Friday, May 10, 2013

This Week In Trailers: Somm, Adjust Your Tracking, The Great Beauty (La Grande Bellezza), The Past (Le passé), The Stroller Strategy

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 try and pair everything with a nice chablis, take a walk in Rome, remember VHS' heydays, hit up the French for some comedy, and then get serious about a father who leaves his kids only to come back and find another rooster in the hen house.

La Grande Bellezza Trailer

Take a moment and just relax.

Paolo Sorrentino's trailer about a writer who is

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