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Micmacs Trailer: Show and Tell and Sell

Posted on August 31, 2011 by Frederick Greene

As any minimally competent trailer watcher could tell you, Jean Pierre Jeunet’s MICMACS A TIRE LARIGOT (2010), in which a makeshift “family” of junk salvagers takes on and vanquishes a large, profitable armaments manufacturer, is a populist revenge fantasy with … Continue reading →

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Where The Wild Things Are: Civilized Misdirection

Posted on August 29, 2011 by Frederick Greene

  In my first post about “Where the Wild Things Are,” I considered the choice of a musical cue for the trailer.  In this post, I’d like to examine the visual elements that appear in the trailer in terms of … Continue reading →

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The Godfather (1972) A Still Trailer for a Kinetic Epic (1 of 2 posts)

Posted on August 3, 2011 by Frederick Greene

$135 Million at the box office in 1972; three Oscars; 11 nominations; and consistently ranked in the top ten of critics picks for the best films of all times. Everyone remembers the Godfather. But who remembers the theatrical trailer that … Continue reading →

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