The trailer for John August’s directorial debut, The Nines, is up and live, in both regular and high-definition versions. A full-form review will follow later this week, but the movie — three short films with incongruous, overlapping parts and three actors playing different roles that may or may not be connected to one another — is most readily filed in the “interesting failure” bin. August (Go, Big Fish) has worked with a cousin of this sort of triptych structure before, and he has two things going for him here: 1) a good cast, and 2) a smart sense of avoiding dialogue clichés. But The Nines, born of the writer-director’s own artistic and personal frustration on the shortlived WB series D.C., doesn’t work one’s id into a tizzy like François Ozon’s Swimming Pool or the best work of David Lynch. The Nines releases later this week, August 31, from Newmarket Films.