Coen brothers

Navigation - link to other main sections from here The Coen brothers at their best, wringing a sacrilegious amount of gallows humour from the trials of a latterday Job Wendy Ide The Coen brothers raid both the Old Testament and their...

In this article: God, A Serious Man, Burn After Reading, Carter Burwell, Richard Kind, and Jefferson Airplane

...character like Madge Gunderson from Fargo or The Dude from The Big Lebowski (still the gold standards of the Coen brothers' ouvre). Not vintage Coen brothers then, but they're still filmmakers to love, even if they sometimes make it...

In this article: A Serious Man, Richard Kind, Judaism, and Physics

The Coen Brothers' A Serious Man insists on the absurdity of human existence. Coen brothers; Michael Stuhlbarg; Sari Lennick; Rating: * * * After the final scene of the Coen brothers' A Serious Man is over, at the very end of its closing...

In this article: A Serious Man, Physics, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, Trademark, and Dog

...million - less than half of their past two films' budgets and their lowest since "Raising Arizona" in 1987. It's doubtful the Coen brothers were forced to operate on a limited budget. More likely, they wanted to return to their independent...

In this article: A Serious Man, Oscar, Roland Emmerich, John Cusack, Will Smith, Woody Harrelson, Independence Day, and Raising Arizona

...George Wyner) lead him up the garden path with metaphors and fables, while the revered senior rabbi refuses to see him. The Coen Brothers are the only filmmakers gutsy enough to throw Jefferson Airplane and Kabbalah into the same pot -...

In this article: A Serious Man, Leopold Bloom, New Moon, Matt Damon, and Steven Soderbergh

Oklahoma may be selected as location for 'True Grit' remake from Coen brothers Rooster Cogburn may not gallop into Oklahoma unless the state pumps more money into its film incentive program. U.S. directors Joel Coen, left, and his...

In this article: Oklahoma, True Grit, Fiscal year, Tax, Thanksgiving, A Serious Man, and Rooster Cogburn

Movie-making brothers Joel and Ethan Coen have gone back to their roots in A Serious Man, a dark comedy set in the suburban Midwest of their youth. A Serious Man was recently screened at the Rome and London film festivals The result is...

In this article: Ethan Coen, A Serious Man, No Country for Old Men, Rome, Physics, God, Oscar, Burn After Reading, and True Grit

Two heads are better than one, so goes the famous cliche, and for Ethan and Joel Coen, that's certainly true. The media-shy brothers - at 54, Joel is two years older than Ethan - work on films as a joint effort, writing, directing and...

In this article: Judaic, A Serious Man, Oscar, Burn After Reading, Western University, No Country for Old Men, George Clooney, and Fargo

...the Japanese invasion in World War II, his assistant said Wednesday. The Chinese director is wrapping up an adaptation of Joel and Ethan Coen's 1984 movie "Blood Simple." Zhang's comedy about the owner of a Chinese noodle shop whose plan to...

In this article: Zhang Yimou, China, Nationalist, World War II, Ethan Coen, and Blood Simple

I still rush out to see any Cohen brothers movie. A Serious Man follows Larry Gopnik (Michael Stuhlbarg) through a difficult stretch where his wife wants a divorce and his bid for tenure is tenuous. Set in Minnesota in the late 60s, Larry...

In this article: Cohen Brothers, No Country for Old Men, Malaise, and Minnesota