Draven99's Musings (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Joel and Ethan Coen have been very prolific film makers over the past two decades. Over that span they have delivered a number of great films (Fargo, O Brother, Where Art Thou ?). During the same period they have also been behind some not so great films (The Ladykillers, Intolerable Cruelty ) . The best thing about the brothers is that even at their worst, they still turn in films that exist outside...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
TORONTO - In "The Men Who Stare at Goats," Jeff Bridges plays Bill Django, a military man who returns from Vietnam to embrace the '60s counterculture headlong - the whole Aquarian Age, flower power, altered states of consciousness thing.
Film Junk (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
A Serious Man Written and Directed by: Joel and Ethan Coen Starring: Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Fred Melamed, Aaron Wolff In an age of high profile franchise blockbusters, months in advance it becomes very apparent via very expensive marketing campaigns what the year's event films are going to be. For me though, it is instead a handful of directors' names that predetermine who is getting my money...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
HONG KONG -- Zhang Yimou says his first movie in three years has shades of comedian Stephen Chow's outlandish humor and marks the first time the "Raise the Red Lantern" director shot in digital format.
CinemaSpy (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Zhang Yimou promises some comedy in his remake of Blood Simple , which will hit theaters in China on December 11. In an interview with the Chinese web portal Sina.com, subsequently translated by the Associated Press, the director of Hero and House of Flying Daggers described his film as starting off as a comedy, then gradually morphing into a thriller. "The audience is watching the movie happily,...
The Michigan Daily (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
Along with the usual disclaimers in the end credits of “A Serious Man” comes this message: “No Jews were harmed in the making of this film.” The writing-directing superteam of Joel and Ethan Coen has finally embraced its most Jewish of last names, and in so doing has crafted one of the most original, unexpected and thought-provoking films of the year.
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Eye on the Oscars: Best Picture Preview: Ripe dramas unfold amid changing times, mores -- Do you take advantage of the new freedoms?" purrs sexy next-door neighbor Mrs. Samsky in the Coen brothers' 1967-set "A Serious Man."
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Joel and Ethan Coen, who venture into 1960s suburbia with "A Serious Man" on Friday, will next travel to the old West.
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
10 Actors to Watch: Vet Broadway star revisits their 1960s upbringing -- He's a good guy," is how Michael Stuhlbarg describes Larry Gopnik, an angst-ridden Jewish math professor who questions God, guilt and the meaning of life in "A Serious Man," Joel and Ethan Coen's semiautobiographical nod to their 1960s suburban Minneapolis upbringing.
Living in Cinema (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Twitch has the first trailer I’ve seen of Amazing Tales: Three Guns, Zhang Yimou’s adaptation of Joel and Ethan Coen’s Blood Simple. The dialogue isn’t subtitled (some of the credits are given an English voice over), but you can get a pretty good idea of the style and tone of the film. Think blackly comic and [...]
Radio 4 - Today (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
The Coen brothers are among America's most prolific and inventive film directors, and are releasing a new film in November. A Serious Man will join the brothers' long list of successes, which include the Oscar winners Fargo and No country for Old Men, to Raising Arizona, Barton Fink and Blood Simple. The new film tells the story of the unbearable pressures on a Jewish academic in the mid-west in the...
FILMdetail (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
A Serious Man is perhaps the most personal and exquisitely crafted film the Coen Brothers have made to date, a finely tuned black comedy that explores the pointless nature of suffering in 1960s Minnesota.
Movie Dearest (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
Keep up to date with all the latest from the entertainment world with the MD News Desk : Videodrone : - Blast from the Past: the "Silver Shamrock" song from Halloween III: The Season of the Witch . True Blood : - Creator Alan Ball hints at what's to come in season 3 ... - While Entertainment Weekly 's Michael Ausiello has the scoop on a whole batch of new characters. - And just in time for...
Riverfront Times | Complete Issue (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
The Yiddish shtetl shtick that opens Joel and Ethan Coen's new movie — a Jewish peasant stumbles on an old Hasid who may or may not be a Dybbuk — is pretty clumsy, but at least it tips its hat to the great existential comedy that A Serious Man might have become, if it we...
Backseat Cuddler (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Matt Damon and Josh Brolin seem to be joining Jeff Bridges in the upcoming Coen brothers remake True Grit. Matt Damon and Josh Brolin are in discussions with Joel and Ethan Coen to join Jeff Bridges in “True Grit,” the re-imagining of the iconic 1969 Western that Paramount Pictures will put into production next March for [...]
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