Sentences with word «coen»

(For those interested, my original review is here; the movie has, if anything, been creeping up my big board of Coens films ever since.)

It is beautifully constructed from top to bottom with Coens» trademark attention to detail, with frontier settlement sets giving way, in the latter half of the film, to lush mountainous Western vistas.

(And it's all pretty beautifully shot by Bruno Debonnel too, subbing for Coens regular Roger Deakins who was busy on «Skyfall,» giving it all a nostalgic, faded album cover look).

The story of a suburban family man, Gardner (Matt Damon), who finds himself mired in an increasingly complicated and grisly plot after his wife is murdered, has all of the hallmarks — and even some of the same plot details — as Coens classics like Fargo and Blood Simple.

He has been nominated for 11 Academy Awards for cinematography (five of them for his work on Coens films), without yet winning a single one — perhaps the greatest ongoing oversight at the Oscars.

easily in my top three favorite coen brothers films.

Darker than your average Coens movie, the brothers adapted «No Country for Old Men» from novelist Cormac McCarthy's western thriller.

The quiz will cover their entire careers as directors and writers, from Blood Simple and Raising Arizona through to Inside Llewyn Davis and The Ladykillers — we're on the search for the ultimate Coens know - all.

Shot in and around the Pacific Northwest Blair's film has a southern flair (think Coens» Raising Arizona) with the broad, almost British surrealism exemplified by Portlandia.

Where I rank its score, by Carter Burwell, among Coens scores by Carter Burwell: # 2 (out of however many I decide to rank)

But I know a great many sharp Coens fans who hold Barton Fink in high esteem.

• 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.

Coens most likely... but the 5th?

And as if the usual slick, fast - paced quirkiness of your average Coens film isn't enough for you, there's also the sight of George Clooney in Roman gear to look forward to:

• This was the first Coens film large enough to require a second - unit director, a role that Raimi filled for them.

Steinfeld is not helped by the fact that her hyper - articulate patter can not help but recall past Coens characters such as Nicolas Cage's H.I. McDunnough and George Clooney's Everett McGill — and unlike theirs, her role is not meant to be a comic caricature.

A Serious Man is close to being best Coens ever, and I am a shiksa, even if I did grow up in NYC and go to the Bronx High School of Science.

As in previous Coens collaborations, he is rewarded for his efforts with another self - mocking vanity tic, in this case his perpetual need to «get a run in.»

This was the first of two Coens road movies built around a love of American music of a certain period; the second was «Inside Llewyn Davis».

Oscar Isaac shines as a struggling folk singer in Joel and Ethan Coens» comedy - drama about the elusiveness of success.

Where I rank its soundtrack, curated by T Bone Burnett, among Coens soundtracks curated by T Bone Burnett: # 1 (out of four)

I'm more surprised that you say that only a few Coens film's have impressed you though.

And the show seems to borrow from the larger Coens - verse as well: Malvo brings with him strong echoes of No Country for Old Men's Anton Chigurh; Platt's grocery king is a capitalist cousin to Raising Arizona's Nathan Arizona; a spacey fitness trainer bears a striking resemblance to Brad Pitt's Chad in Burn After Reading; and a dim, constantly interrupting son recalls Miller's Crossing.

Isaac, in a wonderful extended cameo, makes a meal out of the character's deceptive decorum and deliciously wry dialogue; for a few minutes, you can almost pretend you're watching some lost Coens caper, not this awkward approximation of one.

Bearing a strong Coens influence — and technical chops nearly sharp enough to match — Jeremy Saulnier's tense, darkly comic Blue Ruin builds an entire movie around that basic tenet, a revenge thriller about a man woefully ill - suited to exacting revenge.

If you are gluten - free, try baking your cakes using a combination of coen flour and tapioca flour to give a smooth, non-grainy taste.

And we once again hear the all - purpose Coens put - down «smart guy,» this time from the mouth of Massey's wizened boss.

It's part of a remarkable Oscar pattern: Despite their exceptional talent, Coens cinematographers are zero for six in films they shot for the brothers, and a stunning one for 21 overall, the sole win coming for Emmanuel Lubezki for Gravity.

If the film plays into the popular notion of the brothers as ruthless cynics, Thornton at least proves how much darker the average Coens joints could be.

Thornton's role as Ed is more central than that of any previous Coens protagonist: We see the story not merely through his eyes, but to some degree from inside his head.

It doesn't work on a purely aesthetic level or as a political statement, and the combination of the two goes together about as well as a mid-level Coens comedy and a morality play about racism masquerading as a thesis.

The 66 - year - old veteran has lensed a number of iconic portraits in his time — lest we forget every single thing he's done for the aforementioned Coens — but his work on Sicario borders on Greatest Hits material.

as far as the movie goes... looks to be typical coen brothers - good, but not great.

Coens et al, Unbroken

Landing closer to Coens country, Three Billboards is more of a slow - roasting tragicomedy about grief and culpability, with higher stakes, a lower gag count, and emphasis on the tragic.

Co-writer Raimi has a cameo, too, and frequent Coens bit player Harry Bugin, who played Pete the elevator operator in Barton Fink, reappears in a more villainous role — first seen, if I'm not mistaken, as other characters emerge from an elevator.

• I hate to conclude the first week of Coens revisitation on a relative down note.

It's just too sad to see the genius Coens flounder so badly.

Opening next week at the Bold Hype Gallery in New York, Spoke Art «s Quentin vs. Coens art show is shaping up nicely.

There are a handful of more oblique Coens references, too.

For anyone who saw this movie, now nearly 30 years old, in its initial release in 1984, it must have been exciting to witness the talent of the then almost unknown Coens (Joel was 26, Ethan was 25).

, the latest film from les frères Coens, is many things all at once.

He meets a typically memorable Coens menagerie along the way.

This ensemble of kind - hearted sufferers, preening aristocrats, self - absorbed intellectuals and buffoons aplenty is pure Coens, and the brothers trip through the interweaving stories with glee.

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Still, a few glimmers of the old Coens mojo shine through — most noticeably in the film's dark - comic highpoint, featuring Llewyn Davis himself, Oscar Isaac, as a suspicious fraud investigator.