"It's no secret that Wayne Coyne enjoys acting like an alien..." - San Francisco Weekly "Endearingly ragged...destined for cult status...abetted with homemade-looking but sometimes lyrical effects." - Andy Webster, New York Times "Christmas on Mars is great, if only you could understand it...a psychedelic accomplishment that will inevitably gain more favor as it ages...Twilight Zone poetry." - Metro Boston "a moody, somewhat demented trip, albeit one with amateur actors and giant genitalia in astronaut suits." - Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times "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 "created with amateur compulsiveness, patched together on self-made sets in Coyne’s Oklahoma backyard. One recalls another spacey film: Close Encounters of the Third Kind, in which Richard Dreyfuss maniacally constructs giant mounds to satisfy his vision...." - Associated Press

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. Wayne Coyne in person! London, England: Barbican, December 12-14 (35mm) Now playing till the end of the year if not the end of time: New York City: Cinema Purgatorio @ KGB / Kraine (HD original) Austin, Texas: Original Alamo Drafthouse (35mm) San Antonio, Texas: Alamo Drafthouse (35mm) Madison, Wisconsin: The Orpheum (35mm) Limited engagements: 35mm transfer Tucson, Arizona: The Loft, December 5-11 Chicago, Illinois: The Music Box, December 5-6 Bellingham, Washington: Pickford Cinema, December 5-6 Boulder, Colorado: Boulder Theater, December 10 Houston, Texas: Drafthouse West Oaks, December 12-14 Asheville, North Carolina: The Fine Arts, December 12 St. Louis, Missouri area: Webster University Film Series, December 12-14 Albuquerque, New Mexico: The Guild, December 19-20 Phoenix, Arizona area: Chandler Cinemas, December 19-20 Lexington, Kentucky: Kentucky Theater, January 9-10 Grand Rapids, Michigan: UICA, January 9-15 Waterville, Maine: Railroad Square Cinema, January 16-17 Chicago, Illinois: Doc Films (U Chicago), January 30 DVD release happenings: Pontiac, Michigan: The Crofoot, November 29 Chico, California: Tion, December 5 Spartanburg, South Carolina: Hub-Bub, December 5 Athens, Georgia: CineCafe, December 5-11 Missoula, Montana: University of Montana, December 5 Urbana-Champaign, Illinois: The Canopy Club, December 7 Brooklyn, New York: Barbes, December 15, 7pm Roanoke, Virginia: Grandin Theatre, December 14-15 Paducah, Kentucky: Maiden Alley Cinema, December 19-21 Portland, Oregon: McMenamin's, December 20 Portland, Maine: Space 538, December 23 Northfield, Minnesota: Carleton College, January 15 Already played but would love to play again! Des Moines, Iowa / Columbia, South Carolina / Moline, Illinois / Atlanta, Georgia / Peoria, Illinois / Naperville, Illinois / Nashville, Tennessee / Dallas, Texas / Whitewater, Wisconsin / Lake Geneva, Wisconsin / Orlando, Florida / West Bend, Wisconsin / Omaha, Nebraska / Providence, Rhode Island / Bremen, Indiana / San Francisco, California / St. Pete Beach, Florida / Cleveland, Ohio / Cambridge, Massachusetts / Los Angeles / Philadelphia / New Orleans / Winnipeg / Ann Arbor / Ithaca, New York / Columbus, Ohio / Denver, Colorado / Hot Springs, Arkansas / Santa Barbara, California / Purchase, New York / Minneapolis / Seattle / Hartford / Buffalo / Kansas City / Miami

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 does 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.