Trailering
Where the wild things are trailered.
By Alison Willmore on 03/25/2009
Filed under: Trailering
A trailer for Spike Jonze's long-in-coming adaptation of Maurice Sendak's picture book "Where the Wild Things Are" had it's debut on, of all places, "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" today and is now online here. Update: Taken down, for whatever reason. An embedded version, with a preceding ad, is below, and here it is on Apple in glorious HD. "Where the Wild Things Are" is already a notorious production -- after a tiff with Universal, the original studio attached to the film in 2000, Jonze moved to Warner Bros, who were then rumored to have been unhappy with the tone and... MORE »
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Trailering: Heartbreaking memorials, Irish dramas, more superheroes.
By Alison Willmore on 10/20/2008
Filed under: TraileringHere's a trailer for "Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father," Kurt Kuenne's documentary that begins as a memorial to his murdered best friend and goes to even more distressing places from there. The film, which has had a very successful festival fun since its premiere at Slamdance, opens in New York on Halloween and L.A. the week after. Here's a trailer for "Eden," "from the producers of 'Once'," or maybe just its executive producer, according to IMDb. An adaptation of Eugene O'Brien's play about a suburban Irish couple facing marital problems on their tenth anniversary, the... MORE »
Trailering: Three "Nights."
By Alison Willmore on 09/11/2008
Filed under: TraileringThere are three different teaser trailers, or maybe they'd be better described as anti-trailers, for Joe Swanberg's "Nights and Weekends" up on the official site here -- like the film, they're without music, based instead around single conversations ("You kiss harder... than I recall") cut through with other footage. Here's my review from the SXSW premiere; it opens October 10th. For a trailer that's very much A Trailer, see this one for "The Soloist," director Joe Wright's first excursion into the present day after "Pride & Prejudice" and "Atonement," and extremely Oscar-baitey in a totally different way. Robert Downey Jr.... MORE »
Trailering: Sean Penn as St. Harvey Milk.
By Alison Willmore on 09/04/2008
Filed under: TraileringWhen the International Museum of GLBT History opened in San Francisco in 2003, its inaugural exhibit was entitled "Saint Harvey: The Life and Afterlife of a Modern Gay Martyr," and included, as its central relic, the bloodstained suit in which Harvey Milk was assassinated in 1978. There's an identical air of a commemoration of martyrdom in the trailer for Gus Van Sant's "Milk" (I mean, the music) which you can find here. The film's being looked at as Van Sant's return to straightforward narrative from the realms of "Paranoid Park" and his "death trilogy," but like the films that make... MORE »
Trailering: NYC, Chinatown, the RAF and Auschwitz.
By Alison Willmore on 08/25/2008
Filed under: TraileringHere's the teaser for "New York, I Love You," Gotham's answer to the 2006 anthology film "Paris, Je T'aime." It's still unfinished, but the trailer -- which includes both a Regina Spektor song and one from Feist, surely breaking some kind of indie waif proximity rule -- does contain an irritating abundance of characters generalizing about the city. "This is the capital of everything possible," declares one, not realizing that any true portrait of New York would involve far fewer frou-frou proclamations like that and more dollars and cents discussion of real estate. Fatih Akin, Yvan Attal, Shunji Iwai, Scarlett... MORE »
Trailering: Bootleg "Che," "What Just Happened."
By Alison Willmore on 07/31/2008
Filed under: TraileringFor those of you dying for even the slightest glimpse of Steven Soderbergh's "Che," JoBlo.com has surfaced a bootleg, flickery, unsubtitled Spanish-language trailer for "The Argentine," the first half of the four-hour film, here. The trailer, as trailers are wont to, siphons off only the most dramatic and actiony scenes, making the film look far more romantically revolutionary than it actually plays out. As Gregg Goldstein at the Hollywood Reporter wrote today, the $65 million film remains without a US distributor: Soderbergh wants to release the two-part, four-hour-plus film as one movie in limited December openings. He'd then like to... MORE »
Trailering: "W."'s wonderful world.
By Alison Willmore on 07/28/2008
Filed under: TraileringDailymotion YouTube has a teaser trailer for Oliver Stone's "W." here. I... have no words. Other than that I find myself suddenly and unexpectedly looking forward to the film -- October 17th is the release date. From everything I've heard about "Sukiyaki Western Django," designating it "Takashi Miike's English language masterpiece," per its new trailer, is a bit of an overstatement. There's no doubt that the film is directed by the prolific Miike, and it is, sort of, in English, though the mainly Japanese cast speaks it phonetically in ways that will likely require subtitles for the sake of comprehension.... MORE »
Trailering: "Somers Town," "The Brothers Bloom."
