Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans Trailer
The folks at Rope of Silicon have the trailer to Werner Herzog’s new movie with Ru which you can see here after you provide them with an age statement. Enjoy!
Images of Ru from the trailer:
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Ru To Host The MPP 4th Annual Party at the Playboy Mansion
On June 4 Balk will be at the Playboy Mansion hosting the fourth Marijuana Policy Project party. The evening will include a “live fire and glow performance”…or at least people will walk away in the frame of mind to believe they saw whatever it is to which that refers.
Tickets range from $800 to $900 dollars and are available through the link above.
Ru to Spend a Frightmare Weekend in Texas
Another convention appearance added to the itinerary, this time at “the southwest’s premiere horror convention”, Texas Frightmare Weekend in Dallas. The event runs from May 1st to the 3rd and also features Tobe Hooper, Alice Cooper, Linda Blair, Barbara Steele, Karen Black, Lena Heady, Thomas Dekker, William Forsythe and David F. Friedman.
The Heart Is A Drum Machine Premiere
Fairuza will be at the Phoenix Art Museum this Friday to co-host the premiere of Christopher Pomerenke’s documentary The Heart Is A Drum Machine with Matt Sorum of Velvet Revolver, both of whom are interviewed in the film which “explores the connection between music and the human experience”
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Arizona Republic article on the premiere.
Ru Hosts Eliza Wren’s Return To Oz Sundance Screening
Singer Eliza Wren has composed her own score to Walter Murch’s Oz sequel and will be debuting the music at the Sundance Film Festival along with footage from the film. According to SL Weekly the event will be hosted by Balk herself.
More about Wren’s project here.
UPDATE:
The Salt Lake Tribune has an article on the event with quotes from Balk about it as well as another questioning whether the concept is “preposterous” or not.
Poster from EWERCS
Personal Appearance in March
It seems Fairuza will be making a personal appearance at Monster Mania horror convention in Cherry Hill, NJ in March. For tickets, more info, click here.
Ru Makes The Humboldt County DVD Cover
Despite not appearing in the film past the first 20 minutes or so, Balk is featured prominently on the cover for the DVD, due Jan. 13, in front of the controversial joint image.
DVD News
Two significant Ru related DVD releases were announced this week. According to Amazon, Humboldt County will be out on disc on January 13 (preorder here) and, as brought to our attention by forum member Cornelius, the A&E mini-series Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story will see release on on December 16 (more information at TV Shows On DVD here).
By the way, the Humboldt County soundtrack, including the song Fairuza sings “I Want You To Be My Baby”, is now available on iTunes (see this thread)
Tired of Waiting for Humboldt County? Make it Happen!
In the most recent post in their director’s blog Mr. Grodsky and Mr. Jacobs have laid out a proposition to independent film enthusiasts interested in forming “Lost Coast Local” teams in different that would be provided with promotional materials such as posters, postcards, something called “rolling papers”, etc. to help promote the film and arrange sneak preview screenings.
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The page about the MPAA and the poster on the blog referred to in my previous post has been removed, but this new one does mention the official site is now temporarily down (replaced with a placeholder with a nice cast picture) in order to meet MPAA standards, so evidently all is status quo there.
Humboldt County Poster Banned By The MPAA?
Humboldt County co-director Darren Grodsky wrote a few days ago at their blog that the MPAA has found (or likely to find) their current poster to be unacceptable on the grounds that “references to drugs/drug paraphernalia” are not allowed in advertising (evidently falling under the category vaguely defined on their website as “other material that most parents would find unacceptable for their younger children to see or hear”) So the MPAA is an inscrutable star chamber, no news there, rather than gnashing teeth Mr. Grodsky suggests:
“And so, should we be forced by the MPAA to change our poster to a more “subtle” version, I suggest to each and every one of you who encounters this blog:
Let’s pepper the world & the world wide web with our “Smoking Joint” poster, which may soon become a limited edition piece. We’ll do our part to include it everywhere (When you check out the promos we recently shot, you’ll notice we managed to fit it in a few different places). See if you can find ways to show off the smoking joint poster. This will turn out to be win-win as both a way to stick it to the “man” and also a way to promote the film, a task in which we need all the help we can get…”
Being well sympathetic to the cause, we here at Quiet Storm are prepared to do our part
