Toronto 2009: A New Film from the Coen Brothers
The Toronto International Film Festival, which vies annually with Sundance for the title of Most Important Film Exhibition in North America, wrapped this past weekend, and Paste was there to sample the latest wares from the world's filmmakers. Red carpets were unfurled and appropriately soiled, movies were projected onto silver screens, and viewers were duly exhausted by both pretty pictures and, I'm told, nights on the town. In just nine days, TIFF screened over 250 feature films of all types, from major Hollywood business gambits to small experimental pieces, from the personal work of emerging filmmakers to the latest movies... read more
Found in: Blogs, FestivusWatch the Trailer for the New Coen Brothers Movie, A Serious Man
Here come the Coen Brothers. Their new movie, A Serious Man, follows a middle-class Jewish academic in turmoil, and it’s already famous because it presents a vaguely autobiographical portrait of their childhood (it was filmed in the brothers’ native Minnesota). ... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsCoen Brothers to remake John Wayne's True Grit
Following a mixed reception to 2008's Burn After Reading, the Coen Brothers will return with True Grit, the classic Western that won John Wayne an Oscar in 1969.... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsNew Coen brothers film begins shooting in Twin Cities
With Burn After Reading set to open nationwide on Friday and after three Oscars this year alone, Joel and Ethan Coen have certainly completed a year’s work. But don't tell them that.... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsWatch the trailer for new Coens project Burn After Reading
Brad Pitt getting jiggy with his iPod. John Malkovich punching Brad Pitt in the face. A bearded George Clooney hitting on his Michael Clayton co-star Tilda Swinton. If these scenes intrigue you to any extent whatsoever, then there's a certain movie trailer you need to see:... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsCoen brothers’ Burn After Reading coming Sept. 12
Following their Academy Award winning No Country for Old Men, the Coen brothers are prepping a new feature. Entitled Burn After Reading, the film is set for a Sept. 12 release via Focus Features and Working Title. Burn has a tone that should appeal to a broader audience, hence the nationwide release. The story follows the comedy, dark as it may be, that ensues when the memoirs of an ex-CIA agent are somehow accidentally left at his wife’s gym. They are then discovered by two finagling employees who decide to use it toward their benefit. Robert Graf is executive producing... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsCoen Brothers adapting Michael Chabon
The last time the Coen brothers adapted a work by a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, the results spoke for themselves in No Country for Old Men. This time, the siblings are mining similar territory via Michael Chabon's recent novel The Yiddish Policeman's Union. The book takes place in an alternate reality where the government plans on turning the Jewish settlement Sitka, Alaska over to Alaskan natives. Since this was Chabon's take on older pulp murder mysteries, the focus of the work is on the noir-esque search for someone who killed a chess prodigy who may in fact be the messiah. The... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsPoll: What is your favorite Coen Brothers movie?
What is your favorite Coen Brothers movie? [1992 votes total] The Big Lebowski (780): 39% The Man Who Wasn't There (19): 1% Fargo (301): 15% The Ladykillers (14): 1% Raising Arizona (284): 14% Intolerable Cruelty (12): 1% O Brother, Where Art Thou? (408): 20% The Hudsucker Proxy (64): 3% Barton Fink (51): 3% Other (59): 3% Full Results Comments ... read more
Found in: Music, NewsNo Country For Old Men
Coens return in stark hail of creatively splattered blood... read more
Found in: Movies, ReviewsCoens short, video distribution service announced
Joel and Ethan Coen have signed an agreement with 60Frames to create the first in a series of short films to be distributed online. In much the same manner as Will Ferrel’s company Funnyordie launched with its video “The Landlord,” 60Frames plans on using this first video to gain the company notoriety and then continue to release new shorts through their website as well as distributing them across peer-to-peer networks, web portals, mobile phones and whatever other new channels of communication they can find. The company’s goal seems twofold. The artistic reason for its existence is to give interested writers... read more
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