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.
Does anyone still watch the Disney films of the ’60s and ’70s? Not the animated ones, many of which are considered classics, but the likes of Flubber, or That Darn Cat!, or The Moon-Spinners, which Julie wrote about in this week’s Six Damn Fine Degrees.
Since it’s difficult to find trailers for this film, though, here’s something… better? At least it’s something interesting: the introduction that film critic Leonard Maltin did for Turner Classic Movies.
Meanwhile, for our May podcast, Alan and Sam talked about swan songs: the last films of two of Hollywood’s most treasured directors, Family Plot by Alfred Hitchcock and Buddy Buddy by Billy Wilder. Spoiler: while neither of these films would be considered among the directors’ best, they didn’t find both of these equally satisfying.
And what else does this week’s trailer post have in store for us?
Mege: I really don‘t know if Run Lola Run has aged well, but at the time, it was all style and exuberant kinetic energy. I liked it – it was something like a lesser Trainspotting with its frantic running, and it launched the careers of Tom Tykwer and Franka Potente. It‘s highly inventive, and it was the gateway drug to Tywker and Potente‘s best work, The Warrior and the Princess.
Matt: I want this to be good – or rather, I want it to be better than all those CGI-plus-real-actors remakes of animated Disney classics. Not so much because of the material: I like The Lion King, but I never much felt like I needed a prequel and/or sequel. Mostly it’s that I hope a director of Barry Jenkins’ calibre gets to make films he’s interested in. To be honest, though, the trailer doesn’t exactly fill me with hope. If Mufasa is a more mercenary job on Jenkins’ list of movies, I hope it at least makes him enough money so he can do the kind of work he wishes to make.
A Damn Fine Cup of Culture 