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‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’: St. Vincent to Direct Female-Led Film Adaptation

Lionsgate has launched development of a movie based on Oscar Wilde’s 1890 novel “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” Variety has learned exclusively.

The studio is putting a twist on the classic Victorian age story of a hedonistic man whose self-portrait ages while he stays eternally young. In this project, the title character will be a woman.

The film will be directed by Annie Clark, a.k.a St. Vincent, the experimental rock multi-instrumentalist. Her album, the self-titled “St. Vincent,” won the Grammy for Best Alternative Album in 2015. She has been the recipient of the Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award and the Q Maverick award, both given for outstanding innovation in the arts.

‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’: St. Vincent to Direct Female-Led Film Adaptation (EXCLUSIVE)

 

I'd rather hear her shred. She's overthinking it.

 

She's also goi g to direct a new version of Dorian Gray.

 

Terrific and Lengthy interview in the U.K. guardian:

St Vincent: ‘I’m in deep nun mode’

 

Great interview, thanks
Can't wait for new album

 

Curious no mention of a release date or even a year.... most anticipated album of (hopefully) 2017 for me!

 

Never got the appeal of her. Her music is decent but nothing mind blowing.

 

It doesn't even seem like the album is completely finished from the sounds of the article!

 

She did a Festival in Japan over the weekend. Clearly the start of a new era/album with 3 new songs played.

Her show is her on a platform behind large screens singing and playing guitar. Backing tape instead of band heavy use of strobe lighting. Row 15 would have a better view than row 1.

I love her music and there is nothing close to it, but I can understand others finding the abstract/obscure/artiness being a barrier.

 

"Backing tape instead of band"?
I can't say I care much for that concept. Hopefully it was just a one off thing for a festival.

 

YouTube

New song apparently called "Los Angeles".

St Vincent debuts new song “LA” in Tokyo (watch)
Couple more short videos of other songs.

 

OK. So?
Her music is the some of the best from this decade as far as I'm concerned.

 

I still can't imagine that she wouldn't release it around her upcoming tour. Why go on a big tour now and not promote the new album? At least that's what I hope.

 

I like it, but after "New York" I hope she doesn't get too "accessible" (as the guardian guy described her new album). Her last album was a good mixture of accessible and weird to me and I wouldn't want to lose the weirdness altogether.

 

A lengthy article from the New Yorker:

St. Vincent’s Cheeky, Sexy Rock

 

I'm only interested in her for her weirdness ... but I suppose even that can be commercialised.

 

From the New Yorker article quoted in #514:

For the new album—it comes out this fall, although Clark has not yet publicly revealed its name...

 

And another cool mention in the New Yorker article:

Last month, Clark went into a studio, in midtown Manhattan, with her friend the producer, composer, and pianist Thomas Bartlett, to record an alternative version of the new album: just her voice and his piano, a chance to hear, and to preserve, the songs stripped down to their bones. She had signed off on the final masters of the record the day before they started.

 

That will be nice content for the inevitable "deluxe edition" down the road.

 

One of the Tokyo videos has a SV parody of the Basic Instinct Sharon Stone interrogation scene playing on the screens behind her.

 

The rollout of this seems odd. We're at the point in the year where if you announce an album today, it's probably not coming out until November, which isn't a great release month (unless you're a Beyonce or a Kanye). I wonder if we might see this pushed to January or February of 2018, but I'd be happy to be wrong about that.

 

We are hearing different things so.

 

No, we are both hearing the same thing. You're not getting the same conclusion from it. So your opinion is negative.
This is a thread dedicated to discussion, updates, and such for an artist we like.
You decide to post that think the music is not so great, to be different and contradictory. How is that at all helpful?
It's a waste of your and our time.

 

Who said I didn't like her music? Just don't think it matches the hype. Forums are for discussion.
There is a great song South Park did about Safe Spaces, you may like it

 

She's got plenty of time for a 2017 release. Look at the 2017 meta critic upcoming album list and see how few of them have dates. Some bigger albums will drop before November.

The only thing is getting day/date vinyl release when doing it short notice. She will tour this thing for 2 years so week 1 sales don't mean much. Even a high chart placing won't get much mileage to her fans.