This Week In Trailers: We Need To Talk About Kevin, Oslo, August 31st, Hugh Jackman, Back On Broadway, Wreckers, Special Forces, Holy Rollers: The True Story Of Card Counting Christians

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Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m operating on, because what better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? Some of the best authors will tell you that writing a short story is a lot harder than writing a long one, that you have to weigh every sentence. What better medium to see how this theory plays itself out beyond that than with movie trailers? We Need To Talk About Kevin Trailer The French had a crack at this, [1] now us Americans have a shot. Director Lynne Ramsay certainly has »

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