it sounded like the trailer was amazing on its own, and that this movie has quite the potential to rule.
i'm really hoping someone will be able to ID this for me. this is a rough description from what i can remember him telling me:
it featured clips of people who are portrayed in such a way that the audience knows those people aren't alive anymore. it featured clips or pictures of people from an era that appeared to be early 20th century, possibly france. it featured clips of garish/ grotesque/ deformed looking body parts, and people. it didn't seem to feature and footage from the film itself..
is this ringing any bells?
i will add to this tomorrow as soon as i ask my friend for some more clarification.
― reo, Sunday, 28 November 2004 10:29 (twenty-one years ago)
― reo, Sunday, 28 November 2004 10:30 (twenty-one years ago)
― reo, Monday, 29 November 2004 06:57 (twenty-one years ago)
come on, guys!!!
The Preview-----------
In August 2004, my friend and I went to see the movie _Before Sunset_ at an independent theater. During the previews that were shown, I saw something unforgettable. It was a movie preview that showed a bunch of still pictures in black and white of people whose faces and bodies were in all sorts of contorted positions: faces grimacing or frozen, pearl beads artificially draped around women as if they were mannequins, grotesque lipstick painted on lips but just a little bit off, and numerous depictions of people who looked like they ought to have been in an insane asylum. In fact, I wasn't quite sure if I was looking at pictures of real people or superbly made up mannequins. The setting seemed to be in France during the WW II era. It was very existential and powerfully reminiscent of Sartre. It seemed to me to be an indictment against the whole of human civilization in its waxen absurdity.
The background music was equally strange. It consisted of a lot of frenzied percussion with a woman deafeningly grunting "AAGGGH," "AAGGH!" with each new still picture. It was the most memorable preview that I've ever seen in my life.
Yet i cannot recall a title for it.
Name that film!!!!
― reo, Tuesday, 30 November 2004 18:08 (twenty-one years ago)
― Girolamo Savonarola, Tuesday, 30 November 2004 18:14 (twenty-one years ago)
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 18:21 (twenty-one years ago)
― ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 19:56 (twenty-one years ago)
anyone else got a clue!?
― reo, Wednesday, 1 December 2004 07:55 (twenty-one years ago)
i did see something similar recently, in a documentary about Universal's monster movies and how they were popular because of the huge numbers of soldiers returning from the war with facial disfigurements. (cue footage of long ranks of walking wounded. the thing being that due to advancements in medical techniques previous to this people with such gruesome injuries would probably have died)
not what you asked for though.
this maybe:Death Watch: Jamie Bell ("Billy Elliott") headlines this new Brit WW1 horror movie which starts shooting in Prague shortly (oh, that's WW1)
or this (also called, confusingly, The Watch)http://www.thezreview.co.uk/comingsoon/w/watchthe.htm which seems to be the only mention of this film on the internet.
or this (tarantino)http://www.empireonline.co.uk/site/news/NewsStory.asp?news_id=16159
or Zelary, which is Foreign and Art Moviehttp://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hv&id=1808541772&cf=info
dunno 8)
― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 09:12 (twenty-one years ago)
it certainly is wonderful, and perhaps it's a figment of his imagination..
it's funny, i don't even care about seeing this supposed movie, i just want to see that trailer.
oh well..
― reo, Thursday, 2 December 2004 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)
― Chuckling at the Tomkat's Marquee (Ben Boyer), Thursday, 2 December 2004 21:48 (twenty-one years ago)
"Cheetos: AAGGGH!"
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 2 December 2004 22:01 (twenty-one years ago)
― reo, Friday, 3 December 2004 02:59 (twenty-one years ago)