Wired profile of Darren Aronofsky and his new film, The Fountain, which will finally be coming out on November 22. The special effects in the film are non-CGI: “No matter how good CGI looks at first, it dates quickly. But 2001 really holds up. So I set the ridiculous goal of making a film that would reinvent space without using CGI.” Trailer is here.
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Trailer for Christopher Guest’s new mockumentary film, For Your Consideration. Yes, Parker Posey is present and accounted for. (via wdik)
Update: The movie’s MySpace page has a clip from the movie. (thx, sam)
Update: JJG noticed a certain theme that runs through Guest’s work.
The trailer for 49 Up, the latest in a series of documentary films in which the same group of people (from varying socio-economic backgrounds) are interviewed every seven years. The first movie, Seven Up!, was released in 1964 when the participants were seven years old. “The premise of the film was taken from the Jesuit motto ‘Give me a child until he is seven and I will give you the man.’”
A pair of preview clips from the forthcoming Simpsons movie. (via waxy)
Update: The clips have been removed from YouTube by Fox’s request. (thx, bob & jon)
Trailer for The Science of Sleep, directed by Michel Gondry. Michel Gondry? Michel Gondry. Michel Gondry. Michel Gondry.
Superman Returns trailer. Mmmmm.
I can’t tell if this is a joke on TBS’s part or not, but this is an actual promo of theirs for The Lord of the Rings movies done in the style of alternate trailers like The Shining and Brokeback to the Future. “It sucks to be Frodo.”
Update: Looks like they’re having a bit of fun over at TBS…check out their other promos.
Trailer for The Fountain, Darren Aronofsky’s (Pi, Requiem for a Dream) new film. Official site, interview with Aronofsky on the film, which was originally supposed to star Brad Pitt.
New trailer for Cars, a film by Pixar.
Trailer, X-Men 3. Why am I so excited for this?
New trailer for A Scanner Darkly, Richard Linklater’s adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s novel. (via rw)
In the spirit of the reimagined trailer for The Shining, here’s Brokeback Top Gun and Sleepless in Seattle.
Crap-looking trailer for Mel Gibson’s new film, Apocalypto. The Mel Gibson-ness of this clip is overwhelming.
Trailer for Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette, complete with indie rock soundtrack. Juxapositionally delicious!
Well, lookie lookie. If you take a peek at the bottom of the Apple movie trailers page, they’ve added a link to an RSS file of the newest movie trailers. O’ happy day. (thx John)
Update: Dave says: “I was hoping to see permalinks to a reviews page for the movie, and an enclosure containing the trailer itself.” Me too, but baby steps, I guess.
Trailer for Shopgirl, based on a book by Steve Martin and starring, tada, Steve Martin (and Claire Danes and Jason Schwartzman). “I can either hurt now or hurt later…”
On the art of the movie trailer. “There are few more cynical forms of art, or of advertising. Trailers are full of deception. Because what they want you to do is to see the movie they want you to see, not the movie that it is.”
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