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Advertising whores or short films in their own right? A bit of both, actually. Let's give the "Trailer" its credit here. They used to be great. Now they're rarely so. Sadly so. But once in a while, my faith is restored. This one though, will always be my favorite. Link yours!

There are some absolute amazing trailers on this page.

http://www.movie-list.com/classics-alpha.shtml

I have many favorites, one of which is the Teaser for Face/Off.

That site is really great but I only wish that they had a bigger quantity of older trailers. That's why I often turn to imdb or the TCM website when I can't find them anywhere.

Another original theatrical trailer that I really love is the one for Antonioni's Zabriskie Point. I once caught it on TCM and it bowled me over. It's barely a minute long but it's a finely edited piece of film that manages to match the cosmic vibe of the Pink Floyd music used with the vibrancy of the images. I had it taped somewhere but I think I must have recorded something else on top by now. Let's hope that Warner disc comes sooner than later. Oh, and it's not to be found anywhere online either.

my favorite.

This trailer, for Russ Meyer's film noir masterpiece, Common Law Cabin, makes me weep just thinking about it. It truly is art personified.

The trailer for Michael Winner's I'll Never Forget What's 'Isname is fantastic. A typical late '60s affair in many ways, playing up the sex scenes for all they are worth, all set to a relentless 'swinging London' soundtrack.

But it's the plummy, BBC-style narration that really sets it apart: "This man is a success. He has a wife, two mistresses, an Alfa-Romeo." It'd be a Hummer these days, I'm sure.

ShishidoJo wrote:This trailer, for Russ Meyer's film noir masterpiece, Common Law Cabin, makes me weep just thinking about it. It truly is art personified.

Oh, I dunno, the one for Mudhoney is pretty awesome (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZlHAuR2S3A). Plus, you gotta love the booming narrator's voice as he intones rather solemnly, "Ladies and gentlmen, welcome to sex!"

But this one, is even better: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaZw0LhTJR0

Ste wrote:The trailer for Michael Winner's I'll Never Forget What's 'Isname is fantastic. A typical late '60s affair in many ways, playing up the sex scenes for all they are worth, all set to a relentless 'swinging London' soundtrack.

If you like the soundtrack, download it here.

I'm hoping when Criterion gets around to doing Mouchette they'll include the trailer, reportedly cut by Godard... it sounds quite interesting.

For the sake of posterity and since Criterion isn't including it in their forthcoming re-release, here is the Playtime trailer, which contains a couple of shots from sequences that apparently only appeared in the now-lost 150-min cut.

Ok, I'm on a roll here but I just have to post these. Bergman's Hour of the Wolf trailer creeped me out big time when I first saw it and the same goes for the Clockwork Orange one too. Both far scarier than the films they're advertising!

And this one even won an award in its day. And no, Sony are not including it in their upcoming SE DVD.

Myra Breckinridge wrote:

Ste wrote:The trailer for Michael Winner's I'll Never Forget What's 'Isname is fantastic. A typical late '60s affair in many ways, playing up the sex scenes for all they are worth, all set to a relentless 'swinging London' soundtrack.

If you like the soundtrack, download it here.

Thanks! I might give it another listen, separate from the visuals.

It's not so much that I like the music really, more that it fits the bill of what film and television execs thought the kids were listening to in the late '60s. The reality couldn't be further from the truth, of course. And yet British TV and films from '67 through about '71 are littered with these easy listening, psych-lite soundtracks that amuse me greatly. They are always instrumental, and there's always plenty of wah-wah guitar and hammond organ in the mix. Groovy.

Another good example of this style is Roy Budd's soundtrack for Get Carter. Also, the music in the final scene of Carry On Camping, with the 'hippies', is quite remarkable.

Personally, I love seeing Sydney Greenstreet's disembodied head rushing straight at you at the beginning of the trailer for The Maltese Falcon. Must have been quite impressive in the theater.

I also quite like the trailer for Louis Malle's Lacombe Lucien, but I can't seem to find it anywhere online. (It's on Criterion's DVD, though.)

SncDthMnky wrote:I have many favorites, one of which is the Teaser for Face/Off.

Thanks for the link, Steve. I have always been half-heartedly searching for this trailer.

For the longest time I've wanted to see a contemporary movie trailer mimic a trailer from a bygone era, specifically the Hitchcock "lets-tour-the-movie-set" trailers like the one for Psycho or the "meet-the-cast" trailers where the director or a producer lets the stars wave to the audience from a set (ala Citizen Kane). I'm in the 18-35 demographic, but I suppose I'm one of the few who would get nostalgic for a period I never lived through.

It appears as though the closest I will get are Tarantino and Rodriguez's fake trailers in Grindhouse. The Danny Trejo one sounds like a treat. They Called Him Machete !

Don't you just hate it when trailers tell you the whole movie? Well, so do I. But I'll open a BIG exception with this one.

This is mana for trailers aficionados. Someone has gone and done a documentary about them:

Coming Attractions: The History of the Movie Trailer.

And Variety has a review.

As far as I know this is pretty rare as it hasn't been included on anyone of the so far DVD releases: I give you, the french trailer for Spirits of the Dead.

Another original theatrical trailer that I really love is the one for Antonioni's Zabriskie Point. I once caught it on TCM and it bowled me over. It's barely a minute long but it's a finely edited piece of film that manages to match the cosmic vibe of the Pink Floyd music used with the vibrancy of the images. I had it taped somewhere but I think I must have recorded something else on top by now. Let's hope that Warner disc comes sooner than later. Oh, and it's not to be found anywhere online either.

I've got this one up now in TCM's Media Room: Zabriskie Point trailer

If the framing seems off, well I did what I could, but it's off on the original copy to tape (the letterboxing chops the top of the title letters).

I've never actually seen the film but I do love this trailer - it's just far easier, and probably much more palatable than watching the entire film.

What if Saul Bass had done the opening credits for Star Wars?

Brilliant stuff..
If that would be the real opening then maybe I'd even like the film!

stephan73 wrote:Brilliant stuff..
If that would be the real opening then maybe I'd even like the film!

QFT!!!!

BrianInAtlanta wrote:

Another original theatrical trailer that I really love is the one for Antonioni's Zabriskie Point.

I've got this one up now in TCM's Media Room: Zabriskie Point trailer

Since no one else said it: thank you!