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On this week's episode, I'm joined by Thomas Negovan, who oversaw the reconstruction of Caligula: The Ultimate Cut. Combing through 96 hours of the original negatives, Tom rebuilt the film from the ground up in order to bring it closer in line with the vision of writer Gore Vidal, director Tinto Brass, and star Malcolm McDowell. We discussed some of the technical challenges of tracking down source materials, the challenge of reconstructing a film that felt entirely different from every version previously known, and how McDowell and costar Helen Mirren responded to the reconstituted picture. The Ultimate Cut debuted at Cannes last year and is available now via streaming, Blu-ray, and 4K from Drafthouse Films and Unobstructed View. (The Blu-ray and 4K sets also include a previous cut of the film; for more on that cut and its odd provenance, I'd recommend reading this note at Diabolik DVD.) And if you enjoyed this episode, please share it with a friend!

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.

We're celebrating our 700th episode of The Projection Booth with what may be the first time we've discussed a movie for a third time as we continue to document the troubled history of the 1980 film Caligula.We first spoke about the film almost 10 years ago where we were joined by Maitland McDonagh to discuss the movie while Ranjit Sandhu gave us the sordid history behind the production and talked about his book 200 Degrees of Failure and filmmaker Alexander Tuschinski discussed the career of Tinto Brass and the original intentions Brass had for the finished film.We came back together in 2018 to discuss the re-discovery of the original footage of Caligula and the plans Penthouse and Alexander had to restore the film to Tinto Brass's original vision.Now Rob and Mike are joined by Heather Drain to talk about the version of Caligula that played at Cannes in 2023. Once referred to as Caligula MMXX, it's now called Caligula: The Ultimate Cut and it was produced by a person named Thomas Negovan.We'll be discussing the film as well as what's happened to this project over the last six years along with President of Penthouse Global Licensing, Caroline Kirkendoll, and director of Mission: Caligula, Alexander Tuschinski.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-projection-booth-podcast--5513239/support.

We're celebrating our 700th episode of The Projection Booth with what may be the first time we've discussed a movie for a third time as we continue to document the troubled history of the 1980 film Caligula.We first spoke about the film almost 10 years ago where we were joined by Maitland McDonagh to discuss the movie while Ranjit Sandhu gave us the sordid history behind the production and talked about his book 200 Degrees of Failure and filmmaker Alexander Tuschinski discussed the career of Tinto Brass and the original intentions Brass had for the finished film.We came back together in 2018 to discuss the re-discovery of the original footage of Caligula and the plans Penthouse and Alexander had to restore the film to Tinto Brass's original vision.Now Rob and Mike are joined by Heather Drain to talk about the version of Caligula that played at Cannes in 2023. Once referred to as Caligula MMXX, it's now called Caligula: The Ultimate Cut and it was produced by a person named Thomas Negovan.We'll be discussing the film as well as what's happened to this project over the last six years along with President of Penthouse Global Licensing, Caroline Kirkendoll, and director of Mission: Caligula, Alexander Tuschinski.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-projection-booth-podcast--5513239/support.

Now, 43 years after the 1980 release of historical epic CALIGULA, producer and reconstructionist Thomas Negovan has realized the creators' original vision with CALIGULA: THE ULTIMATE CUT, a version comprised of entirely never-before-seen footage shot in 1976. Shadowed by the murder of his entire family, the young, wary Caligula (Malcolm McDowell) eliminates his devious adoptive grandfather (Peter O'Toole) and seizes control of the declining Roman Empire, descending into a spiral of depravity, destruction, and madness. A treatise on the corrupting influence of power, this extensive reconstruction of the notorious 1980 spectacle, CALIGULA: THE ULTIMATE CUT restores the complete performances of Malcolm McDowell and Helen Mirren, as the promiscuous 'Caesonia', from an unprecedented amount of never before seen footage. Sumptuous set designs by two-time Oscar winner Danilo Donati. CALIGULA: THE ULTIMATE CUT aligns closely to Vidal's original script, especially with the addition of a prologue that illustrates one of Vidal's missing scenes, created by noted graphic artist Dave McKean (Grant Morrison's Arkham Asylum, Neil Gaiman's Sandman). Nearly 100 hours of original footage was discovered by the film's re-constructionist, film historian Thomas Negovan, in the Penthouse archive, which showcases astounding performances from the film's cast, fully realizing McDowell's complex, charismatic 'Caligula' and resurrecting Mirren's layered character arc, which now cements the film's final hour. Producer & Re-constructionist Thomas Negovan joins us to talk about his own daunting journey of reviewing the hundreds of hours of footage, his decision to use an enormous amount of never before seen footage in this final cut, seeking out many the surviving cast and crew, provide an artistic context to McDowell's performance and to give the film a chance to be seen as flawed, but wildly ambitious cinematic journey into the heart of a darkness at the rotting core of the Roman Empire. For more go to: drafthousefilms.com/caligula

