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Man oh man. Hollywood has not softened Refn one bit.

Trailer for Sono Sion's Why Don't You Play in Hell?

The Comedian with Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Edward Hogg, and Elisa Lasowski

Jodorowsky's The Dance of Reality. In Spanish with french subtitles.

Oh my god. That looks like the Jodorowsky of 25 years ago, returned.

From the guys who did Clone High, The Lego Movie.

Ridiculous trailer for Snowpiercer (finally)

Based on that trailer, I can't imagine that film being more than thirty minutes long.

Its either pretty bad or the trailer is making it look like an action film when its really not. Can't say its gotten me too interested though

MongooseCmr wrote:making it look like an action film when its really not

It's an art unto itself - of which this might be the reigning masterpiece

Can't really think of a reason not to be interested in a new Bong Joon-ho film - plus, if you watch that trailer a sufficient number of times before you go in, it can only be a positive surprise!

EDIT: Footage has been removed.
Terry Gilliam's Zero Theorem

...and nothing.

It's still readily available at the original source, for some reason, along with a 12-minute reel of clips that I'm guessing no one who wants any surprises should watch. Having seen the trailer, though... FUCK. I thought I had outgrown my Gilliam fandom enough to approach his new projects with some healthy skepticism, but this brought it all back in a huge way and I am ludicrously excited now. It looks amazing.

A search didn't pop up with either of the trailers for Ben Wheatley's A Field in England, so here's the official trailer and an alternate. Immediately snagged a pre-order on the UK Blu.

Interestingly A Field In England is getting a simultaneous release in UK cinemas, on Blu-ray and DVD and premiered on the Film4 channel at 10.45 p.m. on Friday 5th July.

The Film4 screening is also followed afterwards by a rare television screening (I think the first since the BBC2 premiere of it back in 1997) of Jodorowsky's El Topo, which apparently is meant to bear some comparison if the Radio Times write up is to be believed.

On A Field In England, here was last night's Guardian live blog. A very interesting film: kind of a moralistic Canterbury Tale mixed with the English Civil War Witchfinder General setting and a hefty dollop of Richard Stanley's Dust Devil. The El Topo connection is down to all the crazily strobing hallucinatory sequences.

Disney's Saving Mr. Banks, a Mary Poppins origin story. I'm sure it'll be a schmaltzy hagiography, but it should be fun for Disney buffs, with Tom Hanks as Walt Disney, Emma Thompson as P.L. Travers, and, apparently Jason Schwartzman and B.J. Novak as the Sherman brothers.

At the very least, the trailer for the Japanese adaptation of Unforgiven looks fantastic.

The idea is novel. Hopefully it's pulled off well enough. I wonder if Clint will or has already seen it.

Bujalski's Computer Chess looks like a step in a new direction.

The Fifth Estate, or How Can We Make Benedict Cumberbatch Uglier? Wait I Have a Great Idea.

"Truth, justice, and the American Way" nearly made me gag, but tracking Domscheit-Berg's gradual disillusionment (I haven't read the book it's based on) could be interesting. I wonder if they address Bradley Manning at all?

Idris Elba may win an Oscar but he'll always be Stringer Bell to me.
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