trailers

  • The trailer for Watchmen, the film adaptation of Alan Moore's graphic novel masterpiece. The look is pitch-perfect, though I have some concerns about Zack Snyder's (300) directorial style. Expectations are generally high. (19) #
    7/17/2008
  • Trailer for Religulous, Bill Maher's upcoming documentary about religion. If you watch his HBO show, you know that he views all religions, from Scientology to Catholicism, with the same amount of skepticism and contempt. Much of the trailer takes the easy route and focuses on fringe extremists -- it'll be interesting to see if he aims higher in the film. (58) #
    6/9/2008
  • The trailer for Burn After Reading, the Coen Brothers' next film. (iTunes required, I think.) Great cast, but it could turn out to be another one of those forgettable Coen comedies. (See, e.g., The Ladykillers and Intolerable Cruelty.) (6) #
    5/29/2008
  • Trailer for Visioneers, starring comedian Zach Galifianakis. Among other things, it seems to be about spontaneous combustion and dreams about George Washington. (via fimoculous) (12) #
    5/12/2008
  • Trailer for Glass: a Portrait of Philip In 12 Parts, a documentary about the famous contemporary composer (who is often mislabeled as "minimalist"). I first heard the name Philip Glass when he was mocked in a South Park episode in 1997. Soon afterwards, I saw Martin Scorsese's Kundun and bought its excellent soundtrack. This led to his Errol Morris scores, Koyaanisqatsi, his Bowie/Eno symphonies, and much of the rest of his back catalog. I'm a fan. (3) #
    4/20/2008
  • The trailer for The Fall is one of the most promising (and beautiful) trailers I've seen in awhile. I have reservations because it's directed by Tarsem -- who helmed the pretty but dead-inside serial killer thriller The Cell -- but the vast change of subject matter and positive early raves I've seen make me optimistic. (5) #
    4/10/2008
  • The trailer for Grass Roots, a documentary about the Nevada marijuana legalization campaign for which I ran the Internet operations in 2006. The film's distribution plans are still unknown to me. Can you spot crazymonk? I have two appearances in the trailer, and probably only a few lines in the film. (9) #
    12/21/2007
  • The trailer for Speed Racer, the Wachowskis's directorial follow-up to The Matrix trilogy. As kottke says, the courses are reminiscent of Mario Kart on GameCube, but the style also reminds me of Luc Besson's The Fifth Element. (24) #
    12/7/2007
  • Teaser trailer for Youth Without Youth, the first Francis Ford Coppola directed film in ten years. It's based on a novella by Mircea Eliade, which one blurb describes as "like a surreal collaboration by Jorge Luis Borges, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., and Carl Jung." (6) #
    10/4/2007
  • Xtreme Mormons. The funny thing is that if you toned down the parodic tone and dialogue, it could probably be fairly successful as LDS cinema. (0) #
    8/2/2007
  • And continuing in the trailer department, here's the one for 49 Up, the seventh installment of the British "Up" series by Michael Apted, who has released a documentary every seven years following the lives of the same group of people. I haven't seen any of them, but Ebert has called the collective series one of the greatest films of all time. (5) #
    8/31/2006
  • Trailer for Old Joy, a movie ostensibly about two friends who go hiking, starring Will Oldham AKA Bonnie "Prince" Billy, and with a soundtrack by Yo La Tengo. Intriguing, but not to be confused with Gerry or Old Boy. (5) #
    8/22/2006
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