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	<title>Obsessed With Film &#187; A Serious Man</title>
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		<title>EXCLUSIVE: Clip from A SERIOUS MAN DVD</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:45:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to bestowing a motion-picture with the golden honour of being Best Picture for a particular year, I always look for what I call a "perfect film".

I define a "perfect film" as one that is absent of any scenes or moments that could have been improved on because the direction is so controlled, the story told so tight and the actors so utterly convincing in their roles that they were irreplaceable. Perfect films suggest the cinematic medium has been used to fully transcend the meaning of an author's intention, usually with multiple layers upon layers of engaging interpretation for every shot and idea.

There are no filler, or exposition moments in a perfect film and they don't come around very often. The last was No Country For Old Men in 2007, which I firmly believe was why it won Best Picture over the more ambitious There Will Be Blood. The closest we came in 2008 was probably Let the Right One In.

However, we did have a perfect film this year and no it wasn't James Cameron's eye-ball orgy blockbuster Avatar.



As much as I championed the movie on Oscar night as being the very one that should take home the ...]]></description>
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		<title>Matt&#8217;s Top Ten of 2009!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:05:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[January 21st, and I finally get this piece up. Shocking, unforgivable and I'm an utter disgrace, I know.

If it wasn't the fact that OWF was created from my own sperm, I would have been fired a long time ago for my continuing incompetence, no doubt. But better late than never and all that.

This year my "No thanks" award goes to the guys in charge of the U.K. distributions of Me and Orson Welles, Crazy Heart and A Single Man for not giving me a snowball's chance in hell of seeing those flicks, and every year you do nothing more than tempt me to move Stateside.

Sadly, those above three movies never stood a chance of making my list.





What you see before you is my very belated Top Ten Films of 2009 and I just wanna say, 2009 was a very good year for movies. At least it was from where I'm sitting.

There's some bitter and twisted critics out there who wouldn't know a good time at the movies if two tickets to a Michael Mann thrill ride or a Quentin Tarantino spectacle hit them squarely on the forehead and for those out there who can't enjoy the following ten of my ...]]></description>
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		<title>Adam Arkin joins Coen&#8217;s A SERIOUS MAN</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 07:51:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Matt here, T.V. regular Adam Arkin has joined A Serious Man, the currently filming in Minnesota black comedy from the Coen Brothers whose Burn After Reading is released in the U.S. today.


The Coen's original film follows a Midwestern professor (Mark Sthulbarg) who watches his life unravel when his wife vows to leave him because his inept brother (Richard Kind) won't move out of the house.

Yes, it's the Coens going with recognisable t.v. actors instead of the usual A-list type stars George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Tommy Lee Jones etc.

As always, the Coens are impossible to predict!

Discuss: A low profile Coen Brothers movie with C-list actors, does it interest you? Does a comedy like Burn After Reading interest you or are you disappointed they didn't follow up No Country For Old Men with a similar sized epic?
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		<title>Coens begin casting their next movie</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 05:51:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Coen Brothers have begun casting A Serious Man, a black comedy that will begin shooting in Minneapolis early September from a screenplay they collaborated on and we believe they will direct.

Variety say Richard Kind (Spin City) and Tony Award winning actor Michael Stuhlbarg (he played the villain in Scorsese's Hitchcock homage Key to Reserva) will lead.




Set in 1967, story centers on Larry Gopnik (Stuhlbarg), a Midwestern professor whose life begins to unravel when his wife sets out to leave him and his socially inept brother (Kind) won't move out of the house.

Working Titles are producing, Focus Features distributing.
It's yet another unpredictable move from the Coens, who are two of the biggest helmers in the industry but refuse to cast the "Hollywood" elite from project to project. Looking forward to this, even if the Coens comedies are often hit or miss with me.
Their next movie Burn After Reading opens in the U.S. on September 12th. ]]></description>
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