When Woody Allen tried to tackle tabloid culture in Celebrity, he spectacularly fell on his face. But as many film scholars have pointed out, Woody Allen is not the bassist from Interpol. Clearly, that was the problem.This April, Interpol bassist Carlos Dengler (aka Carlos D) will attempt to excel where Woody Allen failed. My Friends Told Me About You, Dengler's filmmaking debut, will premiere at New York's Anonymous Gallery on April 17, and it'll run until May 5. This is the movie we were talking about here, but it turns out it's not a horror movie at all. According to a press release, the 26-minute short film "targets the idea of celebrity as affliction." Trenchant! The trailer, featured on this website, does not feature Melanie Griffith talking about her boobs, so that's something.Two years ago, we reported that Dengler had launched a website in an attempt to find film-scoring work. But his involvement in My Friends Told Me About You goes way beyond scoring. (You can hear excerpts from his My Friends score on his website.) Dengler co-wrote the film alongside its director, Chicago-based filmmaker Daniel Ryan. Dengler also serves as star and co-producer. And he wrote the score along with clarinetist Ian Mitchell. The other producer is Todd Eckert, who also co-produced Anton Corbijn's Ian Curtis biopic Control. Yes, seven years after Turn on the Bright Lights, it's still impossible to write anything about Interpol without mentioning Joy Division.My Friends Told Me About You will also be included the Spring 2009 issue of Wholpin, the DVD magazine from the McSweeney's people.The press release includes this gigantic pretentious thing that Dengler wrote about the nature of celebrity, and we've included the whole thing after the jump, just in case you really do not value your time.read more