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9 November 2009 5:00 AM, PST | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
Page 2 is a compilation of stories and news tidbits, which for whatever reason, didn’t make the front page of /Film. After the jump we’ve included 45 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness. Copyranter found this photo of a Rio de Janeiro subway advertisement for 2012. MTV Shows Robert Zemeckis explains to MTV why he's never directed a superhero movie: "I'm a superhero fan, although I actually have never been offered one. I've never really brought one to someone and said I really want to do this superhero [movie]. Obviously, I love the form, as movies really are the extension of comic books." Former 24 stars Sarah Wynter and Reiko Aylesworth will join the third season of FX’s Rose Byrne-Glenn Close legal drama Damages. [thr] This "Vin Diagram" ven diagram shows Vin Diesel's relationship to movies. »
- Peter Sciretta
A Serious Man Review
2 November 2009 11:48 PM, PST | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »
A Serious Man Written and Directed by: Joel and Ethan Coen Starring: Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Fred Melamed, Aaron Wolff In an age of high profile franchise blockbusters, months in advance it becomes very apparent via very expensive marketing campaigns what the year's event films are going to be. For me though, it is instead a handful of directors' names that predetermine who is getting my money and attention. It should be obvious by the fact that I'd even write this that the Coen Brothers are on this list, and it's wonderful to have such a list when it means you can walk into one of their films relatively cold. It also brings an entirely different set of expectations than you'd give something that has spent months doing everything it can to impress you. My expectations from the Coens have become numerous -- I now demand a higher level of quality. »
- Goon
Movie Review: A Serious Man
2 November 2009 1:29 AM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
Starring: Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Fred Melamed, Sari Lennick
Director: Ethan and Joel Coen
Release Date: October 2, 2009
Running Time: 105 mins.
MPAA Rating: R
Distributor: Focus Features
- - -
Up until A Serious Man, I don't think many would call Ethan and Joel Coen serious men. Looking at Fargo, Burn After Reading, and Raising Arizona, it's clear the Coens prefer to brandish their wickedly black, and sophisticated humor than make forays into stone-faced dramas. Even last year, when the two adapted Cormac McCarthy's heavily philosophical masterpiece No Country For Old Men, the film came out darkly sardonic. This makes their latest film so fascinating. Yes, there is still humor, but it's also heavily meditative and profound.
The cast is largely made up of unknown faces. The protagonist, Larry Gobnik, is played by Michael Stuhlbarg. He's a Jewish physics professor in the mid-west in 1967. His son is a unambituous pothead, »
- blakecgriffin@gmail.com (Blake Griffin)
Movie Review: A Serious Man
2 November 2009 1:29 AM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
Starring: Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Fred Melamed, Sari Lennick
Director: Ethan and Joel Coen
Release Date: October 2, 2009
Running Time: 105 mins.
MPAA Rating: R
Distributor: Focus Features
- - -
Up until A Serious Man, I don't think many would call Ethan and Joel Coen serious men. Looking at Fargo, Burn After Reading, and Raising Arizona, it's clear the Coens prefer to brandish their wickedly black, and sophisticated humor than make forays into stone-faced dramas. Even last year, when the two adapted Cormac McCarthy's heavily philosophical masterpiece No Country For Old Men, the film came out darkly sardonic. This makes their latest film so fascinating. Yes, there is still humor, but it's also heavily meditative and profound.
The cast is largely made up of unknown faces. The protagonist, Larry Gobnik, is played by Michael Stuhlbarg. He's a Jewish physics professor in the mid-west in 1967. His son is a unambituous pothead, »
- blakecgriffin@gmail.com (Blake Griffin)
Movie Review: A Serious Man
2 November 2009 1:29 AM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
Starring: Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Fred Melamed, Sari Lennick
Director: Ethan and Joel Coen
Release Date: October 2, 2009
Running Time: 105 mins.
