Trailer for Errol Morris’ Standard Operating Procedure. (via crazymonk)
Trailer for Errol Morris’ Standard Operating Procedure. (via crazymonk)
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New trailer for Speed Racer…watch it
New trailer for Speed Racer…watch it in full HD glory if your internet connection can take it. The courses remind me even more of Mario Kart than in the first trailer.
Trailer for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom
Trailer for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull redone in the style of a circa-1980s movie trailer.
If adventure has a name, it must be: Indiana Jones.
Interview with Michel Gondry on his new
Interview with Michel Gondry on his new movie, Be Kind Rewind.
I hate cynicism. I wipe it from me. I don’t like cynical people. I don’t like cynical movies. Cynicism is very easy. You don’t have to justify it. You don’t have to fight for it.
Gondry also did a hilarious remake of the film’s original trailer.
Update: Maybe Gondry got the premise for the movie from an old Nickelodeon show called Amanda, Please! Or not.
The first trailer for Indiana Jones and
The first trailer for Indiana Jones and the Unfortunately Titled Movie Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is available…in HD even.
New extended trailer for Pixar’s Wall-E that
New extended trailer for Pixar’s Wall-E that reveals a bit more of the story and a new character.
Update: The trailer is offline. Awaiting the official release.
Movie trailer for Untraceable, which features a
Movie trailer for Untraceable, which features a serial killer who live-broadcasts his murders online so that his victims are killed faster as more people visit the site. From the looks of it, the movie features every single bad computer-related movie cliche all in one neat package. Either that or it’s a clever metaphor for what the web is doing to our culture. (via fimoculous)
Pixar has released a new trailer for
Pixar has released a new trailer for Wall-E (HD version available). I want this movie and a robot now please.
Two Movies, Linked by Subject Matter
Two more movies on my horizon, both about outsiders in the music business:
- The trailer for Young @ Heart that nearly brought me to tears last night can’t yet be found online, and the clip available at Channel4, where the film originally aired in the UK is a bit dry. Instead, you’ll find info on the film and two great clips at The Documentary Blog, including a heart-wrenching performance of the Young @ Heart chorus of elderly people (average age 80) performing Coldplay, part of a repertoire including The Clash, The Ramones, and Sonic Youth.
- Great World of Sound is an Altmanesque comedy about two normal southern guys who get caught up in a record industry talent scout scheme. The trailer at Apple looks promising.
Now that the trippy stills have whetted
Now that the trippy stills have whetted your appetite, feast your eyes on the trailer for Speed Racer, in freaking HD no less. The race courses remind me of those in Mario Kart: Double Dash, particularly Rainbow Road, Dry Dry Desert, and especially Wario Colosseum. (thx, askedrelic)
Trailer for There Will Be Blood, the
Trailer for There Will Be Blood, the highly anticipated film from PT Anderson starring Daniel Day-Lewis.
Second trailer for the could-be-amazing I’m Not
Second trailer for the could-be-amazing I’m Not There, a movie about Bob Dylan, starring Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Cate Blanchett, and three other actors as Bob Dylan. Not very related: would any of Christian Bale’s characters be any good in bed?
Set thy TiVos: 49 Up, the latest in
Set thy TiVos: 49 Up, the latest in a series of documentary films in which the same group of people are interviewed every seven years, is on PBS tonight.
It’s a cruel trick to confront people with the cold reality of the past. Despite that, some enjoy being in the film and claim it as a thing to treasure; others take part under sufferance, persuaded that the films are unique and we should finish what we started. I thank them all for their generosity and courage in making these films possible.
Watch the trailer. (thx, mark)
I missed the trailer for Be Kind
I missed the trailer for Be Kind Rewind, Michel Gondry’s upcoming film starring Mos Def and Jack Black, when it came out back in August…perhaps you did too? The gist of the film: two video store clerks find all the tapes in the store are blank and set out to refilm all of the movies themselves.
