Who says 1994 was a classic year for cinema? Netflix begins today to make that argument, curating a release of 17 films that turned 30 this year. The streamer has its list below. I have mine, and with the exception of the seminal Farrelly Brothers-directed Dumb & Dumber with Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels, and Luc Besson’s Leon: The Professional, the film that stars Jean Reno and a sinister Gary Oldman and introduced the world to the outsized talent Natalie Portman, and maybe Ron Howard’s The Paper, there’s a lot missing. How about Forrest Gump, The Shawshank Redemption, Pulp Fiction, The Lion King, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Clear and Present Danger, Sicario, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Interview With the Vampire, Speed, Ed Wood, and the other two films in a starmaking year for Jim Carrey, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and The Mask. Speed, Once Were Warriors, and Ang Lee...
- 7/1/2024
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Albert Lamorisse, the talented maker of fantasy short films and the board game Risk (here the game is rebranded as The Arbalest) influences a young Foster Kalt, a dreamer whose invention, despite being dazzling, is laughed at on the eve of its debut in 1968. His proposal is a device that converts oxygen to helium, filling a balloon without a clunky tank. It appears the world, or at least the object of his affection, prefers the Rubik’s Cube.
Luckily for writer/director Adam Pinney, The Arbalest is a far more fitting title than Risk. A piercingly original and very funny debut feature, the picture takes no prisoners as it constantly changes shapes and form. Its subject, the elusive fictional Foster Kalt (Mike Brune), is a narcissist who takes aim at those that dare laugh at him — an unholy combo of Donald Trump’s ego and The Hudsucker Proxy’s Norville Barnes...
Luckily for writer/director Adam Pinney, The Arbalest is a far more fitting title than Risk. A piercingly original and very funny debut feature, the picture takes no prisoners as it constantly changes shapes and form. Its subject, the elusive fictional Foster Kalt (Mike Brune), is a narcissist who takes aim at those that dare laugh at him — an unholy combo of Donald Trump’s ego and The Hudsucker Proxy’s Norville Barnes...
- 5/12/2016
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
Directors’ trademarks is a series of articles that examines the “signatures” that filmmakers leave behind in their work. This month, with the release of Hail, Caesar!, we’re examining the trademark style and calling signs of Joel and Ethan Coen as director.
Joel and Ethan Coen, known collectively as the Coen brothers, are a filmmaking duo who have been active making feature films since the 1980’s. Together they share many production-related roles on their films, including writing, directing, editing, and producing. Although they are typically both equal contributors in many of these roles, they often trade off as lead billing. For editor, they typically use the pseudonym “Roderick Jaynes”, and for director Joel was listed on all films up until The Ladykillers even though both of them shared directing responsibilities. On later films, they are both listed as director.
Their first feature film was Blood Simple (1984) which was not a...
Joel and Ethan Coen, known collectively as the Coen brothers, are a filmmaking duo who have been active making feature films since the 1980’s. Together they share many production-related roles on their films, including writing, directing, editing, and producing. Although they are typically both equal contributors in many of these roles, they often trade off as lead billing. For editor, they typically use the pseudonym “Roderick Jaynes”, and for director Joel was listed on all films up until The Ladykillers even though both of them shared directing responsibilities. On later films, they are both listed as director.
Their first feature film was Blood Simple (1984) which was not a...
- 2/23/2016
- by feeds@cinelinx.com (G.S. Perno)
- Cinelinx
"The Apartment" (dir. Billy Wilder) Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine share some of cinema's most crackling onscreen chemistry in Billy Wilder's 1960 romantic comedy about lonesome corporate serf C.C. Baxter (Lemmon) and the elevator operator of his affections Fran Kubelik (MacLaine) in an Upper West Side insurance agency. The movie unfolds throughout the holiday season but ends on New Year's Eve when this much-thwarted courtship is sealed by MacLaine's classic quip: "Shut up and deal." "The Hudsucker Proxy" (dir. Joel and Ethan Coen) The far-out final act of the Coens' 1994 Capraesque screwball comedy starring Tim Robbins as a quixotic mail room employee entangled in a stock scheme culminates on a delirious New Year's Eve. In an homage-packed scene riffing on everything from Harold Lloyd to Hitchcock's "North by Northwest," Robbins' Norville Barnes looms perilously on a high rise clock that reads "The Future Is Now."...
- 12/29/2014
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
In his 30-year career as a composer, Carter Burwell’s film scores have run the veritable cinematic gamut. From composing for Spike Jonze (Being John Malkovich, Adaptation., Where the Wild Things Are) to his work being the best parts of the Twilight saga, Burwell’s résumé is sporadic and unconventional, even for a man who makes film music for a living — it’s fitting, given his less-than-conventional roots as a cartoonist for The Harvard Lampoon and later as a vagrant New York punk rocker. Undoubtedly, Burwell’s become best known for the his collaborations with Joel and Ethan Coen. Last week, Sound on Sight ranked the films of the Coen Brothers, so what better way to take over The Big Score than with a similarly themed meditation on their work with Burwell? As much as the Coens’ filmography is defined by their trademark cynicism and wit, Burwell’s compositions are...