Producer Tom Negovan discusses his restoration of the infamous 1980 film, starring Malcom McDowell Pand ter O'Toole and Helen Mirren. We also talk about comic artists Dave McKean and Bill Siencewicz's involvement in the project, plus Tom's forays as a comic book publisher through his company Century Guild 

A 24 year-old single woman wants to learn how to perform dirty talk, but she has no one to practice on. How can she learn the dark art?  A woman is newly out of her bad relationship, and into a joyful era of slutting around. She's happy as a clam, but when her parents ask about her love life, they treat her like a sad spinster. How can she explain that she's doing JUST FINE without going into too much detail? On the Magnum, have you heard of the movie “Calligula?” It was a 1979 film produced by Penthouse Magazine's Bob Guccione and packed with stars from the day like Malcom McDowell Peter O'Toole, and Helen Mirren. And it freaked everyone out! Due to its sexual and violent content, it was the only movie that Roger Ebert walked out of. And now…it's back! Dan brings on writer and artist Thomas Negovan to talk about how he gained access to the original footage, recut it and made the Calligula that everyone wants to see. (It played at this year's Cannes Film Festival, so.) Would you like to hear about this? Subscribe to listen in.  And, a woman's in-laws are threatening to descend on her home for Thanksgiving. Not only will the guest list increase to a whole new level, but they all love to watch football, which the caller detests. She likes to spend the holiday with her own family one-on-one. How can she prevent this disaster?  Q@Savage.Love     206-302-2064 This episode is brought to you by Dipsea: an app full of hundreds of short, sexy audio stories designed by women for women. Get an extended 30 day free trial when you go to dipseastories.com/savage.  This episode is brought to you by Helix Sleep-the best mattress for your individualized comfort. Right now, get 20% off ALL mattress orders and 2 free pillows at HelixSleep.com/SAVAGE, and use the offer code Savage. This episode is brought to you by Squarespace. They make it easy to build a website or blog. Give it a whirl at Squarespace.com/Savage and if you want to buy it, use the code Savage for a 10% off your first purchase.

Symbolist, curator, creator, and editor of a new version of Caligula Thomas Negovan discusses artistic and spiritual responses to the deadening effects of industrialism.

This episode's guest is someone who has a background as an artist and has been working in galleries specialised on the period between 1880 and 1920 hosting exhibitions for more than 20 years, Thomas Negovan. Thomas has just published an amazing book on the pinnacle artist of the Art Nouveau movement, Alphonse Mucha and his masterpiece ‘Le Pater: Alphonse Mucha's Symbolist Masterpiece and the Lineage of Mysticism', originally illustrated and interpreted in the most occult and hermetic ways by the artist himself. Thomas was born and raised in a very working class area of the south side of Chicago. From his childhood and teenage years on the post-industrial-revolution period of the late 19th century resonated with him intensely especially because artists of this period expressed a deep interest in mystical thinking and metaphysics. His interest in this period made Thomas even release a wax recording produced without electricity and he cooperated with an artist to create an album cover with wet plate photography. In the show break you'll be able to listen to an amazing piece from the album that has been recorded just as if we were still in the late 19th century. Poster for an evening of theater honoring Sarah Bernhardt (1896) Zodiac calendar for La Plume (1897) Growing up, Thomas soon became fascinated with science fiction and fantasy literature and of course with the illustrations featured in those books by artists who were deeply influenced by Art Nouveau. Later he worked for a gallery with a specialisation on this period of time and learned that it was very difficult to get originals. In 1999 Thomas founded the Century Guild Museum of Art in California focusing on the research, preservation and exhibition of Art Nouveau and Symbolist work from Germany, Austria, France and Italy from the Industrial Revolution through the Weimar Republic. In this episode we will shed some light on this era of decadence and exhaustion after WWI and how the occult revival that started in the 1860s influenced the arts and vice versa. Of course, we will go in depths on why Thomas intended to publish this incredible book ‘Le Pater' in the first place, discuss why Alphonse Mucha's work seems to be ubiquitous but his name not as much, what exactly characterises his art and why whole generations of comic book artists seem to be obsessed with him. PLEASE CLICK AND VISIT THE FOLLOWING WEBSITES TO GET ALL THE INFORMATION ON THOSE EDITIONS OF  "LE PATER", ON THOMAS NEGOVAN AND ON THE CENTURY GUILD www.lepater.com www.thomasnegovan.com www.centuryguild.net Understandably, ‘Le Pater' will take up quite a lot of space in our conversation, we will talk about its creational process and shed some light on Mucha's motivation to present a series of artworks that have a highly occult and hermetic background. Thomas' edition of the ‘Le Pater' will be our guide to understand Mucha's intentions with his art as he spent 20 years of research on a popular artist whose masterpiece was not present so much nowadays. As a publisher Thomas wanted to recreate the original print as closely as possible, so the result is simply mind-blowing presenting itself in a 12''x16'' format (hardcover and limited edition, already available) and a slightly smaller 9''x12'' format (paperback, available in March). Don't miss out on the publisher's website! Music played in this episode Today's musical choice is programmatic for the subject of the episode: In the break of the interview, my guest, Thomas Negovan, performs two songs, the latter being recorded on a wax cylinder, without the help of electricity,

