I am a huge fan of crispin glover and really want to see this movie. Ive seen the trailer and it just looks bloody weird. Does anyone know if theres plans to release this or will it just get seen at a few screenings and thats it?
shareI asked him at his signing if he ever decided he was going to release his movies on DVD in the future. He said that the films lose some of the meaning/experience on the format & that for the foreseeable future he plans to just tour with the films & not just the trilogy but other films he wants to make as well.
Me personally I think maybe he might have a change of heart later on but I think he wants to recoup the money he spent making the films and maybe make a profit to fund his others films. But I always say never say never.
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I wonder what exactly is to be lost when I can say with 99% certainty my home theater setup is probably better than the theaters this film was shown in.
shareDoes your home theater setup include Crispin Glover narrating a slide show and doing a Q&A? I think it's that roadshow experience he's trying to preserve and make money on for the time bein. And of course not so many folks would pay to go do that if they can just netflix the movie. I guess netflix is a verb now.
shareI went to a screening and Mr. Glover said he did not plan on releasing it on DVD because of the loss in value, experience, etc., etc. The general feeling I get of the kind of person he is makes me believe him when he says "No plans for DVD sale." Your best bet, reelbigfish, would be to go to the screening when he tours the uk. Check out his website for tour dates, I'm not sure of them. www.CrispinGlover.com. Good luck!
"Society says that teenage, drug-addicted, anorexic drag queens are bad."
My guess is that these will ultimately be released by Criterion.
sharebased on what he has said repeatedly. never. but then again people say never say never.
shareHe's depriving a good chunk of people who really want to see his film. Granted, the roadshow experience is second to none and ideal but a lot of people have either missed the screenings or are locationally challenged and just plain want to see the movie. I'd like to see Glover just do it privately through a website like David Lynch initially did with Eraserhead. Do it all on his terms and make a mighty pretty penny overcharging.
shareHe should just include a recording of one of his slideshow/Q&A sessions on the DVD.
Make it a DVD of the tour experience, not just the movie.
Hi! I'm.... Tommy, and I'm your friend to the end. Hi Di Ho. Ha ha ha.
Crispin just said after the shows he did in L.A. this past weekend that it's not in his interest to put either of his films out on DVD because he plans to tour around the country with both of them for many years. It will take him a long time to recoup the money he spent on them, he says. Yet he thinks that the best way to recoup the money is to keep doing what he's doing--touring the country.
He said that when you put your film out on a DVD, you often don't see much of the profit. The way he's doing it, he basically gets about 75% of the ticket sales, he says, and my tickets were $20 each for the L.A. shows.
He seemed to imply that he might consider putting them on DVD like 30 years into the future, once he stops touring with them.
hmmm, well unless he plans on coming to the U.K. he's not going to get any money from me for either the show or the DVD.
on a side note; I've just won an ebay auction for "the solution = let it be". yay.
Hi! I'm.... Tommy, and I'm your friend to the end. Hi Di Ho. Ha ha ha.
you should go to his website and write to his agent's email and tell him to go to the U.K. it's there at the website somewhere.
i wouldn't be terribly worried about it if you don't see it though. it's certainly not one of the world's great films or anything. i can name at least 5 that he appears in that I liked much better.
I'm almost pissed off, I live in rural Pennsylvania. I doubt he'll come here. maybe to Philadelphia. Damn it I want to see this movie so bad.
shareHe was not too long ago somewhere in Pennsylvania near the New Jersey border. I forget exactly where.
From his talk after the film in L.A. that I just saw, it is clear that he is intending to travel around the country for at least the next 20 years showing both of his movies in order to try to recoup the money he spent on making them.
He will come to Pennsylvania again at some point in the next decade--I can pretty much guarantee that.
But you should go to his website www.crispinglover.com and hunt down the right email address to write to--there's a certain email address that is designed to take letters from people like you who want him to come to a certain place.
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Its listed on Netflix in dvd format
shareYeah,it's listed in the "saved" section,meaning they don't know when (or if) it will ever be released.I think it's ridiculous to make a movie,any movie,and then make it difficult for people to see. But hey,I'll just spend my money elsewhere,on a movie that the director really wants me to watch!
shareI agree. A lot of people have said he wants to tour the country for the next 20-30 years to "recoup" the funds he used to make the films... Why doesn't he just appear in another crappy kids movie and recoup his funds like that?
One poster said he should release the films like David Lynch did on his website. That is a great idea! First of all, he would make a killing on sales if he did it directly through his own site. He could jack up the price and people would pay. Second of all, the people who would buy the dvd would be the people who actually go to his website and actually care about who Crispin Glover is and what he is doing. He could easily promote his show by selling dvds! Most importantly, in my opinion, is the people who would buy the dvd (like myself) would gladly pay the money for the dvd and then again for the live show if he ever came to my area. In fact, I would be more interested to see it live if there was a dvd. As it is, I'm tired of checking his site every once in a while and never seeing a tour date in my area (Kansas City, MO). Maybe he has been here before, maybe not, but every time I check, it just shows tour dates that have already passed in places I'm nowhere close to.
If he really is planning on just touring for the next 20 years with his films and not releasing them on dvd, he should start touring more with them! I wouldn't consider it "touring" if you do a couple shows a month. The best experience for his real fans would be for him to release it on dvd and keep touring. If it is a money issue to him, that would be an easy way to make a lot of money. If it is an issue of giving the fans a real experience, he should tour more often, and maybe even make a few more fans in the meantime by selling dvds!
From what I understand, he's not only worried about recouping finances. The films are intended to "shock" people, so he's touring with them in a vaudeville ("the heart of American show business") format so that people can ask questions after the film and discuss the taboo nature of anything that isn't considered alright or necessary by Western standards. If he were to release this on DVD without that interaction, the viewer might try to compare it to the standards of another linear mainstream film and might miss the intention of the films (and will probably be very offended.) Plus, I do believe that the slide show does go hand-in-hand as the books and films have similar moods and messages.
shareJust like Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle, this type of pretentious highfalutin art was made as an act of auto-fellatio and self-coprophagia. The “masses” aren’t supposed to witness the genius of the auteur, thus a DVD would be seen as the antithesis of the work. Quite simply, there won’t be a DVD because art is really gay.
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