Join us every week for a trip into the weird and wonderful world of trailers. Whether it’s the first teaser for the latest instalment in your favourite franchise, an obscure preview for a strange indie darling, whether it’s good, bad, ugly or just plain weird – your favourite pop culture baristas are there to tell you what they think.
What kind of trailer fits with a post about Euro coins? Well, if the face on the coin is that of Nikola Tesla, it’s not that difficult. Courtesy of the man who put Ethan Hawke in the aisles a Blockbuster and let him deliver the “To be or not to be” soliloquy, here’s…
Meanwhile, Matt wrote about his recent evening watching Man with a Movie Camera accompanied by the music of a Ukrainian duo.
And what else is there in Trailerland?
Mege: Since Hereditary worked so well with its miniature houses, why not try that with stop-motion? It cannot be all Wallace & Gromit, can it? There is something uncanny about miniatures coming to life – they can hide in very small spaces and dark corners, don‘t you think? Daylight savings is a misnomer because it won‘t save you.
Matt: It’s easy to underestimate Alain Delon, because of how uncannily handsome he is, and the films he’s in generally know this and bank on it. But Delon is more than a pretty face and he’s got more of a range than you’d expect from an actor with his looks. Looking at something like Jean-Pierre Melville’s iconic Le Samouraï, though, Delon has to be an enigmatic blank to a large extent – and he’s perfect at being just such a blank onto which the audience can project its own thoughts and desires. Where Michael Fassbender’s hitman in The Killer needs to narrate his life in order to make himself feel interesting, important and badass, Delon’s Jef Costello achieves lethal levels of nihilistic coolness without uttering a single word.
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