trailer sunday – Page 13 – A Damn Fine Cup of Culture

I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: Lights! Cameras! Tricksters!

Aug 6, 2023The 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.

This week saw the first instalment in a new series – after his trip through Ingmar Bergman’s oeuvre, Matt has begun watching Criterion’s Federico Fellini box set, starting with Variety Lights. Sadly, there’s no trailer for the film on YouTube… but here’s the next best thing: the entire movie. Enjoy!

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: It takes two

Jul 30, 2023The Barista CollectiveLeave a comment

Ridley Scott’s career has been uneven, and arguably he made most of his best films in the first decade or two of working as a director – but it still comes as a surprise that he’s only just made his first appearance in the Criterion Collection, with Thelma & Louise. Matt revisited the film and was not only bowled over by how good it looks in 4K, but also surprised by how well it holds up thirty years later. Though the original trailer definitely misrepresents this one to a large degree.

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: War (What is it good for?)

Jul 23, 2023The Barista CollectiveLeave a comment

This week began at A Damn Fine Cup with a guest post, courtesy of Henrik Hermans, on the filmography of the Man in Black himself: Johnny Cash. Make sure to check out Henke’s thoughts on films such as A Gunfight, Murder in Coweta County (featuring Andy “Griffith” Matlock in a rare villainous part) and the wonderfully named Ridin’ the Rails – The Great American Train Story!

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: You don’t want to sit in that chair

Jul 17, 2023The Barista CollectiveLeave a comment

During World War II, Jean-Pierre Melville was a member of the Résistance, and his experiences left their mark on his films – not least his grim masterpiece Army of Shadows, which Matt revisited in his latest Criterion Corner.

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: On the road again

Jul 9, 2023The Barista CollectiveLeave a comment

Matt likes exploration in video games, and that’s something that Sable offers plenty of. Check out his post on the world and feel of Sable.

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: The silent treatment

Jun 25, 2023Jun 25, 2023The Barista CollectiveLeave a comment

Jean-Pierre Melville is mainly known for making films that could be described stylish gangster existentialism. Le silence de la mer however is very different from Le samouraï or The Red Circle – but no less compelling, provided you can get into its much more internalised drama about a different kind of resistance from what we’re used to at the movies, as Matt argued in his post.

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: “Confess, Communist!” Said the Sexy Priest

Jun 18, 2023The Barista CollectiveLeave a comment

A priest, a Communist and a (former) member of the Résistance walk into a confessional: while Matt’s currently enjoying a series of films by Jean-Pierre Melville, he especially enjoyed that Léon Morin, Priest was something of an odd one out, seeing how it focuses on a female protagonist.

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: Going places

Jun 11, 2023The Barista CollectiveLeave a comment

Everybody’s talkin’ about our post on Midnight Cowboy– okay, not really, but still, if you missed it, go and check our the lastest Criterion Corner, about John Schlesinger’s late ’60s classic.

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I’ll be in my trailer… watching trailers: If you Press a Word long and hard enough…

Jun 4, 2023The Barista CollectiveLeave a comment

Most kids get a kick out of watching films that they are supposedly not old enough for – and sometimes it’s those films that shape our tastes for life. For this week’s Six Damn Fine Degrees, Sam wrote about how he got to see both Once Upon a Time in the West and The Name of the Rose at an impressionable age… and what an impression they both left on him!