Features
Wednesday, January 12 2011
The Best Films of 2010
Among this year's winners include a fake documentary, a comedy about Jihad, a vampire story NOT dealing with tacky tween romance, a haunting hillbilly noir, and an elegant tale about clones. Not necessarily the usual cinematic suspects.
Wednesday, January 5 2011
The Best Male Film Performances of 2010
Heroes and villains, criminals and crazed creative types: the 20 best male performances of 2010 definitely run the dramatic/comedic character topography... with a few unusual turns tossed in for good measure.
Reviews
Friday, December 24 2010
'True Grit': Some Bully Shot
True Grit clarifies the relationship between their very rugged physical adventure and their storytelling, their repeated efforts to claim control of the brutality they encounter and enact.
Blogs
Tuesday, August 30 2011
Twin Talents: The 10 Best Films by the Coen Brothers
Perhaps the greatest American filmmakers of the last 25 years, here are the Coens' 10 best movies. Fifteen movies since their early '80s start, and very few, if any are true artistic flops.
Thursday, September 2 2010
Okay, Real Good, Then: The Coen Brothers as Leading Men
The Coen brothers’ stable of actors is not to be trifled with. It boasts such enormous matinée idols as George Clooney and Brad Pitt, as…
Monday, July 12 2010
Serious Men, Inglourious Basterds
While Inglourious Basterds is about a band of freedom fighters standing against the Nazis, rather than one man’s inward crisis with the riddle of existence itself, there is a profound and personal moral center to the Basterds’ struggles, a “seriousness.”
Wednesday, June 30 2010
Revisiting the Coens' 'Burn After Reading'
The Coens' A Serious Man is a more successful attempt at putting across some of the same ideas that Burn After Reading gestures toward -- exploring whether stories have inherent meanings, or whether these are imposed institutionally or individually after the fact -- and is much funnier too.
Sunday, January 31 2010
A Serious Man (2009): Blu-ray
Parables are supposed to explain the world, not make it more complicated. We are supposed to gain insight and wisdom from religious allegory, not reel…
News
Friday, November 9 2007
Q&A with 'No Country for Old Men' makers Joel and Ethan Coen
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…
