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Yay! Yet another Coen Bros. film in the works!!!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. I'm incredibly giddy that the Coens are shooting these fuckers out. I love their films. I've even mentioned in a recent post that I love their misfires. I totally do. There's enough originality and interesting filmmaking in even LADYKILLERS and INTOLERABLE CRUELTY to put to shame most films out there.
Focus Features has a two film deal with the Coen Bros. The first is BURN AFTER READING, which we recently just covered when Brad Pitt joined George Clooney and Frances McDormand, and they sent out a press release today announcing the second film called A SERIOUS MAN.
That means 3 new Coen Bros films in the next two years. Is this heaven?
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Me loves me some Coen films. (Frist?)
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Definitely looking forward to more of their movies! Raising Arizona, anyone? O Brother? Fargo? F'n A!!!
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What's the third one?
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Playing at Cannes next month. They're in post-production on it now.
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didn't know about that..
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for No Country For Old Men
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I am literally dying to see the Coen's version of that great, great book. But any Coen film is better than no Coen film.
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But I'm still waiting for 'Hail Cesear', the last part of the so-called 'idiot' trilogy with Clooney, 'To the White Water' and any number of proposed projects that never surface. The fact that they're back making films again is simply good enough for me. We need them.
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And is someone gonna turn "The Road" into a movie? Not sure I could handle it if they did, talk about a devastating book, man...
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for The Road. He directed The Proposition - the Guy Pearce/Ray Winstone/Danny Huston Australian western and I thought that had a real McCarthy flavor going for it. I loved that flick, but even if one didn't they would have to admit that Hillcoat's style could well serve a McCarthy story. And I think I'm even getting excited about Ridley Scott finally doing Blood Meridian.
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they are writing their own stories and scripts. their last two flicks were bloody awful. Even though that open letter Moriatry wrote a while back was a tad on the dramatic side it was exactly on the money. I felt his pain. To go from making Millers crossing and Lebowski to the ladykillers...Let's just hope the fall didn't bump their noggins too badly so they can remember how to make brilliant movies again.
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...guys that make movies are going to make more movies. When asked for comment, guys who make movies replied "it's what we do."
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But it would make a good movie, I thought so even while reading it. Anyhoo, does anyone know off-hand how much Cho Seung-Hui weighed? Like, his actual weight in pounds? I was sure I would be able to learn this through the miracle of the internet but I have been looking since like Sunday night and no luck yet. Anyone know?
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It appears that "Burn After Reading" is an original screenplay, but is "A Serious Man"? These incessant adaptations worry me. "No Country For Old Men" would make three in a row.
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Love the Coens. Loved 'Oh Brother'. Love everything they do. Can't wait for anything they do. Love Frances McDormands legs... (Have you beheld those pillars of gloriousness?). Hail the Mighty Coen brothers... and Hail to the wife they share!
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Would. Repeatedly. Until her fillings rattled. That is a seriously sexy woman. Oh and, yeah a great actress and very intelligent woman...sorry.
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as long as doing 3 films so close together doesn't dilute the quality of them. Rather see one amazing Coen Bros film than 3 luke-warm ones.
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Tommy Lee Jones is the lead in No Country. Three Coen movies means three movies actually worth looking forward to. Personally Miller's Crossing is my favourite Coen movie but O Brother, Fargo, Lebowski, etc - I love 'em all. And if Blood Simple isn't one of the best debuts ever i don't know what is!
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Strikes (Ethan) and Gutters (Damn you Michael Bay)
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and have not seen the lady killers or Interoble cruelty. Tried watching The man who wasnt there but fell asleep after 2 mins. It....was....so.....slow.....moving.....it....was....like.....watching......paint......drying......slowly.
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is their finest. But Hudsucker Proxy is the one I remember the most.
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http://tinyurl.com/ynnsfz
here the Coens talk a bit about their process and how much they depend on and enjoy the new Final Cut suite. I figured others might appreciate seeing this - it does have a few shots from what I assume is No Country, but nothing that'll spoil anything, imo
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You have lost my love, bruv! I take it all back, you shouldn't get black text! Your poor taste and rainman rumlings have done it this time! THIS IS WAR!
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...Are you a mad man? I demand you go back and watch 'The Man who wasn't there' with matchsticks in your eyes if you must. It is indeed the epitome of cinematic artistry...
