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'Saint John of Las Vegas' trailer: It's a Buscemi bonanza!
3 December 2009 6:43 AM, PST | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
I once worked at a magazine where we totaled up the minutes of time Steve Buscemi actually spent onscreen during the 1,792 films he had, at that point, appeared in. The answer was two and a half. I exaggerate (slightly). But there's no doubt the Fargo star is rarely handed the kind of chunky roles routinely gifted to actors who are no more talented but possess, well, more conventionally attractive, leading man looks (and I speak as someone who is rarely confused with George Clooney or Jon Hamm myself). However, the new comedy Saint John of Las Vegas seems to be »
- Clark Collis
Movies We Love: Fargo
2 December 2009 10:01 AM, PST | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
Fargo (1996) I guess that was your accomplice in the wood chipper. Synopsis Facing a mountain of debt, Minneapolis car salesman Jerry Lundegaard (William H. Macy) hires thugs Carl Showalter (Steve Buscemi) and Gaear Grimsrud (Peter Stormare) to kidnap his wife Jean (Kristin Rudrüd) and ransom her for money from his wealthy father-in-law Wade (Harve Presnell). When Carl and Gaear leave three bodies in their wake on the car ride to their hideout in Brainerd, Minnesota, the pregnant local police chief Marge Gunderson (Frances McDormand) gets involved in the case. Why We Love It When he first reviewed it in 1996, Roger Ebert wrote “films like Fargo are why I love the movies.” I couldn’t say it any better myself. The crowning achievement in the illustrious careers of Joel and Ethan Coen, it’s the movie that most fully displays their preternatural knack for blending insightful character depictions with a keen sense of the ways genre work. It »
- Robert Levin
DVD Review: ‘Andy Barker, P.I.’ Deserved More Time to Grow
1 December 2009 10:01 AM, PST | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – Created by Conan O’Brien and Jonathan Groff, NBC’s “Andy Barker, P.I.” was barely given even the slightest chance to develop a following when it debuted a few years ago. Andy Richter had the worst luck as a sitcom lead, failing to find an audience for the brilliant-but-canceled “Andy Richter Controls the Universe” and then getting the axe again after only six episodes of the promising “Andy Barker, P.I.”. No wonder he returned to the loving embrace of Conan O’Brien when he went to “The Tonight Show”.
DVD Rating: 3.5/5.0
Richter’s last stab at sitcom glory was a clever comedy about a fish-out-of-water stuck in noir-esque action. The lovable sidekick played Cpa Andy Barker, a successful accountant who stumbles into the life of a private detective after he rents a storefront office that used to be occupied by someone more skilled at the seedy side of humanity. »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Apocalypse Now tops London critics' 30th anniversary poll
1 December 2009 2:46 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Francis Ford Coppola's nightmarish vision of the Vietnam war is named best film of the past three decades, beating Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List to the top spot
Apocalypse Now was today named as the best film of the past three decades by the London Film Critics' Circle (Lfcc). Francis Ford Coppola's nightmarish vision of the Vietnam war beat out Steven Spielberg's 1994 holocaust drama Schindler's List to take top spot in the poll, held to celebrate the organisation's 30th anniversary.
Third place went to German film The Lives of Others, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's Oscar-winner for best foreign language film in 2007. The top five was rounded out by two very different movies with western themes: Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven, from 1992, and Ang Lee's 2005 tale of gay cowboys, Brokeback Mountain.
Chair of the circle and Observer writer Jason Solomons said: "I'm delighted that such a powerful and »
- Ben Child
Film Weekly on Harry Brown and the Coen brothers
12 November 2009 2:57 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
In this week's edition, the Coen brothers chat about bringing their childhood into their new masterpiece A Serious Man, while newcomer Daniel Barber reveals what it was like to direct Michael Caine in revenge thriller Harry Brown. Plus, reviews of Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon and Roland Emmerich's disaster movie 2012.
