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Trailer for Wong Kar-Wai’s New Short Film: DEJA VU

“Love is like ice. How long can you hold onto it?”

um, until it melts, i guess? at this point you’ve gotta think that Wong Kar-Wai takes some sort of perverse pleasure in delaying his movies for as long as he possibly can. here we are, breathlessly awaiting the release of The Grandmaster (which now has an aspirational December release date), and the dude is working on a glorified whiskey ad shot in an Indian palace with a cast of supermodels, and… er… yeah, never mind, i get it now.

Déjà Vu, which just premiered at Cannes, looks like a condensed remake of 2046 shot from the bottom of a whiskey glass, and as a trailer for a short film, the clip above definitely makes me want to watch The Grandmaster. fine, and also this. because at the end of the day, i’m buying whatever Wong Kar-Wai wants to sell me. better whiskey than a revolutionary new mop or something.

Teaser Trailer: Paul Thomas Anderson’s THE MASTER

okay, so it doesn’t have all that much to do with Criterion, but omg what if it did?? 

kidding aside, i think i speak for many of us when i say that this is the year’s most breathlessly anticipated film, and the first snippets of footage contained in the teaser above manage to drive me all sorts of hysterical without so much as alluding to the titular cult leader, as played by once and future oscar winner Philip Seymour Hoffman.

The Master arrives to top your lists on October 12.

(via The Film Stage)

Full Trailer: COSMOPOLIS (dir. David Cronenberg) 2012

“I want a haircut.”

finally, somebody finally made a movie about my monthly odyssey to Supercuts (let’s just pretend i didn’t make that joke when i posted the teaser). seriously though, this looks too amazing to be a real thing, and i think i can say with some certainty that Cronenberg and co. didn’t play it safe this time around (do they ever?). the trailer takes me back to the 80s in the best way possible — that sleeveless leather vest might as well be a DeLorean — and if Robert Pattinson was the conduit Cronenberg needed in order to get back to his roots and pump out Videodrome 2.0, well that’s just fine by me.

this trailer confirms that Cosmopolis will be at Cannes next month, so stay tuned for early reviews in the near future.

(via The Film Stage)

update: video fixed!

Francois Truffaut Inspired Wes Anderson’s MOONRISE KINGDOM?

in a rare Entertainment Weekly interview that i didn’t read on an airplane / on the toilet / on an airplane toilet, Wes Anderson spoke about the films that influenced his upcoming feature Moonrise Kingdom. he bounced around a few names and things that should be familiar to Criterion fans, but the reference that most jumped out at me was to Francois Truffaut’s strange and didactically passionate late-era film Small Change, about which Anderson said:

“That’s really one of the inspirations for this movie, because it’s what made me start thinking about doing this sort of story.”

if Moonrise Kingdom is anything like Small Change, brace for lots of puppy love and kids hurling their food at each other. if only the Olsen twins were still at their It Takes Two age, amiright? peep the trailer up top. Moonrise Kingdom premieres at Cannes on May 16. 

(via Mubi)

Trailer for Abbas Kiarostami’s LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE 

they should have sent a poet. or a Björk.

well, a teaser trailer for what’s probably gonna be the best film of 2012 has arrived, right on time to carry this thing into the Cannes line-up when it’s revealed next month. supposedly a spiritual successor to the unspeakably brilliant Certified Copy, Like Someone in Love (previously known as The End) finds the master of heart-gripping self-reflexivity making another film away from his native Iran, this time in Japan.

the trailer doesn’t give us much. it doesn’t even seem like a trailer at all, so much as it does a leaked little snippet of misc. footage. a shot framed by a window, mediating between an interior and exterior space? check. a shot of a car’s passenger seat as seen from outside the windshield? check. my heart skipping a beat because this is practically my Hunger Games? check.

Teaser For Cronenberg’s COSMOPOLIS

so, um… this looks absolutely nuts. i’m getting a stark early-era Cronenberg vibe from this thing, and that is one seriously great vibe to get. who knows, this could even be the film to shepherd a generation of Twilight fans towards appreciating more… challenging material. i haven’t read the DeLillo novel and am a bit dismayed that it doesn’t seem to enjoy the same critical esteem of his other works, but if a story about a dude trying to get across NYC for a haircut can result in a teaser trailer like this… then i’m down. my haircuts usually involve uneventful three-block walks to Supercuts. Chantal Akerman has the movie rights for that story, but it’s currently stuck in development hell.  

p.s. the 0:26-mark. right. whatever that thing is, it demands Sbarro. 

Trailer: SHALLOW GRAVE (dir. Danny Boyle) 1994

“It’s not every day I find a story in my own flat.”

so if we’ve got Criterion’s most recent Facebook tease figured (and i think we do), it looks like they’ll be releasing Danny Boyle’s SHALLOW GRAVE in june! it’s been rumored for a while now, but get ready to scratch another title off the “Criterions in limbo” list. i’m pretty jazzed, but then again i’m jazzed for any excuse to talk about Danny Boyle without having to mention the words “Slumdog” or “Franco.” haven’t seen this movie since i was a wee lad, but i remember it being a grand old time, and look forward to no longer confusing it with A Life Less Ordinary all the time. which reminds me… Cameron Diaz is coming to The Criterion Collection in May. it’s the dawn of a new age.

…okay, she was in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas for 2 seconds, but who wasn’t?

PULGASARI: Kim Jong-il’s Godzilla Rip-off

(that’s the film’s japanese trailer, up top)

so i guess the bad news for kim jong-il is that he’s dead. but the good news is that the film fanatic / historian / theorist / producer is now that much more likely to be inducted into The Criterion Collection! i mean, they love dead guys. and if you’re a dead asian guy?? that’s pretty much a lock. 

oh, right, if you didn’t already know, late north korean dear leader / evil overlord kim jong-il loved movies. like… the dude supposedly had one of the world’s most vast private film libraries, consisting of over 15,000 titles, and staffed by 350 of pyongyang’s most fortunate slaves. but kim wasn’t satisfied with his status as one of the cinema’s supreme thinkers (here’s an essay he wrote about directing), and in the 90s he decided to create films himself. of course, for kim jong-il, “creating films himself” meant “kidnapping a director and his wife, and forcing them to make kaiju movies like Pulgasari in exchange for servings of millet.” and not just any director, but Shin Sang-ok, the director of 3 Ninjas Knuckle Up. and while Criterion seldom features the producer of a given film over its director, i’m sure they’d make an exception in this case, given that the overriding artistic voice on Pulgasari was most definitely that of Kim Jong-il. 

you can read about the whole episode on Badass Digest, though if you’re interested at all in North Korea i’d point you towards books like The Cleanest Race, which explore the incident (and confront Kim’s entire spectrum of thoughts regarding the cinema) in much greater detail. in related news, i spent about 5 minutes in North Korea in the summer of 2006, and let me tell you… you have never in your life seen a Seinfeld reference fall so flat.

p.s. my favorite documentary on North Korea - A STATE OF MIND  - is available on Netflix Instant.