MPAA Rating: R
Distributor: Focus Features
- - -
Up until A Serious Man, I don't think many would call Ethan and Joel Coen serious men. Looking at Fargo, Burn After Reading, and Raising Arizona, it's clear the Coens prefer to brandish their wickedly black, and sophisticated humor than make forays into stone-faced dramas. Even last year, when the two adapted Cormac McCarthy's heavily philosophical masterpiece No Country For Old Men, the film came out darkly sardonic. This makes their latest film so fascinating. Yes, there is still humor, but it's also heavily meditative and profound.
The cast is largely made up of unknown faces. The protagonist, Larry Gobnik, is played by Michael Stuhlbarg. He's a Jewish physics professor in the mid-west in 1967. His son is a unambituous pothead, »
- blakecgriffin@gmail.com (Blake Griffin)
Movie Review: A Serious Man
2 November 2009 1:29 AM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
Starring: Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Fred Melamed, Sari Lennick
Director: Ethan and Joel Coen
Release Date: October 2, 2009
Running Time: 105 mins.
MPAA Rating: R
Distributor: Focus Features
- - -
Up until A Serious Man, I don't think many would call Ethan and Joel Coen serious men. Looking at Fargo, Burn After Reading, and Raising Arizona, it's clear the Coens prefer to brandish their wickedly black, and sophisticated humor than make forays into stone-faced dramas. Even last year, when the two adapted Cormac McCarthy's heavily philosophical masterpiece No Country For Old Men, the film came out darkly sardonic. This makes their latest film so fascinating. Yes, there is still humor, but it's also heavily meditative and profound.
The cast is largely made up of unknown faces. The protagonist, Larry Gobnik, is played by Michael Stuhlbarg. He's a Jewish physics professor in the mid-west in 1967. His son is a unambituous pothead, »
- blakecgriffin@gmail.com (Blake Griffin)
Spotlight Review: A Serious Man
2 November 2009 1:29 AM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
Starring: Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Fred Melamed, Sari Lennick
Director: Ethan and Joel Coen
Release Date: October 2, 2009
Running Time: 105 mins.
MPAA Rating: R
Distributor: Focus Features
- - -
Up until A Serious Man, I don't think many would call Ethan and Joel Coen serious men. Looking at Fargo, Burn After Reading, and Raising Arizona, it's clear the Coens prefer to brandish their wickedly black, and sophisticated humor than make forays into stone-faced dramas. Even last year, when the two adapted Cormac McCarthy's heavily philosophical masterpiece No Country For Old Men, the film came out darkly sardonic. This makes their latest film so fascinating. Yes, there is still humor, but it's also heavily meditative and profound.
The cast is largely made up of unknown faces. The protagonist, Larry Gobnik, is played by Michael Stuhlbarg. He's a Jewish physics professor in the mid-west in 1967. His son is a unambituous pothead, »
- blakecgriffin@gmail.com (Blake Griffin)
Spotlight Review: A Serious Man
2 November 2009 1:29 AM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
Starring: Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Fred Melamed, Sari Lennick
Director: Ethan and Joel Coen
Release Date: October 2, 2009
Running Time: 105 mins.
MPAA Rating: R
Distributor: Focus Features
- - -
Up until A Serious Man, I don't think many would call Ethan and Joel Coen serious men. Looking at Fargo, Burn After Reading, and Raising Arizona, it's clear the Coens prefer to brandish their wickedly black, and sophisticated humor than make forays into stone-faced dramas. Even last year, when the two adapted Cormac McCarthy's heavily philosophical masterpiece No Country For Old Men, the film came out darkly sardonic. This makes their latest film so fascinating. Yes, there is still humor, but it's also heavily meditative and profound.
