adam green ' s aladdin
here’s the first look at adam green’s aladdin, the second feature film from musician, artist and filmmaker adam green .
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adam green’s aladdin will debut in us and canada on april 15 and will be released worldwide on may 12 .
musician and filmmaker adam green’s newest film project, adam green’s aladdin, features the home alone star (who also appeared in green’s film the wrong ferrari), along with a host of other familiar faces in a new take on the classic arabian nights tale .
learn more about adam green' s aladdin on the movie' s official website, where you can also to see when the stoner adventure epic / romance / sci - fi / fantasy / legend movie arrives at an art cinema near you. check out more of adam green' s film, music, and artwork here .
from the director of the ketamine­ inspired surrealist gonzo feature “the wrong ferarri” comes adam green’s aladdin, a hyper­sensory, poetic, and humorously modern take on the arabian nights classic tale .
don’t expect any groucho marx and jack nicholson impressions in this version: adam green’s aladdin looks like a psychedelic pastiche of the old fairytale, oingo boingo’s forbidden zone, a dash of pee wee’s playhouse, and some modern cultural commentary. the synopsis states :
worldwide aladdin tour concurrent with the film and album' s release in spring 2016 .
adam green’s aladdin, a hyper - sensory, poetic and humorously subversive take on the classic arabian nights tale, written and directed by green. the feature film will further explore the recesses of adam’s symbolic imagination, playing like an alejandro jodorowsky version of aladdin on handmade sets à la “the science of sleep”; with frenetic dialogue at the pace of xavier renegade angel or south park .
aladdin, green’s second feature film will further explore the recesses of green’s symbolic imagination, playing like an alejandro jodorowsky version of aladdin on handmade sets à la the science of sleep; with frenetic dialogue at the pace of xavier renegade angel or south park .
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set in the modern day world, adam’s hyper - sensory, poetic and humorously subversive take on the classic arabian nights tale stars adam as aladdin living with his dysfunctional family in a “regular” american town ruled by a corrupt sultan with a decadent socialite daughter .
like some kind of michel gondry orgy taking place in pee - wee’s playhouse, the trailer for adam green’s aladdin leaves the viewer asking, “hrm? ” the fantasy film features some of hollywood’s hippest crowd: natasha lyonne, macaulay culkin, alia shawkat, zoë kravitz, and more. the official synopsis states :
“i’ve been trying to really take a step back from the traditional rock musician thing, ” said adam green. the musician' s tour this fall, one of dozens since making a name for himself in the new york indie scene in the 90' s, is definitely untraditional: each concert starts with a screening of his film adam green’s aladdin, after which green will take to his set - designed stage in the bell - bottomed costume from the film, bringing the soundtrack alive .
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the film is the second feature from musician, artist, and filmmaker adam green (one half of the moldy peaches). it’s weird, it’s sexy, it’s colorful, and it’s probably too cool for you. but it has a chair made of asparagus. so, you be the judge .
in this way, green gives the human indulgences and imperfections normally airbrushed out of hollywood productions a chance to thrive in the characters of aladdin. this thread links together all the seemingly non - sensical characters in green' s arabia, whether it' s dishel' s dual roles, or culkin as ralph. arrested development star alia shawkat as aladdin' s sister emily, emmy - winner natasha lyonne as aladdin' s voluptuous mom, internet curiosity bip ling as the kardashian - esque princess barbara, zoë kravitz as an asparagus - loving miner, and neo - expressionist painter francesco clemente' s portrayal as the genie each tackle adam' s lyrical voice in their own way .
indie - folk artist adam green has released the full - length trailer for his feature film and soundtrack album. ‘aladdin’ is the second feature from the musician, artist, filmmaker and moldy peaches member .
