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“Here’s to the hearts that ache…” Oh my goodness. Lionsgate has unveiled the second official teaser trailer for Damien Chazelle’s musical La La Land, and it’s just as wonderful as the first one. La La Land stars Emma Stone as an aspiring actress who falls for a jazz pianist, played by Ryan Gosling, while in the City of Angels, better known as Los Angeles. Like the first teaser, this trailer is set to one of the magnificent songs from the film, titled “Audition”, and it will thankfully be available to download later this fall. The full cast includes J.K. Simmons, Finn Wittrock, Rosemarie DeWitt, Sonoya Mizuno, Hemky Madera, Josh Pence and John Legend. That scene in the planetarium looks like it’s going to be so totally amazing. ›››

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“Still wearing the cape?” Today’s must see short film discovery is titled Loudini, a charming and amusing story about a struggling magician who goes by the nickname “Loudini”. Made by the same guys who made the short film Foureyes that we featured a few years ago, Loudini is described (by the filmmakers) as their “mash up of Punch Drunk Love, Inside Llewyn Davis and King of Comedy“. That’s an eclectic yet appealing pitch that should grab a few of you. The short also has a performance by the musician Car Seat Headrest. This is a great example of a simple idea made grand and engaging by smart filmmaking choices. Have fun. ›››

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“Follow me this way…” If you’ve followed the Cannes Film Festival in the last decade, you know the name Sergei Loznitsa – a Ukrainian filmmaker who has premiered numerous films at the festival in the past few years. His latest work is a documentary called Austerlitz, which examines the baffling yet common idea of visiting the grounds of former Nazi concentration camps. “One of the biggest mysteries of such places is the motive that induces thousands of people to spend their summer weekends in former concentration camps looking at ovens in a crematorium. To try to come to grips with this, I made this film,” Loznitsa explains. This trailer is a very bleak introduction that instantly asks: why are these places so popular with tourists? ›››

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“A transcendent documentary experience…” Janus Films has debuted the official trailer for an outstanding documentary called Cameraperson, a very unique cinematic experience compiling the 25-year career of cinematographer Kirsten Johnson. Johnson has been working as a cinematographer for documentaries for a long time, working on projects including Citizenfour, Where to Invade Next, The Invisible War, This Film Is Not Yet Rated, Fahrenheit 9/11 and many others. To make this film, she compiled various bits and pieces of footage from all of her projects and edited them together with a very vague narrative. I luckily had the chance to see this doc and it’s incredible – a deeply visceral experience. I felt every emotion watching it, from happiness to fear to sadness to joy to disgust, and was amazed by the film she created. Don’t miss this. ›››

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“Shame is trending.” Netflix has debuted the trailer for a documentary titled Audrie & Daisy, which first premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. The doc examines the lives of two different women, Audrie Pott and Daisy Coleman, who never met each other but were brought together by tragic circumstances. Both teens were sexually assaulted while intoxicated, and subsequently bullied online by their classmates, which resulted in one suicide. The doc examines the rape culture in America and shaming which is, sadly, fueled by the internet. I saw the doc at Sundance and I’m not a fan of it, but it does discuss a very important topic. ›››

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