Blog: Listening Post - Wired Blogs

It's been in production since 2001, but Wayne Coyne's bizarro holiday sci-fi film is touching down at last, with the help of left-field distribution house Cinema Purgatorio. Although it has screened at music fests and art houses, The Flaming Lips' longtime hi-def freakout is finally going widescreen from Atlanta to Manhattan. Like the band itself, the venues are offbeat and the show times are unusual, including early-morning and late-night screenings. Some theaters will feature the band's Zeta Bootis Mega Supersonic Super-Sound Surround System, which The Flaming Lips created especially for the film, and nearly all of the [...]