( shot entirely on an iphone), former moldy peach adam green returns with one of the most bizarre films i have ever seen .
green financed the film via a kickstarter campaign that launched two years ago. a singer best known for his work as half of the moldy peaches, green recorded songs for the soundtrack, which will release alongside the film and be part of green’s aladdin tour starting this spring .
the movie features a brand new soundtrack album composed and recorded by green, who will be kicking off a worldwide ‘aladdin tour’ concurrent with the film and album’s release in may 2016 .
green stars as aladdin in a modern version of the story, bringing aladdin to an american town lorded over by a corrupt sultan. the film’s first trailer offers a look at what green, who also wrote and directed it, has in store for his unique spin, which he describes as a “hyper - sensory, poetic, and humorously subversive” version of aladdin’s story. alia shawkat, natasha lyonne, and zoe kravitz are also among the cast .
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yasmín green produced the film while pregnant with adam' s child and working at google .
she' s the smartest person i know ,
says adam. her influence was a pivotal factor in the growth you can see between the wrong ferarri and aladdin. they met shortly after he finished his cinematic debut, tripping and falling headfirst into romance and then marriage. their daughter is now 18 months old. more than just his wife' s producing abilities, the relationship itself is what drew green to aladdin in the first place .
i like it because it' s a love story, and i spent the last few years finding love in my life ,
green says .
i was really relating to it because it' s about love trumping material things .
man adam green is best known as a charmingly scuzzy singer - songwriter with a curiously large following in germany. but his latest labour of love is a warped, feature - length version of aladdin, made on the cheap in a brooklyn warehouse, and starring macaulay culkin and arrested development’s
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a three - minute clip of green’s take on the arabian classic that proves film is what he should be doing .
adam green is best known as one half of anti - folk duo the moldy peaches, but he' s also a filmmaker and an artist, creating bright, cartoonish paintings as well as collages and papier - mâché sculptures. the trailer for his upcoming film, adam green' s aladdin, manages to mix all these elements as it retells the classic tale, sprinkling in a cohort of guest stars, from macaulay culkin to alia shawkat of arrested development fame. (green has previously worked with culkin on the wrong ferarri, a feature film shot entirely on an iphone. )
speaking to twin, green says he wants the film to reinterpret the story of aladdin through modern eyes .
in my version the lamp is a 3d printer that prints out an analogue version of the internet. and the princess is sort of like a kardashian who’s on the sultan’s reality show ,
says green, adding that he used papier - mâché for the set and costumes in the hope that it would feel like the actors were
inside a real life cartoon .
judging by this trailer, it worked. adam green' s aladdin will debut in canada and the us on april 15th, and released worldwide on may 12th .
you could watch this trailer 20 times and still find something you didn’t see before, which just goes to show how heavily green’s approach relies on chaos and distraction. but that’s precisely what we all want from a perverse, raunchy stoner comedy like this one. with enough papier - mâché boobs and guest stars to make your head explode, the trailer for adam green’s aladdin proves that this movie will is a welcome follow - up to the wrong ferrari we weren’t necessarily waiting for, but will welcome with open arms and stoned spirits .
the film is a modern day version of aladdin, with green starring as the titular character, and explores the recesses of green’s symbolic imagination wherein the lamp is a 3 - d printer, the princess is a decadent socialite, the planet gets a sex - change and its population prints out an analogue version of the internet .
in a way, aladdin is a follow - up to ferrari — an anti - technology meditation on “feeling like your soul is sort of being ripped out of your body by machines that are possessing your soul, ” green explained. this time, the storyline came with a rebel leader (played by culkin) and a bitcoin - like currency. lyonne plays green’s mother; shawkat, his sister; and the artist francesco clemente, a childhood hero of green' s, the genie. the film' s scenes are entirely dream - like, though not all of it is made up: like his character, green was dropped from his long - time label in real life, and did meet the woman who became his wife in the process (yasmin green is also of the film' s producers) .
aside from starring in and writing the production’s entire soundtrack – which he’ll also tour – green has even made all the props, from tables to the camel .
say it with me “future cult classic”. okay cool. this is the most unique film i’ve seen come out of the past few years. it’s a surrealist nihilistic version of aladdin with sets that look like a child with a box of crayons drew them, and props made of papier mache. this movie is fucking crazy and it is a unique trip into the mind of adam green. it’s absolutely ridiculous, and kind of fucking stupid, but it’s enjoyable and had me and my friends losing our minds. it’s absurdity at its best, and i agree with father john misty in saying that this film reminds me of jodorowsky .
