Yes! 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:

[Director Timo] Vuorensola expects to gather an active, vibrant and collaborative community of 10,000 people around the project. While the final product will be Hollywood quality, the model has more in common with social networking and Internet movements such as Creative Commons and Open Source.

Elsewhere: Here's a trailer for "Noise," a comedy with Tim Robbins as a car alarm vigilante who calls himself "The Rectifier." The film, which opens this Friday, is written and directed by Henry Bean, last of the Ryan Gosling anti-Semite Jew drama "The Believer," which won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in 2001.

There's a trailer here for Chris Bell's steroid doc "Bigger, Stronger, Faster*", which comes out May 30th and which I liked quite a bit. Here's my review from Sundance, and here's a video interview with Bell at Tribeca.

Finally, here's a trailer for Julian Jarrold's adaptation of "Brideshead Revisited," which looks so very glossy, so very crisp, so very Emma Thompsoned. It's due out July 25.

[Photo: "Iron Sky," Energia Productions, 2008]

+ In 1945 The Nazis Went To The Moon ... The IRON SKY Promo Arrives! (Twitch)
+ Noise - Trailer (Reelz Channel)
+ Bigger, Stronger, Faster Movie Trailer - Trailer (IGN)
+ Trailer: Brideshead Revisited (Apple)

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A 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 Akin's last narrative film, "Head On," was one of my favorites from 2005, a smash and grab romance in the Turkish-German community. His new film, "The Edge of Heaven" expands on similar themes of rootlessness — it's bigger, more ambitious and maybe a little less vital for it, but still well worth watching. Here's the trailer; the film opens May 21st.

Here's a trailer for Alan Ball's directorial debut, "Towelhead," a film that's inarguably provocative (cheers, pedophilia storyline!), though its justifications have been debated by critics since its premiere at Toronto last year — Variety described it as "gutsy to no particular end." It's set to open on August 8th.

And hey, it's summer — here's a trailer for "The Incredible Hulk." You wouldn't like Edward Norton when he's angry — he'll abstain from doing press. Due out June 13th.

[Photo: "Babylon A.D., Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, 2007]

+ Trailer: "Babylon A.D." (Allocine)
+ Trailer: "The Edge of Heaven" (YouTube)
+ Trailer: "Towelhead" (WarnerBros.com)
+ Trailer: "The Incredible Hulk" (Apple)

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Tags: Alan Ball, Babylon A.D., Edward Norton, Fatih Akin, Mathieu Kassovitz. The Incredible Hulk, The Edge of Heaven, Towelhead

New 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." The reoccurring descriptor in reviews has been "slick" — Burstein's been open about her influences when shaping the film, which, if they aren't clear from the description, might be from the poster. I haven't seen "American Teen" yet, but did talk with the subjects at Sundance — they continually referred to the "characters" they played, and then corrected themselves, which seems more indicative of how familiar we as a nation have become with the format of the press junket interview than telling about the film itself. The trailer is here; it's also lined up for a summer release — July 25.

[Photo: "American Teen, Paramount Vantage, 2008]

+ Trailer: "The Wackness" (MTV)
+ Trailer: "American Teen" (Yahoo)

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Here'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 release date yet.

And here's a trailer for "The Tracey Fragments," featuring Ellen Page reprising her preternaturally world-weary teenager thing for darker, non-linear purposes. This film was actually made before "Juno," and had its premiere at last year's Berlin Film Festival, where it pleased some and completely irritated others. It opens May 9th.

[Photo: "My Sassy Girl," Gold Circle Films, 2008]

+ Trailer: "My Sassy Girl" (YouTube)
+ Trailer: "The Tracey Fragments" (Apple)

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Errol 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 doesn't show us a beautifully lit, semitranslucent droplet of blood, magnified a bajillion times, falling in slo-mo on a crosshatching of uniform cloth. (When you're Errol Morris, this is what you keep a great cinematographer — in this case, Robert Richardson — around for.) What on earth is that heavily art-directed droplet (and the movie includes plenty of other similar visual touches) doing in a documentary about such a horrific crime against humanity?

