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Wow. I don't get it.

Posted by L | November 15, 2006 12:28 PM
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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.

Posted by Felster | November 15, 2006 1:26 PM
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“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?

Posted by Orv | November 15, 2006 1:42 PM
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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!

Posted by terry miller | November 15, 2006 1:53 PM
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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

Posted by Ditmas | November 15, 2006 3:19 PM
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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

Posted by Ditmas | November 15, 2006 3:19 PM
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Wasn't this from about a year ago? It was playing at a museum here in New York over and over

Posted by Boomer | November 15, 2006 3:59 PM
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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.

Posted by COMTE | November 15, 2006 4:07 PM
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The link seems to be missing...

Posted by Mark Mitchell | November 15, 2006 4:53 PM
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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.

Posted by smiller | November 15, 2006 5:46 PM
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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.

Posted by abracapocus | November 15, 2006 10:36 PM
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Did they really have to use Gladiator music? It was so horribly ill-fitting.

But DAMN. Helen Mirren! Yowza.

Posted by Gloria | November 16, 2006 11:50 AM

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