The Brothers Coen are not known for explaining themselves. In fact, they often go out of their way not to.And the height of this obfuscatory impulse is Barton Fink. Perhaps not coincidentally, until No Country for Old Men, it was their most critically well-received: it won the Palm d’Or at Cannes, as well as Best [...]
Tags: Barton Fink, Joel and Ethan Coen, John Goodman, Turturro
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Here’s a cool film from Jonathan Lapper over at Cinema Styles:
To see it in it’s natural habitat at Jonathan’s great site Cinema Styles, go here.
Also, go over to YouTube , Digg it and otherwise show it some love. Never mind if you don’t know what this new-fangled digging stuff is . . . [...]
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Peter Bogdanovich has a great appreciation for Jean Renoir over at the New York Observer. He regards Renoir as “The Best Director, Ever,” and who am I to argue? He writes:
“In the 1950s, the Young Turks of the French New Wave—Truffaut, Godard, Rohmer, Chabrol, etc.—acclaimed Hawks and Alfred Hitchcock but reserved the [...]
Tags: Grand Illusion, Jean Renoir, Rules of the Game
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