Wall-E update
Wall-E is Pixar’s next movie, to be released in June 2008. A new teaser trailer is due to be released today at 8pm ET, although a French site has jumped the gun and is displaying it now (much better HD version). Does it make sense even if you don’t speak French? Yes, because the movie isn’t going to have any dialogue. Says director Andrew Stanton: “I’m basically making R2-D2: The Movie”. At least it’s not in Aramaic. And talkies are overrated anyway, right?
Pixar has also launched a promotional web site for the film. The site was formerly just a placeholder but is now faux-corporate brochureware for Buy n Large, maker of the Wall-E robot. The site is full of ridiculous corporate-speak like “by visiting the Buy n Large web site you instantaneously relinquish all claims against the Buy n Large corporation and any of its vendors or strategic partners.” Check out the Nanc-E under Robotics/Robot Models for a chuckle. (thx, david)
Update: The English trailer is now available at Yahoo in HD (480p, 720p and 1080p).
Trailer for No Country For Old Men,
Trailer for No Country For Old Men, a film by the Coen Brothers based on a book by Cormac McCarthy.
Trailer for In the Shadow of the
Trailer for In the Shadow of the Moon, a documentary that “brings together for the first, and possibly the last, time surviving crew members from every single Apollo mission that flew to the Moon along with visually stunning archival material re-mastered from the original NASA film footage”. BOY HOWDY! Here’s a review of the film from Ad/Astra, the magazine of the National Space Society.
Trailer for There Will Be Blood, the
Trailer for There Will Be Blood, the first movie from PT Anderson in I don’t know how long. The flick stars Daniel Day-Lewis and is adapted from Upton Sinclair’s novel Oil! (via crazymonk)
A teaser trailer for Wall-E, Pixar’s newest
A teaser trailer for Wall-E, Pixar’s newest movie, due out in summer 2008. That sounds like a heck of a lunch. (thx, scott)
Newish trailer for Transformers (the “exclusive trailer”
Newish trailer for Transformers (the “exclusive trailer” at the top of the list). This movie may actually kick ass. Or, as with every other Bay movie I’ve seen, the reaction will probably be, “that movie really could have kicked ass if it wasn’t so stupid.” I also have a theory that the robots in the film are too much toward the realistic end of Scott McCloud’s iconic abstraction scale to be effective, but that post is for another time.
The international trailer for Harry Potter and
The international trailer for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. I am officially as hooked on Harry as everyone else.
Update: And here’s the US trailer…slightly different footage.
Here’s the first full (and I believe,
Here’s the first full (and I believe, leaked) trailer for Ratatouille, Pixar’s newest film. It’s in English with Chinese subtitles.
Trailer for Grindhouse, a film consisting of
Trailer for Grindhouse, a film consisting of two separate movies, one by Robert Rodriguez and the other by Quentin Tarantino.
Teaser trailer for Oceans 13. Looks like #13 is Andy Garcia.
Teaser trailer for Oceans 13. Looks like #13 is Andy Garcia.
The original trailers for Star Wars and
The original trailers for Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back. Oh, and here’s a Return of the Jedi trailer.
Trailer for Office Space reimagined as a thriller. (via cyn-c)
Trailer for Office Space reimagined as a thriller. (via cyn-c)
Wired profile of Darren Aronofsky and his
Wired profile of Darren Aronofsky and his new film, The Fountain, which will finally be coming out on November 22. The special effects in the film are non-CGI: “No matter how good CGI looks at first, it dates quickly. But 2001 really holds up. So I set the ridiculous goal of making a film that would reinvent space without using CGI.” Trailer is here.
Trailer for Christopher Guest’s new mockumentary film,
Trailer for Christopher Guest’s new mockumentary film, For Your Consideration. Yes, Parker Posey is present and accounted for. (via wdik)
Update: The movie’s MySpace page has a clip from the movie. (thx, sam)
Update: JJG noticed a certain theme that runs through Guest’s work.
The trailer for 49 Up, the latest in
The trailer for 49 Up, the latest in a series of documentary films in which the same group of people (from varying socio-economic backgrounds) are interviewed every seven years. The first movie, Seven Up!, was released in 1964 when the participants were seven years old. “The premise of the film was taken from the Jesuit motto ‘Give me a child until he is seven and I will give you the man.’”
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