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ing this.
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he's as mad as a hat!
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Who Wasn't There" was what made the movie so hilarious. Especially Billy Bob's performance. But a lot of people also didn't like the pacing. I believe that's the only way the movie could work and that's a hard thing to do. "Stranger Than Fiction" was a recent film that tried to slow down it's pace to enhance the mundane, but it felt superficial. It just didn't work for me with that movie.
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... or indeed as daft as a brush!
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Loved Man Who Wasn't There and Big Lebowski, shouldn't have actually finished O Brother Where Art Thou, couldn't actually finish watching Intolerable Cruelty, couldn't actually finish watching the trailer for Ladykillers.
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and made for each other!
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. . . and interesting filmmaking in even LADYKILLERS and INTOLERABLE CRUELTY to put to shame most films out there." Uhhh, no, Quint, there is not. You could say that about everything they did prior to those 2 failures though. I'm a HUGE fan. LOVE there work. But those 2. Ouch, the memories of them hurt my brain.
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was an odd odd thing. It was like watching a film by a director who grew up watching the Coen's. His only shot at directing would be making this film. A Farrely Brothers hand me down script. The cinematogaphy, music and pacing seem familiar, but what is going on screen seems to just be off center. Things just aren't in tune.
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Jennifer Jason Leigh has never been hotter. Paul Newman, Tim Robbins, John Mahoney, Charles Durning...what's not to love?
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most Hollywood dreck. If it's a return to the form of Oh Brother etc, even better.
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Their last GREAT film was Fargo. They have made so many bad films lately, it's impossible to care anymore. The Man Who Wasn't There, Intolerable Cruelty, The Ladykillers all sucked beyond belief. All their talent has been used up. The last shred was used in The Big Leibowski.
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we need a sequel to 'Oh Brother...'
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Hudsucker Proxy had JENNIFER JASON LEIGH'S SWEET ASS IN PERIOD COSTUME!!! And the lamest Coen movie was Barton Fink.
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...and, with that, Osmosis Jones stumbles into the pit of irrelevancy.
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Cohen Bros. withdraw.
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But the big/most important question - are all three movie scripts 100% their own?!? THAT was the issue with Intolerable (which I like) and Ladykillers - unoriginal source material (i.e. someone else worked on it and/or previously made). They're the best when they generate it solely on their own. Anyone know? I guess I can go to IMDB...
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Some great scenes/moments, but it's the one Coen movie that leaves me a bit cold.
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Yes.
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And what ever cash you got in the drawer.
Raising Arizona is the greatest single comedy movie ever made. Then they made Lebowski which was just as funny if not better. I wanted a Coen's Three Stooges "Biography" film. Kind of like Ray or Walk the line except with more Coenisms. -
It is certainly pretentious...that is the point. Barton Fink is a pretentious playwrite and he gets his ass handed to him because of it. And if the film leaves you cold then that is a sign of its success. It is certainly not the aim of the film to make you feel good or hopefull afterwords. It is a violent and depressing piece of work...and it is brilliant on top of that. MILLERS CROSSING, BIG LEBOWSKI and BARTON FINK are the big three in my opinion...I've lost count on how many times I've watched them.
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Ladykillers was fucking hilarious: The fade from bluegrass to hip-hop, Marlon wayans actually being funny, Tom hanks' performance, JK simmons blowing his fingers off, The old lady. Gold, Jerry, gold.
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Hope they return to something like Fargo or Raising Arizona.
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Have to admit, that line sure stirs up a giggle.
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very much past her prime. I'd have take out her dentures first before face fucking her. But on a serious note, i'm well excited about a new Coen Bros movie. These fuckers have some serious talent.
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Yeah but what a consistent strike rate, jeez Tarantino could learn a little about a work ethic from those guys. Most writer/directors will be lucky if they can dine out on ONE classic film let alone the half dozen they've managed. We need the Coens right now, we really do - the only filmmakers who can genuinely surprise, confound and entertain you without the need for massive s'plosions. *By the way I loved The Man Who Wasn't There - sheer class and one of the few good Scarlet Johannssen performances, not like she does much in it I have to say...*
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in Laurel Canyon having a 3-way with Kate Beckinsale and that clownpie dude from Face-Off. Niiiiiiice.
