Ethan Coen and Joel Coen: Collected Screenplays 1: Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink
Phawker (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
... to such existential heights since the similarly baroque Hell created in eighteen years ago in Barton Fink . A Shakespearean stage actor with little film work to his credit, Michael Stuhlbarg is a revelation as Larry Gopnik, a suburban Job forced over the space of a few weeks to suffer through ever-deepening levels of humiliation. A community college science professor whose tenure...
Wild Tyme (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
... and barmy as their best work, with its closest siblings, no doubt, being The Big Lebowski or Barton Fink . Read the full article here .
Most Beautiful Fraud in the World (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
... close. In that Coenesque second tier realm of Miller's Crossing , Raising Arizona , Blood Simple , Barton Fink and The Big Lebowski . A strangely curious little film indeed. Read my review of A Serious Man at The Cinematheque.
BrowserMetrics (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
... or cursed? The Coens always make a film that you have to ponder about. This one makes me think of Barton Fink. I thought A Serious Man was penned by Barton Fink. Both films protagonists are afloat in the world that seems to have it against them, and they are powerless to effect change. It is fate, god, Hashim that animates their world, but why does He seem to be leveling...
The First Post (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Yet the film still deals with many of the Coens' recurring themes, in which human existence and the search for meaning in a random, godless universe are ultimately futile. And the same brand of fatalistic, Jewish humour - present in Barton Fink and The Big Lebowski - also runs through A Serious Man. After a five-minute Yiddish-language prologue (a Jewish 'folk tale', contrived by the...
Notes from Underdog. (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
... rimmed glasses and astonished-at-the-world expression seems at first a cousin to John Turturro's Barton Fink but Gopnik's exasperation is more grounded in reality. The Coen brothers of course can always be counted on for spot-on casting (it should be noted that the casting directors here are Ellen Chenoweth, who has a most impressive list of credits, and Rachel Tenner; both have cast...
whoar.co.nz (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
“..The Coen brothers, it has been written, can be tricky. As the two fraternal film-making mavericks drift higher into the Hollywood firmament — loaded with Oscars from No Country for Old Men, glowing with kudos from Fargo, Barton Fink and half a dozen modern classics — – their creeping disdain for the interview process becomes [...]
Film Experience Blog (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
... like Dustin Hoffman's in Wag the Dog, Jean Hagen in Singin' in the Rain or Michael Lerner's for Barton Fink (among many others). But Shirley, who is a complete knockout as Debbie Reynolds substitute Doris Mann whether she's singing, cracking jokes, or winking for our sympathy, was bizarrely snubbed. I'll never figure that one out. I notice something new in the performances each time...
Radio 4 - Today (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
The Coen brothers are among America's most prolific and inventive film directors, and are releasing a new film in November. A Serious Man will join the brothers' long list of successes, which include the Oscar winners Fargo and No country for Old Men, to Raising Arizona, Barton Fink and Blood Simple. The new film tells the story of the unbearable pressures on a Jewish academic in the...
Comments for edroso - HaloScan.com (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Miller's Crossing is their best, but I have some deep love for Lebowski and Barton Fink. "No Donnie, these men are cowards," is one of those rare, perfect lines.
Comments for edroso - HaloScan.com (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
The comparisons and contrasts to Barton Fink are sharp, as are the points about the son. I saw the film thinking of Gopnik (Stuhlbarg) as the straight man to a series of absurdities and indignities, all of which is very much in the Coen vein. I'm undecided about the end. The film as a whole reminded me somewhat of Crimes and Misdemeanors, actually, in its wrestling with
Best Movies 2008 (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
... work of Wallace Beery, the actor who is explicitly referenced in their writer’s block meta-movie Barton Fink . Big Directors Small Films: The Coen Brothers Short Film ‘World Cinema’ A Serious Man Movie Trailer There Will Be Blood vs. No Country For Old Men: So What Do You Think? First Images From Zhang Yimou’s Blood Simple Remake, Three Guns Zhang Yimou Remaking the Coen Bothers’...
/Film (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
... work of Wallace Beery, the actor who is explicitly referenced in their writer’s block meta-movie Barton Fink . Big Directors Small Films: The Coen Brothers Short Film ‘World Cinema’ A Serious Man Movie Trailer There Will Be Blood vs. No Country For Old Men: So What Do You Think? First Images From Zhang Yimou’s Blood Simple Remake, Three Guns Zhang Yimou Remaking the Coen Bothers’...
Comments for edroso - HaloScan.com (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
I'm with Norbiz and Guest in so far as that's their best, most cohesive movie. But they are great at parts of others, a character, a scene, an inspired shot/camera work, a couple of quotables. While Micheal Lerner won the big props for the Hollywood mogul routine, Tony Shaloub's character was even better -- and yet I hated Barton Fink, there's NOTHING more boring to me than a movie about...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
... have a history of making quirky, genre-defying movies, from the acclaimed surreal Hollywood tale "Barton Fink" to the darkly funny "Fargo." Their latest release is a look back at their own roots. In the film, the life of physics professor Larry Gopnik in a Jewish suburb of Minneapolis is unraveling, both at home and professionally."Once you get past a certain point you're just thinking...
