Orson Welles' trailers are better than most people actual movies.

Hey, guess what I'm reviewing next week on The Geek Show guess what guess what guess what.

Anyone wondering why a mere trailer is up on Letterboxd presumably hasn't had the pleasure of this utterly bizarre nine-minute short, which includes almost no footage from the film but gives you a clear sense of its prismatic, helter-skelter madness. It's often been observed that Welles is kind of a student film-maker by this point, calling in favours from friends, getting cinematographer Gary Graver to pull double duty as a news announcer panicked enough to fit into Alternative 3, showing off his girlfriend's tits. What makes him different from a student film-maker, I guess, is the fact that he's a genius.

or F for Fake For Those Who Don’t Have the Time
(If you catch my drift)

Praticamente um curta-metragem lançado como trailer promocional (trailers não costumam durar nove minutos), sintetizando alguns dos conceitos e questões levantadas pelo longa. E numa exuberância de imagens e sons (e mais a fruição que costuma ser típica de Welles) que nada fica devendo a qualquer curta experimental, e podendo ser assistido antes ou depois do filme original.

In den YouTube-Kommentaren hat jemand diesen Trailer als "YouTube-Kacke, die Orson Welles aus seinem Werk gemacht hat" bezeichnet und das beschreibt es denke ich ganz gut.

I guess it was fine. Really psychedelic and weird and nothing like a trailer. It felt like a propaganda YouTube video.

Orson: "That there were secret sponsors of that broadcast who were in fact some rather... influential beings... from outer space."

Me: :)

Orson: "You smile?"

Me: :|

This is great. The montaging and layering of images is so cool. This makes me feel better about The Other Side of The Wind because this short, completed before his death, is equally insane in the editing department. This is just cool to look at and has Orson telling us about the alien invasion that he's simultaneously covering up by telling us it exists. Welles is not from Earth. Also, Oja is very naked. Also, there's a tiger. In summary, Welles is just telling lies while showing us Oja's boobies.

Ok Orson calm down

More interesting than almost anything else. This is one of the best trailers that I've ever seen, because it does a very good job as a hook for the actual film. Still kind of weird and boring though, mostly due to the intentionally weird editing. Anyway, I'll probably think differently of this after I watch this actual film.

I mean, it's a trailer. And not a very good one at that. Not sure why I expected anything else, but I'm still a little disappointed. The ending is pretty great though.

5/10

6.6/10

Calling this a trailer is a disservice, because it's definitely more of a short film that is tangentially related to the feature-length version. This has the same fantastic editing and pacing as the longer film, and also has unused footage. Worth watching along with the other version.

Now that's what you call a trailer!

This has the curious mix of being a primer to the film itself, and hence leaving all the film’s big reveals up its sleeve, and having been cut some 3 years after it, meaning Picasso had since passed away and Irving was out of prison, while Elmyr was feeling the pinch of the French authorities closing in.

I mean, it's a trailer. And not a very good one at that. Not sure why I expected anything else, but I'm still a little disappointed. The ending is pretty great though.

5/10

Better than the movie

This is the product a feverish YouTube scramble born out of procrastination. 
This feels like proto-Exit Through the Gift Shop. VERY CURIOUS. Maybe I’ll watch it someday. 

YouTube

This is so great. Makes me wonder if Pedro Almodóvar was influenced by it when he made Trailer for Lovers of the Prohibited, a stand-alone extended trailer ostensibly for What Have I Done to Deserve This? with zero actual footage of the movie, just done in a similar style. Incredibly fun.

Este mundo no supo aprovechar a Orson Welles

i couldn't tell the difference between this and the movie

Ok Orson calm down

Praticamente um curta-metragem lançado como trailer promocional (trailers não costumam durar nove minutos), sintetizando alguns dos conceitos e questões levantadas pelo longa. E numa exuberância de imagens e sons (e mais a fruição que costuma ser típica de Welles) que nada fica devendo a qualquer curta experimental, e podendo ser assistido antes ou depois do filme original.

The single greatest trailer ever made. This is not so much a trailer designed to get someone to see a film as a 9-minute distillation of the themes of a movie in a shorter medium. Welles oozed more inherent talent in filmmaking doing a 9-minute joke trailer than oscar winners do today in their entire oeuvre.