03 December 2008

Aliens observe Christmas??

FREE FILM - Christmas on Mars

Christmas on Mars
7:30 pm-8:30 pm
Free Admission

Psychedelic rock band the Flaming Lips present Christmas on Mars: A Fantastical Film Freakout Featuring the Flaming Lips, a glorious science fiction film that marks the directorial debut of the Lips' visionary frontman Wayne Coyne. Seven years in the making, Christmas on Mars features original music by the Flaming Lips ("The greatest U.S. band today" - The Guardian), with acting performances by all band members, and many others from their Oklahoma City-based team. Comedian Fred Armisen (Saturday Night Live) and actor Adam Goldberg (Dazed and Confused, Two Days in Paris) also appear, as does performer Steve Burns of the band Steve Burns and the Struggle (who had also appeared in children's television show Blue's Clues). Bradley Beesley and George Salisbury co-directed the movie with Mr. Coyne.

It's Christmastime, and the colonization of Mars is underway. However, when an oxygen generator and a gravity control pod malfunction, Major Syrtis (the Lips' Steven Drozd) and his team (including the Lips' Michael Ivins) fear the worst. Syrtis also hallucinates about the birth of a baby, and many other strange things. Meanwhile, a compassionate alien superbeing (Coyne) arrives, inspiring and helping the isolated astronauts.

"It's no secret that Wayne Coyne enjoys acting like an alien..."- San Francisco Weekly

"Endearingly ragged...destined for cult status...abetted with homemade-looking but sometimes lyrical effects."- Andy Webster, New York Times

"Christmas on Mars is great, if only you could understand it...a psychedelic accomplishment that will inevitably gain more favor as it ages...Twilight Zone poetry."- Metro Boston

"It's basically as weird as you'd hoped."- Isaac Butler, New York Magazine

Here are the Remaining Specials for this Week:

Wednesday:
Christmas In Rockefeller Center @ 8 Pm on NBC ( Charter Channel 4, Digital 4.1 )
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer @ 8 Pm on CBS ( Charter Channel 7, Digital 7.1 )

Friday:
Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer @ 8 Pm on The CW ( Charter Channel 9 , Digital Ch. 62.1 )
The Story of Santa Claus @ 9 Pm on The CW ( Charter Channel 9, Digital Ch. 62.1 )

Saturday:
Miracle on 34th Street @ 8 Pm on MY Network TV ( Charter Channel 5 , Digital Ch. 40.1 )

Sunday:
Celtic Woman:The Greatest Journey-Holiday Special @ 8 Pm on UNC-TV ( Charter Channel 16 , Digital Ch. 33.1 )

Thursday:
Reading: Ron Rash - 12/4/08 - Thursday
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Novelist Ron Rash stops by the Hub City to promote his new book, Serena.

The year is 1929, and newlyweds George and Serena Pemberton arrive from Boston in the North Carolina mountains to create a timber empire. Although George has already lived in the camp long enough to father an illegitimate child, Serena is new to the mountains—but she soon shows herself the equal of any worker, overseeing crews, hunting rattlesnakes, even saving her husband’s life in the wilderness.

Together, this Lord and Lady Macbeth of the woodlands ruthlessly kill or vanquish all who fall out of favor. Yet when Serena learns that she will never bear a child, she vengefully sets out to kill the son George had without her. Mother and child begin a struggle for their lives, and when Serena suspects George is protecting his illegitimate family, the Pemberton’s intense, passionate marriage starts to unravel as the story moves toward its shocking reckoning.

"Ron Rash’s new novel Serena catapults him to the front ranks of the best American novelists. This novel will make a wonderful movie, and the brave actress who plays Serena is a shoe-in for an Academy Award nomination." -- Pat Conroy

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