Back-to-back trailers today. A few weeks back we got a look at Peter Weir’s “The Way Back” via the UK trailer. The poster hit recently. Today, Yahoo! Movies has the domestic trailer for the film, which has the proper energy, I think. Check it out by clicking the image below or watch an embed after the jump.
Fresh on the heels of a domestic one-sheet for the film, today we get a look at the domestic trailer for Sylvain Chomet’s “The Illusionist.” You get a nice listen to the score (which deserves an Oscar nod it will not likely get). Check it out via Apple by clicking the image below or watch an embed after the jump.
We waited all year for a US distributor to bite on William Monahan’s “London Boulevard,” but it never happened. FormDistrict was formed by the film’s producer, Graham King, last month and will be handling a release Stateside next year. Today a UK trailer hit as the film is opening there next month. It looks like a fun romp and boy does Ray Winstone seem like the perfect guy to rip through Monahan’s dialogue. Check out an embed after the jump.
I quite liked John Cameron Mitchell’s “Rabbit Hole,” a smooth adaptation of a stage work with quality performances. So I’m happy to see an understated trailer playing very much into what the film is as opposed to selling it as something it isn’t. Check it out via Apple by clicking the image below or watch an embed after the jump.
I was high on Nigel Cole’s “Made in Dagenham” just before the film bowed at Toronto last month. I still see Miranda Richardson and Sally Hawkins as formidable in their categories but I’ll be anxious to see if the film is as big a crowd-pleaser as I suspect it is. A new trailer hit yesterday via Apple. Check it out by clicking the image below or watch an embed after the jump.
I know the film has a lot of devotees on this site — I’m not wholly with them, though for the second year running, I do think Tilda Swinton merits a lot more Best Actress consideration than she’s getting — so you may be pleased to know that florid Italian melodrama “I Am Love” has at least (however indirectly) taken one bit of minor silverware.
I wasn’t aware that the inaugural Screen International UK Marketing & Distribution Awards took place two weeks ago, but so they did, with “I Am Love” (and marketing team AllCity) deservedly scooping Poster of the Year honors for the arresting hot-pink design featured to the right (and in full after the cut). As it happens, we singled out the film’s poster portfolio for praise earlier this year; nice to know we weren’t alone in our admiration. Hey, it’s something.
Among the posters it beat is another of my favorite 2010 one-sheets recently featured on these pages: the witty crow-and-bomb design for “Four Lions.” Chris Morris’s controversial (and, yes, funny) UK terrorism satire did, however, take the award for Trailer of the Year. You can check that out, too, after the cut.
I recently sang the praises of Glenn Ficcara and John Requa’s “I Love You Phillip Morris,” which is building up the publicity push as of late. We got a poster last week, and today, a red band trailer that, suffice it to say, is NSFW. Check it out after the jump.
Guy had his say on Alejandro González Iñárritu’s “Biutiful” at Cannes and I had some softer things to say out of Telluride. It’s possible that a very touching and controlled performance by Javier Bardem gets into the Best Actor line-up, and the film will represent Mexico in the foreign film race. But we’ll have to see how the Academy reacts. In the meantime, the official trailer has hit at Apple. Check it out by clicking the image below or watch an embed after the jump.
Last week we got our first look at the striking poster for Andrew Jarecki’s “All Good Things.” Today we’re treated to a VERY well-assembled trailer that should help get people to see the film. Unfortunately it’s all in service of a total misfire, but, well, I’ll save that for tomorrow’s Oscar Talk. Check out the trailer via Apple by clicking the image below or watch an embed after the jump.
• As robust box-office returns for “The Social Network” amplified its Oscar buzz, this week’s Off the Carpet column warned that the awards race is “a marathon, not a sprint.”
• Keeping the conversation on David Fincher, we counted down the greatest technical achievements in his filmmography…
• …and invited you to name your favorite Fincher film in our new poll.
• Oscar-watchers got a new title to play with this week, as it was revealed that Peter Weir’s “The Way Back” will qualify for the 2010 awards after all.
Well, speak of the devil. On the heels of the film’s unfortunate run-in with the MPAA ratings board, The Weinstein Company has unveiled the first trailer for “Blue Valentine,” and it should give you some idea of why critics have been talking up this film — and, particularly, its pair of searing lead performances — since it debuted at Sundance in January. I was impressed by the film in Cannes, and Kris also boarded the wagon earlier this week. Check out the trailer via Yahoo! Movies by clicking the image below, or watch the embed after the jump.
The big news earlier this week was the announcement of a one-week qualifying run for Peter Weir’s “The Way Back” (which will be discussed by Anne and I this morning in the podcast). I had my say on the film at Telluride, but today, via The Guardian, we’re treated to the first trailer for the film. It’s cut a bit intensely but you get a decent idea of the scope of the film. Check it out by clicking the image below or watch an embed after the jump.
Interesting. For some reason I wasn’t anticipating another trailer for Danny Boyle’s “127 Hours,” but I suppose that teaser we got a few months back was bound to be updated with something more robust. The new trailer landed today via Apple and is, I’d say, well structured, framed by one of the film’s more abstract moments with Best Actor contender James Franco. Check it out by clicking the image below or watch the embed after the jump.
Julie Taymor’s “The Tempest” has been getting knocked around ever since it hit the festival circuit last month. You’ll recall Guy was no fan at Venice (to put it lightly). But now a trailer for the film has hit, and indeed, while it looks like a crafts showcase, it has more than its share of red flags. Check it out for yourself via Apple by clicking the image below or watch the embed after the jump.
Last week we got our first look at the Coen brothers’ “True Grit” via a crafty teaser trailer with no shortage of visual flourish. Friday a teaser poster hit and over the weekend a fuller version of the trailer was attached to a number of new releases. Today, via Yahoo! Movies, we get an online look…and yes, it’s AWESOME (though structured more commercially than like a Coen film). We get a good look at Matt Damon’s performance here, which I hear is a highlight of the film. Have a look at the trailer by clicking the image below or watch an embed after the jump.
Well, they held out on us for long enough, but we have finally been afforded a glimpse of the year’s last major awards hopeful. It’s short, sweet and pleasingly oblique — but you only need watch the first few seconds to know we’re in for something a bit more substantial than the creaky 1969 oater that won John Wayne his gold-watch Oscar. At this teaser stage, they’re still keeping Jeff Bridges’s expectation-laden performance under wraps, showcasing newcomer Hailee Steinfeld instead — and she evidently has a lot to chew on. Meanwhile, whatever the fate of the film, it looks like we can write DP Roger Deakins’s umpteenth nom down in ink. Click on the image to check out the trailer via Apple, or watch the embed after the jump.
At this point, one of the films I’m most looking forward to is Alex Gibney’s “Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer.” In a year rife with Wall Street fiction and documentation on celluloid, this fits right in and, by all accounts, it’s a masterful piece of work. The film releases on demand and iTunes October 1, then hits theaters on November 5. Check out the trailer via Apple by clicking the image below or watch an embed after the jump.
Olivier Assayas’s five-and-a-half-hour Carlos the Jackal biopic was the film I most regretted missing it Cannes, where its gargantuan running time prevented any repeat screenings. Happily, I have a chance to catch up with it at next month’s London Film Festival, and am enormously looking forward to doing so. (It will have its US premiere next week at the New York fest.) IFC will be releasing the film on October 15 both in its full miniseries-format glory and in a 150-minute theatrical cut; word from those I trust at Cannes is that the film rewards the long haul. Click on the image below to check out the trailer via Apple, or watch the embed after the jump.
