This
Week In
Trailers: Tim’s Vermeer, Moving the
Sun, Free The
Nipple, 24 Exposures
Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? This Week we *talk about boobs, get lurid with our*Instamatic, give some **rtherners a taste of sunshine, and set out to explain the ways of Vermeer with Teller.
Moving the Sun Trailer
Did you hear about this?
An amazing feat of both modern science and “Well, duh, of course you could have light if you shine a big mirror on their tiny hamlet.” Documentarian
Bobby Goulding has the right balance here of giving us everything we need to k**w about what would make someone interested in k**wing more about
This project while teasing out the effects of what
This mirror is helping to make happen. It’s short,
it’s even shorter on the begging for money to reach his goal of five-thousand pounds, but it’s got
This vibe about how something like
This will fundamentally change the way people live because of it. Whether it’s a short subject or something else, it’s a story worth listening to and k**wing more about.
Free The Nipple Trailer (NSFW)
As the father of three girls, I approve
This message.
What filmmaker
Lina Esco is setting out to talk about seems fundamentally interesting on the surface, if **t, pardon the pun, titillating. As a patriarchal culture that is obsessed with boob worship,
This is the kind of topic that is ripe for deeper exploration about the ways in which double standards dominate our collective lives when it comes to men and women’s expressions of their bodies. The trailer is amazingly bold and in-your-face about the double standards when it comes to being topless in public. To be sure, we are, culturally, **t equipped to handle the legions of women who would choose to bare their chest. The choice of using a kids choir version of The Beach Boys’ “Good Vibrations” is a nice touch when it’s juxtaposed by topless women donning capes and pink ski masks. It’s threatening and embodies the spirit of people who have a grievance about the policies and laws in
This country.
God bless America.
24 Exposures Trailer
Joe Swanberg’s latest is pretty scintillating.
The angle that
This is a story of a guy who takes fetish pictures certainly shows that Swanberg has a good range. Romantic comedies be damned!
This is a guy who doesn’t mind exploring some rather dark areas. What stands out most about
This trailer isn’t so much that it’s showing the evolution of a burgeoning and thoughtful filmmaking but it’s the hard knuckled twists and turns of setting up the story that’s a hoot to watch unfurl. There’s a high concept idea embedded in this, I understand that, but how it presents itself, the way in which it teases you with its ***uality, makes for an experience that gets you interested and keeps you engaged.
Tim’s Vermeer Trailer
There is flat out ** other documentary I wanted to be able and see
This year than
This one.
Teller, who has never been as much in the spotlight as his brother-in-arms,
Penn Jillette, makes an incredible splash into our collective awareness with something that looks like it will speak to our very postulations of what art means and is. What’s so wonderful about
This trailer is how genuine our subject, Tim, is about
This whole project. He’s obsessed but he’s got
This analytic mind that is churning over processes and mechanics and trying to replicate things that will help him get to a larger understanding of **t only the famed painter Vermeer but of himself as well. Whether he’s out to prove a point or **t there’s an earnestness that exudes out of Tim and the trailer nearly begs us to put aside any stuffy preconceptions about art while just going along for
This ride which has been years in the making. Could **t be more straight forward with what it’s about, what’s going to happen here, and what we should expect. Honesty is definitely the best policy here.
**ta bene: If you have any suggestions of trailers to possibly be included in This column, even have a trailer of your own to pitch, please let me k**w by sending me a **te at Christopher_Stipp@yahoo.com or look me up via Twitter at @Stipp
In case you missed them, here are the other trailers we covered at /Film
This week:
- Kiki’s Delivery Service Trailer*- Since I’m **t a 9 year-old girl, This trailer doesn’t appeal to me much.
- Amazing Spider-Man 2 International Trailer – Language aside, This looks like a convulted broth of confusion.
- The Legend of Hercules Trailer*– Terrible.
- A Fantastic Fear of Everything Trailer*- A little bit bizarre, a whole lot of interesting.
- White Bird in a Blizzard Trailer – Creepy, atmospheric, and quite tantalizing.
- Interstellar Trailer*- **thing short of confusing but in a really good way.
- 22 Jump Street Red BandTrailer – I laughed.
- Rob the Mob Trailer – Looks good e**ugh for a rental.
- Cheap Thrills Trailer*- This is one of those trailers that demand you see it immediately. I’m entranced by its sick, depraved, high concept world.
- Welcome to Yesterday Trailer – Does everything it needs to in order to establish what it’s about and generate interest. Unfortunately, I’m just **t that interested.
- Grand Pia** Trailer – Absolutely Hitchcock-ian.
- The Double Trailer – Wild, and weird e**ugh that I’m hellbent on seeing it as soon as it comes out.
- Blended Trailer – Can’t anyone stop This madness?
- Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Trailer – Amazing looking set design and the effects already project a sense of power and aggression.
- Art of the Steal Trailer – **pe.
- Neighbors Trailer – Still very interested and retains the insanity of the red band.
- Journey to the West Trailer*- Massively confused. Is This a goofy comedy, action flick, or a kids film? **t sure.
- The Grand Budapest Hotel Trailer*- These kinds of trailers just tickle a part of my brain that eats This stuff up.
- The Other Woman Trailer*- My wife will love this. Doesn’t appeal to me one iota but, hey, that’s the point.
- Police Story 2013 Trailer*- This really does look rentable.
- Transcendence*Trailer*- ** clue what to think based on This vague teaser.
- Ride Along Trailer #2*- Feels like the appeal of This would sputter after the first 1/2 hour.
This Week In Trailers: TimMs Vermeer< Moving the Sun< Free The Nipple< 24 Exposures