“Christmas On Mars” the long-overdue film by the Flaming Lips might be due on DVD in October, but the film will hit New York theaters on September 12 via film distrib Cinema Purgatorio.
The film will start in NY in Sept, and will then begin a national underground rollout shortly thereafter.
The film will be presented in a custom-designed cinema at the KGB Complex at 85 East Fourth Street in New York, screening in high definition video and the custom designed Zeta Bootis Mega Supersonic Super-Sound Surround System, which the band created for the film. The film will also apparently screen at “unusual times” including 7 and 9 a.m. (the distribs are urging you go see it before work! zonk!)
“Christmas On Mars” (now subtitled: “A Fantastical Film Freakout Featuring the Flaming Lips”) includes appearances by Adam Goldberg, comedian Fred Armisen, Modest Mouse’s Issac Brock and Elijah Wood among the Lips themselves and others. No theatrical dates for the rest of the country yet, but those should be coming out soon. We’re told dates in the Pacific Northwest, Chicago, Minnesota, in Madison, Wisconsin, and in a few cities throughout Texas are coming.
Update: The trailer is now online