The film opens April 25th.

There's a trailer here for "Train" — the film, which features Thora Birch and company as college athletes being stalked and violently killed on a train to Odessa, looks a lot like "Hostel 3: Eurail Pass," but was actually first conceived as a remake of '80s Jamie Lee Curtis slasher "Terror Train." No release date yet.

And, for anyone who shares my love of foreign language blockbusters never aimed at American consumption, there's a trailer here for the upcoming "Aleksandr." It's in Russian without subtitles, but you can still enjoy the lush and pricey-looking epic visuals. The film is, best I can tell, another one based on the life of 13th century Russian military hero Alexander Nevsky, whose exploits were the basis of Sergei M. Eisenstein and Dmitri Vasilyev's 1938 film scored by Prokofiev.

[Photo: "Standard Operating Procedure," Sony Pictures Classics, 2008]

+ Trailer: Standard Operating Procedure (Apple)
+ Trailer: Train (Terrorfeed)
+ Russia Gets Historical With ALEKSANDR (Twitch)

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Tags: Aleksandr, Errol Morris, Standard Operating Procedure, Train

If 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 his first name.

"The Fall" had its premiere at Toronto and prompted debates along the lines of "Is Tarsem's 'The Fall' a masterpiece or a disaster?" Two years and a struggle later, it's finally getting a theatrical release from Roadside Attractions, "presented by" über cool kids David Fincher and Spike Jonze. You can see the trailer, which looks like "The Holy Mountain" crossed with "Pan's Labyrinth," but, like, way sillier, here. Hits theaters April 18th.

On to another man who prefers to go without his last name: there's a trailer for Bruce David Klein's doc "Meat Loaf: In Search of Paradise" here. The film opens March 12 in New York.

"Dark Matter," the winner of the Alfred P. Sloan Prize at last year's Sundance, is trailered here. The films stars Liu Ye as a brilliant Chinese physics student whose chances at a Nobel Prize are dashed by university politics. It opens April 11th.

There's a trailer for the threequel you never knew you wanted, "Starship Troopers 3: Marauder," up on YouTube here. It's slated to go direct to DVD, as was its predecessor "Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation," and looks to have the production value of your average Sci Fi Channel attack-of-the-killer-sloth flick, but hey, Casper Van Dien returns as Johnny Rico. Street date seems to be July 15.

[Photo: Lee Pace in Tarsem's "The Fall," Roadside Attractions, 2008]

+ Trailer: "The Fall" (IGN)
+ Trailer: "Meat Loaf: In Search of Paradise" (Yahoo!)
+ Trailer: "Dark Matter" (ComingSoon)
+ Trailer: "Starship Troopers 3: Marauder" (YouTube)

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Tags: Casper Van Dien, Dark Matter, Meat Loaf, Starship Troopers, Tarsem, The Fall

A 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 mystified. Due out March 19th.

Here's a semi-trailer for "Shine a Light," Martin Scorsese's Rolling Stones concert doc that came out of its premiere at Berlin with solid reviews — no critic was arguing that Scorsese had brought anything groundbreaking to the genre with the film, but most thought it was solidly entertaining. The film is headed to SXSW before opening in theaters April 4th.

And here's a lengthy, disquieting trailer from "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed," i.e. the Ben Stein creationist/intelligent design defense doc. If, as all aspects of the trailer and the rest of the movie's marketing indicate, Stein's hoping to position himself as a right-wing answer to Michael Moore, he's going to have to overcome the seemingly insurmountable obstacle of a generation's immediate association of his familiar drone (he narrates) with "Bueller... Bueller..." "Expelled" hits theaters April 18.

+ Trailer: "Red Belt" (Sony Classics)
+ Trailer: "Love Songs" (Apple)
+ EXCLUSIVE FILM CLIP FROM SHINE A LIGHT (Myspace)
+ Trailer: "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed" (Official site)

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Tags: Ben Stein, Christophe Honoré, David Mamet, Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, Love Songs, Martin Scorsese, Redbelt, Shine a Light