Joel and Ethan Coen's new film, the suburban comedy A Serious Man, moves away from the menace of No Country for Old Man and Fargo to examine one ordinary, middle-class, middle-American Jewish man's quest to understand why his life has started unravelling. They tell Jason Solomons why it took so long for them to get around to mining their own upbringing for a film.
Next up is director Daniel Barber, whose feature film debut Harry Brown centres on a retired Marine who decides to dispense some vigilante-style justice to the young thugs who killed his friend. He »
- Jason Solomons, Xan Brooks, Jason Phipps, Observer
Movie Review: A Serious Man
2 November 2009 1:29 AM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
Starring: Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Fred Melamed, Sari Lennick
Director: Ethan and Joel Coen
Release Date: October 2, 2009
Running Time: 105 mins.
MPAA Rating: R
Distributor: Focus Features
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Up until A Serious Man, I don't think many would call Ethan and Joel Coen serious men. Looking at Fargo, Burn After Reading, and Raising Arizona, it's clear the Coens prefer to brandish their wickedly black, and sophisticated humor than make forays into stone-faced dramas. Even last year, when the two adapted Cormac McCarthy's heavily philosophical masterpiece No Country For Old Men, the film came out darkly sardonic. This makes their latest film so fascinating. Yes, there is still humor, but it's also heavily meditative and profound.
The cast is largely made up of unknown faces. The protagonist, Larry Gobnik, is played by Michael Stuhlbarg. He's a Jewish physics professor in the mid-west in 1967. His son is a unambituous pothead, »
- blakecgriffin@gmail.com (Blake Griffin)
Movie Review: A Serious Man
2 November 2009 1:29 AM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
Starring: Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Fred Melamed, Sari Lennick
Director: Ethan and Joel Coen
Release Date: October 2, 2009
Running Time: 105 mins.
MPAA Rating: R
Distributor: Focus Features
- - -
Up until A Serious Man, I don't think many would call Ethan and Joel Coen serious men. Looking at Fargo, Burn After Reading, and Raising Arizona, it's clear the Coens prefer to brandish their wickedly black, and sophisticated humor than make forays into stone-faced dramas. Even last year, when the two adapted Cormac McCarthy's heavily philosophical masterpiece No Country For Old Men, the film came out darkly sardonic. This makes their latest film so fascinating. Yes, there is still humor, but it's also heavily meditative and profound.
The cast is largely made up of unknown faces. The protagonist, Larry Gobnik, is played by Michael Stuhlbarg. He's a Jewish physics professor in the mid-west in 1967. His son is a unambituous pothead, »
- blakecgriffin@gmail.com (Blake Griffin)
Movie Review: A Serious Man
2 November 2009 1:29 AM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
Starring: Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Fred Melamed, Sari Lennick
Director: Ethan and Joel Coen
Release Date: October 2, 2009
Running Time: 105 mins.
MPAA Rating: R
Distributor: Focus Features
- - -
Up until A Serious Man, I don't think many would call Ethan and Joel Coen serious men. Looking at Fargo, Burn After Reading, and Raising Arizona, it's clear the Coens prefer to brandish their wickedly black, and sophisticated humor than make forays into stone-faced dramas. Even last year, when the two adapted Cormac McCarthy's heavily philosophical masterpiece No Country For Old Men, the film came out darkly sardonic. This makes their latest film so fascinating. Yes, there is still humor, but it's also heavily meditative and profound.
The cast is largely made up of unknown faces. The protagonist, Larry Gobnik, is played by Michael Stuhlbarg. He's a Jewish physics professor in the mid-west in 1967. His son is a unambituous pothead, »
- blakecgriffin@gmail.com (Blake Griffin)
Movie Review: A Serious Man
2 November 2009 1:29 AM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
Starring: Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Fred Melamed, Sari Lennick
Director: Ethan and Joel Coen
Release Date: October 2, 2009
Running Time: 105 mins.
