Articles tagged "joel coen"Featured Article![]() Film DVD ReviewThe Big Lebowski: 10th Anniversary Editionby Evan Sawdey[19.Sep.08] :. A generation-defining comedy about peace and brotherhood, set in a world of backstabbers, liars, and semi-professional bowling leagues. ![]() NewsHow to play at being a villain: Bardem, Ledger reignite media interest in craft of actingby Joe Williams [St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MCT)][14.Aug.08] :. The verdict is nearly unanimous: As the Joker in “The Dark Knight,” Heath Ledger gives a great performance. But what exactly does that mean? As we watch a movie, the mysterious alchemy... ![]() NewsThere will be confusion: Deliberately vague films leave critic coldby Christopher Kelly [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)][24.Feb.08] :. Walking out of a press screening of Paul Thomas Anderson’s “There Will Be Blood” in early November, I turned to a fellow critic in the hopes that he might explain a plot point that... ![]() 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... ![]() PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007 FeatureA Gallery of Good Works: The Best Films of 2007by PopMatters Staff[11.Jan.08] :. From Julian Schnabel's artsy The Diving Bell and the Butterfly to the legendary Coen Brothers splendid adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men, PopMatters counts down the 30 best films of 2007. PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007 ![]() PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007 FeaturePerformance Art: The Best Acting of 2007 - Maleby PopMatters Staff[9.Jan.08] :. From the tender and eerie precision of Sam Riley's depiction of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis in Control to yet another superlative performance by Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood, PopMatters highlights the best male actors of 2007. PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007 Sex and violence are not always gratuitous, directors sayby Duane Dudek [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (MCT)][12.Nov.07] :. What has more sex and violence than an episode of “The Jerry Springer Show”? The multiplex. You can pass through any neighborhood in America and not know what goes on behind the closed... Q&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 Pick![]() Film 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." The 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. The 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. Intolerable 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. 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. 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. |
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