The Half Dozen: 6 Most Interesting Looking Trailers For October 2011

Posted on October 15, 2011 Updated on October 15, 2011

And so we come to October, and again my stupidly busy life means that I’m getting to October about two weeks after everyone else. Still, that’s not so much of a problem, mainly thanks to the last two weeks in September, when I inhabited the Cambridge Film Festival, my local annual cultural highlight which this year saw me taking in twenty-seven films. That might sound like a lot, but one gentleman I sat next to during Tyrannosaur advised me that he had, one year, seen forty-four films during the eleven days of the festival, yet it wouldn’t surprise me if there were people out there who could better that figure.

But as Mr 44 (for I never actually asked him his name) told me, what I effectively knew already, by seeing such a wealth of films in such a short space of time you’ve effectively denied yourself anything new and decent at the cinema for weeks afterwards. While I saw the September release Melancholia last weekend, I’ve already ticked off a number of the October releases. Last weekend’s Tyrannosaur, Midnight In Paris and Don’t Be Afraid Of The Dark? Seem ’em. Also this weekend’s Sleeping Beauty, and still to come this month, the likes of Contagion, The Yellow Sea and The Silence. If you’ve not seen Tyrannosaur or Midnight in Paris yet, then allow me to attempt to convince you as they’re both excellent, and The Yellow Sea and The Silence are both varied spins on traditional genres that are worth seeking out, and Contagion’s a Jude Law performance and a better ending away from greatness. But more on that another time.

Anyway, by my self-imposed rule, which I’ve already broken at least once since I started, I only include films here that I’ve not yet seen. So here’s this month’s fifteen minutes of potential fame.

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