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7. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
By IFC
on 06/25/2009
Stanley Kubrick was taken by the work of a young avant garde animator named Pablo Ferro, and had him edit this winning trailer for “Dr. Strangelove.” Ferro’s frenzied quick-cutting weaves glimpses of the film and audio bits with copious amounts of text (all accompanied by what sound like mallet hits to a xylophone) into a stroboscopic barrage of Cold War tension and hilarity, mein Führer. The pacing is insane and brilliant, if a tad too revealing, but only in retrospect. Strangely, images of a young Kubrick flash hypnotically in the beginning when the title screen of the director’s name comes up -- they're nearly impossible to notice on first viewing, and certainly wouldn't have been identifiable in a time before YouTube. Later, a still frame of Kubrick studiously drawing upon a cigar appears. It remains for five seconds, precisely in the middle of the piece. Kubrick apparently liked the trailer so much he kept Ferro on to design the opening titles to the film, which are all hand-drawn. --Brandon Kim
I guess you guys haven't seen the trailer for The Hughes Bros.'s Dead Presidents, huh? What about Forest Gump? I think those are the 2 greatest of all time. Gump is better than the movie. And Dead Prez is the best ever.
Oh... what about the SW Ep 1 teaser? Maybe you should call this the best film trailers on YouTube! LOL. Dead Prez is probably too hard for you to locate.
I think The Dark Knight, Iron Man, and 300 should be included!
Clerks? No love for the Clerks trailer? Sigh.
Honorable mention for the Grindhouse fake trailers? "Don't" was brilliant.
Great list, by the way. Thanks for including 'Man Who Wasn't There'
Seriously? We have to click 50 times just to get the damn list? No thanks.
Like clicking 50 times is soooo hard, right? But you guys forgot about There Will Be Blood!!
50 PAGES?!!! Get back to work researching how to post an article. No Digg for you.
50 PAGES?!!! Get back to work researching how to post an article. No Digg for you.
GREAT article and flawless pick for #1. I actually did a lil piece on that trailer at our own movie blog, so I'm elated to see as your top pick. Yay trailers!