trailer sunday – Page 10 – A Damn Fine Cup of Culture

I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: I call the xenomorph ‘Bitey’!

Mar 24, 2024Mar 24, 2024The Barista CollectiveLeave a comment

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.

Remember that time when most of us were excited for Game of Thrones? When we’d look at the new cast members for the upcoming season and get even more excited? Sam’s interest in Game of Thrones began and, sadly, peaked with him bumping Jonathan Pryce in Dubrovnik, where he (Pryce, that is, not Sam) was filming for season 5 for what was at one point the hottest series on TV. Check out Sam’s Six Damn Fine Degrees for more on this encounter!

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: See Venice and die. Or kill.

Mar 17, 2024The Barista CollectiveLeave a comment

Getting into a series, a franchise, a fictional world: it requires time – and, yes, even energy. And sometimes it’s better to decide early on that it’s not worth it, as Mege writes in this week’s Six Damn Fine Degrees. Though sometimes, just sometimes, we have the choice between a long series of book and a series of film’s that isn’t quite as long.

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: Everyone getting their Oscars on?

Mar 10, 2024MattLeave a comment

This week, we saw Matt learning to forgive David Morse for something a character played by David Morse did. To be fair, he did say it was an irrational dislike.

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: Requin killer, qu’est-ce que c’est?

Mar 3, 2024MattLeave a comment

How do we handle knowing rather unsavoury things about the actors and filmmakers whose work we like? This week, Alan wrote about his approach, focusing on Charles Coburn, that most avuncular of bigoted racists, best remembered perhaps for his role in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: These dead are made for walkin’

Feb 25, 2024MattLeave a comment

Over the last few weeks, our Six Damn Fine Degrees took us from Herzog to Kinski – but we may not have ended up with the Kinski you’d expect, in Sam’s most recent post!

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: Directing movies is a complicated profession

Feb 18, 2024The Barista CollectiveLeave a comment

There should be a fictional documentary about a society of film fans that consider mockumentaries entirely true, and that have constructed an elaborate conspiracy theory around how subjects too dangerous are defused by turning them into mockumentaries. You can’t handle the truth about Spinal Tap, or Kiwi filmmaker Colin McKenzie, or the Mayflower Kennel Club Show. But in the meantime we have mockumentary greats such as “Soldier of Illusion” and “The Goof Who Sat By the Door”.

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: With fiends like these

Feb 11, 2024The Barista CollectiveLeave a comment

Once you’re caught in the Herzog Maelstrom, it’s very difficult to get away from it – just ask Julie, who dedicated this week’s Six Damn Fine Degrees to one of the most famous pairs of frenemies in cinema.

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: Pop quiz, hotshot

Feb 4, 2024The Barista CollectiveLeave a comment

This week’s Six Damn Fine Degrees took a well-deserved break from its recent Werner Herzog fixation in order to reminisce about the Swiss chapter of A Damn Fine Cup’s film quiz successes over the years. (And we were so close with the title of the tenth Fast & Furious film, we just got the wrong one of the two available adjectives…)

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: When you absolutely, positively need to drag a boat across a mountain

Jan 28, 2024Jan 28, 2024The Barista CollectiveLeave a comment

What better way to start the end-of-the-week post than with that most loveable of odd couples, Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski? Definitely the guys you want to have with you if you need to build an opera house in the Amazon. Make sure not to miss Alan’s Six Damn Fine Degrees post on Fitzcarraldo!