By Alison Willmore on 07/24/2008
Filed under: TraileringThere's a trailer up for Shane Meadows' sublimely small-scale "Somers Town" here. Here's my review of the film from Tribeca -- for my money, it's even better than Meadows' last, "This is England," taking up again with that film's lead and great discovery, Thomas Turgoose. No U.S. distribution in sight, alas. And here's a trailer to "The Brothers Bloom," Rian Johnson's follow-up to "Brick," with Adrien Brody and Mark Ruffalo as a pair of con men, Rachel Weisz as their mark and "Babel"'s Rinko Kikuchi as a... demolitions expert named Bang Bang. It's awfully Wacky, but I'm reserving judgment --... MORE »
Trailering: "Thunder" goes meta.
By Alison Willmore on 07/09/2008
Filed under: TraileringMeta-marketing: "Rain of Madness" is a purported documentary about the disastrous making of the movie they try to shoot in the upcoming comedy "Tropic Thunder"... got that? It's a perfectly po-faced parody of "Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse" and its behind-the-scenes brethren, claiming to document the cast and crew as they "attempted to make the most expensive war movie ever attempted... to make." There's a trailer here on iTunes, which notes the film's presence at the non-existent Pennsylvania Dutch Film Festival and Bangkok Adolescent Film Festival, and an official site complete with a statement from "German born filmmaker Jan... MORE »
Trailering: Benjamin Button, Neil Young.
By Alison Willmore on 06/19/2008
Filed under: TraileringI don't think the otherwise gloriously shiny teaser trailer for David Fincher's "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" needs such twinkly Tim Burton music, and Brad Pitt's accented voiceover at the beginning worries me a bit, but it does look awfully good. The film is an adaptation of a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald (that can be read online) about a man who's born elderly and who ages backward, a conceit that's lodged itself in the plenty of noggins — most recently, Andrew Sean Greer's novel "The Confessions of Max Tivoli," the title story of Gabriel Brownstein's collection "The... MORE »
Trailering: Johnnie To, "Death Race" and Mr. Lee.
By Alison Willmore on 06/16/2008
Filed under: TraileringNew on the trailer circuit: Johnnie To's been a busy man — after premiering "Mad Detective," a thriller about a brilliant but insane investigator trying to track down a missing cop that To co-directed with Wai Ka-Fai, he opened supernatural romance "Linger" in Asia and then brought "Sparrow," his lighthearted tale of Hong Kong pickpockets, to Berlin. At the moment, "Mad Detective" is the only one with a U.S. release date (July 18th) in its future, though both it and "Sparrow" are also going to screen at the New York Asian Film Festival. Here's the trailer for "Mad Detective." Here's... MORE »
Trailering: Falco, Philip Roth, Bill Maher.
By Alison Willmore on 06/09/2008
Filed under: TraileringEs war um 1780, und es war in Wien: I understand not a word of it, but I'm totally entranced by this trailer for Thomas Roth's Falco biopic "Falco - Verdammt, wir leben noch!". And really, what is there to understand? It's a musical biopic: humble beginnings, "Rock Me Amadeus," rise to fame, wild Austrian debauchery, untimely death by bus. Actually, I would like to know how Grace Jones fits into it all, as she's somehow in the trailer too. The film just opened in Germany, having hit Austrian theaters a few months ago, with, of course, no U.S. distribution... MORE »
Trailering: Gibney's "Gonzo," giallo gore, "God's Puzzle."
By Alison Willmore on 06/02/2008
Filed under: TraileringForgive the week-long silence, I was catching up on a non-bloggish backlog, post-festival. Here's a gander at what's new, trailerwise: "Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson" is the third theatrical release in four years from prolific documentarian Alex Gibney, whose last film, "Taxi to the Dark Side," won the Best Documentary Feature Oscar. "Gonzo," which opens July 4th, looks at, yes, the life and work of the inventor of gonzo journalism, a topic that's probably a bit more audience friendly than "Taxi"'s investigation of Geneva Conventions violations. The trailer's here. The trailer for Dario Argento's new... MORE »
Trailering: Space Nazis and car alarm vigilantes.
