"Endearingly ragged...destined for cult status...abetted with homemade-looking but sometimes lyrical effects." - Andy Webster, New York Times "A thrift-shop Solaris...realized through homegrown special effects that would please fans of Eraserhead-era David Lynch." - Steve Dollar, New York Sun "It's basically as weird as you'd hoped." - Isaac Butler, New York Magazine "this mostly black-and-white, dreamlike yuletide fable does possess its own dorky DIY charm, as space-suited men wander around narrow enclosures in various stages of dissociation, Santas commit airlock suicide, and a nurse/mother in a giant lightbulb births a bubble baby. " - Variety "As far as Christmas movies go, this one is hard to beat." - Ohmpark In some towns, movie theater screenings just won't work out.  So, let's do something else! We are trying to set up DVD release parties / screenings in smaller cities and towns across the country.  Often, record stores are co-presenting these at bars with many TVs, or at rock clubs that have video projectors.   We aim to start the November 14-15 weekend, then running until the first human does walk on Mars.  Talk to your people, find a space where it would work, then throw us your pitch! DVD will be released November 11

Playing now till the end of the year if not the end of time: original high definition video, and now louder than before New York, New York: The KGB Complex's Kraine Theater From October till the end of the year if not the end of time: 35mm transfer Austin, Texas: Original Alamo Drafthouse, starts October 11 San Antonio, Texas: Alamo Drafthouse, starts October 19 Limited engagements: 35mm transfer Des Moines, Iowa: Nova 10 Cinemas, October 1 Columbia, South Carolina: The Nickelodeon, October 3-5 Moline, Illinois: Nova 6 Cinemas, October 5 Atlanta, Georgia: Plaza Theatre, October 8 Peoria, Illinois: Reynold's Cinemas at Landmark, October 10 Naperville, Illinois: Nova 8 Cinemas, October 11 Nashville, Tennessee: The Belcourt, October 11-14 Dallas, Texas: Landmark Inwood Theater, October 17-18 Whitewater, Wisconsin: Theatres of Whitewater, October 17 Lake Geneva, Wisconsin: Geneva 4, October 18 Orlando, Florida: Enzian Theatre, October 18 West Bend, Wisconsin: Paradise Theatre, October 19 Madison, Wisconsin: The Orpheum, October 21-24 Waterville, Maine: Railroad Square Cinema, October 24 Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Brattle, October 31-November 9 Omaha, Nebraska: Film Streams / Ruth Sokolof Theater, October 31 San Francisco, California: The Roxie, October 31-November 2 Bremen, Indiana: Bremen Theatre, November 5 Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Cinematheque, November 8-9 Columbus, Ohio: Landmark Gateway Theater, November 14-15 Denver, Colorado: Landmark Esquire Theatre, November 14-15 Seattle, Washington: Northwest Film Forum, November 21-22 Hartford, Connecticut: Real Art Ways, November 21-23 Minneapolis, Minnesota: Landmark Uptown Theatre, November 22 Tucson, Arizona: The Loft, December 5-11 Chicago, Illinois: The Music Box, December 5-6 Bellingham, Washington: Pickford Cinema, December 5-6 St. Louis, Missouri area: Webster University Film Series, December 12-14 Albuquerque, New Mexico: The Guild, December 19-20 DVD release happenings: Kansas City, Missouri: Screenland, November 22-23 Jacksonville, Florida: Fuel in Five Points, November 27 Roanoke, Virginia: Grandin Theatre, December 12-13 to be announced soon: Los Angeles, California To hear about more shows, join our email list, add our feed, or join our Facebook group.  You can also suggest a venue, or make a press inquiry. High resolution images are here.

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 do Isaac Brock of band Modest Mouse, and 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.

In New York City, Christmas on Mars screens in a custom-designed screening room within the Kraine Theater of the KGB Complex at 85 East Fourth Street.  A speakeasy during Prohibition and a Ukrainian Socialist Social Club during the Cold War, the KGB Complex features two theater spaces, a comedy club, and a bar.  For Christmas on Mars, Cinema Purgatorio is converting the KGB's Kraine Theatre into a superb screening room with high definition video and the custom designed Zeta Bootis Mega Supersonic Super-Sound Surround System, which the Flaming Lips created specifically for this film.