Trailer Mash

'Cloud Atlas' and the week's other new movies, judged by their ads

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In less than a decade, David Mitchell's lush science-fiction fantasy Cloud Atlas has gone from cult classic to essential public-transport accessory to gift from Natalie Portman to Lana Wachowski during the shoot of V for Vendetta. It was at this point that an epic movie was seeded in the minds of the Matrix siblings, and shortly thereafter Tom "Run Lola Run" Tykwer was co-opted as third director (although if you follow the premise of the movie indicated in the trailer, it was neither the first nor the last time this happened).

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