Arts Gore Vidal’s Caligula
posted by November 15 at 12:05 PM
onLike your art super-weird and star-studded? Then don’t miss this bizarre and glorious creation by Italian artist Francesco Vezzoli, included in both the Venice and Whitney Biennales, entitled Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal’s ‘Caligula’. (Not safe for work.)
“Trailers are a shrunken form of narrative,” Vezzoli told Men’s Vogue. “But in the case of a trailer for a movie that doesn’t exist, it’s like reflecting a vacuum. And sometimes that’s what Hollywood is about.”
(Thanks to Towleroad for the heads-up.)
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Wow. I don't get it.
Bad acting, historical inaccuracy (Empress Tiberius? they must mean Livia), mishmash of accents, and not-that-hot sex scenes make this a fitting tribute to the first Caligula film. The Courtney Love cameo is a nice touch tho.
“But in the case of a trailer for a movie that doesn’t exist, it’s like reflecting a vacuum."
Perhaps a reference to the book A Perfect Vacuum, which consists of reviews of non-existent books?
Wow! I Loved It! thanks for bringing it to our attention jen! i almost turned it off after the credits, then that courtney love part! FFFFFFFFFFFReaky!
VEry hard to find on their site but Men's Vogue has the whole article and, the pervs, they've isolated all the dirty pics from the trailer and blown them up nice and big.
http://www.mensvogue.com/arts/articles/2006/08/21/vezzoli
VEry hard to find on their site but Men's Vogue has the whole article and, the pervs, they've isolated all the dirty pics from the trailer and blown them up nice and big.
http://www.mensvogue.com/arts/articles/2006/08/21/vezzoli
Wasn't this from about a year ago? It was playing at a museum here in New York over and over
Well, considering the fact that the trailers for most commercial film releases these days are way better than the films they're designed to promote, this makes perfect sense.
Sort of like watching an NFL highlight video with all the boring plays edited out.
The link seems to be missing...
This was by far my favorite exhibit at the Whitney Biennial this year! Freakin' hilarious and utterly confounding to most of the people in the audience. Me, I was laughing my ass off and had to watch it twice.
Works for me ... but I'm a sucker for this kind of escapism. Besides ... Helen Mirren, Karen Black and Courtney Love? Be still my black heart.
Thanks for the Men's Vogue link, BTW.
Did they really have to use Gladiator music? It was so horribly ill-fitting.
But DAMN. Helen Mirren! Yowza.
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