On Movies & Media The Coen Brothers: Winning With Losers "Coen losers tend to stay losers." — Damian Arlyn on the Coen brothers' characters
Interviews The Theology of the Coen Brothers? A Conversation Between Matt Zoller Seitz and Jeffrey Overstreet Originally titled "O Coen Brothers, Where Art God?", this is my conversation with Matt Zoller Seitz about theology, Raising Arizona, morality, Fargo, good and evil, The Big Lebowski, and so much more.
On Movies & Media Are the Coen Brothers "filmmakers of faith"? Last weekend, I accepted an invitation to St. Leo University near Tampa, Florida, to participate in a public discussion about — of all things — the movies of the Coen brothers. Brent Short, the school’s director of library services, organized this seminar, and we were joined by Erica Rowell (author of
Film Review Hail, Caesar! (2016) A powerful man sitting behind a desk? Check. A suitcase full of money? Check. A night drive on a dark and winding road? Check. High-speed banter à la Preston Sturges? You betcha. Yes, indeed — Hail Caesar! is a movie by Joel and Ethan Coen. It has all of the defining
Looking Elsewhere Looking Elsewhere: October 28, 2015 A farewell to a beloved film critic. Free music from Welcome Wagon. The President and Marilynne Robinson, Part 2. The Dardenne brothers. Back to the Future. Mulholland Drive. And news about three promising film projects.
On Books & Writing Collectors: Why do you collect? With this weekend came came the latest breaking news from the Criterion Collection, and once again my cinephile's heart did its dance of joy. The announcement came with their semi-annual posting of titles that have been recently given the high-quality Criterion treatment for an upcoming release on blu-ray.
Inside Llewyn Davis Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) His name is Salieri, and in Milos Forman’s beloved film "Amadeus," he is played by F. Murray Abraham. Why am I talking about "Amadeus" when this is supposed to be a review of "Inside Llewyn Davis"? Stay with me. It’s important.
Inside Llewyn Davis A Coen Brothers Concert and a Line-Up of Must-Play New Releases: Are You Listening? If I ask "What's on your iPod?", what comes to mind? I doubt that you'll say "The Coen Brothers." But that might be the case, come December. You do have the music from O Brother, Where Art Thou? on your iPod, don&
Coen Brothers Netflix Brings Back the Coen Brothers' Most Underrated Comedy The Coen Brothers' "Intolerable Cruelty" may be their most underrated film. Now that it's streaming on Netflix, it's time to watch it again.
Inside Llewyn Davis O Coen Brothers, Where Art God? A Conversation with Matt Zoller Seitz "Do the Coens believe in God? Can we even say that for sure? Do they believe in the non-rational, the supernatural? Or are they just pranksters pulling our chains and hoping to spark conversation pieces like this one, while they sit there snickering?" To explore these questions, Press
Coen Brothers A Coen Brothers Easter Does God believe in the Coen Brothers? Join me and legendary film reviewer Matt Zoller Seitz as we wrestle with this question in an Easter Sunday special event.
Coen Brothers O Brother Where Art Thou? (2000) It's been more than 12 years since "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" opened. But the movie is on my mind on this Good Friday in 2013. And, given its theme of "dead men" who are "raised" through the influence of the Gospel (well, Gospel music, anyway), maybe it's a good movie to revisit the weekend of Eas
Coen Brothers No Country for Old Men (2007) Five years ago today, No Country for Old Men played in the U.S. for the first time. The buzz had begun at the Cannes Film Festival a few months earlier, and anticipation was high. It went on to win Best Picture at the Oscars, surprising some by winning over Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood
True Grit True Grit (2010) Pieces of this review were originally published in Image and Response. * The Coen Brothers’ first Western gives us three important stories to consider. The first is the story of what happens when a young justice seeker, Mattie Ross, hires the ruthless manhunter Rooster Cogburn to track down the vigilante who
Coen Brothers A Serious Man (2009) [This review was originally published at Good Letters, the blog hosted by Image.] * There’s an envelope full of cash on Larry Gopnik’s desk. He didn’t put it there. But he can guess who did. A student in Larry’s physics class has been begging him for a
Coen Brothers Reader!!!! Mail!!!! This week's blue-ribbon-winning letter from a reader comes in response to my review of No Country for Old Men, which was published at CTMovies. The reader writes: Thank you. You're welcome!!!!!!!!! You are welcome to read my "arguments" in the book Through a Screen
Coen Brothers The Browser, 5/9: Evangelical Manifesto; Koehler on Cannes; Dude still abides!; Neil Young hates mp3s; book reviews; Marion Ravenwood The Evangelical Manifesto On the remote chance that you may not already have read it, I should post the news that An Evangelical Manifesto was published and presented earlier this week, on May 7. The Steering Committee for the document includes... * Timothy George Dean, Beeson Divinity School, Samford University * Os
Coen Brothers The Coen Brothers Put Clooney and Swinton in Bed Together These pics promise a return to the wild and wacky side of the Coen Brothers' world. Seeing that pick of Clooney and Swinton, I'm tempted to ask... what's the strangest, most unexpected big-screen "bedfellows" you've ever seen? But I'm
Coen Brothers No Country for Old Men (2007): guest review Campbell University's Kenneth R. Morefield has just seen one of the films I'm most eager to see this autumn. Here's his review. (Thanks, Ken!) * “What are you going to do about that? Nothing. That’s what you are going to do.” “He realized that
Coen Brothers Coen Brothers' New Film "a Glory to Behold"? I was excited when I read the book. I've been eager for the film. If I see more reviews like this, the wait is going to become unbearable... No Country for Old Mena glory to behold * Jeff GP at The Six-Reel Shuffle Wow.
Coen Brothers Coen Brothers news!! Is your "Lost" theory better than this one? Lark News! Thursday specials:COEN BROTHERS RETURN!! The next Coen Brothers film? Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men, starring Tommy Lee Jones and Javier Bardem. YOU SEE, IT'S REALLY QUITE SIMPLE... Thanks, Opus, for the link to the most intriguing "Lost" theory I've
Tom Hanks The Ladykillers (2004) Hanks’ first outing with the notoriously odd moviemaking team of Joel and Ethan Coen buttons him into a character quite unique in his repertoire — a malevolent villain.
