doesn't work.
Description of Christmas On Mars (CD/DVD)
Christmas On Mars is a fantastical anddisturbing film freakout. You expected
something less from The Flaming Lips?
Seven years in the making, Christmas On
Mars was directed and written by The
Flaming Lips visionary frontman Wayne
Coyne and features the band members
and many of their associates as actors in a
story set during the colonization of Mars.
The 86-minute film and its original score
are presented in a stand-alone DVD, and as
a CD+DVD package which includes an
audio CD of the score. With Christmas On
Mars, psychedelia finally has its epic film.
Wayne Coyne?s directorial debut, Christmas on Mars, is a kitschy, homespun masterpiece that subverts film-judging criteria the way Ed Wood?s B-movies must have when they were first compared to horror back in the day. Co-directed by Bradley Beesley and populated with many local Oklahoma City characters, including most of Flaming Lips, Coyne?s brothers, Denny and Kenny, and his wife, starring as the female of the film, Mother (Michelle Martin Coyne), Coyne explains in extras interview footage that the movie took seven years to complete simply because the musician shot between tours. Rumors of this film?s release have been floating around forever, and the wait was worth it. Christmas on Mars, plot-wise, stars Major Syrtis (Steven Drozd), the captain on a spaceship who notices, between hallucinations of a baby dying, that the crew is in danger due to malfunctioning equipment. Clues include psychosis, as experienced by a man the script calls Astronaut Confronting Cosmic Reality (Kliph Scurlock), and other bizarre hardships, as other crew members that Major Lowell (Steve Burns) and the Sunglasses Wearing Astronaut (Michael Ivins) can attest to. The resident Psychiatrist (Adam Goldberg) tells everyone to chill out on the baby visions, which look like 2001: A Space Odyssey and Eraserhead, to no avail. Lucky for everyone, a mysterious green-faced Martian, played by Coyne, comes to the rescue. Christmas on Mars is not about plot originality, as it screens more like a tribute to Coyne?s favorite sci-fi films. Made almost exclusively in Coyne?s backyard, the sets impress because they really transport the viewer to space despite being made of recognizable hardware store materials. Each scene, and its way of either slowing down or speeding up time, feels deeply imagined from the subconscious. What matters is the film?s undoubting sincerity. Filmed mostly in black and white, blasts of color during moments of psychic realization surrealistically tie the film?s visuals to Flaming Lips music, in which guitars and heavy drums explode rhythm. Moreover, the score serves the film well, carefully blending ambient, electronic space-age melodies with moments of sonic chaos. Christmas on Mars is another of Coyne?s attempts at expressing tension between peace of mind and utter insanity, and an undying, Lovecraftian attraction to abyss. ?Trinie Dalton
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