Did you miss our LIVE bonus show on Fireside, the interactive storytelling platform? Don't worry— you can catch the replay on Fireside, or enjoy the bonus audio here. On our Oct. 25 live event, I had the great pleasure of speaking with author, artist, and musician Thomas Negovan about his new book, Le Pater: Alphonse Mucha's Symbolist Masterpiece and the Lineage of Mysticism. This gorgeous, swoon-worthy coffee table book uncovers the often-overlooked metaphysical elements of Mucha's Le Pater series and also delves into themes of the Divine Feminine and Mucha's own metaphysical practices. Want to join in on the fun next time? Join Fireside now and follow me for invites to each live recording, where you can participate in the audience and ask questions live! And who knows? Maybe we'll even throw a trivia contest every now and again. More Fireside chats are coming up this month and next. Watch our social media posts for further details. Please SUBSCRIBE and REVIEW our show on Apple Podcasts and FOLLOW on Spotify Twitter / Instagram / Facebook / Fireside Don't forget to show your support for our show by purchasing ArtCurious swag from TeePublic! SPONSORS: Wondrium: Enjoy a free month with unlimited access Bombas: get 20% off your first order Storyblocks: Get unlimited downloads at Storyblocks, a subscription-based provider of stock video and audio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our month of Halloween Gnostic terrors has a new entry as we discuss the devilish and witchy art of the Art Nouveau and Symbolist movements with Thomas Negovan from the Century Guild art gallery and publishers. We mostly discuss his book “Infernal Creatures” featuring macabre art created by artists involved with Gnosticism, mysticism, and the […]

This week's guest is art dealer, collector, author, musician, book publisher, art historian, film maker (among other things), Thomas Negovan of Century Guild. We discuss his career trajectory from his lower middle class background in Chicago to antique dealer to art dealer and now book publisher, the 20 year journey of researching and creating his latest book "Le Pater- Alphonse Mucha's Symbolist Masterpiece and the Lineage of Mysticism", symbolist art, the modern state of art galleries and a ton of other stuff! He will be coming back on again because I could have kept going for another 2 hours easily! Also a quick art life update. Interview starts at 8:46 Thoms Negovan's links: IG: @centuryguild and @thomasnegovan Website: https://centuryguild.net All of Century Guild's books (Including "Le Pater") https://centuryguild.net/collections/books The Dark Art Society Podcast is produced by Chet Zar. Become an Official Member of the Dark Art Society: www.patreon.com/DarkArtSociety Chet's Patreon: www.patreon.com/ChetZar The Dark Art Society Instagram: instagram.com/darkartsociety Official Dark Art Society Website: www.darkartsociety.com The Dark Art Society Podcast is now available in a variety of places, including the following platforms: SoundCloud: @darkartsociety iTunes: apple.co/2gMNUfM Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/s?fid=134626&refid=stpr Podbay: podbay.fm/show/1215146981 YouTube: bit.ly/2nNYPre DarkArtSociety.com Copyright Chet Zar LLC 2021