The cast is largely made up of unknown faces. The protagonist, Larry Gobnik, is played by Michael Stuhlbarg. He's a Jewish physics professor in the mid-west in 1967. His son is a unambituous pothead, »
- blakecgriffin@gmail.com (Blake Griffin)
Spotlight Review: A Serious Man
2 November 2009 1:29 AM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
Starring: Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Fred Melamed, Sari Lennick
Director: Ethan and Joel Coen
Release Date: October 2, 2009
Running Time: 105 mins.
MPAA Rating: R
Distributor: Focus Features
- - -
Up until A Serious Man, I don't think many would call Ethan and Joel Coen serious men. Looking at Fargo, Burn After Reading, and Raising Arizona, it's clear the Coens prefer to brandish their wickedly black, and sophisticated humor than make forays into stone-faced dramas. Even last year, when the two adapted Cormac McCarthy's heavily philosophical masterpiece No Country For Old Men, the film came out darkly sardonic. This makes their latest film so fascinating. Yes, there is still humor, but it's also heavily meditative and profound.
The cast is largely made up of unknown faces. The protagonist, Larry Gobnik, is played by Michael Stuhlbarg. He's a Jewish physics professor in the mid-west in 1967. His son is a unambituous pothead, »
- blakecgriffin@gmail.com (Blake Griffin)
Spotlight Review: A Serious Man
2 November 2009 1:29 AM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
Starring: Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Fred Melamed, Sari Lennick
Director: Ethan and Joel Coen
Release Date: October 2, 2009
Running Time: 105 mins.
MPAA Rating: R
Distributor: Focus Features
- - -
Up until A Serious Man, I don't think many would call Ethan and Joel Coen serious men. Looking at Fargo, Burn After Reading, and Raising Arizona, it's clear the Coens prefer to brandish their wickedly black, and sophisticated humor than make forays into stone-faced dramas. Even last year, when the two adapted Cormac McCarthy's heavily philosophical masterpiece No Country For Old Men, the film came out darkly sardonic. This makes their latest film so fascinating. Yes, there is still humor, but it's also heavily meditative and profound.
The cast is largely made up of unknown faces. The protagonist, Larry Gobnik, is played by Michael Stuhlbarg. He's a Jewish physics professor in the mid-west in 1967. His son is a unambituous pothead, »
- blakecgriffin@gmail.com (Blake Griffin)
Spotlight Review: A Serious Man
2 November 2009 1:29 AM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
Starring: Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Fred Melamed, Sari Lennick
Director: Ethan and Joel Coen
Release Date: October 2, 2009
Running Time: 105 mins.
MPAA Rating: R
Distributor: Focus Features
- - -
Up until A Serious Man, I don't think many would call Ethan and Joel Coen serious men. Looking at Fargo, Burn After Reading, and Raising Arizona, it's clear the Coens prefer to brandish their wickedly black, and sophisticated humor than make forays into stone-faced dramas. Even last year, when the two adapted Cormac McCarthy's heavily philosophical masterpiece No Country For Old Men, the film came out darkly sardonic. This makes their latest film so fascinating. Yes, there is still humor, but it's also heavily meditative and profound.
The cast is largely made up of unknown faces. The protagonist, Larry Gobnik, is played by Michael Stuhlbarg. He's a Jewish physics professor in the mid-west in 1967. His son is a unambituous pothead, »
- blakecgriffin@gmail.com (Blake Griffin)
“Ticket Stubs” Review of ‘A Serious Man’ - The Coen Brothers’ New Film
30 October 2009 4:43 PM, PDT | MovieSet.com | See recent MovieSet.com news »
“Ticket Stubs” review of ‘A Serious Man‘ by Austin Lugar
for MovieSet.com
As we wrap Halloween Movie Month at MovieSet.com, I decided to check out a scary movie. No I didn’t go out and see Saw VI, Cirque de Freak or the horrifying looking Couples Retreat. I decided to check out the latest Coen Brothers’ creation: A Serious Man.
Writer/director Ethan Coen and actor Aaron Wolff on the set of writer/directors Joel & Ethan Coen’s A Serious Man, a Focus Features release.
