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.
Our Six Damn Fine Degrees feature has taken us to so many places – and some of these have been Peter Sellers-adjacent. The closest we’ve come was with Alan’s look at the Pink Panther franchise. This week, though, Sam dedicated his Six Degrees instalment to Sellers and his marriage to Britt Ekland, a story that’s a far cry from Seller’s often funny films.
Meanwhile, we continued with our Lost Summer, this year’s podcast series, with a rather tricky topic: the ‘poison cabinet’ that’s filled with the propaganda films of Nazi Germany. In our episode, we discussed the two films Grossstadtmelodie and Opfergang – but obviously we’re not overly keen to link to trailers of the films, or to the films themselves, so instead here’s a trailer for Rüdiger Suchsland’s documentary Hitler’s Hollywood, which examines German cinema from 1933 to 1945.
And what else do we have waiting for you in our trailer post?
Matt: I didn’t go and see Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis at the cinema – though perhaps I should have: cinema needs more crazy experiments, even when they fail, and after all, it was Coppola putting his own money into his own dream. Compared to the billions that have gone into continuing mega-franchises for decades, and the damage these have done to cinema due to their sheer gravity, why shouldn’t he get to play with his own toys? But, honestly, perhaps I’m more interested in this Mike Figgis-directed documentary about Megalopolis. There’s something to be said for a good documentary about the intersection of film and folly.
Matt: Is it just me, or does this look like it takes all of its best ideas from Albert Brooks’ Defending Your Life, and the rest is basically generic romance? I’ve liked the actors in this in other things, but the trailer makes Eternity look trite – and when your film about romance and the afterlife is trite, you should reconsider your artistic choices.
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