MPAA Rating: R
Distributor: Focus Features
- - -
Up until A Serious Man, I don't think many would call Ethan and Joel Coen serious men. Looking at Fargo, Burn After Reading, and Raising Arizona, it's clear the Coens prefer to brandish their wickedly black, and sophisticated humor than make forays into stone-faced dramas. Even last year, when the two adapted Cormac McCarthy's heavily philosophical masterpiece No Country For Old Men, the film came out darkly sardonic. This makes their latest film so fascinating. Yes, there is still humor, but it's also heavily meditative and profound.
The cast is largely made up of unknown faces. The protagonist, Larry Gobnik, is played by Michael Stuhlbarg. He's a Jewish physics professor in the mid-west in 1967. His son is a unambituous pothead, »
- blakecgriffin@gmail.com (Blake Griffin)
Spotlight Review: A Serious Man
2 November 2009 1:29 AM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
Starring: Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Fred Melamed, Sari Lennick
Director: Ethan and Joel Coen
Release Date: October 2, 2009
Running Time: 105 mins.
MPAA Rating: R
Distributor: Focus Features
- - -
Up until A Serious Man, I don't think many would call Ethan and Joel Coen serious men. Looking at Fargo, Burn After Reading, and Raising Arizona, it's clear the Coens prefer to brandish their wickedly black, and sophisticated humor than make forays into stone-faced dramas. Even last year, when the two adapted Cormac McCarthy's heavily philosophical masterpiece No Country For Old Men, the film came out darkly sardonic. This makes their latest film so fascinating. Yes, there is still humor, but it's also heavily meditative and profound.
The cast is largely made up of unknown faces. The protagonist, Larry Gobnik, is played by Michael Stuhlbarg. He's a Jewish physics professor in the mid-west in 1967. His son is a unambituous pothead, »
- blakecgriffin@gmail.com (Blake Griffin)
Spotlight Review: A Serious Man
2 November 2009 1:29 AM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
Starring: Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Fred Melamed, Sari Lennick
Director: Ethan and Joel Coen
Release Date: October 2, 2009
Running Time: 105 mins.
MPAA Rating: R
Distributor: Focus Features
- - -
Up until A Serious Man, I don't think many would call Ethan and Joel Coen serious men. Looking at Fargo, Burn After Reading, and Raising Arizona, it's clear the Coens prefer to brandish their wickedly black, and sophisticated humor than make forays into stone-faced dramas. Even last year, when the two adapted Cormac McCarthy's heavily philosophical masterpiece No Country For Old Men, the film came out darkly sardonic. This makes their latest film so fascinating. Yes, there is still humor, but it's also heavily meditative and profound.
The cast is largely made up of unknown faces. The protagonist, Larry Gobnik, is played by Michael Stuhlbarg. He's a Jewish physics professor in the mid-west in 1967. His son is a unambituous pothead, »
- blakecgriffin@gmail.com (Blake Griffin)
Spotlight Review: A Serious Man
2 November 2009 1:29 AM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
Starring: Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Fred Melamed, Sari Lennick
Director: Ethan and Joel Coen
Release Date: October 2, 2009
Running Time: 105 mins.
MPAA Rating: R
Distributor: Focus Features
- - -
Up until A Serious Man, I don't think many would call Ethan and Joel Coen serious men. Looking at Fargo, Burn After Reading, and Raising Arizona, it's clear the Coens prefer to brandish their wickedly black, and sophisticated humor than make forays into stone-faced dramas. Even last year, when the two adapted Cormac McCarthy's heavily philosophical masterpiece No Country For Old Men, the film came out darkly sardonic. This makes their latest film so fascinating. Yes, there is still humor, but it's also heavily meditative and profound.
