Re: Great Moments in Con/Auxlang Filmmaking
| From: | Ed Heil <edh@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, May 4, 2000, 4:48 |
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On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 07:36:09PM -0500, Matt Pearson wrote:
> >Today's www.salon.com has an article on "Incubus," which is probably the
> >only full-length film (a fantasy horror story about demons) where the
> >dialogue is entirely in a conlang. To wit, Esperanto.
>
> A story on "Incubus" was also featured recently on National Public
> Radio. Included were interviews with the filmmakers and a short audio
> clip of Shatner speaking some of his dialogue. He sounded pretty good,
> actually.
I'll do you one better. I've seen parts of it. It was the first
I ever heard of it. I saw a few scenes. I think it was featured
on some snide late night talk show -- I have no idea what and where.
It was pretty much as described in the salon.com article.