Coens Tap Stuhlbarg and Kind for Serious Man

[Max J Power]

Looks good. Will probably be a different kind of comedy than most of the Coens' other comedies.

 

[Carmine Falcone]

Awesome trailer. It looks very, very Coen.

 

[Carmine Falcone]

http://www.worstpreviews.com/images/headlines/temp/temp1717.jpg

 

[gwynplaine]

^Great avy.

 

[nite-owl]

First Review.

http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/09/12/tiff-review-the-coen-brothers-a-serious-man/

 

[Christmas]

Second Review!

Another rave...

http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2009/09/_inspired_by_jo.php

Can't wait to put down my 12 bucks and see this.

 

[Carmine Falcone]

Very much intrigued. Well, almost hyped really. That last review really tickled my interest.

**** The Netherland thoughs.....this is released here in january....

 

[Doctor Jones]

People actually pay 12 bucks to see a movie? Daaaammmmn.

 

[Carmine Falcone]

What do you pay? I usually pay five euros. But the regular price around here is 10 euros.

 

[Doctor Jones]

At night it's 8 dollars. Matinee it's 6 dollars. I saw D9, GI JOE, and Basterds at the early bird which is 5 dollars.

 

[Carmine Falcone]

Yeah, I go for the early bird aswell. It's cheaper and there are no annoying, bored people. They're there for the film, not to muck about.

 

[Doctor Jones]

That's not really the case for me. GI JOE had a mixed crowd. A dude my age sat near me (with a hat in a movie theater???) D9 seemed to be more serious, with some teens.

Basterds has a surprising amount of people for the early bird. The theater was very well filled and this was before noon.

 

[War Party]

You guys are lucky. I have to pay $10.50 for a movie.

 

[Doctor Jones]

Damn. A friend of mine who is cheap as hell, says 8 dollars is too much for a movie (it is) and if he had to pay that. Damn.

 

[Bunker]

It's $12.50 here and there's no such thing as a matinee.

 

[Christmas]

In NYC it's usually close to 12. More for an IMAX film. Matinee's are a little less.

 

[Bunker]

I usually go to the Lincoln Square AMC and it's $12.50 all day. IMAX is like $18.50.

 

[[A]]

You're at the Toronto International Film Festival, one of the major fests of the year. It's where the Oscar race begins. Many huge filmmakers debut their work here. You're a large outlet, so you get some one on one time with the Coen Brothers, famously reticent cinematic geniuses. What do you spend that time talking about? If you're MTV ****ing News, a sequel to The Big Lebowski.*

And shockingly one isn't happening. I don't even know where the 'rumor' that MTV is peddling came from - the site is the American internet version of the British tabloids when it comes to simply making **** up. But they did inadvertently get one interesting thing from the Coens (which has probably been out there before, but this is the first I saw it explicated):

"That movie has more of an enduring fascination for other people than it does for us," Joel Coen said.

I always suspected this about the Coens. I imagine that they move right on after a movie, not ever looking back. And that the movies they make very much encapsulate them at that moment, but once they move past it's no longer of interest to them. I had the opportunity to do a roundtable with them once and besides being impenetrable interviews, they showed almost no sign of being open to going through their own history, or relating their current film (at the time No Country For Old Men) to the rest of their work.

The movie they had at Toronto, by the way, was A Serious Man, which I see tomorrow night. Expect a review soon!

* Allow me time to vent here in this footnote. There's something so ****ing maddening about people who get access to these sorts of talents and then squander their time with absolute ******** hit ****ing questions. You think that the Coens are hard to get to open up in an interview? Sitting through moronic MTV News interviews certainly won't help. And to the people who can't be bothered to actually ask the talent about their work at hand - or who ask and never run it, as many, many sites do - **** y'all. You're the cancer of the internet.

http://chud.com/articles/articles/2...039T-THAT-FOND-OF-THE-BIG-LEBOWSKI/Page1.html

 

[Doctor Jones]

How much do you wanna bet the main dude is gonna kill himself? Or at least one casualty will occur?

 

[gwynplaine]

^ I have a feeling your avatar won't go see this film.

 

[Doctor Jones]

 

[Keyser Soze]

I saw this movie yesterday, and it was brilliant. But be warned, it is probably the Coensiest Coens film I've ever seen, at times bordering on impenetrable. But one hell of a performance from Michael Stuhlbarg. It's a shame he's unlikely to get an Oscar nomination due to him being an unknown, because this was an Oscar-worthy performance. In a world where the Oscars were genuinely about what was the best of the year, I'd imagine Best Actor would be a two-horse race between Stuhlbarg and Sam Rockwell in Moon.

 

[Rac]

So, it was pretty good. Loved the ending.

 

[Carmine Falcone]

Fantastic movie. Ballsy and genuinely funny. I'll most probably will go and see it again.

But yeah...no-one saw it but the critics right? This thread shows.

 

[Max J Power]

I was lucky the small theater in my town played this movie. It was both very funny and thought-provoking. I might even buy the DVD within a few months of its release, and that's something I almost never do (but often consider).