Articles tagged "the big lebowski"

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Finding Steve Buscemi: The Perfect Understatement

by Jillian Steinhauer

[25.Sep.09] :. It’s only when you internalize Steve Buscemi’s movies [they] become a part of your life in an extremely personal, emotional way.

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‘Dude’ who inspired Coen film ‘The Big Lebowski’ has become a cult figure

by Jennifer Sullivan [The Seattle Times (MCT)]

[23.Jul.09] :. SEATTLE — Jeff “The Dude” Dowd lumbered off the light rail train, sunglasses on, gray curly mop of hair nodding and his hands waving emphatically as he rattled on about politics,...

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Flop ‘Lebowski’ is right down cultists’ alley

by David Hiltbrand [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[10.Sep.08] :. Let us now praise the Dude. That’s right, the dubious hero - or is he merely the foil? - of the Coen brothers’ loopy 1998 comedy, “The Big Lebowski.” As played by Jeff...

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PopLists: Top 10 stoner flicks

by Carrie Rickey [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[1.Aug.08] :. 1. “The Big Lebowski” (1998) The Dude (Jeff Bridges), bowls, smokes, drinks White Russians and avenges the mobsters who soiled his Oriental. 2. “Bill & Ted’s...

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From Cheech & Chong to Harold & Kumar: Stoner flicks live in pop culture infamy

by Carrie Rickey [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[1.Aug.08] :. Funniest pot joke in a movie? The moment in “Up in Smoke (1978) when the blissed-out Cheech, having sampled a doobie the size of Baja California, asks, “How’m I driving?” and...

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Years after ‘Lebowski’, The Dude abides

by Rick Press [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[3.Jan.08] :. “Sometimes there’s a man . . . I won’t say a hero, `cause what’s a hero? . . . He’s the man for his time and place.” That man is Jeffrey Leon Bridges—better...

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Part 5: The Return of the Auteur

by PopMatters Staff

[22.Jun.07] :. That noise you heard near the start of the new millennium was the creative din of a brash new breed of filmmakers tearing down the traditions of mainstream moviemaking. Their motion picture mission statements -- including the ones featured on this list -- remain the rulebook for new generations of anxious film artists.