adam green funded aladdin through kickstarter, rented a warehouse in red hook a few blocks from pioneer works, and wound up using many of the artists doing residencies there as extras and minor characters. written in the lyrical style of an album of songs, it' s impossible to grasp every single line, but relaxing and letting sentences unpack themselves helps the film makes sense on it' s own terms .
it' s like a cartoon where you feel what' s happening in the movie ,
green explains to the creators project .
a kid could watch the movie and follow it—well, not a kid becayse it' s not really a kids movie. but somebody could watch the movie and zone out and feel like they' d watched the movie aladdin. or they could analyse every line, because every line is its own nugget of something i thought to include in the movie .
green funded the film via a successful kickstarter campaign, and enlisted the help of a who' s who of new york art, music and film scenesters, with macaulay culkin, natasha lyonne, alia shawkat, zoe kravitz and har mar superstar amongst the film' s high profile cast members. green casts himself as aladdin, and turns in a stilted and goofy, yet oddly winning performance. though purportedly a re - imagining of the classic tale
a friend recommended i check this out on youtube and i was absolutely blown away. this is one of the strangest, funniest and most creative surrealist movies since the holy mountain. actually i would liken adam green’s style to jodorowsky if he made his movies in his basement. the entire aesthetic may be something you’re familiar with if you’ve seen the music video for father john misty’s “total entertainment forever”. adam green creates a playground world out of cardboard walls and cartoon drawings. his props and sets are all hand made and the characters effortlessly fit into this do it yourself metropolis. it’s raunchy, dirty, nonsensical, and everything that a surrealist movie should be. i adore this movie, and i…
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aladdin' s colorful set is populated by green' s fiercely loyal friends, who also happen to be film and fashion celebrities or art world around - towners. the film is uncompromisingly green, which somehow also means that each actor' s individual personality and humanness is made to shine through .
[ actor ] jack dishel would do these voices in the [ moldy peaches ] tour van ,
green tells us, explaining that aladdin' s characters are as much a product of the actors as the script. dishel is the creator of uber - bashing web series: dryvrs, and a talented impressionist and character actor. in aladdin, he takes on two separate main charaters, aladdin' s wholesome - ish uncle gary and a villainous technophile sultan .
he' d do this old man character and this pan - european character. one time some guy came on the bus, very drunk and very foreign, and just felt entitled to everything, and i was just watching, thinking,' who the fuck is this guy?' later, jack did an impression of him, and that, partially, became the sultan .
adam has begun recording a full - album which will be used as the soundtrack to the film. produced by green' s long - term collaborator noah georgeson, the soundtrack features playing by stella mozgawa (warpaint), rodrigo amarante (of little joy), and josiah steinbrick (devendra banhart), and binki shapiro .
revolving around aladdin’s dysfunctional family, who live in an “average” american city ruled by a corrupt sultan with a decadent socialite daughter, the film explores themes of technology, government repression, greed, and true ­love. green, who notably co - ­wrote the theme­ song to the grammy - winning juno soundtrack as well as eight solo albums, will record an aladdin soundtrack which will be used to score the film and released concurrently .
the film is an epic surrealist drug - odyssey which focuses on adam’s psychological outlook on love, work, and turning 30. obsessed with the pet - medicine ketamine, the characters in the film turn into pets themselves only to find that the “k - hole” is bottomless and that they must overtake their masters. with its dialogue - driven approach, “the wrong ferarri” allows green’s poetic and lyrical writing style to come alive .
the trailer, which you can watch above, hints of an inscrutable romp through green' s subconscious, but the film is actually fairly linear and straightforward, thanks to the influence of green' s wife, yasmín, and the collective efforts of green' s sprawling network of friends and acolytes in the new york scene. the plot is driven by a lamp that, rather than relying on pure magic, takes the form of a 3d printer, opening all the doors to sex, power, and antics that modern technology promises in our own world .
