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A Serious Man

Film Review: “A Serious Man” Has Serious Thoughts

Reviewed by Justin Marble For all of their acclaim, the Coen brothers have never been considered “personal” filmmakers. Technically talented, stylish, and humorous, sure, but in describing the Coens’ filmography, even their attempts at “mature” pieces deal in fantasy elements. Hitmen, large sums of money, and murder yarns proliferate the Coens’ oeuvre, and while these […]

By: Justin Marble Filed Under: Featured, Film Tagged: A Serious Man, Coen Brothers, Ethan and Joel Coen, Jewish, Justin Marble, Michael Stuhlbarg

Coming Attractions in Film: October 2009

By Justin Marble October 1 through 3: Classic Cinema at Museum of Fine Arts: This weekend, the Museum of Fine Arts is showing two classic pieces of cinema. First up is Akira Kurosawa’s “Throne of Blood,” his reworking of Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” in feudal Japan. Then it’s Sam Peckinpah’s “The Wild Bunch,” a 1969 Western that […]

By: Justin Marble Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Film Tagged: A Serious Man, Antichrist, Brattle Theatre, Coen Brothers, Coolidge Corner, Eclipse, Film, Justin Marble, lars-von-trier, Michaelangelo Antonioni, Movies, Peter Yates, Spike Jonze, The Friends fo Eddie Coyle, The Room, Tommy Wiseau, Where the Wild Things Are

Culture Vulture at the Gropius House

Visiting the Frelinghuysen Morris House in Lenox got me thinking about modernist architecture in the eastern part of Massachusetts where Walter Gropius landed as part of the great exodus of “degenerate” artists, scientists, writers and other intellectuals who fled to America from Nazi Germany in the years before the second world war. by Helen Epstein […]

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: A Serious Man, Berkshires, Culture Vulture, gropius House, Ise Gropius, Lincoln

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