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12 articles from 2009
Red Carpet: Hot Film ‘Precious’ Premieres at 2009 Chicago International Film Festival
15 October 2009 6:39 AM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – Backed by industry giants Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry, the new film “Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire,” had a red carpet premiere at the Chicago International Film Festival on October 14th.
Walking the red carpet was the transcendent star of Precious, Gabby Sidibe, who portrays the title character. Accompanying her was the director Lee Daniels, an extraordinary creative force of nature.
Also partaking of the film and walking the carpet, the exceptional Chicago character actress Irma P. Hall (”Soul Food,” “The Ladykillers”) and the star of another festival film, the radiant Jossie Thacker.
HollywoodChicago was there, and elicited the following interplay from the participants.
Gabby Sidibe, star of “Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire”
‘Precious’ Star: Gabby Sidibe at the Chicago International Film Festival, October 14, 2009.
Photo credit: Patrick McDonald for HollywoodChicago.com
HollywoodChicago: Your character often dreamed of a better life. What was your »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
‘A Serious Man’ Plays as Masterfully Fictionalized Autobiography For Joel, Ethan Coen
11 October 2009 10:20 AM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – “A Serious Man” isn’t the story of Joel and Ethan Coen’s lives. But you might not necessarily know it. While the brothers continue to turn their films into Hollywood gold, this 1967-set black comedy is among the more personal projects in their repertoire.
Rating: 4.0/5.0
That gamut is growing into a serious catalog with “Burn After Reading,” 2007 best-picture Oscar winner “No Country for Old Men,” “The Ladykillers,” “O Brother, Where Art Thou?,” “The Big Lebowski,” “Fargo” and “Raising Arizona” now under their yamakas over the course of two decades.
While the yamaka is designed to signify deference to god, “A Serious Man” pays homage to the Coens’ culture in an authentically Jewish way. But this is more than just one of the more Jewish films you’ve seen since “Schindler’s List”. “A Serious Man” is powered by a highly internal script and actors who externalize a series of very unfortunate events. »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Marlon Wayans to Star in Richard Pryor Biopic
7 October 2009 2:16 PM, PDT | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »
Earlier this year we heard rumours that Dreamgirls director Bill Condon was in the process of shopping around [1] a Richard Pryor biopic, and that Eddie Murphy was loosely attached to star. At the time, a lot of people had doubts about seeing Murphy in the role, but I have a feeling there will be even more doubters now that Condon has decided to set the movie up with a different, slightly less expensive actor: Marlon Wayans. Variety [2] reports that Columbia Pictures and Happy Madison are currently finalizing a deal for Richard Pryor: Is It Something I Said? with Marlon Wayans in the lead role and the budget coming in under $20 million. Both Adam Sandler and Chris Rock are on board as producers, and word on the street is that Sandler may even make a cameo in the film as Richard Pryor's first manager, Sandy Gallin. Clearly Richard Pryor »
- Sean
Quiz: How Well Do You Know the Coen Brothers?
1 October 2009 2:40 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Joel and Ethan Coen As if yesterday's list of Top Ten Coen Bros. Films wasn't enough, I offer you today a quiz to test your knowledge of Joel and Ethan Coen. So you say you love their work? Well, do you love it enough to actually learn a little about the boys? This Friday, October 2, the Coens unleash A Serious Man on the masses and what better way is there to impress your friends than to beef up on some tasty trivia bits to wow and amaze them on your way to the theater? While I didn't figure out a way to work a Dapper Dan question in I think I have come up with ten questions that will test even the most avid Coen fan. Here's a sample question to test the waters, or you can just click here to get started: Ethan Coen wasn't credited along with his »
- Brad Brevet
In My Opinion: The Top Ten Coen Bros. Films
30 September 2009 1:49 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
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 »
- Laremy Legel
Fall Movie Preview: Deception And Dark Laughs in Coen Brothers Comedy, 'A Serious Man'
28 August 2009 11:00 AM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
Brad Pitt and George Clooney. Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin and Woody Harrelson. Tom Hanks. George Clooney again. Billy Bob Thornton. George Clooney a third time.
Joel and Ethan Coen like Hollywood leading men in their movies, those Oscar winners and tabloid staples who put butts in theaters seats and bring their twisty dark tales to life. After "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" and "The Man Who Wasn't There" and "Intolerable Cruelty" and "The Ladykillers" and "No Country for Old Men" and "Burn After Reading" comes "A Serious Man" and its star... Michael Stuhlbarg?
Yup, the Coen brothers are switching gears, at least when it comes to casting. Their story, though, hits themes—deception, betrayal, crime, humiliation, alienation, pride—that the writer/directors have returned to again and again in their work.
"I just didn't want to be the one who messed everything up," Stuhlbarg told MTV News.
A New York-based theater actor, »
- Eric Ditzian
Shouting Match: Does Tom Hanks Still Have It?