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to construct his aladdin universe, he used “cubic reductions” of garfield, elmo, and super mario brothers as building blocks, though they’re abstracted mostly beyond recognition, defined by black lines that mirror one of green’s inspirations, an installation by the french artist jean dubuffet that green saw at the centre pompidou in paris. “i’m making a world out of shapes that i’m familiar with, and i’m using those things as hooks to climb a mountain, ” he said .
ost people know adam green for the purposely stale anti - folk songs he penned alongside kimya dawson in the moldy peaches — or for his extensive solo music catalog — but his career has more dimension than just music. more recently, green has tried his hand at filmmaking, which seems to be an apt opportunity for him to express his whimsical, ironic sense of humor. his first film ,
also featuring pete doherty, devendra banhart, and sky ferreira, the wrong ferrari was shot entirely on green’s iphone, partly to drive home his thesis that life is a video game, and partly because it was “the only camera i knew how to use, ” green said. his character meanders through prague and venice, and ultimately signs to a label called nintendo records — the same made - up label that his titular character in aladdin signs to, too .
your friendly neighborhood visionary art, film, and song maker adam green has put the better part of the last four years into a new adaptation of the classic arabian nights tale, aladdin. the film, which premiered at pioneer works on tuesday night, is a very different beast from the
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songwriter' s first feature, the wrong ferrari, which was shot on an iphone and rests conceptually on a foundation of ketamine. vibrant, and dripping with a meticulous craft aesthetic best described as ,
cartoons made flesh ,
aladdin is a testament to the power of a good love story .
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the cast includes acclaimed actors macaulay culkin, alia shawkat (arrested development) and natasha lyonne (orange is the new black), celebrated ny musicians, adam green, dev hynes, devendra banhart, har mar superstar, andrew vanwyngarden (mgmt), as well as renowned artist francesco clemente .
green spent years dreaming up aladdin, and constructed its set entirely by hand. the papier mâché sculptures and forms were so detailed and imaginative that they got their own exhibition at the hole gallery in new york; for visitors, it was like walking into “a real - life cartoon. ” although green openly says he “really committed to the ketamine trip” with the wrong ferrari, to the point that he even took the drug at the film’s screenings, the creative process was different for aladdin: he didn’t take any “major” hallucinogens, he said, and is growing somewhat resentful of the skeptical reception his openness about his drug use has earned him .
green summarises his approach in aladdin as a reaction to the dogme 95 movement started by lars von trier and thomas vinterberg, and championed by harmony korine .
i loved lars von trier and harmony korine growing up, with their whole set of rules: you won' t have any pros, your actors will come to the location, location will not be changed at all, there' s no music that isn' t played at the time of shooting ,
green explains .
my movie is the opposite. it' s completely hand - made, and the rule is that nothing can be real in the movie. which is funny because it' s actually abut a real life experience .
in an exclusive behind - the - scenes documentary, premiering today on the creators project, actor macaulay culkin, one of green' s longtime friends, and the character who plays ralph, the leader of anti - government revolutionary group called the magical americans, affectionately says ,
i said yes to the script before [ green ] had even written it ,
effectively summarising the way everyone on set seems to feel about working with green. watch that below :
alia shawkat is constantly making me feel overwhelmed. the. guy. from. little. joy. is. in. this. and just after that scene adam says' i' m just a cool cat in a small town.' could you p o s s i b l y pander to me more? ? i haven' t listened to him for years but this album is pretty good .
green was propelled into fame somewhat belatedly, when the 2007 film juno featured music by the moldy peaches, his anti - folk group with kimya dawson, years after they’d disbanded and both gone on to their own solo careers. but growing up in new york, he was always surrounded by talented, recognizable faces — culkin is one of his best friends and primary collaborators. the two have an art collective with the musician toby goodshank, and culkin also starred in green’s first film, 2011’s the wrong ferrari .