- 1/30/2014
- by David Klein
- SoundOnSight
Joel and Ethan Coen have built a reputation as two of the most visionary and idiosyncratic filmmakers working today. Dabbling in Film Noir to screwball comedy, from off-beat indies to big-budget studio pieces, their films are adored by critics and audiences alike. The two-man writer-director-producer-editor team, have long been regarded by cinephiles as masters of the craft. Choosing our favourite Coen Bros. film isn’t an easy task, but we asked our staff to rank their films from favourite to least favourite. The results were interesting, with Fargo running away with first place, and two of their 16 films not producing enough votes to justify making the cut (The Lady Killers, Intolerable Cruelty). Here are the results. Let us know which is your favourite Coen Bros. film?
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13. Burn After Reading, 2008
Leave it to Joel and Ethan Coen to follow-up their award winning mammoth No Country for Old Men just a year later with the spry,...
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13. Burn After Reading, 2008
Leave it to Joel and Ethan Coen to follow-up their award winning mammoth No Country for Old Men just a year later with the spry,...
- 1/24/2014
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
We scour the interwebs for the coolest movie news and more so you don't have to ...
They're horror movies ... but, to quote hula hoop mastermind Norville Barnes, "you know, for kids!" Film.com thinks that the upcoming trio of "ParaNorman," "Hotel Transylvania" and "Frankenweenie" could be the start of a new cinematic trend.
Why is Amanda Plummer the perfect choice to play Wiress in "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire"? Because she's a pro at bringing the crazy. VH1 Celebrity looks back at some of her bonkers characters, from Lydia in "The Fisher King" to Honey Bunny in "Pulp Fiction."
Actually, with all of the "Catching Fire" casting that's been going on lately, it can be a challenge to keep everything (and everyone) straight. BuzzSugar gathers all the new "Hunger Games" recruits into one feature for your quick reference.
GQ's interview with Joseph Gordon-Levitt is titled "Boy Wonder" ... is that something of a spoiler?...
They're horror movies ... but, to quote hula hoop mastermind Norville Barnes, "you know, for kids!" Film.com thinks that the upcoming trio of "ParaNorman," "Hotel Transylvania" and "Frankenweenie" could be the start of a new cinematic trend.
Why is Amanda Plummer the perfect choice to play Wiress in "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire"? Because she's a pro at bringing the crazy. VH1 Celebrity looks back at some of her bonkers characters, from Lydia in "The Fisher King" to Honey Bunny in "Pulp Fiction."
Actually, with all of the "Catching Fire" casting that's been going on lately, it can be a challenge to keep everything (and everyone) straight. BuzzSugar gathers all the new "Hunger Games" recruits into one feature for your quick reference.
GQ's interview with Joseph Gordon-Levitt is titled "Boy Wonder" ... is that something of a spoiler?...
- 7/18/2012
- by Bryan Enk
- NextMovie
Any aspiring screenwriter will tell you that if you are looking for an example of the best writing in cinema today you need look no further than the Coen Brothers. Since their debut, Joel and Ethan Coen have populated cinema with some of the greatest characters ever written. Loveable losers, hard-as-nails hitmen, slimeballs, violent maniacs or oddball lunatics have all come from the same warped minds.
With the release of A Serious Man on DVD imminent, what better time could there possibly be to take a trip through the siblings back catalogue and revisit some of the greatest characters ever committed to film.
M. Emmet Walsh as Loren Visser – Blood Simple (1984)
It’s 1984 and Joel and Ethan Coen burst onto the cinematic scene with Blood Simple. If you are new to the world of the Coens’ the best place to start is right here. Their debut is immense. It is...
With the release of A Serious Man on DVD imminent, what better time could there possibly be to take a trip through the siblings back catalogue and revisit some of the greatest characters ever committed to film.
M. Emmet Walsh as Loren Visser – Blood Simple (1984)
It’s 1984 and Joel and Ethan Coen burst onto the cinematic scene with Blood Simple. If you are new to the world of the Coens’ the best place to start is right here. Their debut is immense. It is...
- 3/15/2010
- by Alex Wagner
- FilmShaft.com
Ethan and Joel Coen circa 1990 while promoting Miller's Crossing Top Ten Coen Bros. Films With the upcoming release of A Serious Man, the brand new film from the Coen brothers, I decided to put together my personal top ten list of their films. A task that proved much harder than I would have originally imagined. I agonized over this list. Why? Because love isn't a strong enough word for how I feel about the Coen films. No, something more akin to reverence mixed with a healthy bit of obsessive adoration would be much closer to my relationship with their work. They are the kind are filmmakers who make us think, as we sit in the theater, they are unspooling the yarn just for us. Sure, the Coens weave tales of great violence and isolation, but somewhere in there a quiet grace is achieved too. Places 11, 12 and 13 Photo: Universal Pictures / Touchstone...
- 9/30/2009
- by Laremy Legel
- Rope of Silicon
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