The Canyons is the greatest story being told

A movie might save Lindsay Lohan from Hell – no not jail, reality TV.

THE crazy true story of the making of the neo-noir Hollywood film The Canyons for $250,000 will be turned into a film one day and it will make hundreds of millions of dollars one day.

If you have not caught up with the tragi-comedy, which would make Samuel Beckett jealous, get on-board straight away.

This unintentional black comedy of the making of The Canyons stars best-selling author/ Twitter assassin Bret Easton Ellis, screenplay writer of Taxi Driver, Paul Schrader, wild child Lindsay Lohan and a porn star named James Deen.

I have been following the saga which is almost too good to be true.
Here is a background account of the juicy story which has the promise of more delights to come.

http://bentbananabooks.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/post-or-past-it-media-empire-strikes.html

The latest news is the film has a distributor IFC  Films when no wholesaler seemed keen after the flick was brushed for inclusion in the Sundance Festival and ridiculed in the media.

IFC plans to release it simultaneously in theaters and on the internet (Video On Demand) early in the American summer.

The distributor – the I stands for independent – picked up My Big Fat Greek Wedding in 2002 which had to be a good score.

·        Subsequent ICF releases include

·        Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) – by Michael Moore

·        Land of Plenty (2004) – by Wim Wenders

·        Paranoid Park (2008) – by Gus Van Sant

·        Che (2008) – by Steven Soderbergh

·        My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2009) – by Werner Herzog

·        Looking for Eric (2009) – by Ken Loach

·        The Angels' Share (2012) (as IFC Midnight) – by Ken Loach

 The point is that IFC has given some credibility to overcome the bizarre marketing efforts of The Canyons producers who dissed their own film in three trailers:          

I won't inflict the other two on you but below are the links

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxShyePUF_I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcHCQWlq56k

Commenting on the distribution deal, director Paul Schrader said, ‘The Canyons is a visually and tonally precise, acid-etched horror story of souls wandering through a hyper-materialistic hell.’

PLEASE Paul, promise not to do any more promotion from a pen dipped in purple ink.

Meanwhile, the Guardian newspaper, which makes some strange cultural deliberations, has panned the film without seeing it – remember it is out in the American summer.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2013/jan/03/the-canyons-bret-easton-ellis

The Guardian might like to declare the film a dud, but I would like to go on the record for predicting it will make a huge bundle of moolah. IFC apparently put down $1m on the table to secure the rights which puts the flick in the black already. Thanks go to the Guardian and the New York Times for the “negative” publicity.

I cannot wait to see it and in a cinema. It may be a passable film but I will love it, anyhows. It will be the final chapter in a magnificent evolving narrative.

Paul Schrader says The Canyons is a horror story: