This is the trailer for Twixt, from Francis Ford Coppola, the famous wine magnate who many forget once directed films. Starring Val Kilmer and Elle Fanning with narration by Tom Waits, Twixt follows Kilmer’s charater, an author who writes books about witches who finds himself stuck in a small town haunted by a ghost played by Fanning. It premieres at the Toronto Film Festival, and apparently it’s some kind of choose-your-own-adventure story.

Legendary director Francis Ford Coppola premiered his interactive film, “Twixt” at Comic-Con a little more than a week ago, announcing that he would be taking the haunting mystery film on a road tour in which he’d tailor the show to each audience, each night, changing it by cutting and adding as it went along.
“If the audience is the mood to go off on a little bit of a tangent, then you’d be able to go off on a tangent, but if the audience seems to want to cut to the chase, you could cut to the chase,” he told the AP at the event, teasing a new level of fan participation in cinema.
No matter what version ends up on screen, the film will feature Val Kilmer as a witchcraft-focused author who finds himself, during a book tour, in a strange town that recently experienced a mass murder; while investigating, he comes across the ghosts Edgar Allan Poe and a girl played by Elle Fanning. He begins to pursue the story for his next book, and all hauntings, nightmares and danger begin to jump out at every turn. [HuffingtonPost]

Excuse me for one second, I think hear an obvious joke at the door. Oh hi, obvious joke, what’s going on?

KILMER HEARD HIS AGENT SAY ‘TWIX’ AND SIGNED UP ON THE SPOT!

Haha, good one, obvious joke, classic you.

My panties were so moist over R-Pattz’ abstinence-induced rage sex that I scarcely noticed that the MTV Movie Awards had also debuted a new trailer for JJ Abrams’ Super 8.  Opening this weekend, it stars a group of wiener kids as a group of wiener kids in 1979 who witness an alien-related train crash while shooting an amateur film (the kids, not the alien).  Other than Elle Fanning, I don’t recognize any of the actors involved, though the cast does include the awesomely named “Britt Flatmo.”  In any case, it looks like a movie I already saw two or three times in the 80s, but then, JJ Abrams made Star Trek, and that turned out better anyone had any right to expect.  At the very least, Super 8 harkens back to a more innocent time in America, when every circle of friends had just one fat kid.

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Steefen Dorff believes in nussing, Lebowski.

I was never a fan of Lost in Translation.  It was okay.  It had moments.  But I hated everyone creaming their pants over it.  To me there’s a difference between “subtlety” and “look at me, I’m rich and white and I think actually choosing an angle on the material is fascist because I went to art school.” But it looked nice, and had at least two really good scenes.  ANYWAY, this is the trailer for Sofia Coppola’s latest, Somewhere.

Johnny Marco (Stephen Dorff) is a bad-boy actor stumbling through a life of excess at the Chateau Marmont Hotel in Hollywood. With an unexpected visit from his 11-year-old daughter (Elle Fanning), Johnny is forced to look at the questions we must all confront.

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Oh my gosh, you guys, this is so awesome I almost spilled espresso on my scarf when I read it: Sofia Coppola is doing a movie about the Chateau Marmont! I can’t wait to tell everyone at the food co-op!

The writer-director who shot her “Lost in Translation” at the Park Hyatt in Tokyo, will set her next film at the iconic Chateau Marmont in Hollywood. Stephen Dorff and Elle Fanning [yes, Dakota’s sister] will star in the Focus Features dramedy “Somewhere,” which Coppola penned. Story centers on a bad-boy actor stumbling through a life of excess at the Chateau Marmont. With an unexpected visit from his 11-year-old daughter, he is forced to reexamine his life. The filmmaker, who said she has been looking to make “an intimate story set in contemporary Los Angeles,” received permission to shoot at the hotel, which has become notorious in recent years as a popular address for tabloid-friendly celebs. [Variety]

I already know how this will go down: a collection of dreamy party scenes that will seem funny at first, but with a creeping sense of decadence.  Then, just when we start to really hone in on the protagonist’s pathos, he’ll share a long, meaningful glance with his daughter and the movie will end.  It will deny you catharsis, but that was, like, the point.  She really wanted to challenge the audience, you know?  I loved how she totally, like, resisted the temptation to cheapen the emotions with “plot.”  It wasn’t all “slick” and “Hollywood.”  She really nailed the subtleness and the nuance.

[picture source = lookatthisf*ckinghipster.com - thanks, Burnsy]