in this retelling of the classic tale, aladdin is an out of work indie - rock singer living in a video - game - world ruled by a perverted technology - obsessed sultan. with the help of a magical genie named mustafa and his 3d printer lamp, aladdin gets lost and found again in a story about spiritual redemption in the internet age .
still, he admits it’s “completely true” that drugs are an inspiration. “to me, if i get really stoned and write 10 pages of text and it’s really cool, that’s just tradition — people have always done that, you know? ” he said. “but at the same time, i’ve written tons of things with no drugs, and the thing is if i’ve ever written things on drugs i’ve always edited it in a very clear state. ” aladdin, he insisted, is not “the work of a drugged - out lunatic. ”
along for the ride with the renowned singer / songwriter are macaulay culkin, alia shawkat, natasha lyonne, zoë kravitz, and many more, all adding to green’s surreal vision of a modern fable filtered through h. r. pufnstuf aesthetics. in addition to writing, directing, and starring in the film, green will be releasing its soundtrack and going on tour to promote this unique cinematic experience .
“obviously there were no contracts. people would oversleep and not show up. one key actor pulled out at the last minute, so there was some radical recasting the day before the shoot. i didn’t even really want to be aladdin! i asked a bunch of other people but ultimately i ended up being the most famous person i could find to be aladdin. ”
in this retelling of the classic tale, aladdin is an out of work indie - rock singer living in a video - game - world ruled by a perverted technology - obsessed sultan .
“i want to tell the truth. that’s where my storytelling comes from. my feminism comes from somewhere else: acute dissatisfaction. ”
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“what i’m most proud of about aladdin is that it was a very unique vision that i got to execute how i wanted. that’s how it should be as an artist: you have something inside of you that you push out through your skin. i’m writing another movie about the afterlife and it’s kind of a war movie. i always wanted to tell the story of hanukkah, like a biblical epic. imagine making noah’s ark out of papier - mache, that would be fun. and somehow it feels like life would not be complete unless i got to design a videogame or an amusement park or something. it would be an adult amusement park – educational too! ”
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in short, it’s a real - life execution of a movie - turned - art - show - turned - album, which green refers to as “a community project, because everyone did things for free. ” the idea — a film starring himself and a genie lamp that doubles as a 3d printer in one of his favorite childhood stories — started at a dinner with natasha lyonne in new york, and was further improved during a downtown shopping trip where he bought a lamp with alia shawkat. over the next few years, he wrote the screenplay on planes and in hotel rooms while on tour, eventually turning to kickstarter for funds and friends for his cast. in green’s case, those friends happened to be lyonne, shawkat, and macaulay culkin .
“i have a tendency to be pretty abstract in my thinking, so to be anchored by a myth was helpful. i could look at the aladdin story and think: ‘what would a modern - day princess look like? ’ the answer was: like a kardashian. then the lamp could be a 3d printer and the genie could be like siri. aladdin is based on me, so i made him an indie rock singer whose label is dissatisfied with him, which isn’t dissimilar to my story with rough trade, who told me to cut half the songs on my seventh album. the script is based on a lot of my own real - life experiences, and certainly the feelings and the journey of the character is real. but everything else around aladdin is totally insane. ”
, which was shot on iphone and written on ketamine. suffice to say that green has his own hallucinogenic take on the aladdin fable in which the princess is a reality tv star, the sultan is a pot - bellied pervert and the lamp is a 3d printer that upsets the karmic balance of the universe by printing out an analogue version of the internet. how does a film as whacked - out as this get from drug - addled fever dream to the arthouse cinema screen? let the man himself explain .
“the wrong ferarri” is a feature - film written and directed by adam in 2010 / 2011 – it stars a diverse cast of actors and musicians including macaulay culkin, jack dishel, alia shawkat, devendra banhart, and pete doherty. essentially a screwball - tragedy, the ketamine inspired movie was the first feature - film to be shot entirely on an iphone .
i asked if the film shows what’s really inside his mind, and he misheard me, maybe fortuitously: “is there a reality show inside my mind ?
he said .
yeah, i think so .
