Trailer Park Sep 10 2008 @ 01:13 pm
EXTENDED TRAILER PARK: The Fall
UPDATE: Are any of you having trouble viewing the embedded video clips? And if so, are you running a PC/Mac, and what’s your browser?
I wanted to highlight one of the DVD releases this week that needs a bit more love. Tarsem Singh’s The Fall has been dividing some critics, but everyone appears to agree that it is a visual feast. Singh (who’s last film, The Cell, was also an eye-candy feast) spent over 4 years filming The Fall in 18 different countries and financed it with his own money. Roger Ebert had a wonderful interview with the director a few months ago; it’s a great read, detailing Tarsem’s process and how he accomplished some of the incredible visuals sans the use of CGI:
Tarsem made millions as a director of commercials, and gladly spent most of them to make his movie. “Everybody in advertising,” he was telling me, “always says one day they’ll make a great movie with their own money, blah, blah, blah. They never do it. David Fincher, one of my producers, told me, ‘You happen to be the fool that has done it’.”
I hope to have my own review up in a few days, but in the meantime, peruse Alexander Coleman’s review or Daniel Getahun’s and drink in the trailer. Follow the links to the trailer and extended clips in glorious QuickTime. Gosh, this film is gorgeous.
LARGER VERSIONS
The Fall - DVD Trailer
Clip - The First
Clip - Wedding Crashers
on Sep 10 2008 @ 1:33 pm 1. Daniel said …
The Fall includes the best and the second-best scene transitions of any film this year, hands down. Fortunately, neither is shown in these clips. You just have to watch the movie.
It just occurred to me that I never saw the trailer for this. As is my practice, I went in blind and I don’t think I watched it afterwards. But as you can imagine, my experience seeing everything for the first time in the theater was pretty insane.
As I somewhat predicted, this remains one of the most divisive movies of the year, along with MBN. It’s still hovering around a 50% on RT.
Also, if anyone is still interested in getting their mind blown today, go here and click on “Gallery”. Careful, minds may be blown…
on Sep 10 2008 @ 3:00 pm 2. Evan Derrick said …
The only thing I enjoy (cinematically, at least) more than a fantastic, extended, unbroken shot, is a great scene transition. Oh man. I can’t wait to see this.
on Sep 10 2008 @ 3:14 pm 3. Craig Kennedy said …
Even though I wasn’t as high on the film as some, I’ll agree that it was sure something to look at.
on Sep 10 2008 @ 9:59 pm 4. Mike Peps said …
The clips are taking forever to load, but I also have the cheapest DSL money can buy - 54 mbps, baby! I used IE and firefox. Google Chrome didn’t seem to like them at all.
I’ve only seen about 30 secs of the Fall trailer, but it does look very beautiful.
on Sep 10 2008 @ 10:14 pm 5. Evan Derrick said …
Yeah, I’m gonna blame your internet connection on that one, Mike.
Glad that IE like it ok. Streaming video is a pain in the keester.
on Sep 15 2008 @ 11:28 am 6. Sam Juliano said …
I watched this on Thursday and I must say it is a mind-blower in a positive sense. I will be showing to friends again this week, but from the very beginning when I was ravishing by the familiar and beloved chords of that brilliant and bombastic second movement of Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony playing over the credits, I was hooked, even before those sublimely beautiful images began to unfold.
on Sep 15 2008 @ 11:40 am 7. Evan Derrick said …
Oh, goody Sam. I still haven’t seen this. Your high praise is a positive sign.
on Sep 15 2008 @ 12:46 pm 8. Sam Juliano said …
Thanks much for saying that Evan.