Joel And Ethan Coen | Coosa Creek Cinema

Burn After Reading

By Rick, on September 15th, 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, [...]

Dreaming of Barton Fink

By Rick, on June 5th, 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 [...]

Coosa Creek Times, 4-7-2008

By Rick, on April 7th, 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 [...]

Coosa Creek Times, Oscar Wrap-Up Edition

By Rick, on February 26th, 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 [...]