To be fair, I’ve not ventured into any of Francis Ford Coppola’s neo-revival (Youth Without Youth, Tetro), but they’ve not seemed as ‘straight up genre’ as Twixt does. Somewhere between In The Mouth of Madness and 1408 the film is stacked to the gills with interesting actors: Val Kilmer (and his ex wife, Joanne Whalley), Bruce Dern, Elle Fanning (that’s her covered in blood in the above poster), Ben Chaplin and David Paymer. While this doesn’t look half as strong or nuanced as Shutter Island, I’m certainly willing to give it a shot despite the cheap cinematography and poorly put together trailer that seems to be cribbing voice-over from Throw Mama From The Train, “The Night Was…Humid.”
A writer with a declining career arrives in a small town as part of his book tour and gets caught up in a mystery involving a young girl. That night in a dream, he is approached by a mysterious young ghost named “V.” Unsure of her connection to a murder in the town but nevertheless, he is grateful for the story being handed to him.
The trailer is tucked under the seat.
Tetro is probably the best work hes done in years. I would put it right up there with some of his best work.
I’m really curious about this due to Coppola’s involvement and some of the cast, but I have no idea what to make of this trailer. None. I guess we’ll see once the TIFF reviews start rolling out.
Coppola was at San Diego Comic Con, and while I didn’t catch his panel my friend did. In each scene he had different cuts and takes and mixed a new original trailer of the movie just for the audience right there and then on his iPad. The idea that he’s going to present different cuts of the movie each night it plays depending on the audience’s reaction is certainly an interesting idea.
Mike Figgis presented different cuts of HOTEL in the early 2000s at TIFF, over the weekend of its 2 public screenings, he used the extra couple days for more editing. Of course, neither cut was any good…but that is another story…
Yeah, editing quickly on the fly is an interesting idea, but I’m not sold that the actual implementation will be any better than if Coppola worked until he found what he thought was the best cut. Or even a few different variations, where each cut had a different focus, compared to constantly changing it.
However, as a marketing idea I could see it help sell the movie, where the version of the movie you saw that night would likely never be seen like that again. That they could see it another night and it would be a slightly different film.