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Trailer Roundup



Posted on December 20, 2007
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I’ve said it before, and I shall say it again: Apple Trailers is pretty much the love of my life. A boatload of trailers were just added, inspiring me to present the following collection of sweet trailers. There are so many wonderful looking movies being released, it is difficult to not post every single one of them, but for the reader’s sake, I’ll keep it reasonable.

Of the ones below, let me just say that In Bruges is bound to be hilarious, Teeth is ridiculous, Youth Without Youth will no doubt reaffirm Coppola’s power as a director, Persepolis is thankfully animated, The Band’s Visit might be this year’s “#1 Movie That I Regret Not Seeing” on account of it oh-so-assuredly not being released anywhere near me, and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly looks to be as gorgeous visually as it is uplifting emotionally.

In Bruges – Bruges (pronounced “broozh”), the most well-preserved medieval city in the whole of Belgium, is a welcoming destination for travellers from all over the world. But for hit men Ray (Colin Farrell) and Ken (Brendan Gleeson), it could be their final destination; a difficult job has resulted in the pair being ordered right before Christmas by their London boss Harry (two-time Academy Award nominee Ralph Fiennes) to go and cool their heels in the storybook Flemish city for a couple of weeks. Very much out of place amidst the gothic architecture, canals, and cobbled streets, the two hit men fill their days living the lives of tourists.

Teeth – TEETH tells the story of High school student Dawn (Jess Weixler) works hard at suppressing her budding sexuality by being the local chastity group’s most active participant. Her task is made even more difficult by her bad boy stepbrother Brad’s (John Hensley) increasingly provocative behavior at home. A stranger to her own body, innocent Dawn discovers she has a toothed vagina when she becomes the object of violence. As she struggles to comprehend her anatomical uniqueness, Dawn experiences both the pitfalls and the power of being a living example of the vagina dentata myth.

Youth Without Youth – Francis Ford Coppola’s Youth Without Youth stars Tim Roth as Dominic Matei, and aging professor of linguistics who survives a cataclysmic event to find his youth miraculously restored. Dominic’s physical rejuvenation is matched by a highly evolved intellect, which attracts the attention of Nazi scientists, forcing him into exile.

Persepolis – Based on the comic by Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis is the poignant story of a young girl in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. It is through the eyes of precocious and outspoken nine year old Marjane that we see a people’s hopes dashed as fundamentalists take power – forcing the veil on women and imprisoning thousands. Clever and fearless, she outsmarts the “social guardians” and discovers punk, ABBA and Iron Maiden.

The Band’s Visit – Once, not long ago, a small Egyptian Police band arrived in Israel. They came to play at an initiation ceremony but, due to bureaucracy, bad luck, or for whatever reason, they were left stranded at the airport. They tried to manage on their own, only to find themselves in a desolate, almost forgotten, small Israeli town, somewhere in the heart of the desert. A lost band in a lost town.

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly – THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY is the remarkable true story of Jean-Dominique Bauby (Mathieu Amalric), a successful and charismatic editor-in-chief of French Elle, who believes he is living his life to its absolute fullest when a sudden stroke leaves him in a life-altered state. While the physical challenges of Bauby’s fate leave him with little hope for the future, he begins to discover how his life’s passions, his rich memories and his newfound imagination can help him achieve a life without boundaries.

And so on and so on and so on.

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