By Alison Willmore on 05/07/2008
Filed under: TraileringYes! Nazis on the moon. Here's a trailer for "Iron Sky," a film that doesn't actually exist yet. It's the new project of the Finnish group responsible for "Star Wreck," which, according to their site, is "the most popular Internet feature film of all time, as well as the most popular Finnish film ever. Over 8 million people have downloaded Star Wreck since its free Internet release in 2005." It's an interestingly unusual way to attempt to make a movie — "Iron Sky"s's producers will be at Cannes looking for funding, and are also selling "war bonds." According to them:... MORE »
Trailering: Babylon A.D., The Edge of Heaven, Towelhead.
By Alison Willmore on 05/01/2008
Filed under: TraileringA few new trailers out on the web: Here's a wordless teaser trailer for "Babylon A.D.," introduced in French by actor/director Mathieu Kassovitz, the man behind both the high highs of "La Haine" and the loooow lows of "Gothika." Delayed, over budget and pushed back from a February release date to the less desirable one of August 29th, the film at least promises to be odd, with Vin Diesel playing a mercenary named Thoorop (hee!) escorting a woman carrying the Messiah through the near dystopic future. Michelle Yeoh, Gérard Depardieu and Charlotte Rampling are also part of the cast. Fatih... MORE »
Trailering: The wackness of being an American teen.
By Alison Willmore on 04/15/2008
Filed under: TraileringNew on the trailer front: I remember emerging from the Sundance press screening of Jonathan Levine's "The Wackness" feeling like I had just come off a three-day bender. It's messy and silly and either awesome or terrible, and it has, as long promised, a scene in which Ben Kingsley and Mary-Kate Olsen make out — see the trailer here. It's set to open July 3. And another from Sundance — "American Teen" is the documentary chronicle of a year in the life of four Indiana high school seniors from Nanette Burstein, who last directed "The Kid Stays in the Picture."... MORE »
Trailering: Sassy!
By Alison Willmore on 03/28/2008
Filed under: TraileringHere's a trailer for "My Sassy Girl," Yann Samuell's remake of the beloved Korean romantic comedy of the same name about a nutty, mildly sadistic girl and the guy who falls for her. Elisha Cuthbert and Jesse Bradford play the pair in this version, which doesn't look terrible — Samuell's well-suited for this film, having previously made the nutty, mildly sadistic French romantic comedy (which might be a bit of a misnomer) "Love Me If You Dare" with Marion Cotillard. Before he took over this project, Gurinder Chadha (of "Bend It Like Beckham") had been originally attached to direct. No... MORE »
Trailering: Errol Morris' beautiful documentation of ugliness.
By Alison Willmore on 03/24/2008
Filed under: TraileringErrol Morris' "Standard Operating Procedure" examines the Abu Ghraib scandal via the now-iconic photographs that kicked it off, pairing actual images and video of the abuse with interviews with the soldiers and reenacted scenes. It is, as you can see from the trailer here, also a strikingly stylish doc, a fact that troubled critics at Berlin, where "S.O.P." had it's premiere. Stephanie Zacharek at Salon wrote: A soldier describes appearing on the scene as one of the Abu Ghraib prisoners is dying. The soldier says a drop of blood fell on his uniform — and I'll be damned if Morris... MORE »
Trailering: No last name necessary...?
By Alison Willmore on 02/28/2008
Filed under: TraileringIf you cast your mind back to the dusty days of fall 2006, you may remember hearing about Tarsem (né Tarsem Dhandwar Singh) and his second feature film "The Fall," the established music video and commercial director's apparent passion. Tarsem directed things like the video for R.E.M.'s "Losing My Religion" before going on to helm his first feature, "The Cell," but, despite the similarity in career path, never seems to get grouped in with the cool kids of the Directors Series DVDs, possibly because he he lacks any sense of irony and restraint and also insists on going by just... MORE »
Trailering: Mamet does martial arts
By Alison Willmore on 02/26/2008
Filed under: TraileringA glance through some of the the worthy trailers du jour: Here's one for "Redbelt," David Mamet's martial art film. Sure, there's more to it than that, but what else could you need? Chiwetel Ejiofor is an L.A. jujitsu teacher; Emily Mortimer, Tim Allen (!), Ricky Jay, Randy Couture and the inevitable Rebecca Pidgeon all co-star. The film's due out May 2nd. Here's one for "Love Songs," Christophe Honoré's loony, lovely omnisexual Parisian musical. The film was one of the few I caught at Cannes last year — I loved it, most everyone else I saw it with was just... MORE »
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