The cast is largely made up of unknown faces. The protagonist, Larry Gobnik, is played by Michael Stuhlbarg. He's a Jewish physics professor in the mid-west in 1967. His son is a unambituous pothead, »
- blakecgriffin@gmail.com (Blake Griffin)
Spotlight Review: A Serious Man
2 November 2009 1:29 AM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
Starring: Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Fred Melamed, Sari Lennick
Director: Ethan and Joel Coen
Release Date: October 2, 2009
Running Time: 105 mins.
MPAA Rating: R
Distributor: Focus Features
- - -
Up until A Serious Man, I don't think many would call Ethan and Joel Coen serious men. Looking at Fargo, Burn After Reading, and Raising Arizona, it's clear the Coens prefer to brandish their wickedly black, and sophisticated humor than make forays into stone-faced dramas. Even last year, when the two adapted Cormac McCarthy's heavily philosophical masterpiece No Country For Old Men, the film came out darkly sardonic. This makes their latest film so fascinating. Yes, there is still humor, but it's also heavily meditative and profound.
The cast is largely made up of unknown faces. The protagonist, Larry Gobnik, is played by Michael Stuhlbarg. He's a Jewish physics professor in the mid-west in 1967. His son is a unambituous pothead, »
- blakecgriffin@gmail.com (Blake Griffin)
Spotlight Review: A Serious Man
2 November 2009 1:29 AM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
Starring: Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Fred Melamed, Sari Lennick
Director: Ethan and Joel Coen
Release Date: October 2, 2009
Running Time: 105 mins.
MPAA Rating: R
Distributor: Focus Features
- - -
Up until A Serious Man, I don't think many would call Ethan and Joel Coen serious men. Looking at Fargo, Burn After Reading, and Raising Arizona, it's clear the Coens prefer to brandish their wickedly black, and sophisticated humor than make forays into stone-faced dramas. Even last year, when the two adapted Cormac McCarthy's heavily philosophical masterpiece No Country For Old Men, the film came out darkly sardonic. This makes their latest film so fascinating. Yes, there is still humor, but it's also heavily meditative and profound.
The cast is largely made up of unknown faces. The protagonist, Larry Gobnik, is played by Michael Stuhlbarg. He's a Jewish physics professor in the mid-west in 1967. His son is a unambituous pothead, »
- blakecgriffin@gmail.com (Blake Griffin)
Party Favors: Dan Aykroyd Is On A Mission From Vodka
31 October 2009 11:06 PM, PDT | Quick Stop | See recent Quick Stop news »
Joliet, Il - Dan Aykroyd is on a mission from vodka. The Blues Brother is cruising around the country in a Damnation Alley Rv promoting his Crystal Skull premium vodka. He rolled into my town and I was compelled to see the man.
He was appearing at a liquor store on a Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. What sort of crowd could he draw? I showed up at 1 p.m. with my four month old designated driver. There was already 400 people in line. Another 300 people end up behind us. Luckily Dan’s traveling partner announced that even though Dan was schedule to leave at 4:30, he’d be signing his bottles until the last person went home happy.
