Indieville : Trailering

Where the wild things are trailered.

IFC.com - Indie Eye — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:23:54 GMT

Finally, we get a glimpse of Spike Jonze's long-awaited kiddie (?) flick....(read more)

Trailering: Heartbreaking memorials, Irish dramas, more superheroes.

IFC.com - Indie Eye — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:00:01 GMT

Here's a trailer for "Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father," Kurt Kuenne's documentary that begins as a memorial to his murdered best friend and goes to even more distressing places from there. The film, which has had a very successful festival fun since its premiere at Slamdance, opens in New York on Halloween and L.A. the week after. Here's a trailer for "Eden," "from the producers of 'Once'," or maybe just its executive producer, according...(read more)

Trailering: Three "Nights."

IFC.com - Indie Eye — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:34:47 GMT

There are three different teaser trailers, or maybe they'd be better described as anti-trailers, for Joe Swanberg's "Nights and Weekends" up on the official site here -- like the film, they're without music, based instead around single conversations ("You kiss harder... than I recall") cut through with other footage. Here's my review from the SXSW premiere; it opens October 10th. For a trailer that's very much A Trailer, see this one for "The Soloist,"...(read more)

Trailering: Sean Penn as St. Harvey Milk.

IFC.com - Indie Eye — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:16:36 GMT

When the International Museum of GLBT History opened in San Francisco in 2003, its inaugural exhibit was entitled "Saint Harvey: The Life and Afterlife of a Modern Gay Martyr," and included, as its central relic, the bloodstained suit in which Harvey Milk was assassinated in 1978. There's an identical air of a commemoration of martyrdom in the trailer for Gus Van Sant's "Milk" (I mean, the music) which you can find here. The film's being looked at as Van Sant's...(read more)

Trailering: NYC, Chinatown, the RAF and Auschwitz.

IFC.com - Indie Eye — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:05:24 GMT

Here's the teaser for "New York, I Love You," Gotham's answer to the 2006 anthology film "Paris, Je T'aime." It's still unfinished, but the trailer -- which includes both a Regina Spektor song and one from Feist, surely breaking some kind of indie waif proximity rule -- does contain an irritating abundance of characters generalizing about the city. "This is the capital of everything possible," declares one, not realizing that any true portrait of New...(read more)

Trailering: Bootleg "Che," "What Just Happened."

IFC.com - Indie Eye — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:25:03 GMT

For those of you dying for even the slightest glimpse of Steven Soderbergh's "Che," JoBlo.com has surfaced a bootleg, flickery, unsubtitled Spanish-language trailer for "The Argentine," the first half of the four-hour film, here. The trailer, as trailers are wont to, siphons off only the most dramatic and actiony scenes, making the film look far more romantically revolutionary than it actually plays out. As Gregg Goldstein at the Hollywood Reporter wrote today, the $65 million...(read more)

Trailering: "W."'s wonderful world.

IFC.com - Indie Eye — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:57:01 GMT

Dailymotion has a teaser trailer for Oliver Stone's "W." here. I... have no words. Other than that I find myself suddenly and unexpectedly looking forward to the film -- October 17th is the release date. From everything I've heard about "Sukiyaki Western Django," designating it "Takashi Miike's English language masterpiece," per its new trailer, is a bit of an overstatement. There's no doubt that the film is directed by the prolific Miike, and it is,...(read more)

Trailering: "Somers Town," "The Brothers Bloom."

IFC.com - Indie Eye — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:35:05 GMT

There's a trailer up for Shane Meadows' sublimely small-scale "Somers Town" here. Here's my review of the film from Tribeca -- for my money, it's even better than Meadows' last, "This is England," taking up again with that film's lead and great discovery, Thomas Turgoose. No U.S. distribution in sight, alas. And here's a trailer to "The Brothers Bloom," Rian Johnson's follow-up to "Brick," with Adrien Brody and Mark Ruffalo as...(read more)

Trailering: "Thunder" goes meta.

IFC.com - Indie Eye — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:28:27 GMT

Meta-marketing: "Rain of Madness" is a purported documentary about the disastrous making of the movie they try to shoot in the upcoming comedy "Tropic Thunder"... got that? It's a perfectly po-faced parody of "Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse" and its behind-the-scenes brethren, claiming to document the cast and crew as they "attempted to make the most expensive war movie ever attempted... to make." There's a trailer here on iTunes,...(read more)

Trailering: Benjamin Button, Neil Young.

IFC.com - Indie Eye — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:43:01 GMT

I don't think the otherwise gloriously shiny teaser trailer for David Fincher's "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" needs such twinkly Tim Burton music, and Brad Pitt's accented voiceover at the beginning worries me a bit, but it does look awfully good. The film is an adaptation of a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald (that can be read online) about a man who's born elderly and who ages backward, a conceit that's lodged itself in the plenty of noggins — most recently...(read more)