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This Week In Trailers: Keloid, El Velador (The Night Watchman), Black Out, Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, Crazy Horse (slashfilm)
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? Keloid Trailer
Give it up for BLR. Long after we’ve come to know the pentaverate as The
Queen, The Vatican, The Gettes, The Rothchilds and Col. Sanders before he went
tets up there now comes a sextet of wickedness and it’s BLR, the six guys who
made this. As is a common refrain in these parts that I don’t know who so-and-
so is, I really can state with a high …
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