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— which green filmed under the influence of ketamine on his european tour in 2010 — features dadaist dialogue, random celebrities like macauley culkin and sky ferreira, and a non - linear plot line. now you can watch the official trailer for his next feature film ,
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right now, we need to raise funds to pay for the making of the movie, hiring cast, key crew (director of photography, production designer, costume designer), line producer, lighting equipment and warehouse space and promotion. this kickstarter campaign is my way of asking for people who like my music or my art to be a part of making aladdin .
if you want to become a backer, just click on the big green button to the right of our video. kickstarter will ask you for your pledge, which reward you want, and how you want to sign up. signing up is easy; you can even do it through facebook .
aladdin is the most creatively ambitious project i' ve taken on, and i' ve been obsessed with making it for the past two years. i loved writing the script and i can' t wait to work on the sets and start directing. i also want to build a community of people that are passionate about this too, and who can experience the making of the movie with me !
“a lot of the dialogue for the wrong ferrari was written under the influence of ketamine. i’d put all these things on scraps of paper and give them to the cast on the day of the shoot. each scene was basically last night’s trip. i was making up the movie from day to day. aladdin was a lot more organised, but sometimes i’d get stoned and write a bit. the way i write is very free - associative. i’d type for two hours and give myself permission to write anything that i wanted. as it progressed, i started to assign the lines to the princess or the sultan or the genie. but they’re all part of my subconcious. ”
but if it does earn him the reputation of being a little crazy, that seems fine with green, too. “i mean, i am crazy, but maybe not in the way people think. i try to understand what subconscious imagery comes to me, and i try to document it, ” he said .
this movie is strange, it’s non - tradional and doesn’t play by the rules of what most films do. those who aren’t interested in art and quirkiness, look elsewhere. also, this isn’t for kids. that all being said, there is plenty to like about this. the plot is basic, but serves as a structure for the poetic mind bending that green wove into the script. i often found myself confused as to what a character was saying, but then stopped and really thought about the line and genuinely smiled. as a whole, this movie doesn’t speak as a giant message, but rather acts as a vessel of obscure brilliances. there are some seriously memorable characters here, most notably the sultan. the music is also great. but that’s expected, right? support this great little film. amongst the right crowd, it will be greatly appreciated. spread the word, this film is actually noteworthy !
there is a wedding at the end of the movie, culminating in a set of heart - lifting set of vows that green reveals are identical to the ones from his own wedding .
we made the movie together, it was our project. and i think all my projects in the future will be ones i do with her .
“i think everybody grows up with a fantasy of making a movie. in my case, i just did it. not knowing any of the rules kind of helped. i approached aladdin like a community project, inviting people to help me create this papier - mache world inside of a warehouse with a bunch of actors and musicians. the film was just a container for a fun experience, a crazy way to spend the summer in new york city. ”
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visually, the film is a diy marvel, featuring psychedelic handmade papier - mâché sets and props. there are a few driving sequences that are so weird and jarring that they take on an off - putting beauty, and particularly memorable is the
magic rug ride
sequence (again, better seen than described). soundtracked by original green compositions, the film has a ramshackle charm and daffy energy that carries it beyond the limitations of its threadbare story .
plot - wise, things get weird. yes, there is a magic lamp, and a genie, but this lamp is a 3 - d printer, and the genie is italian artist francesco clemente. the rest is better experienced than recapped. the film plays with some big ideas about technology, political activism, sex and love, but as with any fever dreams, there' s a sense of relief when it is all over .