We got acquainted with legendary artist Alphonse Mucha – from his Freemason background to his Rosicrucian art, from his impact on occult Paris to his ordeal under Nazi fury. This included his mystical exploration of the Gnostic androgynous divinity in LE PATER (The Lord's Prayer), a work the Catholic Church censored. Writer, art historian, and film producer Thomas Negovan joined us at the Virtual Alexandria.Astral Guest -- Thomas Negovan, art historian, film producer, and author of Le Pater: Alphonse Mucha's Symbolist Masterpiece and the Lineage of Mysticism.This is a partial show. For the second half of the interview, please become a member or patron at Patreon.Get the simple, effective, and affordable Private RSS feed for all full shows: Exclusive Aeon Byte Podcast Feed | RedCircleMore information on ThomasGet the bookSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/aeon-byte-gnostic-radio/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Thomas Negovan is the director of the Century Guild Museum of Art and author of Le Pater: Alphonse Mucha’s Symbolist Masterpiece and the Lineage of Mysticism. He joins me in this special bonus podcast episode to discuss the work of Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939), especially his incredibly symbolic and deeply esoteric masterpiece, Le Pater. Mucha was a Czech painter, illustrator and artist who lived in Paris during the Art Nouveau period. His distinctive style is recognized today as being among the defining works of that period, and is probably best known for his posters promoting stage actress Sara Bernhardt. However, Mucha was also a Moravian Christian and Freemason, and his esoteric interests and mystical pursuits enfused the artwork of his incredible masterpiece, Le Pater. This is such an important piece of esoteric artwork that I agreed to produce this bonus episode to help Thomas get the word out about his Kickstarter to produce a paperback version of his book on Le Pater. Links The Le Pater website Century Guild Information on Alphone Mucha’s involvement in Freemasonry What is Art Nouveau?

This week we kick off our ten part series with the silent era of horror films. We start with the early experimental shorts of the 1890s and continue through the 1920s, examining some key films of the genre during this time as well as historical events that heavily influence the creation and rise of horror films. A huge thank you to all of those who contributed clips for this episode. If you would like your voice heard on our future episodes, contact or follow us at: @horrorhavenpodcast on Instagram Facebook.com/horrorhavenpodcast @Horror_Haven on Twitter This week's contributors are: Thomas Negovan of Century Guild John and Becca of Skeleton Rose Media E. Elias Merhige, Director of Begotten and Shadow of the Vampire David Garrett Jr of Horror Film Review

Bob & Joe interview director Thomas Negovan on his upcoming nazi-alien-cowboy movie. Later on our Moldovan representative Tag Taggart shares his theories on extraterrestrials

An interview with film maker Thomas Negovan on his upcoming short film "Aurora" Our website: bmoviebros.com/ Twitter: twitter.com/BmovieBros Minds: www.minds.com/Bmoviebros facebook: www.facebook.com/bmoviebros/?ref=…t_homepage_panel Help support the show: www.paypal.com/donate/?token=dp0…Z-VgOA80IUN-Bjx9W www.patreon.com/BMovieBros

Thomas Negovan's film, Aurora...seeks to tell a fantastic tale based around the crash of a UFO in Aurora, TX in 1897. Aurora is the true story of the first documented alien encounter in American history. Conspiracy theory, science fiction, time-travel monster movie with spectacular artists! A "creature feature" art-film homage to Universal Monsters and 1950s westerns, all the puzzle pieces are now on the table, we just desperately need help to pull everything together.  With your support, this movie can be completely finished before the end of the year! Help fund the campaign to get Aurora completed, *HERE* ( https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/centuryguild/aurora-film-inspired-by-1950s-westerns-and-the-twi/description ) *Aurorafilm.info* ( https://www.aurorafilm.info/ ) *ThomasNegovan.com* ( https://thomasnegovan.com/ ) Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

2/5/2015 This Wednesday we talked to Thomas Negovan, founder of the Century Guild Museum and Art Gallery, current representatives of Clive Barker's artwork. We talked about Fear This, the announcement of the optioning of Imajica as a one-season TV series by Josh Boone, the fantasticClive Barker: IMAGINER Paintings & Drawings books (funded through Kickstarter), part of an ongoing process of high-resolution archival and preservation of Clive Barker's extensive body of work and his current Kickstarter book project:  Steve Diet Goedde 25-Year Retrospective, Volume III with 25 days to go. We discuss the news first as usual, and at about 18 minutes in, we were joined by Thomas via Skype. The conversation flowed in the podcast's typical conversational style to include some very interesting academic-level discussion of Clive's 3 painting periods. Fascinating stuff. People often don't know that I paint. Recently, though, with Thomas Negovan of Century Guildhaving taken hold of my work in a major way, and put out the first volume of the Imaginer book, people have begun to understand what I'm doing a lot more. Thomas has become my great apologist and has really made people understand what I'm doing in a way that I never could. I'm really not that great at talking about my own art. – Clive Barker,  “Return of the Dark Master” by techgnotic, deviantART, 31 October 2014.   Show Notes for this Episode: Clive Barker News: Mark Miller and Jovanka Vuckovic  to appear at Shop Pop Comicon in Florida Midnight Meat Train (Dark Regions) available on Kindle! Tortured Souls Available on Audio Book Scarlet Gospels Back Cover “I smell Decaying Flesh. Someone has been raising the dead.” Scarlet Gospels 1st Review and Plot Clive Barker to supply afterword to Stephen King's classic “Salems's Lot” The Dirty Show Exhibition to feature Clive Barker work Oxholm Gallery will be holding an exhibition showing off some of Clive's artwork  Hellraiser Reunion Posters available for Days of the Dead – signed by Clive Barker  @Barkercast Site News: Tuesday Tunes: Coil Hellraiser Soundtrack The 5 Weirdest Clive Barker Adaptations Rob Ridenour's Interview with the People of the Revelations Stage Play Collector's Corner, Nightbreed Director's Cut signed covers Imagica CCG Update Rob Ridenour's “Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh” Review (Shout Factory Blu-Ray) Tuesday Tunes: Candyman Theme Unboxing Video: Midnight Meat Train Hardcover (Dark Press Regions) web www.clivebarkercast.comiTunes (Leave a review!), Podomatic, XBOX Music Store, Tune-In Radio, Stitcher, Doubletwist, Blackberry and Pocketcast. Facebook and Join the Occupy Midian group Twitter: @BarkerCast | @OccupyMidian forum: www.clivebarkerfans.com/forum Theme by Colin Lacativa: http://sabotagesound.bandcamp.com/    

