Sentences with phrase «few coens»

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

Not exact matches

Few filmmakers can pack a screenplay with more fascinating supporting characters than the Coens, and John Goodman's had the great fortune of playing many of them.

Blood Simple was re-released in the summer of 2000 with a digitally - remastered soundtrack and — at the Coens» behest — a few minutes of dialogue trimmed.

Following a few misadventurous days in Davis» life, as he loses a friend's cat, sleeps on various sofas, goes on a brief road trip and plays a few gigs, there is no real way of explaining in words the alchemy that takes place that transforms that bare - bones logline into such an engaging film, though Oscar Isaac «s wonderfully soulful, star - making turn has to take a good portion of the credit, with the supporting cast of Justin Timberlake, Carey Mulligan, Adam Driver and Coens regular John Goodman also contributing to the rich tapestry of the film.

A few other Westerns featuring female protagonists that almost made the cut are: the Coens» «True Grit» although we just didn't really feel like Hailee Steinfeld, good as she is, actually leads the movie; Samuel Fuller «s «Forty Guns» which also stars Western superheroine Barbara Stanwyck; 1995 TV movie «Buffalo Girls» in which Anjelica Huston plays Calamity Jane; William Wellman's «Westward the Women» in which a wagon train of «marriageable» females is brought out to supply a woman - starved town in the West; and straight to video title «The Desperate Trail,» just because this is a list about strong women leads and they don't get much stronger than Linda Fiorentino (alongside Sam Elliott).

Kennedy had already won an Oscar for Cool Hand Luke, Eastwood has since been recognized twice for directing and producing, and Bridges finally joined the winner's circle a few years back for Crazy Heart and if he lost that, he would have won the following year for his Rooster Cogburn in the Coens» True Grit remake.

The film rates this high for me not just because of its technical skill (the ensemble acting is terrific, with Kelly Macdonald in particular doing great work in just a few scenes, and Roger Deakins's cinematography is as good as anything he's done with the Coens, and that's saying a lot) but because of its ambiguity: because the questions it raises about narrative and about society are as interesting as those raised by any other film (but one) of 2007.

A few bits dazzle, fool's gold for those of us who used to believe the Coens could do no wrong.

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.

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.

You mentioned quite a few good films and writers that this film should not be compared to, the Coens, Charlie Kaufman, «Barton Fink» and «Adaptation».

The Coens» first outright adaptation is of a Cormac McCarthy novel so attuned to them that the film feels — at least until the final few scenes — as if it's based on one of their own original screenplays: «Blood Simple» meets «Fargo», almost.