Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy is nearly perfect, and it’s impossible to imagine anyone doing it better. However, The Beatles were fans of J. R. R. Tolkien’s work and wanted to star in a film adaptation. The plans ultimately fell through when director Stanley Kubrick turned it down, and Tolkien refused to allow The Beatles to make it.
The Beatles wanted to play Hobbits in a ‘Lord of the Rings’ adaptation The Beatles | Keystone/Getty Images
The Beatles succeeded on the big screen with A Hard Day’s Night and Help!. However, Lord of the Rings would have been a completely different task that required skilled acting and hardcore determination. The Beatles read the novels in the late 1960s and became entranced by Middle Earth.
In Ian Nathan’s book Anything You Can Imagine: Peter Jackson and the Making of Middle-earth, the author shares that...
The Beatles wanted to play Hobbits in a ‘Lord of the Rings’ adaptation The Beatles | Keystone/Getty Images
The Beatles succeeded on the big screen with A Hard Day’s Night and Help!. However, Lord of the Rings would have been a completely different task that required skilled acting and hardcore determination. The Beatles read the novels in the late 1960s and became entranced by Middle Earth.
In Ian Nathan’s book Anything You Can Imagine: Peter Jackson and the Making of Middle-earth, the author shares that...
- 4/18/2023
- by Ross Tanenbaum
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
David Cronenberg made some of the most visually striking sci-fi and body horror movies of the 1980s, with films like Scanners, Videodrome and The Fly standing as classics. But one movie he didn’t make that is making the rounds on the internet as of late is 1985’s Galaxy of Flesh. In fact, nobody made it at all, as it’s completely AI-generated.
Last week, when music video and commercial director Keith Schofield tweeted out the stills, it caused various degrees of backlash–some from David Cronenberg fans and others evidently against being duped. You can see the original tweet below:
David Cronenberg's Galaxy of Flesh (1985) pic.twitter.com/Z5tBf8gXKG
— Keith Schofield (@keithscho) January 10, 2023
Explaining why he posted the images–again, generated by AI technology and not a lost film–Keith Schofield said it was for Cronenberg fans, writing, “the post was intended for real David Cronenberg fans...
Last week, when music video and commercial director Keith Schofield tweeted out the stills, it caused various degrees of backlash–some from David Cronenberg fans and others evidently against being duped. You can see the original tweet below:
David Cronenberg's Galaxy of Flesh (1985) pic.twitter.com/Z5tBf8gXKG
— Keith Schofield (@keithscho) January 10, 2023
Explaining why he posted the images–again, generated by AI technology and not a lost film–Keith Schofield said it was for Cronenberg fans, writing, “the post was intended for real David Cronenberg fans...
- 1/17/2023
- by Mathew Plale
- JoBlo.com
In 1997, the Chicago Underground Film Festival held its fourth annual edition on August 13-17 at the Theatre Building at 1225 W. Belmont Avenue. One way the festival promoted itself that year was it published a four-page pull-out section in the Chicago-based political magazine Lumpen, vol. 6 no. 4.
These pages included the entire festival schedule, which the Underground Film Journal has re-created below. In addition, scans of the original Lumpen pages appear at the bottom of this article. This program schedule did not include director names for the most part, but the Journal has included names that we could find through research.
In the Theatre Building, Cuff screened on two screens simultaneously. One theater screened films shot exclusively on film; while the other theater screened films shot exclusively on video. In addition, a Closing Night event of director John Waters‘ live performance piece “Shock Value” took place in the film theater and was simulcast into the video theater.
These pages included the entire festival schedule, which the Underground Film Journal has re-created below. In addition, scans of the original Lumpen pages appear at the bottom of this article. This program schedule did not include director names for the most part, but the Journal has included names that we could find through research.
In the Theatre Building, Cuff screened on two screens simultaneously. One theater screened films shot exclusively on film; while the other theater screened films shot exclusively on video. In addition, a Closing Night event of director John Waters‘ live performance piece “Shock Value” took place in the film theater and was simulcast into the video theater.
- 12/10/2018
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
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