1884: Yesterday's Future. A story of outstanding heroism in the face of deception, subterfuge and treachery. Conjuring up the belief that it was made forty years before film was even invented, 1884: Yesterdays Future tells of a future that might have been but never was. Directed by Tim Ollive, the film is a mix of animation, puppetry and two dimensional and three dimensional computer generated imagery (CGI) set against backgrounds created using stunning artwork, model sets and period photographs from the Hulton Picture Library division of Getty Images.
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posted by Fizz
on Dec 21, 2010 -
5 comments
Java 4-Ever (safe for work apart from that one bit) - an amusing language centric film trailer made to promote the Scandinavian
JavaZone conference.
posted by Artw
on Jun 25, 2010 -
25 comments
If you look at that video of Mohammad Sidique Khan [one of the 7/7 bombers] recording a video for his nine-month-old daughter, when he thought he was going to fight and die in Afghanistan, he was saying, ‘You and your mum are the best thing in my life, and I’d love to watch you growing up and learning to speak.’ And you realise that he’s making a pretty soppy speech from a middle-of-the-road Hollywood movie. He’s the ‘good dad’. And in his head he is. And that doesn’t preclude him going out and doing something violent. You do bad things not because you think they’re bad, but because you think they’re good — unless you’re a nihilist. British satirist Chris Morris discusses his first feature film
Four Lions, which is a comedy about Islamist suicide bombers.
Trailer.
Clip, concerning peroxide. Audio interview with Morris about the film,
Part 1 and
Part 2.
posted by Sticherbeast
on Apr 6, 2010 -
47 comments
"Don’t stop. Keep right on going.... Go someplace you’ve heard about, where you can fish or hunt or collect rocks or just look up at the sky. Find out what’s at the end of some country road. Go see what’s over the next hill, and the one after that, and the one after that." In 1959 Airstream founder
Wally Byam - taking his own advice to heart - led a convoy of 36 of his company's trailers - together with over 100 American adults, children and pets - on a journey from Cape town to Cairo. They stayed in
remote villages, negotiated
rough roads, saw
upteen tribal dancers, met up with
Haile Selassie and finally ended up at the
pyramids of Cairo.
Here is the original film account of the expedition (complete with its own theme song). Next year, on the 50th anniversary, there is a plan to do the trip again - this time there and back again.
Wanna go?
posted by rongorongo
on Jul 16, 2008 -
12 comments
This European filmmaker is in the midst of remaking one of his most controversial
films for an American audience.
Funny Games is a film that may be difficult to watch for many.
Here is the trailer from the original 1997 version of the film. Micheael Haneke wants audiences to think about their own beliefs regarding
violence (insightful spoilers inside). Can Haneke find success with an American audience with a
"shot by shot" remake? Haneke discussed previously on mefi
here and
here.
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posted by zerobyproxy
on Sep 7, 2007 -
80 comments
The Japanese Trailer to Kokoro Scan. Japanese game trailers always seem pretty interesting and fun. And, well, most often more-or-less nonsensical. This is for the new game
Kokoro Scan, which, um, looks like it might be a dating sim of some sort? Maybe? The animation and segues are pretty interesting, and, though it's 6 minutes -- awfully long for a trailer, particularly one sans any gameplay (I think) -- it's interesting/off-the-wall enough to be engaging. What do cartoon nipples, pixellated white things and bananas have in common?
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posted by Rev. Syung Myung Me
on Aug 3, 2007 -
13 comments
Are Satanic messages hidden in Catholic art? According to the new documentary
Rape of the Soul [embedded Quicktime], the answer is, "so completely yes that you could shit." Featuring such experts as
Wilson Bryan Key and
Judith Reisman, this movie will literally, physically blow your brain apart by cutting little holes in classic art that might conceivably look like three sixes if you arrange them properly, or maybe finding a small patch of red and black that could look like a lumpy Devil head if you're looking for one and squinting. [
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posted by Sticherbeast
on Mar 28, 2006 -
64 comments
We talked about "
Snakes On A Plane" last summer, but since the thread is closed and this trailer really deserves to be seen...
Here you go. [youtube] For those of you yet unaware, prepare yourself for my nomination for "worst movie ever."
posted by pwb503
on Mar 17, 2006 -
185 comments
Dumped, but which BBC Trail got these responses? Hint, its not the Christmas
Doctor Who...
"I wish to protest that this image is disturbingly psychotic. Its unacknowledged aggression could make a fragile viewer ill."
"Anyone else think this is the single most terrifying thing ever, or is it just me?"
"Terrifying. Given me nightmares, so it has."
Find out here
posted by Dio
on Dec 13, 2005 -
49 comments
