CALIGULA: THE ULTIMATE CUT presents us with an interesting interpretation of the original 1980 production. 

Nearly 100 hours of original footage was discovered by the film's reconstructionist, film historian Thomas Negovan, in the Penthouse archive. 

Here Negovan talks about focusing on Malcolm McDowell's complex, charismatic 'Caligula' and resurrecting Mirren's layered character arc.

CALIGULA: THE ULTIMATE CUT in theaters throughout North America starting August 16th, followed by a release on 4K UHD Blu-ray and digital platforms. 

Read more about the film at https://hyemusings.ca/

Spotlight: 'CALIGULA' The Ultimate Cut with Thomas Negovan

One of cinema's most infamous disasters, Caligula was conceived by producer Bob Guccione, the founder of Penthouse magazine, as an explicit, expensively-made adult film, about the rise and fall of the titular Roman emperor. In pursuing this, Guccione removed director Tinto Brass during post-production, so that he could have hardcore pornography shot and inserted into the film. On its release in 1979, Caligula was critically savaged on both moral and cinematic grounds, confiscated by police in some countries, banned in others, and the cause of lines that stretched around the block. It has remained an artifact of cult interest ever since, and the subject of occasional attempts to reconstruct it in a form that reflects something approaching its creators' original visions - to whatever extent their visions agreed with each other.

Caligula: The Ultimate Cut is the most thorough of these reconstructions by far, benefitting from the rediscovery of 96 hours of original material, which had been rushed out of Italy and hidden during the film's release. Opening intertitles claim that every frame of art historian Thomas Negovan's cut is previously unseen. It's long been wondered whether there's a great film within Caligula; although we don't think The Ultimate Cut demonstrates that there is, it's entertaining and striking, and offers an idea of what might have been.

Recorded on 18th August 2024.

426 - Caligula: The Ultimate Cut

Babylon is a Beautiful City
Looks can kill ya
They probably will yeah

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'Pacy, witty and authoritative' Jonathan Freedland

'In her hands, ancient history becomes a vivid avenue of approach to a burning modern-world concern… a powerful and important book' Daily Telegraph 

 A superb and illuminating history of Imperial Rome's most important women – dispelling the myths and misogyny that have distorted their reputations for over 2000 years.

Writer, activist and journalist Joan Smith has worked for years to raise awareness of violence against women and girls, and has been instrumental in bringing the innate misogyny of the police to public attention. Unfortunately, She Was a Nymphomaniac reinterprets the bloody, violent story of twenty-three women closely associated with the Julio-Claudian emperors of Rome. Fewer than half a dozen of them can be said with any confidence to have died of natural causes.

These were the wives, mothers and daughters of the emperors from Augustus to Nero, via their ‘mad’ relative Caligula. They were the most privileged women of their time, but their lives were overshadowed, dominated and controlled by these men. Raped, killed, ripped apart from their children and mostly airbrushed from history, Joan Smith brings their extraordinary and tragic stories back into focus. There are no nymphomaniacs here.

Instead, the book pieces together the human stories, showing how they struggled for control of their lives at a time when both the law and culture were stacked against them. These women shared in a spirited, inspiring and sometimes reckless resistance to male authority.

Smith brings to this history not only a fresh interpretation of the original texts but also an understanding of what we know now about the mechanics of domestic abuse. The way these women have been misrepresented for two thousand years speaks volumes not just about ancient misogyny but the origin and persistence of attitudes that continue to blight women’s lives today.

Unfortunately, She was a Nymphomaniac: A New History of Rome's Imperial Women, By Joan Smith, Read by Joan Walker

Does the Caligula: The Ultimate Cut deserve all of the hype or is it just excess for excess sake?

Read more at: https://scottsself-indulgentmovieblog.blogspot.com/

Episode 954: Cult Classic or Crap?: Caligula: The Ultimate Cut

El “rey loco” ilustra los riesgos del poder absoluto sin razón: de Calígula a líderes actuales, la historia se repite.



Carlos Tello Díaz. Calígula: el problema del rey loco

Hello, my name is Bob Miller. These tracks were made in Germany 2005 while in the US ARMY with SP-12 and EPS 16 plus, 4 Track guitar recorder. Hopefully I will be able to make something new in the future, but my EPS is acting up. Thanks for listening!

The Room I Grew Up In mit Archa de Lumin (1977) - LYRICS

consedere illum faciet
agrum ligna
et tu caecus
archa de lumin
et caecus vidente
in somno
in horreum
ponere
per tuum
risum
Wie essen wir?
Mit unseren Familien und Lands
Im Ein Ort der gestörten Vorstellungen und Ideen
Der Darm seines Geistes
Hier wohnst du nicht
Die Farbe rot ist gut, ja? Gut fur du Augen.
Was ist falsche mit meinen Augen!!
Ich weiß es nicht!!
Vielleicht tust du...
Teufel Dämon gehören im Gehenna
Mit Ihrer Mutter und Vater
Und rassistische Brüder
Voll von Getränken und Schlaf.
Mein Schlaf ist nicht für Sie ... mein Namen ist Caligula
Dämon
Übel unter allen voll Betrug und die Christus von Täuschungen
Erinnere dich
Solche
Solche
Blätter
Baden
Die gelb Wurden
consedere illum faciet
agrum ligna
et tu caecus
archa de lumin
et caecus vidente
in somno
in horreum
ponere
per tuum
risum

Caligulas Demons Nevermore - Soundtrack Metal Core Version

Caligulas Demons Nevermore - Thrash Metal Version

Caligulas Demons Nevermore - Speed Metal Version - Final Credits

Marian Apparitions Explained: The Mysterious Appearances of the Virgin Mary https://youtu.be/UQ6oeCMZk_k?si=vWq_yOURIqZAa0xR

Did Graphene Just Break A Fundamental Law? https://youtu.be/RuCiGUdjP7I?si=eZiofMPrIsWo_xzo

Deep-Earth Diamonds Reveal ‘Almost Impossible’ Chemistry https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/almost-impossible-deep-earth-diamonds-confirm-how-these-gems-form/

Which Roman Emperor is Donald Trump? https://pca.st/ae6mcy9m

Lawrence Krauss |'The Universe Doesn't Care About Us ... And That's Beautiful'-The Beginning & End Of The Cosmos+ Reflections On Hitchens https://open.spotify.com/episode/6wQs2t7b3KxCr4nTtIGIvd?si=H8iB18nsSxGDKFPFi_TE-Q 

Disney Reinstates Jimmy Kimmel | The Rapture Is Here | Trump's Border Czar Caught Taking $50k Bribe https://youtu.be/0bBFZBO2mMo?si=NAtqNcFW81r7B0WI

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canal do radinho no telegram:   http://t.me/radinhodepilha
meu perfil no Threads: https://www.threads.net/@renedepaulajr
meu perfil no BlueSky https://bsky.app/profile/renedepaula.bsky.social
meu twitter http://twitter.com/renedepaula
aqui está o link para a caneca no Colab55:  https://www.colab55.com/@rene/mugs/caneca-rarissima 
para xs raríssimxs internacionais, aqui está nossa caneca no Zazzle: https://www.zazzle.com/radinhos_anniversary_mug-168129613992374138
minha lojinha no Colab55 (posters, camisetas, adesivos, sacolas):  http://bit.ly/renecolab
meu livro novo na lojinha!  blue notes
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meu livro solo https://www.ko-fi.com/s/0f990d61c7 
o adesivo do radinho!!!   http://bit.ly/rarissimos 
minha lojinha no ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/renedepaula/shop
muito obrigado pelos cafés!!!  http://ko-fi.com/renedepaula

o que é mais raro que diamantes?  aparições da Virgem, Trump é Nero ou Calígula?

Known for soundtrack music in Duke Nukem 3D and Sonic the Hedgehog Sonic's Schoolhouse...

Psst: Henry CrowDog helped write This Land Is Your Land.

Marco has performed in Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Texas, Kansas, Wisconsin, Indiana, Iowa, Ohio, Illinois, Massachusetts, North and South Dakota, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Oregon, Tennessee, Wyoming, Washington, Washington, DC and of course NYC, Connecticut and Rhode Island closer to where he comes from.
Marco likes classical and folk mostly, but he also likes punk, pop and parody music. He used to play bass in a three-piece Christian Heavy Metal band called "POE," (Peace On Earth) so if you hear a weird influence now and then it's probably just loose eardrums.

"If you think the music you're hearing here is eclectic, you should hear what I do when I'm playing out in the streets!" he once told someone in the mezzanine to a theatre where he was playing classical guitar before nine showings of Phantom Of The Opera's bus- and-truck group. He didn't know it at the time but the woman he was telling this to was Sarah Brightman's Broadway understudy. She went on to lead both on Broadway and in the touring companies. Marco currently plays every day in the summer at an amusement park, and hibernates in the fall, winter and spring.

Playing guitar since age 14...
...writing songs even longer.
First album, unsigned, unpublished, and unpromoted was titled "Hootenany Green." Copyrighted 1989 as a demo on digital audio tape (DAT) and cassette only. Sold 50 copies on first printing and 150 on the second. Contains 8 songs and a commercial.
The demo also includes "Hey Mon," which was written in 1988. Carl Franklin digitized it as one of the first midis ever uploaded to the Internet. The music from it can be heard on any computer that has a sound-blaster built in. Or look for it in search engines as reggae.mid Marco has 900+ original songs, but he's only happy with 300 or so. 

Writes whenever he's awake and completes the math while he's asleep and dreaming.
Marco is a Pisces, loves long walks in the park, the color purple, poetry and everything besides Proctor&Gamble products - IE: Pringles, Puffs, Olean, Pantene, Prell and Pepto-Bismo.
"Oh wait, did I leave out Puritan Oil, Jif, Tide and Pert?

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Hello, my name is Bob Miller. These tracks were made in Germany 2005 while in the US ARMY with SP-12 and EPS 16 plus, 4 Track guitar recorder. Hopefully I will be able to make something new in the future, but my EPS is acting up. Thanks for listening!

"I have this romantic idea of the movies as a conjunction of place, people and experiences, all different for each of us, a context in which individual and separate beings try to commune, where the individual experience overlaps with the communal and where that overlapping is demarcated by how we measure the differing responses between ourselves and the rest of the audience: do they laugh when we don’t (and what does that mean?); are they moved when we feel like laughing (and what does that say about me or the others) etc. The idea behind this podcast is to satiate the urge I sometimes have when I see a movie alone – to eavesdrop on what others say. What do they think? How does their experience compare to mine? Snippets are overhead as one leaves the cinema and are often food for thought. A longer snippet of such an experience is what I hope to provide: it’s two friends chatting immediately after a movie. It’s unrehearsed, meandering, slightly convoluted, certainly enthusiastic, and well informed, if not necessarily on all aspects a particular work gives rise to, certainly in terms of knowledge of cinema in general and considerable experience of watching different types of movies and watching movies in different types of ways. It’s not a review. It’s a conversation." - José Arroyo.

"I just like the sound of my own voice." - Michael Glass.

Welcome movie friends! Join Scott as he goes through the wonderful world of movies including lists, old favorites, scene analysis, and tropes.

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