Now I’m sure all of you’re are screaming at your computer screens in protest demanding that I rightfully categorize it as a drama or even a drama-edy not a horror film. Now let’s just look at what constitutes a horror movie.
To me the effective horror movies are ones where bad things are happening to relatively good people. What’s »
- Austin Lugar
London Film Festival 2009: A Serious Man
29 October 2009 9:55 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
A Serious Man Directed by Joel Coen The Coens are getting positively prolific these days, treating their hardcore fans with a movie a year, and with their latest release, A Serious Man they have taken the comedic strand of their work into uncharted waters to deliver possibly their most haunting and certainly their most personal work to date. Introduced in person in their characteristically succinct manner at this year's Lff, the film, after a mysterious prologue set in a nostalgic Shtetl alights in late 1960's Minnesota. Jewish professor - and I only stress the Jewish status as it is instrumental to the film's chutzpah - Larry Gopnik (Michael Stuhlbarg) is not having a good month. After taking tests for a mystery medical ailment Gopnik is accosted by a disgruntled South Korean student who subsequently attempts to discredit his reputation with anonymous letters to the tenure committee after Gopnik failed him in a critical test. »
- Ricky
'Star Trek' Collects Hollywood Movie Award
28 October 2009 1:03 AM, PDT | Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news »
After taking home a number of kudos from 2009 Scream Awards, "Star Trek" has added another award to its collection. On Monday, October 26 at the 13th Annual Hollywood Film Festival which was held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, the J.J. Abrams-directed sci-fi was unveiled to be the winner of Hollywood Movie Award.
Collecting the most votes from Yahoo! Movies visitors, the Zachary Quinto-starring film bested over "District 9", "G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra", "The Hangover", "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", "Inglourious Basterds", "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" and "Up" among others. Upon receiving the prize, Quinto said, "Gee, I'm shocked the online community chose to honor Star Trek."
"Star Trek" wasn't the only winner on the special night. Michael Haneke's "The White Ribbon" won the Hollywood World Award. Quinto, Robert De Niro, Hilary Swank, Christoph Waltz, Julianne Moore, Jeremy Renner, Carey Mulligan and »
- AceShowbiz.com
A Serious Man Review
15 October 2009 8:57 PM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Combined with “No Country for Old Men” and “Burn After Reading”, The Coen Brothers’ latest movie, “A Serious Man” could complete an unofficial “Existentialist Trilogy”. “No Country” says that the world is an uncertain and unforgiving place. “Burn After Reading” says the same thing but the idea is played for laughs instead of drama. “A Serious Man” takes a different approach and wonders if uncertainty is so bad when certainty can be far worse. Furthermore, what good is reason if the world is an irrational place?
The film is perplexing right from its peculiar opening scene. While the film is set in the 1960s in a Midwestern Jewish community, the first scene takes place in the 1800s somewhere in Eastern Europe in a Jewish village. The scene begins as a Jewish man happily comes in from the cold to tell his unsmiling wife that he has just helped an old »
- Matt Goldberg
A Serious Man | Review
14 October 2009 9:05 PM, PDT | SmellsLikeScreenSpirit | See recent SmellsLikeScreenSpirit news »
Director: Joel Coen & Ethan Coen Writer(s): Ethan Coen, Joel Coen Starring: Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Sari Wagner Lennick, Fred Melamed, Aaron Wolff Larry Gopnik (Michael Stuhlbarg) is a serious man, a physics professor at a sleepy Midwestern university, not to mention a seemingly morally just man; some will even see Larry as the Coen Brothers’ reincarnation of Job (you know, from the Book of Job) in the year 1967. Nothing is going right for Larry. Larry’s wife Judith (Sari Lennick) is leaving him for Sy Ableman (Fred Melamed), a man who is overflowing with self-confidence (unlike Larry). Arthur (Richard Kind), Larry’s unemployable and burdensome brother, is sleeping on Judith and Larry’s sofa; that is until Larry and Arthur get booted out to the curb by Judith, then they share a motel room. Larry’s son Danny (Aaron Wolf) is a pothead who prefers to listen to »
- Don Simpson
A Serious Man Review (Philip’s Take)
9 October 2009 4:25 PM, PDT | Atomic Popcorn | See recent Atomic Popcorn news »
A Serious Man is going to put a lot of people off. That’s just it’s unrelenting nature, as the film doesn’t care if anyone likes it or not. Essentially what the Coen brothers are doing is asking the audience to laugh at one man’s misfortunes. They’re also taking a serious look at the Jewish culture as they have fun with the lifestyle in a way only the Coens could concoct. Yet, while not as brilliant as No Country for Old Men or even ranking with their best works, the Coen’s have crafted another glorious film to add to their repertoire.
