The Independent (Free subscription) | 20 hours ago
You should pardon the cliché, but you don't have to be Jewish to like the new Coen brothers film. Admittedly, Jewish viewers may get more out of A Serious Man, but then so might anyone who grew up in a suburb in the Midwest in the 1960s.
Oceans Never Listen (Free subscription) | yesterday
Joel and Ethan Coen do many things extremely well. But the one thing they do to almost perfection is never waste a frame. So they prove once again in their latest film A Serious Man . This strong and direct film is pitch perfect. Each scene has a reason to exist and is neither too short nor too long. There is such care in each frame of each scene that to watch a Coen Brothers film is an entirely pure...
IndieLondon (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen. Starring Michael Stuhlbarg, Ford Melamed, Richard Kind, Aaron Wolf, Sari Lennick, Adam Arkin, Jessica McManus
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
It’s 25 years since Joel and Ethan Coen made their debut feature, , and the former cult film-makers are now Hollywood players with Academy Awards on the mantelpiece. Their new film, , has been described as “the picture you get to make after you’ve won an Oscar” and is set among the Minnesota Jewish community the brothers grew up in. But the awards change nothing, and this isn’t...
Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
IF FORTUNE truly favours the brave, it’s no surprise that the hen-pecked, mild-mannered mensch at the centre of Joel and Ethan Coen’s new black comedy is pummelled senseless by bad luck.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Deftly balancing bright comedy and bitter darkness, the Coens have come up with another uncomfortable masterpiece about a fraternal duo Joel and Ethan Coen have bookended the decade with a superb film at the very beginning, The Man Who Wasn't There (2001), and another two stormers at the end: their superlative adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men in 2007 – and now this sublimely...
Digital Spy (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The Coen Brothers say that they dubbed their new film The Jew Movie before it had a title.
Channel 4 (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
A Jewish physicist starts fraying at the seams in this, the latest comedy-drama from Joel and Ethan Coen. Read our review Rating:4.5
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Weekly: Directors take fresh look at familiar decade -- When Carey Mulligan signed on to play the sophisticated English schoolgirl in "An Education," she immediately had to set her friends straight on what kind of '60s movie she was making.
Best Movies 2008 (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
First up, Zhang Yimou's sorta-remake of Blood Simple, the amazing debut feature by Joel and Ethan Coen, has a new title. Once called Amazing Tales: Three Guns, the title now seems to be The First Gun. Except that in some places, as on the upload for the trailer featured below, the title Amazing Tales: Three Guns, or some variant on it, persists. But the new name was reported by Yahoo, and they've got...
IndieLondon (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Film-making brothers Joel and Ethan Coen go back to their roots in A Serious Man, a dark comedy set in the suburban Midwest of their youth.
KansasCity.com (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Looking for a new project after finishing a comedy, Zhang Yimou is considering adaptations of novels set against China's Cultural Revolution and the Japanese invasion in World War II, his assistant said Wednesday.
The Plank (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
A.O. Scott's piece on a decade's worth of movies is, as usual, worth reading. However, I do think this passage deserves further comment: Perhaps the easiest and most satisfying way to make sense of the unruly cinematic abundance of the past 10 years is to sift through it for masters and masterpieces, kicking the tires to see what has been built to last. Whatever else was going on, a handful of great...
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