Ingmar Bergman and Review Rick on 15 Sep 2008
Riddle me this: What do you do if you’re Joel and Ethan Coen, and you’ve just made the most critically acclaimed film of 2007, that most everyone believes is practically perfect in every way, and that garnered four Academy awards, including Best Picture and Best Director? The answer, apparently, is you make Burn After Reading, [...]
Tags: Brad Pitt, Frances McDormand, George Clooney, Joel and Ethan Coen
Analysis & Commentary and Review Rick on 05 Jun 2008
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
News Rick on 07 Apr 2008
It’s a month dedicated to the Coen brothers at MovieZeal; I’ll be contributing a piece later in the month; in the meantime, check out this great review of Raising Arizona by Evan Derrick, who writes
Raising Arizona continues the Coens’ fascination with bending genre, the screwball comedy (ala Peter Bogdanovitch) serving as their guinea pig this [...]
Tags: Almodovar, Blog-a-thons, Joel and Ethan Coen
News Rick on 26 Feb 2008
I can honestly say that Sunday’s Oscars were the most satisfying in years, and not just because I beat out my wife at the prediction game, either. As a matter of fact, I wasn’t very good at predicting: just one pick better than 500 (alas, it seems my rule of thumb “If No [...]
Tags: Best Actor, Best Actress, best picture, Daniel Day-Lewis, Joel and Ethan Coen, Jon Stewart, Oscars, Tilda Swinton
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