11/1/2014   Jose and Ryan visited Los Angeles for the screening of Clive Barker's Nightbreed Director's Cut on October 27, 2014 at the Crest Westwood Cinema. Just before the screening, we also visited Clive Barker's studio and Seraphim office.  Thanks to Ben Meares for giving us the tour, Maureen Mavar for coming along and driving us, and Mark Miller and Thomas Negovan  for continuing to be cool and support us! So in this episode you'll get our impressions in the introduction, followed by the official intro and QA panel at the screening, featuring Thomas Negovan, Andrew Furtado, Clive Barker, Mark Miller, Ben Meares, Simon Bamford, Nicholas Vince, Charles Haid, Martin Mercer, Steve Hardie and Anne Bobby. Show Notes: Madefire Books of Blood V1 http://www.madefire.com/blog/2014/10/28/clive-barkers-books-of-blood-debuts-on-madefire-app-and-deviantart/ Phil and Sarah's “Cabal and Nightbreed: The Delirium of Monsterdom Phil and Sarah “The Definitive Story of Hellraiser” 2015 release. http://www.clivebarker.info/newshellbook.html   SPECIAL HALLOWEEN ANNOUNCEMENT! Earthling Publications is proud to announce that we have acquired the rights to publish the limited, signed, deluxe edition of Clive Barker's THE SCARLET GOSPELS. As a well-established publisher of Clive's work, most recently having published an oversized anniversary edition of his epic dark fantasy WEAVEWORLD, we are thrilled to be doing this project that features two of Clive's iconic characters, Pinhead and Harry D'Amour. Earthling published a deluxe edition of THE HELLBOUND HEART, which “gave birth” to the Cenobites, so it seems only fitting for us to publish a novel that will likely see the death of Pinhead. Clive calls GOSPELS “a HORROR NOVEL with the graphic violence and perverse eroticism of the most intense tales from the Books of Blood.” Details regarding print run, design, and special features will be announced and ordering will commence by January 1, 2015.   web www.clivebarkercast.com iTunes (Leave a review!), Podomatic, XBOX Music Store, Tune-In Radio, Stitcher, Doubletwist, Blackberry and Pocketcast. Facebook and Join the Occupy Midian group Twitter: @BarkerCast | @OccupyMidian forum: www.clivebarkerfans.com/forum Theme by Colin Lacativa

1/27/2014 Ryan and Jose are joined by Thomas Negovan of Century Guild. As you may know, Century Guild handles Clive Barker's art representation, and we talk about their upcoming “Clive Barker Imaginer” exhibition, art book and documentary!   Show Notes after the break!  Show Notes H.R. Giger Book (Jose was right) Preparing for the show Century Guild Tumblr Clive Barker Imaginer Facebook Page Art Book Kickstarter   web www.clivebarkercast.com iTunes (Leave a review!), Podomatic, XBOX Music Store, Tune-In Radio, Stitcher, Doubletwist, Blackberry and Pocketcast. Facebook and Join the Occupy Midian group Twitter: @BarkerCast | @OccupyMidian forum: www.clivebarkerfans.com/forum Theme by Colin Lacativa

Century Guild’s THOMAS NEGOVAN turns the tables and interviews Dal and Patrick for this, the recorded live in the store 100th episode. Featuring Tom Kelly, Jose Capetillo, Melissa Chapel and not Jimmy PS Hayes. It’s our secret origin episode.