Tag: joelcoen
Blu-ray Review: MILLER'S CROSSING, The Lonely, Existential World of Gangsters
Criterion's release of the Coen Brothers' gangster film is a worthy addition to the collection.
Review: THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH, Vanity Is Thy Name
Denzel Washington and Frances MacDorman star in a film directed by Joel Coen, adapted from the works of William Shakespeare.
New York 2021 Review: Joel Coen's THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH, Expectations Not Met
But there have been many famous screen adaptations of the Shakespeare's play before. The first question anyone would naturally ask is, is another adaptation of the famous Scottish play really necessary?
THE MORTUARY COLLECTION Interview: Director Ryan Spindell and Star Clancy Brown on Their Above-Average Horror Anthology
A funeral home in the town of Raven’s End becomes the ideal setting for the telling of a handful of horror stories in The Mortuary Collection. The mortician, Montgomery Dark (Clancy Brown), receives the visit of “Sam” (Caitlin Fisher), a...
Interview: Zoe Kazan Talks THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS
In the Coen brothers’ The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Zoe Kazan plays Ms. Alice Longabaugh, the title character of ‘Chapter V. The Gal Who Got Rattled’. Alice is the vulnerable young sister of Gilbert, a business failure whose latest hair-brained...
THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS Interview: Tim Blake Nelson
In the days after I first saw the highly anticipated, long time coming anthology Western from the brothers Coen at The New York Film Festival, the most common thing I’d overhear when eavesdropping on the many Scruggs conversations ensuing around...
Review: THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS, The Coens Struggle on Netflix
Netflix's seemingly low-key ongoing rebrand tripped over frustratingly familiar stumbling blocks with The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. Originially conceived of as a series -- and only quite recently announced as a converted feature -- The Ballad of Buster Scruggs definitely bares...
Venice 2018 Review: THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS, The Coens Misfire In New Netflix Western
As a single collection of stories, Joel and Ethan Coen's latest film just really doesn't come off.
Venice 2017 Review: SUBURBICON Floats Between Brilliant and Underbaked
The opening sequences of George Clooney's Suburbicon unfold in front of us like an animated book straight from a Cold War infomercial. Set in late 1940s America, these scenes are accompanied by a narrator who cooingly tells us the benefits...
Coen Brothers Bringing THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS to Netflix
The long revered writing and directing duo of Joel and Ethan Coen are plying their trade for a new western anthology series, The Ballad of Buster Scraggs, created for Netflix to stream globally next year. Tim Blake Nelson, one of...
Blu-ray Review: Criterion's INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS, The Full Ballad
"If it was never new and it never gets old, then it's a folk song."--Llewyn Davis.A great folk ballad has a powerfully worded chorus, then journeys through a descending series of verses to emote its hard-luck tale. By the time...
Criterion Starts 2016 Right: INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS, LADY SNOWBLOOD, THE AMERICAN FRIEND, And More
The Criterion Collection will begin the new year by welcoming the Coen Brothers into the fold. Inside Llewyn Davis dove into the less glamorous side of the folk music scene, and showcased a sterling performance by Oscar Isaac. The Criterion...
The Many Faces Of Tom Hanks
There is a new cold war thriller in cinemas called Bridge of Spies, directed by Steven Spielberg (one of his finest works even, according to Christopher Bourne), written by a team including the Coen brothers, and starring Tom Hanks. And...
New York 2015 Review: BRIDGE OF SPIES, A Thrilling Throwback To An Earlier Era
The New York Film Festival's transition in the past few years from being more or less purely a showcase for the crème-de-la-crème of world cinema (which it still largely is) to being an increasingly prominent stop on the way to...
AnarchyVision: Jason Gorber Talks LLEWYN, FROZEN And HUSTLE/WOLF, Again
Well, with most holidays wrapping up, there are still a slew of movies in theatres definitely deserving of your time. Several (especially Inside Llewyn Davis and American Hustle) are exactly the kind of films that deserve another look given their narrative...
AnarchyVision: Jason Gorber Talks ANCHORMAN 2, INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS and AMERICAN HUSTLE
We're a bit late getting this up, as for this week's segment we needed to overcome freezing temperatures and a city-wide blackout. The studio was running on emergency power, but you wouldn't know it from the camera's point of view!Still...
INEDIT-NESCAFE: Musical Documentaries In Chile. An Overview.
The Inedit Film Festival is a travelling endeavour that goes around the world showing documentaries and films that have the music as their main selling point, any kind of music and any type and genre of film is accepted, and...
Review: INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS, Folk Music And Colorful Characters, Melancholy And Gut Punches
Winners of numerous screenwriting awards, including two Oscars, it's difficult to think of many filmmakers more adept at their craft than Joel and Ethan Coen. So it comes as a bit of a surprise when, in the first act of...
Telluride 2013 Announces Lineup: GRAVITY, JODOROWSKY'S DUNE, DRAGONS, THE TERMINAL MAN, ZAPRUDER, And More
The Telluride Film Festival has announced its lineup for this year's 40th anniversary editions, which begins tomorrow (Thursday, August 29) and runs through Monday, September 2. As usual, the festival has snared a number of high-profile titles, most notably Alfonso...
More Music, More Melancholy In New Trailer For INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS
Honestly, I'm not sure why we actually need three trailers for Joel and Ethan Coen's look into the folk music world of early 60s NYC, but here we have yet again Oscar Issacs as a vagabond-troubadour giving us a slight...
