New Werner Herzog film on the death penalty
It’s called Into the Abyss and it opens today. Trailer is here:
There’s an interview with Herzog about the film on the Tribeca Film Festival site and Ebert gave it four stars.
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Charles and Ray Eames documentary
Eames: The Architect and the Painter, a documentary on the husband and wife design duo, will be out in theaters in mid-November.
The husband-and-wife team of Charles and Ray Eames are widely regarded as America’s most important designers. Perhaps best remembered for their mid-century plywood and fiberglass furniture, the Eames Office also created a mind-bending variety of other products, from splints for wounded military during World War II, to photography, interiors, multi-media exhibits, graphics, games, films and toys. But their personal lives and influence on significant events in American life — from the development of modernism, to the rise of the computer age — has been less widely understood. Narrated by James Franco, Eames: The Architect and the Painter is the first film dedicated to these creative geniuses and their work.
The DVD is already available for pre-order on Amazon. (via @aaroncoleman0)
The Secret World of Arrietty
The Secret World of Arrietty, the latest film from Studio Ghibli (Ponyo, Princess Mononoke, Howl’s Moving Castle), came out in Japan last year and will be in US theaters in February 2012. Here’s the English trailer:
The screenplay was adapted from Mary Norton’s The Borrowers. (thx, david)
Kids movie from Martin Scorsese?
Apparently so. It’s called Hugo:
I was going to make a joke about how this is Scorsese’s first movie without Leonardo DiCaprio in like 20 years, but it’s actually his first DiCaprio-free film in 12 years. (via stellar)
Being Elmo trailer
Being Elmo is a documentary about the puppeteer who performs Sesame Street’s Elmo. It looks fantastic.
(via unlikely words)
In Time trailer
Here’s a four-minute teaser trailer for In Time, a sci-fi action thriller directed by Andrew Niccol (Gattaca) and starring Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried.
In the late 21st century, time has replaced money as the unit of currency. At 25 years old, aging stops and each person is given one more year to live. Unless you replenish your clock, you die.
Nice to see someone taking the attention economy literally. (thx, david)
El Bulli documentary
A documentary about El Bulli offers “a rare inside look at some of the world’s most innovative and exciting cooking”.
(thx, aaron)
Planes, a “sequel” to Pixar’s Cars
Pixar’s not involved — DisneyToon Studios is making it — but a direct-to-video Cars spin-off that features airplanes will go direct-to-video in spring 2013.
This movie is mostly a commercial for the inevitable billion-dollar toy/theme park tie-ins, but in general I am in favor of any kids movie that features White Zombie in the trailer. (via devour)
ps #1: This is probably going to get yanked from YT pretty quick. Sorry.
ps #2: My 3-yo son calls the main character in Cars “Lightening the Queen”. That would be an interesting movie.
Trailer for Tabloid, Errol Morris’ new film
It’s a documentary about Joyce McKinney and the so-called Mormon sex in chains case.
Here it is on Apple Trailers in case the YouTube one gets yanked.
Trailer for Fincher’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Larsson? Fincher? Reznor? Rooney Mara’s brief NSFW nipple flash? What’s not to like?
I was skeptical about this (and The Social Network) but lesson learned: never doubt David Fincher.
Tintin trailer
Produced by Peter Jackson and directed by Steven Spielberg, it looks like an all-CGI adventure. I got sort of a Polar Express vibe from the trailer though, which is not encouraging.
(via ★fchimero)
Full trailer for Hangover 2
Who knows if this is even going to be any good…I’m just posting this to annoy David again.
1950s version of The Empire Strikes Back
Ivan Guerrero remakes recent-ish movie trailers using footage from old movies…for instance, imagine if The Empire Strikes Back came out in 1950:
Guerrero has done several others, including Ghostbusters (1954), Up (1965), and Raiders of the Lost Ark (1951). (via @themexican)
Strongman
Here’s the trailer for Strongman, a documentary about the “The Strongest Man in the World at Bending Steel and Metal”:
The film will be playing in NYC at the IFC Center for one week starting on Jan 26th.
Cedar Rapids, the movie
Hey everyone I went to college with, they made a movie about the town we went to college in! I don’t remember it being this much fun.
This is Cedar Rapids’ biggest movie break since Titanic!
A movie about Linotype
Here’s a teaser trailer:
From the film’s website:
Linotype: The Film is a feature-length documentary film centered around the Linotype typecasting machine invented by Ottmar Mergenthaler. Called the “Eighth Wonder of the World” by Thomas Edison, the Linotype revolutionized printing and society, but very few people know about the inventor or his fascinating machine.
The Linotype completely transformed the communication of information similarly to how the internet is now changing it all again. Although these machines were revolutionary, technology began to supersede the Linotype and they were scrapped and melted-down by the thousands. Today, very few machines are still in existence.
(via df)
True Grit by the Coen brothers
Coming this Christmas from the Coen brothers, a remake of the John Wayne classic, True Grit. Here’s the trailer:
(via devour)
Black Swan trailer
The first trailer for Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan is out. Natalie Portman plays an out-of-control ballerina.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: first full trailer
Also available here if the YT trailer gets yanked.
Somewhere
Somewhere is an upcoming film from Sofia Coppola; here’s the trailer.
Writer/director Sofia Coppola reunites with the film company with which she made the Academy Award-winning hit “Lost in Translation.” Her new film is an intimate story set in contemporary Los Angeles; Johnny Marco (Stephen Dorff) is a bad-boy actor stumbling through a life of excess at the Chateau Marmont Hotel in Hollywood. With an unexpected visit from his 11-year-old daughter (Elle Fanning), Johnny is forced to look at the questions we must all confront.
As one of the few people who enjoyed Marie Antoinette, I’m of course looking forward to this. (via df)
Seizure-inducing opening credit sequence
You aren’t going to believe the opening credit sequence for Gaspar Noe’s Enter the Void (make sure you can hear the sound too):
Really well done but there’s a 95% chance you’ll hate this. Ok, more like 98%. Reminds me of the still-brilliant trailer for A Clockwork Orange…but what a difference the music makes. (thx, jim)
Babies trailer
Babies is a documentary that follows the lives of four newborn babies for the first year of life…in Namibia, Mongolia, Japan, and San Francisco. (via clusterflock)
Trailer for the A-Team movie
If you must watch. I’m not supposed to giggle when Liam Neeson says “I love it when a plan comes together” in a sorta-American sorta-Irish accent, right?
Robin Hood trailer
Robin Hood with Russell Crowe and Cate Blanchett, directed by Ridley Scott? I’ll take five.
A Single Man trailer
The trailer for Tom Ford’s directorial debut, A Single Man, is gorgeous. No talking, just a simple ticking clock and images.
Reminds me of the trailer for A Clockwork Orange, only slower. Movie looks great too. (via fimoculous)
Update: Here’s the first version of the trailer, before it was de-gayed. (thx, brian)
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