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Some Good News & Some Bad News

Ultradamno — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:46:35 +0000

In a recent interview with Movieweb, director Ryan Page dropped two significant tidbits of Balk news. First, the bad, Balk has been cut out of his documentary about the Arizona vineyards of Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan Blood Into Wine. Ryan is quick to make it clear that this editing choice was through no fault in Balk’s contributions (“Faruza didn’t make the cut. She is not in the film anymore. It had nothing to do with her.”) which brings us to the good in which Page backs up his praise of Ru by announcing he has cast her in a supporting role, along with the aformentioned Keenan in a comedy titled Queens of Country about a women obsessed with the great women of the opry (Dolly Parton, Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn and Wanda Jackson being specifically namedropped) who embarks on a road trip to track them down. Page says “a very popular late night sketch duo” did some script doctoring for the project but felt it prudent to not name them, Consequence of Sound has a plausible theory of their identity.

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans Book Out Now

Ultradamno — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 04:43:39 +0000

Werner and Lena Herzog’s book Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans was released this week. The book is divided almost equally between set photographs (three of Balk) taken by Lena Herzog and the shooting script “by Billy Finkelstein, reworked by Herzog.”

Product page at Amazon

Bad Lieutenant Blu-Ray in February

Ultradamno — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:07:17 +0000

According to this item at Blu-Ray.com, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans will be released on the Blu-Ray format (and, one presumes, DVD also) on February 23. Contrary to some headlines, this does not constitute a straight to video release, as it is still on track for a limited theatrical run in November. Hopefully, if response is as good as most early reviews, it could still expand out for that, some feel it deserves it.

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans Trailer

Ultradamno — Thu, 28 May 2009 04:54:31 +0000

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:

The Heart Is A Drum Machine Premiere

Ultradamno — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 08:27:24 +0000

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”

Arizona Republic article on the premiere.

Ru Hosts Eliza Wren’s Return To Oz Sundance Screening

Ultradamno — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 05:59:06 +0000

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

Ru Makes The Humboldt County DVD Cover

Ultradamno — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:43:52 +0000

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

Ultradamno — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 04:21:52 +0000

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!

Ultradamno — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 01:07:15 +0000

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?

Ultradamno — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 09:48:55 +0000

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