16 May 2009 7:00 AM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
With Angels and Demons out in theaters now, there's been a question burning at Fsr HQ hotter than Neil Miller's hemorrhoids: Does Tom Hanks still have it? Fsr sex columnist Bethany Perryman and resident Devil's Advocate Josh Radde debate the two-time Oscar winner's chops. Opening Argument (Josh): Here's what I'll state bold and clear before I get to the rest of my argument: I like Tom Hanks. I think he's given us some rich characters over the years and I think some of the work he's produced for HBO has led to some very fine miniseries. That being said, dude can't cut it in front of the camera anymore. With the release of Angels and Demons this week, coupled with early negative reviews, it's clear that he never should've been cast in the role to begin with. But more than that, look at his recent outings as an actor since the turn of the century: »
- Josh Radde
Monday Night Poll: What's Your Favorite Tom Hanks Hairstyle?
11 May 2009 8:02 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
(Clockwise, from upper left: Splash, Philadelphia, Forrest Gump, Castaway, The Ladykillers, The Da Vinci Code.)
Our last two polls covered Star Trek : anticipated box office returns (most folks guessed too high) and 1-10 rating (most folks were very impressed). Those polls are still open, but we thought it was time to let our hair down and move on to this week's big opener: Tom Hanks in Ron Howard's dramatic thriller Angels & Demons.
Based on the novel by Dan Brown, Angels & Demons follows Professor Robert Langdon as he again uses his expert knowledge of symbology to uncover an international conspiracy involving the Catholic Church. Though the book was written before The Da Vinci Code, the events take place afterward. When Hanks and Howard previously teamed on the film adaptation in 2006, Hanks' hair got plenty of attention. As Eric D. Snider noted, "If you recall nothing else about The Da Vinci Code, »
- Peter Martin
Julia Roberts gives Hanks profane toast
28 April 2009 2:50 PM, PDT | digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »
Julia Roberts told Tom Hanks that "everybody f**king likes" him during her toast at an event honouring him in New York. The actress went on to make fun of some of Hanks's roles, including his work in The Ladykillers, E! reports. "I love the Coen brothers, but the hair, Tom, I didn't even know what the f**k that movie was about," she said. The Pretty Woman star also said that (more) »
- By Chris Homer
[DVD Review] No Country for Old Men
9 April 2009 4:49 PM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »
No Country for Old Men, the Coen brothers’ undisputed career masterpiece evokes the feeling that everything they’ve achieved prior to this has simply been larks. They were biding their time, practicing, waiting for just the right cosmic alignment of mood and material to unleash their true potential upon an unsuspecting audience lulled into a false sense of quirky security by the likes of Intolerable Cruelty and The Ladykillers.
For sure this is the Coen Bros of old and No Country feels like a distilled amalgamation of their classic work, sharpened and pointed into a needle of sheer cinematic genius. It has the cold, stark simplicity of Blood Simple, the dark cynicism of Miller’s Crossing, and the incompressible humor of Fargo (we defy you to identify anyone else that can craft a sidesplitting throwaway exchange about welding).
An adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winning author Cormac McCarthy’s bleak 1980 set crime thriller, »
- Neil Pedley
Coen Brothers Going Old School With 'True Grit'
23 March 2009 2:17 AM, PDT | Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news »
Academy Award-winning filmmakers, Joel and Ethan Coen, have finally taken another go at remaking a classic movie, "True Grit", following their 2004 "The Ladykillers". The duo behind "Burn After Reading" will be giving a reboot treatment for the 1969 Western movie that helped John Wayne earned his Oscar.
Though rebooting the Henry Hathaway-directed movie, Coen brothers reportedly won't make the project a straight remake of the film. They, instead, will base their movie on the original Charles Portis novel, meaning that they will focus the story on the 14-year-old girl who hunts down her father's killer in hostile Native American territory and not on Wayne's character Rooster Cogburn.
Serving as the screenwriters for this "True Grit" remake, both Joel and Ethan Coen will once again team up with their "No Country for Old Men" partner, Scott Rudin. Although they have planned on developing "The Yiddish Policemen's Union" at Columbia first, "True Grit »
- AceShowbiz.com
The Coens Show True Grit
23 March 2009 12:03 AM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »
There’s not much that Joel and Ethan Coen haven’t achieved in their fabulously successful career. But, as anyone who saw their ill-advised version of The Ladykillers would know, they haven’t yet produced a cracking remake of a classic film.So now they’re about to have another go at it, with a remake of the classic Western, True Grit, better known as the film that finally won John Wayne an Oscar.Of course, the Coens are never ones to do things conventionally. Their True Grit won’t be a straight remake of Henry Hathaway’s 1969 movie, which told the tale of a young girl who, along with Wayne’s cantankerous one-eyed marshal, Rooster Cogburn and Glen Campbell’s Us Marshal, hunts down her father’s killer in hostile Native American territory.Instead, the Coens will base their movie on the original Charles Portis novel, and will focus »
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