Tuesday, September 03, 2019

Trailers To Talk About

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A pair of new trailers have popped up in my inbox in the past 24 hours that I would like to draw y'all's attentions towards -- you've probably definitely already seen the one for Taika Waititi's Jojo Rabbit about but there it is, again about, above. This is his anti-fascist comedy in which the Ragnarok director plays an imaginary friend Adolph Hitler to a little boy, co-starring alongside Scarlett Johannson and Sam Rockwell. I saw this trailer with a crowd over the weekend and they ATE IT RIGHT UP -- this movie might be a hit? If Disney doesn't chicken out with it, like's been rumored. (Hey Disney! Remember when you released anti-Nazi propaganda once upon a time? What happened?) Anyway Jojo Rabbit is out on October 18th.
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The second trailer I'm sharing is even more of a thrill for me I must admit -- if you've seen any of Swedish director Roy Andersson's surrealist beauties before (it's been five years since his last, the astonishing A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence) then you know why I'm thrilled already. His new one's called About Endlessness and it's playing both Venice and TIFF this month, but other than that we don't have a release date just yet. So who knows when we'll see it, but see it the second we can we shall. Anyway I don't know what About Endlessness is about -- except, you know endlessness -- but that hardy matters; his films are more about form than content.
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