Archive for June, 2008

LA Times on The Curious Case of Benjamin Button teaser trailer

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
I don’t think the press usually focuses on teaser trailers1 for films whose release dates are months away, but the teaser for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button has gotten some published love from Patrick Goldstein2 of the Los Angeles Times:

The film is due in December and has already been touted for Oscarhood. Now that Paramount has put up its first trailer–download it here–I have no quarrel with any grand predictions

The teaser has only been in circulation for a few weeks (it first appeared prepended to prints of the new Indiana Jones film), but it is unusually beautiful and moody. I’m happy that people are now getting a glimpse of the film.

  1. a teaser trailer is a very early advertisement for a film, usually shorter and less expository than the trailers that screen closer to a film’s release date [↩]
  2. it’s not just on the net, his screed is printed front and center in the Entertainment section of today’s LA Times [↩]

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Who do I look like

Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Someone just told me I look like Harry Shearer, he of Spinal Tap and Simpsons fame. I’ll add that to the list of people-I’ve-been-told-I-resemble, which includes “young Gene Hackman”, Kevin Spacey, and Peter Sellers. At least I apparently resemble1 talented folk. Could be worse.
  1. I certainly don’t see the resemblances [↩]

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