Tom Waits in documentary on homelessness 'Ultima Fermata'

Italian tv channel RAI3 is showing Ultima Fermata (Last Stop) on Thursday evening (11.10 pm), a documentary by Angelo Loy, Martino Mazzonis and Luigi Montebello about homeless people in the US. According to RAI3, Tom Waits “returns to play exclusively” for this program in the Il Fattore Umano series. “With the poems taken from Seeds on hard ground, the musician acts as a counterpoint to the landscape of faces and situations recounted in the documentary.”

Some more movie news

The Utah Film Commission announced the Utah Board of Tourism Development approval of five new productions for state film incentives, one of which is Wild horse nine, by writer/director Martin McDonagh (who you might know from The Banshees of Inisherin, Three billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri or In Bruges). The movie starts John Malkovich, Sam Rockwell, Parker Posey, Mark Ruffalo, and  ... Tom Waits. 

According to World of Reel, production is set begin in March and the locations will not only include Utah, but also Easter Island. No plot details have surfaced just yet.

Some belated movie news

 I missed this one: Tom Waits appeared in the movie Absence of Eden, directed by Marco Perego, which was released in the US last year. 

And another movie starring Tom Waits, Father, Mother, Sister, Brother (with a cast that includes Cate Blanchett, Adam Driver and Charlotte Rampling), is set to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May, director Jim Jarmusch told France Inter a couple of months ago.

Get behind the mule spiritual on vinyl

Anti is releasing a 7" vinyl version of the 'spritiual' version of Get behind the mule to celebrate Record Store Day on April 12.

Tom Waits and Iggy Pop on BBC

Last year, Waits co-hosted an Iggy Confidential episode, echoing their famous appearance in Jim Jarmusch’s Coffee and Cigarettes. The 2-hour program will re-air on Sunday, Dec 29 @ 4pm (GMT) on @bbcsounds
Available online for 30 days via the BBC Sounds app https://t.co/gGN24qGDgV pic.twitter.com/A2uS05li6M

— Tom Waits (ANTI-) (@tomwaits) December 29, 2024

Happy birthday Tom Waits

 On December 7, 1949, Thomas Alan Waits was born to Jesse Frank Waits and Alma Johnson McMurray.

The Heart of Saturday Night 50th anniversary vinyl

To mark the 50th anniversary of The Heart of Saturday Night, ANTI- is reissuing the album on two limited edition colors: 'slightly gold' (limited to 800 copies) and 'raspberry beret (limited to 3,700 copies). 

These releases will be out on December 6th, but are available for pre-order now.