Why not? Each bottle cost $50. I’ve been told that there’s only two types of vodka in the world: Good vodka and vodka that makes you go blind and piss blood. »
- UncaScroogeMcD
London Film Festival 2009: A Serious Man
29 October 2009 9:55 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
A Serious Man Directed by Joel Coen The Coens are getting positively prolific these days, treating their hardcore fans with a movie a year, and with their latest release, A Serious Man they have taken the comedic strand of their work into uncharted waters to deliver possibly their most haunting and certainly their most personal work to date. Introduced in person in their characteristically succinct manner at this year's Lff, the film, after a mysterious prologue set in a nostalgic Shtetl alights in late 1960's Minnesota. Jewish professor - and I only stress the Jewish status as it is instrumental to the film's chutzpah - Larry Gopnik (Michael Stuhlbarg) is not having a good month. After taking tests for a mystery medical ailment Gopnik is accosted by a disgruntled South Korean student who subsequently attempts to discredit his reputation with anonymous letters to the tenure committee after Gopnik failed him in a critical test. »
- Ricky
Showtime Signs Shameless Pilot
15 October 2009 10:37 AM, PDT | BuzzFocus.com | See recent BuzzFocus.com news »
Press Release Los Angeles, CA – (October 15, 2009) – Showtime and acclaimed Emmy® Award-winning television and film producer John Wells (ER, The West Wing, Southland, Third Watch, Far From Heaven, Showtime's An American Crime) are bringing Shameless, the long running British series to American television starring Emmy® Award-winner and Oscar®-nominee William H. Macy (Door to Door, Fargo, Pleasantville, The Cooler). Showtime has ordered a pilot for this one-hour drama tracing the lives of a very unconventional family which will be executive produced by Wells and the series’ original creator and Emmy® Award-winner Paul Abbott, one of Britain's most critically and commercially successful television producers. The announcement was made today by Robert Greenblatt, President of Entertainment, Showtime Networks Inc. The pilot will be shot in December. “We are honored to be bringing arguably the best American and British television producers together for this unique look at a very ... »
- Buzzfocus Staff
‘A Serious Man’ Plays as Masterfully Fictionalized Autobiography For Joel, Ethan Coen
11 October 2009 10:20 AM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – “A Serious Man” isn’t the story of Joel and Ethan Coen’s lives. But you might not necessarily know it. While the brothers continue to turn their films into Hollywood gold, this 1967-set black comedy is among the more personal projects in their repertoire.
Rating: 4.0/5.0
That gamut is growing into a serious catalog with “Burn After Reading,” 2007 best-picture Oscar winner “No Country for Old Men,” “The Ladykillers,” “O Brother, Where Art Thou?,” “The Big Lebowski,” “Fargo” and “Raising Arizona” now under their yamakas over the course of two decades.
While the yamaka is designed to signify deference to god, “A Serious Man” pays homage to the Coens’ culture in an authentically Jewish way. But this is more than just one of the more Jewish films you’ve seen since “Schindler’s List”. “A Serious Man” is powered by a highly internal script and actors who externalize a series of very unfortunate events. »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
A Serious Man
9 October 2009 8:09 AM, PDT | The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news »
Directed by: Ethan Coen & Joel Coen
Cast: Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Fred Melamed, Aaron Wolff
Running Time: 1 hr 45 mins
Rating: R
Release Date: October 9, 2009
Plot: A man (Stuhlbarg) whose life is slowly falling apart in 1967 seeks wisdom from his local rabbis.
Who’S It For? This is open to anyone who wants to experience a film that is thought provoking, and almost soul searching. It is not a “black comedy,” as some have said. This is a realistic drama, but it never has a dull moment.
Expectations: I had not seen the trailer before hand. But when the Coen Brothers are involved, no preview should be necessary.
Click Here to read Allen’s interview with Michael Stuhlbarg
Scorecard (0-10)
Actors:
Michael Stuhlbarg as Larry Gopnik: With the world constantly turning away and leaving him behind in the ruins that are fragments of his pride, this constantly cornered character never rings untrue. »
- Nick Allen
Movie Review: 'A Serious Man'
7 October 2009 12:55 AM, PDT | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »
A Serious Man boasts all the hallmarks of a typical Coen brothers film, including delightful meanderings away from the central plot, quirks in dialogue and facial expressions, and random events that have a dramatic effect on the lives of its characters. But for all its resemblance to the average picture from Joel and Ethan Coen, their latest offering is their most challenging, noncommercial work yet.
Set in a largely Jewish suburb of Minneapolis, Minnesota, A Serious Man reflects not only the Coens’ Midwestern roots, but it also focuses on their Jewish heritage. The film’s seemingly unrelated prologue is set in a 19th century shtetl in Europe, and religion figures prominently in both the daily lives of A Serious Man’s characters as well as its protagonist’s existential crisis. Resembling a 1960s retelling of Job’s trials, A Serious Man follows the tribulations of Jewish college professor Larry Gopnik »
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