This Week In Trailers: Roger Waters The Wall, The Closer We Get, Miss You Already, Aaaaaaaah!,
By Christopher Stipp/July 19, 2015 8:00 am EST
I guess it’s a classic?
It’s curious that while one half of the directorial team is making their feature length bow, Sean Evans, the other half of this duo is none other than Roger Waters himself. This makes about as close as you can get vision of what one artist believes is their crowning artistic creation. There’s something very smooth about the way we move from concert to personal reflection/stream of consciousness/dramatic recreation that it all seems to fit. There’s an energy there that doesn’t seem like a documentary as much as it feels like it’s one long (albeit interesting) interpretation from Waters. Absent a big contribution of his own thoughts and meditations on what brought The Wall into existence, the fact that David Gilmour isn’t so much as uttered is perhaps the only squeaky note in an otherwise fantastic trailer. The pull-quotes, the sights, the sounds, the production values, it’s all balanced.
Aaaaaaaah! Trailer (NSFW)
It’s beyond my ken.
I won’t suppose to presume to know what is happening here but what I will say is that director Steve Oram, best known through his acting bits in Sightseers and Kill List, and as a writer on Sightseers, has made a trailer that you can truly call inspired and fantastically bizarre. The simple fact of the matter is that while I don’t know what this movie is selling I am going to buy based on this. It may not be with a ticket but I am telling you now, I am invested in buying into whatever nuttiness is being ignited in this spastic ode to short term attention spans. I wish I could pontificate more about what’s here but, let’s face it, it wants you in and it wants you out.
The Closer We Get Trailer
Personal.
Miss You Already Trailer
One for the ladies.
I don’t begrudge Catherine Hardwicke’s take on sparkling vampires; it is what it was and the world has moved on. With this vehicle, though, she’s balancing the talents of Drew Barrymore, Toni Collette and Dominic Cooper in what first appears as a late afternoon matinee with your girlfriend/wife into something just a touch deeper. Steel Magnolias territory this is not but a movie that focuses on the relationships that women have with one another is something to at least take a moment to consider. I may not be the target demo for something of this variety but every so often if you’re able to infuse a film with some kind of eternal truth inherent in the relationships that humans have with one another, I’m open to it.
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In case you missed them, here are the other trailers we covered at /Film this week:
