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Hunting Grounds.('No Country for Old Men'; 'Lions for Lambs')(Movie review)
The new Coen brothers movie, "No Country for Old Men," is set in Texas, with a foray over the border into Mexico. The cinematography is by Roger Deakins, a trusted collaborator of the Coens', who holds the wide, camel-brown sweep of the Texas scrubland steady in the frame, as if he were filming the Serengeti. When a hunter named Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) perches on a crag and trains his binoculars, or the telescopic sight of his rifle, on a herd on the plains below, we expect to see lions, not antelope. His shot misses, and the antelope leap away, but the next group in Moss's vision lies still: a litter of abandoned vehicles and, scattered among them, human bodies. How ...
- Coens Create Cold, Cynical Film World
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Peter Rainer March 27, 1994 700+ words
...1990) and "Barton Fink" (1991), the Coens have managed to make films that don't...ambiguities of authorship.) The paradox of the Coens' films is that they seem both one of a...to distance us from those feelings. The Coens - artists as control freaks - want us to...
- To Coens, Minnesota roots are big deal, you betcha; The filmmaking duo's new...
- Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) Covert, Colin September 27, 2009 700+ words
...worth of local names, from the Coens' old Hebrew school teacher...the references around." The Coens drop Minnesota allusions even...store back in the day. In `No Country for Old Men,' we named a drugstore...Then we blew it up." The Coens went to high school with Jeff...
- COENS HAVE ONE VOICE - JOEL'S.(Preview)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) October 18, 1990 700+ words
...which, like "Blood Simple," the Coens made independently, without studio interference...shorthand." He takes pains to distinguish the Coens' film making methods from those of other...Ethan vigorously nods. Officially, the Coens say that Ethan produces, that Joel directs...
- The brothers at their best; WILL SELF ON FILM Only the Coens could remake an...
- Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England) June 24, 2004 700+ words
...have become great ones. Since then, the Coens have had their ups - Miller's Crossing...that is George Clooney. Now comes the Coens' remake of Alexander Mackendrick's 1955...denounce it as an abomination. Why the Coens - or any other filmmakers - shouldn't...
- Sibling Revelry // Coens Return To Their Roots With `Fargo'
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times CINDY PEARLMAN March 10, 1996 700+ words
...boys profess. She says that after "Hudsucker," the Coens wanted to go back to basics. So they rounded up a...asked how we got Prince in our film." How did the Coens become the Coens? By all accounts, they had a normal suburban childhood...
- Coens get aeSeriousAE with tale of Midwest Jews.(TimeOut)
- Newspaper article from: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL) October 9, 2009 700+ words
...early years, the Coens were taken seriously...crime thriller "No Country for Old Men," have established the Coens as very serious men...the standards of the Coens u who followed their...Oscar wins on "No Country for Old Men" with...
- The Coens' Funny Bones.(Movies)(Burn After Reading)(Movie review)
- Magazine article from: Newsweek Ansen, David September 15, 2008 700+ words
...out, is a red herring: the Coens aren't really interested in...re watching a comedy.) The Coens may treat their characters like...I couldn't buy him as a country bumpkin in "O Brother, Where...knows how to fit into the Coens' highly stylized universe better...
- Oscar's sibling revelry: Coens give violence an arty twist.(80th Annual Academy...
- Magazine article from: Daily Variety Thompson, Anne February 25, 2008 700+ words
...kudos. After "No Country" bowed Nov. 9 on...the picture, the Coens and Javier Bardem...Ladykillers," the Coens returned to writing mode on "No Country" with their gritty...soundtrack. ("No Country's" $30 million...and Miramax.) The Coens are not resting on...
