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Published on Thursday, September 13, 2001 - 11:42pm |
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AICN Trailer Premiere: The Coen Brothers' THE MAN WHO WASN'T THERE
Your pal Dave here, with such terrible news this week, I'm pleased to bring you news of something positive, the trailer for the new Coen Brothers film, THE MAN WHO WASN'T THERE.
This film has a fantastic cast. Billy Bob Thornton, Frances McDormand, Michael Badalucco, Tony Shalhoub, James Gandolfini, Richard Jenkins, Scarlett Johansson, and Jon Polito, among others.More importantly, this is a Coen Brothers film.
There are very few filmmakers or filmmaking teams who have consistently earned my respect and admiration as artists, and in my opinion the Coen Brothers are a treasure of American filmmaking. They have a true artistic vision, strongly and clearly express their sensibilities, and consistently produce a quality of work that few can rival.
When I'm watching a Coen Brothers film, I know it in an uncommon way. In the same way that I know I'm watching a film by Spike Lee, another of America's truly great filmmakers of vision. You can feel it, and it makes you glad, that intangible sense that you're in the audience of true artistry. I suppose this is especially true given this past summer's unimpressive lineup of films.
Well, if only in the world of film, the future seems very bright right now, with a good number of fine films seemingly headed our way. Of these, the only film I'm more eager to see than THE MAN WHO WASN'T THERE is THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING. This, of course, because I've already seen my friend Guillermo's brilliant EL ESPINAZO DEL DIABLO (THE DEVIL'S BACKBONE).
I've done my best to keep the file sizes as low as possible, but I fear some of you will be disappointed that these aren't smaller. In any case, I've done what I could, trying to make these look as good as possible, while still being downloadable. Oh, if you could only see the DVD that I ripped this trailer from. It is SUCH A BEAUTIFUL TRAILER in its original form. Alas, I've had to compress it nearly a thousandfold, for its original form is a 3.74GigaByte file. SO beautiful. Ah well, you'll have to settle for the compressed versions below, and go check this trailer out in theatres. These files require QuickTime 5.
-Dave Alvarado, El Cosmico
dave@aintitcool.com
17MB, 500x243, 1:36
11MB, 360x175
7.4MB, 240x116
Hey folks, Harry here... I had the opportunity alongside Dr Sotha to watch this at the very first screening of the film in the world... the day before it premiered at Cannes... at Cannes... CLICK HERE TO READ MY REVIEW!!! This trailer PERFECTLY conveys the tone, texture, feel and beautiful black & white of this project... By all means check this one out... This is one of my top 5 or so films I've seen this year thus far! Really unique in that Coen way... Billy Bob is astounding in the film... Simply a man with a dream stuck in a pulp novel devised to by two of the most maliciously delicously evil writers we know.... Ahhhhh, the Coen Brothers....
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Reader Talkback
Coen Bros. are what is good
about film.
by Gargamel44 | Sep 14th, 2001
12:21:22 AM | The trailer that wasn't there
(HA HA good one)
by sub-moxy | Sep 14th, 2001
12:26:38 AM | Indeed! Sort it out Harry!
by Plusm | Sep 14th, 2001
01:15:51 AM | about the video not showing
up...YOU NEED QUICKTIME 5.
by stinkypoo | Sep 14th, 2001
01:46:14 AM | TO THE WHITE SEA has been
cancelled! Feckin' hell!!
by Cash Bailey | Sep 14th, 2001
02:42:34 AM | I missed being a contemporary
of Hitchcock. . .
by Sith Lord Jesus | Sep 14th, 2001
03:34:32 AM | beautiful beautiful beautiful
by Teko | Sep 14th, 2001
04:17:09 AM | What's the rumpus?
by Juggernaut125 | Sep 14th, 2001
06:08:40 AM | Amen to that, Gargamel.
by Smax0r | Sep 14th, 2001
08:25:12 AM | Would we expect any less?
by futureboy471 | Sep 14th, 2001
08:59:58 AM | What a gorgeous piece of
film...
by jackrabbit | Sep 14th, 2001
10:18:07 AM | Still looking forward to
FotR....
by The Hierophant | Sep 14th, 2001
10:40:49 AM | mmm
by BEARison Ford | Sep 14th, 2001
11:27:17 AM | Coen Bros. suck
by The guy | Sep 14th, 2001
11:59:01 AM | Not a bad one in the bunch
by Alec Cawthorne | Sep 14th, 2001
12:09:38 PM | Quicktime out of sync!!
by Tech-Donut | Sep 14th, 2001
02:04:16 PM | "Thank God yer mammy died
givin' birth...she'd a seen
you she'd
by DarthSnoogans | Sep 14th, 2001
03:39:12 PM | Why'd such original filmmakers
use a Guttenberg movie title?
by Charles Grady | Sep 14th, 2001
04:30:07 PM | The Coen Brothers
by Cincy Vigilante | Sep 14th, 2001
05:42:16 PM | O Brother, Where Art Thou was
the WORST movie of the year
2000.
by a goonie | Sep 14th, 2001
05:57:59 PM | Doc Loggins, you're a genius,
dude
by The guy | Sep 14th, 2001
11:29:23 PM | Did someone just call The Big
Lebowski unfunny?
by shavixmir | Sep 15th, 2001
01:12:27 AM | I've seen it
by somedaysoon | Sep 15th, 2001
04:49:26 AM | Quicktime
by somedaysoon | Sep 15th, 2001
04:53:01 AM | Shavixmir, I heard it too!
by JQuintana | Sep 15th, 2001
07:56:44 AM | Hey Doc_Loggins, your
perspective is all out of
whack.
by Lenny Nero | Sep 15th, 2001
10:32:04 AM | And thank you Harry for
changing your animation from
God-knows-w
by Lenny Nero | Sep 15th, 2001
10:35:25 AM | The Big Lebowski is one of the
FUNNIEST films I have ever
seen
by IAmLegolas | Sep 15th, 2001
10:53:34 AM | to Lenny Nero...
by a goonie | Sep 15th, 2001
12:52:57 PM | wow, that's extreme black and
white. not much greyscale!
by eraser_x | Sep 16th, 2001
03:19:25 AM | Turturro
by seppukudkurosawa | Sep 16th, 2001
09:19:28 AM | O, Brother where art thou..
by Reverendz | Sep 16th, 2001
02:03:01 PM | Have a great day today.
by Vance Castaway | Sep 16th, 2001
10:58:25 PM | Quantum Mechanics & The
Uncertainty principle
by jaymrobinson | Sep 17th, 2001
12:33:39 AM |
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