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I love me some Big Lebowski, that may be the most quotable movie in the Coens' repertoire, and that's saying something. If not their "best" movie, it is my favorite. Raising Arizona is also endlessly entertaining, and gets bonus points for putting Randall "Tex" Cobb in his best role since Uncommon Valor... :) "Boy, you just bought the whole can of whup-ass!"
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Not unless you think round is funny.
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the Coens' at there worst are still better than most.
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a fucking pure classic comedy. One of my absolute favorite films.
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Three movies in two years! Now they can join Woody Allen and Spike Lee in the hallowed ranks of directors who made great films rarely and now make mediocre or passable films as often as possible! Seriously, too much, too often.
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Oh hell yeah! Now, all I need is Peter Jackson on JLA...
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What's with their Bred Pitt non-dialog warmovie? Still too expensive?
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I don't know about you but I take comfort in that. It's good knowin' he's out there. The Dude. Takin' 'er easy for all us sinners. Shoosh. I sure hope he makes the finals.
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All Coen is good Coen. Even comparative misfires like LADYKILLERS (which they wrote for Barry Sonnenfeld to direct, IIRC, but he dropped out). INTOLERABLE CRUELTY grows on me with each viewing, plus Clooney is actually good at that screwball thing. For my money, MILLER'S CROSSING is the best thing they ever did. I read NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN when it came out in paperback in the UK last Summer, and loved it. It's worth a read, fan-girls and boys. A novel with some real resonance. If you look at the casting on IMDB and match it across to the characters in the book, you'll see some real care and attention being paid to the source material. I can pretty well guarantee that you're not gonna believe Javier Bardem playing Anton Chigurh. That is seriously awesome and left-field casting, for a seriously awesome badass character. Don't take my word for it, though. Read the book.
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Watched it a few weeks ago, cried my eyes out. Great flick.
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Their San Francisco Sourdough toast is to die for.
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Apr 24, 2007 3:24:00 PM CDT
GODDAMMIT, H.I.!!! AIN'T WE GOT ENOUGH TO CONTEND WITH?
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Love that film.Saw it 4 times in the theater back in the summer of '87. Good times.
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Another perfect film.
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"...Some say, part hound dog. But when some dink busts out of jail, skips bail ... I'm the one they call." Damn, i may have to watch myself a double-feature this weekend... :)
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O Brother is their best, most perfect film. But I think you have to be at least part Southern to appreciate it.
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The scene where John Turturro is begging for his life is so powerful(and maybe the best performance of his career, that and Lebowski) as is the moment where albert Finney is listening to the gramophone and the gangsters are coming up the stairs. Finney who knows they are after him and he crawls under the bed and they fire. Masterful stuff. That film should have won them academy award for best picture. I also loved the big lebowski. That was jeff bridges best perfomance in a very long time. I loved that movie. It was the first sam eliot movie that I saw. What a guy. that texan drawl. I also really admired Julianne Moore at that time. untill she went and starred in Hannibal and dont really admire her anymore. Her choices have been really dumb. Like forgotten and who ever decided she should star in Evolution should have been shot.
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What a great actor John Goodman was. I had seen him in Roseanne and was the only reason watch that show. He and maybe Laurie Metcalf and the lovely Sarah Chalke. But his performance in Barton fink was soemthing else. Outstanding. I loved all the coen's brothers movies upon till that movie that I was verbal kicked for disliking earlier.
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This could be the great western I've been waiting for them to direct since Razing Arizona. After seeing Three Burrials I'm convinced Tommy Lee Jones was born to play Bell.
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He has this with the Cohens, Grindhouse with RR, Tony Scotts' American Gangster, and Paul Haggis's In the Valley of Elah. I can't think of any major actor who's been in more big name films with prestige directors in one year. Is he the American Michael Caine now?
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As a lifelong Bostonite, I adore O'brother. Really, it's the music that help makes most Cohens great. Also, I find myself quoting their comedies more often, than any other filmakers.
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Son, you've got a panty on your head.
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Was a seriously underrated movie.
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...(I love the way John Turturro delivers that line!) and you'll have to admit that MILLER'S CROSSING ranks with up there with the greatest gangster films ever made.
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