Perhaps hoping for a repeat of No Country For Old Men, the Coen Brothers are once again teaming up with producer Scott Rudin to make a movie out of Michael Chabon’s The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, Variety reports. Columbia acquired the screen rights.
"No Country," which was based on the Cormac McCarthy book, was Read More
The Coen brothers’ No Country For Old Men won the top prize at the 14th annual Screen Actors Guild awards show, while The Sopranos cleaned up in the television categories. With this year’s Golden Globes reduced to a press conference and the fate of next month’s Oscars uncertain, the ordinarily downplayed Screen Actors Read More
The New York Film Critics Circle follows the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures route and gives the Coen Brothers’ No Country for Old Men top accolades during today’s voting. The film won best film, best screenplay, best director and Javier Bardem received the best supporting actor award.
Full list of Read More
Get out your Oscar pool cards, kids! The National Board of Review of Motion Pictures, which usually tests the awards-season winds early in the season, announced their annual awards this afternoon, naming the Coen brothers’ No Country For Old Men 2007′s Best Film of the Year. They also got the best adapted screenplay award and Read More
BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU’RE DEAD
Running time 117 minutes
Directed by Sidney Lumet
Written by Kelly Masterson
Starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ethan Hawke, Albert Finney, Marisa Tomei
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
Running time 122 minutes
Written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen
Read More
It’s been a bad year for movies, especially summer blockbusters, and most fans probably look toward the upcoming rental season thinking: “I didn’t want to see it then, I don’t want to see it now.” But sure enough, the silliest of flicks start to look tempting once you eliminate the $10.50 ticket price … even Read More
Joel Coen’s The Man Who Wasn’t There , from a screenplay by Joel and Ethan Coen and produced by Ethan Coen, professes to return us to the black-and-white world of 40′s and 50′s film noir, California style, specifically evoked by the grubby middle-class protagonists of James M. Cain’s sardonically well-plotted thrillers, such as are to Read More
Volker Schlöndorff’s The Legend of Rita , from a screenplay by Wolfgang
Kohlhaase in collaboration with Mr. Schlöndorff, starts with an ill-fated band
of Marxist revolutionaries in Germany in the 1970′s. Rita Vogt (Bibiana Beglau)
has joined the movement, partly out of disaffection with the
capitalist-materialist system prevailing in West Germany and partly out of Read More
Joel Coen’s The Big Lebowski , produced by his brother Ethan Coen, turns out to be a cubist comedy concocted by the irrepressible Coen brothers out of bits and pieces of the old and the new, the black and the blue, the profound and the profane, in a portion of Los Angeles where hyper-reality collides Read More
