Lindsay Lohan featured in James Franco-directed R.E.M.’s "Blue" video (video) November 17, 2012 - 17:20 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - After decades of commercial and critical success, R.E.M. called it quits as a band more than a year ago -- but the venerable alt-rock outfit saved at least one star-studded music video as a pleasant surprise for fans, The Hollywood Reporter said. The grainy, shaky James Franco-directed video for Collapse Into Now track "Blue" opens with a stark shot of blue-tone building sign that, appropriately, reads, "The End." The clip features aerial angles of a darkened Los Angeles skyline, a shoe-level view of the Hollywood Walk of Fame, washed out footage of the city streets, glances at various locations including the Roosevelt Hotel -- even a photo/video shoot featuring actress Lindsay Lohan. The video, as Rolling Stone noted, was part of the Collapse Into Now film project, which enlisted artists to produce short films for every single track on the band's 2011 album. The "Blue" clip was published on the R.E.M. website as a YouTube upload and immediately began attracting attention. Franco's "Blue" video coincides with the release of a new career-spanning R.E.M. greatest hits compilation, titled Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage, that was made available at online retailers this week. Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | The Power of One Dram to benefit Road of Life charity The companies inform that the May beneficiary of The Power of One Dram is the “Road of Life” charitable organization. Ucom General Director gives lecture at French University in Armenia The General Director of Ucom Ralph Yirikian delivered a lecture at the French University of Armenia. Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. |