Whether one likes the film will not depend on who “gets it” or not. Folks are surely to pick up on it and still be put off by it’s style or where the story goes. The best mentality to take is to go »
- Philip Barrett
A Serious Man
9 October 2009 8:09 AM, PDT | The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news »
Directed by: Ethan Coen & Joel Coen
Cast: Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Fred Melamed, Aaron Wolff
Running Time: 1 hr 45 mins
Rating: R
Release Date: October 9, 2009
Plot: A man (Stuhlbarg) whose life is slowly falling apart in 1967 seeks wisdom from his local rabbis.
Who’S It For? This is open to anyone who wants to experience a film that is thought provoking, and almost soul searching. It is not a “black comedy,” as some have said. This is a realistic drama, but it never has a dull moment.
Expectations: I had not seen the trailer before hand. But when the Coen Brothers are involved, no preview should be necessary.
Click Here to read Allen’s interview with Michael Stuhlbarg
Scorecard (0-10)
Actors:
Michael Stuhlbarg as Larry Gopnik: With the world constantly turning away and leaving him behind in the ruins that are fragments of his pride, this constantly cornered character never rings untrue. »
- Nick Allen
A Serious Man – Interview with Michael Stuhlbarg
9 October 2009 7:24 AM, PDT | The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news »
In A Serious Man, the latest masterwork from the Coen Brothers, former Broadway actor Michael Stuhlbarg plays Larry Gopnik, a middle aged man who seeks wisdom from his local rabbis in a time of extreme misfortune. Gopnik has so many questions, those of which are proposed by the film’s “hint of mischief,” but as the answers become more necessary, they constantly allude him.
The Scorecard Review sat down with Michael Stuhlbarg in Chicago’s new Trump Hotel to discuss many issues raised by the film, including how religion influenced the film, what it was like embodying the unfortunate character of Larry Gopnik, and even the meaning behind the rather odd opening sequence.
Click Here to read Allen’s Scorecard Review of A Serious Man
What do you feel your role and character had to do with the mystery of faith?
I would say almost a physical manifestation of the mystery of faith. »
- Nick Allen
Movie Review: 'A Serious Man'
7 October 2009 12:55 AM, PDT | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »
A Serious Man boasts all the hallmarks of a typical Coen brothers film, including delightful meanderings away from the central plot, quirks in dialogue and facial expressions, and random events that have a dramatic effect on the lives of its characters. But for all its resemblance to the average picture from Joel and Ethan Coen, their latest offering is their most challenging, noncommercial work yet.
Set in a largely Jewish suburb of Minneapolis, Minnesota, A Serious Man reflects not only the Coens’ Midwestern roots, but it also focuses on their Jewish heritage. The film’s seemingly unrelated prologue is set in a 19th century shtetl in Europe, and religion figures prominently in both the daily lives of A Serious Man’s characters as well as its protagonist’s existential crisis. Resembling a 1960s retelling of Job’s trials, A Serious Man follows the tribulations of Jewish college professor Larry Gopnik »
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