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Coen Brothers

WATCH CLOSELY: The Coen Brothers and the Enchanting Western

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs demonstrates the Coens’ consummate skill for reinventing classic genre tropes, dovetailing deep affection with inspired re-interpretation.

By: Peg Aloi Filed Under: Featured, Review, Television Tagged: Coen Brothers, Peg Aloi, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

Film Review: “Hail, Caesar!” — A Sharp Tinsel Town Send-up

The Coen brothers, Joel and Ethan, provide an on-target parody in Hail, Caesar!, their funny period comedy set in ’50s Hollywood.

By: Gerald Peary Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: biblical epics, Coen Brothers, Ethan Coen, George Clooney, Hail Caesar!, hollywood, Joel Coen

TV Review: “Fargo”: or, Do Contract Killers Get Bored and Create Chaos for Fun?

“Fargo” creates its own world of crime and moral conundrums while delivering a fair share of blood. Whether the TV series delivers on its promise to be in the same aesthetic world as the original movie is an open question.

By: Rob Ribera Filed Under: Featured, Review, Television Tagged: Coen Brothers, Fargo, FX, Noah Hawley, Rob Ribera

Film Commentary: “Inside Llewyn Davis” — Another Perspective

Among the important things the filmmakers get right — the elemental pissiness of a scene that is far smaller than it is envisioned by the narcissists who once occupied it.

By: Jackson Braider Filed Under: Featured, Film Tagged: Coen Brothers, Dave Van Ronk, Inside Llewyn Davis, Jackson Braider

Film Review: A Splendid Homage to the Greenwich Village Folk Scene — “Inside Llewyn Davis”

For many boomers, the film will be a joyous invitation to wallow in déjà vu. For younger generations, it will shine a light on a time when musicians really thought music could change the world.

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Coen Brothers, Ethan and Joel Coen, Inside Llewyn Davis, Oscar Isaac

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

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