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Articles tagged "joel coen" NewsJoel and Ethan Coen’s ‘No Country for Old Men’ is favored for the Oscarby John Anderson [Newsday (MCT)][22.Feb.08] :. LOS ANGELES - On a Sunday night this past January, as the filmmaking brothers Ethan and Joel Coen were picking up one of several New York Film Critics Circle Awards for “No Country for Old...  NewsQ&A with ‘No Country for Old Men’ makers Joel and Ethan Coenby Colin Covert [Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT)][9.Nov.07] :. Joel and Ethan Coen are in almost constant motion. Three days after completing photography in New York City on their upcoming spy comedy “Burn After Reading,” in the lull before beginning... PopMatters PickFilm ReviewNo Country for Old Menby Cynthia Fuchs[9.Nov.07] :. The desolate landscape and moral layout evoke old Westerns, but the film, based on Cormac McCarthy's novel, also reconsiders the genre's conventions, comparing now and "the old times."  Film DVD ReviewThe Ladykillers (2004)by Cynthia Fuchs[8.Sep.04] :. Pious, earnest, and broadly drawn, Marva is the first black character in a Coen brothers movie to occupy center stage. Film ReviewThe Ladykillers (2004)by Cynthia Fuchs[26.Mar.04] :. Pious, earnest, and broadly drawn, Marva is the first black character in a Coen brothers movie to occupy center stage. For a minute, anyway.  Film ReviewIntolerable Cruelty (2003)by Cynthia Fuchs[9.Oct.03] :. The Coen brothers' latest venture is a rat-a-tat romantic comedy of the Preston Sturges persuasion, at least for its first hour or so. Fargo (1996)by Cynthia Fuchs[30.Sep.03] :. This is the film's genius, its simultaneous emulation and excavation of true crime's obsession with dull or spectacular minutiae, coupled with a refusal to make such details cohere into master plans and meanings. The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001)by Cynthia FuchsWhile Ed confides his dissatisfaction, you also get a glimpse of how he sees the world, the camera peering down at scalps or neck napes, apparently always in need of trimming or cutting or buzzing. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)by Lucas HilderbrandIt's a Depression-era musical laid on top of a chain gang escape film, inspired at once by Homer's 'The Odyssey' and Preston Sturges' screwball comedies. But outrageous as it might seem, this ultra-high-concept project suffers from a lack of inspiration. |
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