“on the first day of filming, i thought i’d loosen up by having a beer like i do before a concert. man, it was a total mistake. i forgot my lines and everyone was looking at me. being an actor - director was a lot of pressure, so i had to stay sober. i’d walk home for two hours every night just to unwind. i told myself that even if it all fell apart, it could be this great ill - fated movie, like jodorowsky’s dune. ”
speaking to noisey about the project earlier this year, green said: “the movie is set entirely inside a papier - mâché world. filmed in a massive brooklyn warehouse, we constructed a papier - mâché painted universe where real actors could act as if they were inside a real - life cartoon. the goal was to make a sort of wizard of oz out of cardboard. we constructed 500 props and 30 rooms all out of phone books, newspapers, glue, and house - paint. in a way it felt like we were constructing an analogue version of the internet. ”
so far the committed cast includes natasha lyonne, macaulay culkin, and alia shawkat as well as roles from indie - musicians and friends .
after being completed the movie was immediately released online as a free download. on april 4th 2011, the film premiered at anthology film archives in nyc. in the weeks that followed it showed at the downtown independent theater in los angeles and at the mexico theater in milan. “the wrong ferarri” has been downloaded in its entirety over 300, 000 times. rolling stone magazine described it as “fellini on ketamine. ”
writing and directing a movie, composing a full - album soundtrack for it, and designing & constructing 20 film - sets myself is the most ambitious project i' ve ever undertaken. i dread to think about all the things that could go wrong, from logistical problems, communication problems, to artistic problems. i' ll have to draw from my years of experience as a bandleader and an intuitive artist to shape each problem into something that gives the film character. one thing that will certainly help is having a completed script before we shoot with full storyboards for each scene. another is having a pre - recorded soundtrack so that the music informs each scene of the film as i shoot. and of course i plan to work as a community with friends, so their involvement will be personal and that may help me in a tough situation .
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homies - homies get a 20 minute skype chat with me + everything little homies get .
pilgrims - pilgrims get to visit the nyc warehouse where we' ll be constructing all the sets and shooting the film, during its production + a guest list spot to the nyc premiere + everything little homies get .
parents - parents get an associate producer credit in the end credits of the movie and its urltoken page as well as grab lunch / a drink with me + everything a pilgrim gets .
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“the warehouse was 25 minutes from the train, so once you were there you couldn’t leave, you had to hang out! we did everything we could to make it not feel like work. i made everyone in the movie wear bell - bottoms. i honestly feel that if everyone wore bell - bottoms, the world would be maybe 10 or 15% better and more groovy. ”
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is a triumph. this is not a film i' d recommend to everyone, but rest assured, your mescaline dealer is going to love it .
hatchet ii exists, therefore it must have a reason for existing. i make this assertion on faith. this is a horror movie ― or, judging ...
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i feel like i could fight macaulay culkin if i really wanted to, i' m not that strong but i could take him .
a set made of paper, a bizarre script and cast and a fantastic soundtrack .
this movie has the best sets and costumes and is also the best movie to like have a new take on an old story... ... i love it sm
rewatched to write down some of those quotes and add them on imdb. very quotable film !
not really. in fact whilst it was wild and percuilar, it is just let down by the completely unnatural acting of the rather plain and unrestrictive plot. unrestricted, meaning that the
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the full film and soundtrack album will be released on may 12th worldwide. you can watch the trailer below.
adam green 's aladdin is an independent film written , directed by , and starring adam green that presents a modern take on the arabian nights classic tale . the film stars alia shawkat , natasha lyonne , jack dishel , macaulay culkin , and nicole laliberte . the film explores themes of technology , government repression , greed , and true love . the film was partially funded through the crowdfunding website kickstarter , and filmed over the summer of 2014 . the film was released on april 15 , 2016 , through video on demand . 
adam green's aladdin is an independent film written, directed by, and starring adam green that presents a modern take on the arabian nights classic tale. the film stars alia shawkat, natasha lyonne, jack dishel, macaulay culkin, and nicole laliberte. the film explores themes of technology, government repression, greed, and true love. the film was partially funded through the crowdfunding website kickstarter, and filmed over the summer of 2014. the film was released on april 15, 2016, through video on demand.
adam green's aladdin is an independent film written, directed by, and starring adam green that presents a modern take on the arabian nights classic tale. the film stars alia shawkat, natasha lyonne, jack dishel, macaulay culkin, and nicole laliberte. the film explores themes of technology, government repression, greed, and true love. the film was partially funded through the crowdfunding website kickstarter, and filmed over the summer of 2014. the film was released on april 15, 2016, through video on demand.