Sentences with phrase «coens picture»

• Several readers of my entry on No Country for Old Men made the case that the film was less a straightforward Coens picture than a de facto collaboration between the brothers and Cormac McCarthy, who wrote the novel on which it was based.

I did this principally for two reasons: 1) If the Coens didn't direct it, it's not a Coens picture; and 2) 16 features seemed like plenty.

Not exact matches

No Country for Old Men has settled in as the Best Picture - elect, and the Coens hold a far more esteemed cachet than Paul Thomas Anderson, but their film's implosive anti-climax can't just be shrugged off.

• The movie continued the peculiar pattern by which the Coens» «biggest» pictures — O Brother, like The Hudsucker Proxy, cost in the vicinity of $ 25 million — somehow came across as their least ambitious.

Though the movie is the most explicitly «noir» of all the Coens» pictures, its look more closely resembles that of science fiction movies of the 1950s — a fact that makes its peculiar UFO subplot a touch less incongruous.

Yet there's nothing mirthless about the Coens» joy, which echoes around the corridors, soundstages and «Wallace Beery Conference Rooms» of Capitol Pictures as they lovingly, ludicrously lift the lid on a bygone screen age.

In 2007, the Coens received the TFCA's Best Director award for their film «No Country for Old Men», which also won Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor and Best Screenplay.

In the DVD commentary track for The Man Who Wasn't There, Billy Bob Thornton makes the brilliant observation that the logical casting for the dapper, taciturn barber would be Clooney while he, himself, would have been the obvious choice for Clooney's character in O Brother, Where Art Thou; that the brothers have «corrected» themselves for this picture goes a long way towards explaining both the pleasures to be gained from Clooney's deft comic timing (and a courtroom scene that is at once a throwback and a revelation), and the problems with a film that in apparently striving to be accessible and lightweight becomes something, for the first time in the Coens» joint - career since Crimewave, disposable and undistinguished.

Equal parts wintry misfortune and guitar - slung dreaminess, the Coens» cosmic comedy turns a musician's dying career into an uncommonly rich picture of the changing terrain of American folk art circa 1961.

Reason: A dark thriller about the side effects of drug deals, No Country is the Coens» first and only film to win a Best Picture Academy Award.

Perhaps it looked to many like the Coens were taking this one off after enjoying their first Academy Award for Best Picture, but we loved the mock - suspense of «Burn After Reading.»

may not be on the same plane as the Coens» recent run (last three films nominated for Best Picture), but I'm ready for a sharp, very fun, nostalgic madcap run through the Golden Age of Hollywood that only they could provide.

Oscar Potential: Best Picture Best Director — Angelina Jolie Best Actor — Jack O'Connell Best Supporting Actor — Miyavi, Garrett Hedlund, Jai Courtney, Domhnall Gleeson Best Adapted Screenplay — The Coens, Richard LaGravenese, and William Nicholson Best Film Editing Best Cinematography Best Original Score Best Production Design Best Costume Design Best Hairstyling and Makeup Best Visual Effects Best Sound Editing Best Sound Mixing

In addition to its broader themes and character types, Fargo scatters small, Easter Eggy callbacks to the Coens» picture — another hand injury in need of «unguent,» an off - screen character who may or may not suffer from leukemia, an awkward restaurant meeting with an old high - school friend.

More remarkable still is the huge, 1/24 scale set of a fantasy Manhattan - scape that was built for the picture, one large enough for the Coens to walk through.

Original Screenplay (Coens) Original Song (Burnett and Mumford) Picture Supporting Actress (Mulligan) Lead Actor (Isaac) Director (Coens) Supporting Actor (Timberlake)

But it's not a great one and, along with Intolerable Cruelty, it may be the most conventional and least Coens - y of the Coens» pictures.

• One of the pleasures of watching all the Coens» pictures straight through is that you get a keen sense of their many visual affectations and in - jokes as they come and go.

Following the overwhelming success of No Country — which supplied them with both a Best Picture statuette and their largest box office to date — the Coens had opted for the pitch - black humor of Burn After Reading and the insular artiness of A Serious Man (their second - lowest - grossing feature, after The Hudsucker Proxy).

A road trip later in the picture offers a change of pace, but this is a slice of life of one of many trying to make it on the folk circuit, and the Coens capture every detail, acknowledging their fondness for their era, while being able to laugh at it as well (though without getting as broad as Christopher Guest «s «A Mighty Wind,» the last major folk movie).

The Coens present us with a rich panoply of studio life as seen through the eyes of Eddie Mannix (Josh Brolin), the Head of Physical Production for Capitol Pictures.

As the Coens guide us through a fictional dream factory, «Capitol Pictures» (also featured in their condescending and morose Barton Fink), nostalgic fantasy and frivolous satire create a peculiar glow, then cancel each other out.

It made me sick watching them announce Best Picture and Director last year knowing the Coens would win it over PTA.

While it's often very funny, it's also among the Coens» more thoughtful affairs, with the slapstick quality of their other musically - themed picture, «O Brother Where Art Thou,» a long way away.

The director nominees are Fincher, Hooper, Aronofsky, Russell and the Coens, so - despite the Best Picture nominations for The Kids Are All Right and Winter's Bone - neither Cholodenko nor Granik will echo Kathryn Bigelow's success last year.

The only true competition Social Network has for best picture is True Grit but the coens got their best pic for No Country.

It is the Coens, though, who have worked their long, hard toll and will get this probably no matter how Best Picture goes.

The National Society of Film Critics have given it their Best Picture prize, with the movie also taking Best Director for the Coens, Best Actor for Oscar Isaac, and Best Cinematography as well.