Tintin trailer
Produced by Peter Jackson and directed by Steven Spielberg, it looks like an all-CGI adventure. I got sort of a Polar Express vibe from the trailer though, which is not encouraging.
(via ★fchimero)
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Full trailer for Hangover 2
Who knows if this is even going to be any good…I’m just posting this to annoy David again.
1950s version of The Empire Strikes Back
Ivan Guerrero remakes recent-ish movie trailers using footage from old movies…for instance, imagine if The Empire Strikes Back came out in 1950:
Guerrero has done several others, including Ghostbusters (1954), Up (1965), and Raiders of the Lost Ark (1951). (via @themexican)
Strongman
Here’s the trailer for Strongman, a documentary about the “The Strongest Man in the World at Bending Steel and Metal”:
The film will be playing in NYC at the IFC Center for one week starting on Jan 26th.
Cedar Rapids, the movie
Hey everyone I went to college with, they made a movie about the town we went to college in! I don’t remember it being this much fun.
This is Cedar Rapids’ biggest movie break since Titanic!
A movie about Linotype
Here’s a teaser trailer:
From the film’s website:
Linotype: The Film is a feature-length documentary film centered around the Linotype typecasting machine invented by Ottmar Mergenthaler. Called the “Eighth Wonder of the World” by Thomas Edison, the Linotype revolutionized printing and society, but very few people know about the inventor or his fascinating machine.
The Linotype completely transformed the communication of information similarly to how the internet is now changing it all again. Although these machines were revolutionary, technology began to supersede the Linotype and they were scrapped and melted-down by the thousands. Today, very few machines are still in existence.
(via df)
True Grit by the Coen brothers
Coming this Christmas from the Coen brothers, a remake of the John Wayne classic, True Grit. Here’s the trailer:
(via devour)
Black Swan trailer
The first trailer for Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan is out. Natalie Portman plays an out-of-control ballerina.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: first full trailer
Also available here if the YT trailer gets yanked.
Somewhere
Somewhere is an upcoming film from Sofia Coppola; here’s the trailer.
Writer/director Sofia Coppola reunites with the film company with which she made the Academy Award-winning hit “Lost in Translation.” Her new film is an intimate story set in contemporary Los Angeles; Johnny Marco (Stephen Dorff) is a bad-boy actor stumbling through a life of excess at the Chateau Marmont Hotel in Hollywood. With an unexpected visit from his 11-year-old daughter (Elle Fanning), Johnny is forced to look at the questions we must all confront.
As one of the few people who enjoyed Marie Antoinette, I’m of course looking forward to this. (via df)
Seizure-inducing opening credit sequence
You aren’t going to believe the opening credit sequence for Gaspar Noe’s Enter the Void (make sure you can hear the sound too):
Really well done but there’s a 95% chance you’ll hate this. Ok, more like 98%. Reminds me of the still-brilliant trailer for A Clockwork Orange…but what a difference the music makes. (thx, jim)
Babies trailer
Babies is a documentary that follows the lives of four newborn babies for the first year of life…in Namibia, Mongolia, Japan, and San Francisco. (via clusterflock)
Trailer for the A-Team movie
If you must watch. I’m not supposed to giggle when Liam Neeson says “I love it when a plan comes together” in a sorta-American sorta-Irish accent, right?
Robin Hood trailer
Robin Hood with Russell Crowe and Cate Blanchett, directed by Ridley Scott? I’ll take five.
A Single Man trailer
The trailer for Tom Ford’s directorial debut, A Single Man, is gorgeous. No talking, just a simple ticking clock and images.
Reminds me of the trailer for A Clockwork Orange, only slower. Movie looks great too. (via fimoculous)
Update: Here’s the first version of the trailer, before it was de-gayed. (thx, brian)
The Men Who Stare At Goats trailer
All you really need to know about this movie is that it’s called The Men Who Stare at Goats.
P.S. Jeff Bridges.
P.P.S. George Clooney.
The Cove
The Cove has been getting great reviews: four stars from Ebert (who calls it “a certain Oscar nominee”) and a score of 82 on Metacritic. A quick synopsis from Wikipedia followed by the trailer:
The Cove is a 2009 documentary film documenting the annual killing of more than 2,500 dolphins in a cove at Taiji, Wakayama in Japan. The film was directed by former National Geographic photographer Louis Psihoyos, and was filmed secretly during 2007 using underwater microphones and high-definition cameras disguised as rocks.
The Wild Things
Dave Eggers has written a young adult novel called The Wild Things that is based loosely on Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are and the screenplay he co-wrote with Spike Jonze for the movie version. The New Yorker published an excerpt of the book this week.
Max left the room and found Gary lying on the couch in his work clothes, his frog eyes closed, his chin entirely receded into his neck. Max gritted his teeth and let out a low, simmering growl.
Gary opened his eyes and rubbed them.
“Uh, hey, Max. I’m baggin’ a few after-work Z’s. How goes it?”
Max looked at the floor. This was one of Gary’s typical questions: Another day, huh? How goes it? No play for the playa, right? None of his questions had answers. Gary never seemed to say anything that meant anything at all.
“Cool suit,” Gary said. “Maybe I’ll get me one of those. What are you, like a rabbit or something?”
Eggers explains how the idea for the book came about in an associated interview.
But while I was working on the book, it was funny, because I started going in new directions, different from any of the screenplay versions, pushing it into some territory that was personal to me. So in a way the movie is more Spike’s version of Maurice’s book, and this novel is more my version.
Here’s the latest trailer for the movie.
To sum up: children’s book, movie, young adult book. Oh, and a movie soundtrack.
Extract, a new movie from Mike Judge
The trailer for Extract, the latest film from Mike Judge (Office Space, the underrated Idiocracy).
From ComingSoon:
In “Extract,” writer/director Mike Judge returns to the fertile territory of the American workplace, rotating his perspective away from the white collar cubicle warriors of “Office Space” and towards a blue collar boss — a small business owner — who employs an odd cast of losers, loners and misfits in his flavor extract factory.
The Lovely Bones trailer
The trailer for The Lovely Bones, directed by Peter Jackson and based on the 2002 book by Alice Sebold.
It is the story of a teenage girl who, after being brutally raped and murdered, watches from heaven as her family and friends go on with their lives, while she herself comes to terms with her own death.
Jackson personally purchased the film rights to the book and from the trailer, it seems like this is a return to his Heavenly Creatures days, with a bit of the LOTR fantasy and special effects sprinkled in. Looking forward to this one.
Fantastic Mr. Fox trailer
Wonder no more what an animated Wes Anderson movie might look like: the trailer for Fantastic Mr. Fox is out. Scroll a bit for the HD links. This looks *great*. (thx, dain)
Alice in Wonderland trailer
First trailer for the Tim Burton & Johnny Depp version of Alice in Wonderland.
Tron Legacy trailer
They’re making a new Tron movie. And it looks like it might not suck! (via @dburka)
Update: The Tron Legacy trailer and Michael Jackson’s Beat It match up pretty well, don’t they?
Inglourious Basterds trailer
Somehow this slipped past me recently: there’s a full trailer out for Inglourious Basterds, the new Tarantino flick starring Brad Pitt.
The September Issue trailer
The September Issue is the much-anticipated documentary that follows Anna Wintour and her staff at Vogue through the process of creating the magazine’s September issue, AKA the world’s thickest magazine issue.
An apt demonstration that an editor/curator’s main job is saying no to almost everything.
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