Posted by Aaron Aradillas
Don LaFontaine, the Voice of the Movie Trailer, has gone silent at age 68. Here are a few of my personal favorites from the nearly 4000 trailers he narrated over the past 40 years.
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September 02, 2008
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Sites to see
- alicublog
- Allure (not the magazine)
- And Your Little Blog Too
- Arbogast on Film
- Cartoon Brew
- Cinema Viewfinder
- CineMadison
- Cinemasparagus
- Cinetrix
- Dave Kehr
- David Bordwell
- Everyday Trash
- Extended Cut
(Simon Abrams) - Film Legacy
- Funerals And Snakes
Dan Slevin's blog. - Girish
- Hungry Ghost
- If Charlie Parker...
- Illusion Travels By Streetcar
- J. Hoberman
- Jonathan Rosenbaum
- LabuzaMovies
- Lawyers, Guns and Money
- Light Sensitive (Patrick Z. McGavin)
- Long Pauses
- Lost In Negative Space
- Masters of Cinema
- Mr. Peel's Sardine Liqueur
- Museum of the Moving Image
- Richard Gibson
- Rightwing Film Geek
- Scanners
- Screenville
- Self-Styled Siren
- Shadowplay
- She Blogged By Night
- Six Martinis and the Seventh Art
- Sunset Gun
- The Dancing Image
- The Evening Class
- The Hitlist at MSN
- The Front Row
- The House Next Door
- The Kind of Face You Hate
- The Most Beautiful Fraud In The World
- The Sheila Variations
Categories
- "Criticism"
- "Critics"
- "Social" "Media"
- 20th Century history
- 21st Century history
- 4K Consumer Guide
- 4K Ultra Baby
- Acting!
- Actors
- Adaptation
- Adolescent trauma
- Adorable moppets
- Aesthetics
- Affinities
- Americana
- Amusement
- Anecdotes
- Anniversaries
- Appreciation
- Apropos some of the below
- Argumentation
- Artiness
- Aspect ratios
- Au hasard SCR
- Auteurs
- Auteurs?
- Awards
- Awesomeness
- Beauty
- Beverages
- Big screens
- Blu-ray
- Books
- Books into film
- Breasts
- Bullshit
- Cinema Is...
- Cinephilia
- Comedy
- Correspondence
- Costuming
- Creeping you out
- Criswell predicts
- Critical Exchange
- Critical studies
- Criticism
- Critics
- Current Affairs
- Current Events
- Deals
- Deep thoughts
- Deplorable snark
- Directorial signatures
- Directors
- Diversions
- Dominant ideology
- Don't Look Back
- Dreams
- Drollery, we hope
- DVD
- Emergency
- Encounters With Great Recordings
- esoterica
- Events
- Fat fucks
- Festivals
- Film
- Film restoration
- Flaming skulls
- Food and Drink
- For The Love Of Film Noir Blogathon
- Formal qualities
- Frivolity
- Gender Relations
- Gloating
- Godardisms
- Goodbye heat wave
- Great Art
- Guest posts
- Habits of mind
- Hilarity
- History
- Holiday Cheer
- Holiday Gift Guide, whoo-hoo!
- Homages
- Horror
- Housekeeping
- Housekeeping, literally
- Huh?
- Iconography
- Icons
- Images
- In Memoriam
- Instructional
- Interviews
- Invitation to an open thread
- Jolie!
- Journalism
- Just images
- Just My Opinion!
- Lameness
- Legal matters
- Lists
- Lists, miscellaneous inanity, same thing...
- Literary interludes
- Magic
- Marketing
- Masterpieces
- Media notes
- Miracles
- Misc. inanity
- Miscellany
- Mise-en-scene
- Mourning
- Movie assessment
- Movie locations
- Movie Palaces
- Moviegoing
- Moviemaking
- Movies
- Music
- New York Fucking CIty
- News
- nostalgia
- Observations
- On not making them like they used to
- Orange rectangular surfaces
- Outrages
- People You Thought Were Cool And Aren't All That Cool, Really
- Perhaps unexpected sports fandom
- Personal appearances
- Personal history
- Podcasts
- Pointless quizzes
- Polemics
- Polls
- Porn
- Potential trends
- Product placement
- Profiles
- Proud husband
- psychic infiltration
- Quality of mercy
- Reading
- Recommendations
- Religion
- Return of the mook
- Riddles
- Ridiculous ambitions
- Rumors
- Sacrilege
- Satire. Really, It's Satire.
- Science fiction
- Self Criticism?
- self-indulgence
- Self-promotion
- Service advisories
- Sex in cinema
- Shameless Self-Promotion
- Slightly overdetermined matching dissolves
- Social Mores
- Social mores
- Spirited but civil debate
- Structure
- Tales From The Warner Archives
- Tales of Brooklyn
- Tech fetishism
- Technology
- Television
- Television, believe it or not...
- The biz
- The Biz
- The Boss
- The Future
- The Hepburn-Tracy Project
- The law
- The Screen
- The Sublime
- The tough questions
- The verities
- Then and Now
- Theodicy
- Trailers
- Truth is beauty, and beauty is truth
- Turgid Piece of Hackwork
- unified field theories
- Untitled smartphone photos
- Unusual Resemplances
- Vacation pictures
- Visual style
- Wanna see my vacation pictures? No? Too bad!
- Weird
- Welles Studies
- Whack-ass punditry
- Wonkiness
- Works in progress
- Year End Best Ofs
He was once described by Ewan MacGregor as "That guy who spends his day driving from recording studio to recording studio, smoking cigars, drinking whisky and chewing broken glass." MacGregor was honored to have his name spoken by "the guy".
Posted by: D Cairns | September 03, 2008 at 08:30 AM