Film: Trailers 1

Here begins an occasional round-up of the various trailers and teasers for up-coming releases that have got me drooling.

1. Get Low (Dir. Aaron Schneider)



I've been positively giddy at the prospect of this slice of Southern surrealism, similar in tone and style it seems to a Big Fish or Oh Brother!, since a teaser scene was released some months ago. The director, Aaron Schneider, is more a cinematographer by trade than a helmsman, so it will be interesting to see whether he can hold a feature narrative together, but with a cast like this and a wonderfully offbeat premise, I expect to thoroughly enjoy myself. It won't make any money, but it's the kind of film we need to see being made...

2. Scott Pilgrim Vs The World (Dir. Edgar Wright)



This has been kicking about for ages, so if like me you spend inordinate amounts of time checking apple's trailer page and other fan sites you will most likely have seen it already. That doesn't stop it, though, from being outrageously cool. Quite Speed Racer-y in look, but already more funny, more exciting, more original and more inventive than the Wachowski turd-cloud was in its entirety. Guaranteed, I think, to be a critical and commercial success.

3. The Extra Man (Dir. Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini)



A double doss of directorial demonstration is due with this one. They're not brothers, but Berman and Pulcini worked together to bring us the very odd and very intriguing American Splendor back in 2003, and this film looks set to be an indie comedy in the Wes Anderson style, very dry, very strange, very cartoonish, but ultimately captivating. I look forward to seeing Kevin Kline back on form, if that is the case here.

That's it for now. Those are my faves.