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		<title>Matt Damon &amp; Josh Brolin will show TRUE GRIT for the Coens?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:14:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Coen Brothers adaptation of Charles Potter's 1968 novel True Grit, a property already firmly established in the Western cannon for it's superb late 60s movie that featured an eye patched John Wayne in his only Oscar winning role, is an intriguing project, probably the most intriguing they've ever set out to make.

The revenge Western material is so up the Coens alley, it's tailor made for them in so many ways, yet I can't yet envision this tale being told without John Wayne. Maybe once we get some stills, posters, trailers etc. and I've had more time to think about Jeff Bridges as the lead, I will start to feel more comfortable with the idea of this remake.

My negativity certainly isn't down to the fact I don't think the Coens are capable of making a killer movie out of this story and they've certainly impressed with their casting.



Last month they hired Jeff Bridges to play the stubborn and world weary U.S. Marshal Reuben J. 'Rooster' Cogburn, a drunk who helps a 14-year old girl track down her father's killer in hostile Indian territory.

Now comes word out of Variety that Matt Damon is in talks to play the lawman/texas ranger who later ...]]></description>
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		<title>When Will They Learn? Why I Wont Endorse a Coens&#8217; Remake of TRUE GRIT&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:39:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Gallagher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Am I alone in my opinion of yesterday’s announcement that the Coens are set to helm a re-imagining of an absolute classic of the cinematic age? Regardless of the their obviously impeccable film-making credentials and of the intended enriching of the subject, I have to say I’m appalled at the decision to make another version of True Grit- different POV or no different POV.

I view this news in the same way that I would balk at the prospect of anyone remaking Citizen Kane from the perspective of Rosebud, or Harvey from that of the bunny- they are fundamental aspects of the story, as Mattie Ross is to True Grit, but there is no need to redress their silence.



Okay, so the story was originally told from the perspective of Mattie, and the film necessarily changed it to accommodate the star power of Wayne and the excellent Glenn Campbell, but I prefer to see the change in perspective to be an enriching development rather than an unfaithfulness to the text.



The film is a generation of the book, an alternate perspective that means True Grit represents more than a simple book to film adaptation. So why is it necessary to return to the source ...]]></description>
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		<title>Coen Brothers have the TRUE GRIT of John Wayne!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 06:56:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Coen Brothers, who have directed many Western-conscious genre movies over the years (No Country for Old Men, Fargo, Blood Simple) have in the last few years spoken regularly times about them wishing to make an out and out, old school period Western... and now it looks like they may have finally found the perfect property for them to do just that.

Variety report that they will team with Paramount to bring True Grit to the big screen, based on the original Charles Portis novel that has already been adapted into one of John Wayne's latter day classics in 1969 and was the source material which won him his only Oscar.



The Coens wish to adapt the book and not do an out and out remake, and have wrote their own screenplay.
Portis' novel is about a 14-year-old girl who, along with an aging U.S. marshal and another lawman, tracks her father's killer in hostile Indian territory.

But while the original film was a showcase for Wayne, the Coens' version will tell the tale from the girl's p.o.v.

Pic will be their first period Oater.
The original film starred Glen Campbell, Robert Duvall, Kim Darby and Dennis Hopper in supporting roles and it's a movie that belongs to ...]]></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?
 ]]></description>
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		<title>Sun kissed BURN AFTER READING poster</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 07:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are ever closing in on the September 12th U.S. release date for the next Coens Brothers movie, Burn After Reading - a dark comedy that sees George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Frances McDormand, John Malkovich and Tilda Swinton star.

The movie is playing next week at the Toronto International Film Festival and Obsessed With Film hopes to have someone down there covering the event, this is top of our list of must see movies.

And I have to say, I've really been digging the posters for this movie. Just gorgeous...


Meanwhile the reviews for the movie have been coming in from advanced press screenings.

Variety called it "silly", The Hollywood Reporter were so-so calling it a slow burner, The Guardian hated it, mixed reviews are everywhere right now.

No Country For Old Men finished on a 94% positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes but as soon as we saw this trailer, we always knew this one wasn't going to be for everyone. I like the look of it, but I can see why some wouldn't...

Look for our review next Weekend! ]]></description>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[A Serious Man]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Michael Stuhlbarg]]></category>
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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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		<title>BURN AFTER READING images!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 00:35:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Burn-After-Reading]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are only around six months away from seeing the hotly anticipated new film from the Coen Brothers, yes that's right those two cinematic geniuses who gave us the incredibly intense No Country for Old Men at the back end of last year.

The movie is Burn After Reading - a dark comedy which reunites them with George Clooney who himself is reunited with both Tilda Swinton (Michael Clayton) and Brad Pitt (Ocean's Movies). John Malkovich and Frances McDormand co-star in the tale of C.I.A. conspiracy and revenge.




The plot goes something like this. Malkovich is a former CIA agent whose soon to be divorced wife Tilda Swinton steals a CD of his memoirs revealing some top secret... secrets. Pitt and McDormand are two Gym Employee's who attempt to steal the CD which lead the C.I.A. to send George Clooney to clean up the mess - and if these pics are anything to go by he sleeps with Swinton for good measure!
Fun is the order of the day for the Coens on this one - a genre which I've never find them all that interesting in actually. Love the cast though and after No Country For Old Men - I can see ...]]></description>
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		<title>Coens adaptating another Pulitzer Prize novel&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:53:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Yiddish Policemen's Union]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you can't get excited over a Coen Brothers picture, then I have to wonder what it would take to get that cinematic blood pumping through your veins.

Variety say that The Coens will adapt their second Pulitzer Prize winning novel with Michel Chabon's novel THE YIDDISH POLICEMEN'S UNION (name change needed!) for Columbia Pictures. The last time they adapted a Pulitzer Prize novel they ended up with their most financially successful movie and tons of Academy Award Noms with NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN.


Chabon sets up a contemporary scenario where Jewish settlers are about to be displaced by U.S. government's plans to turn the frozen locale of Sitka, Alaska, over to Alaskan natives. Against this backdrop is a noir-style murder mystery in which a rogue cop investigates the killing of a heroin-addicted chess prodigy who might be the messiah.
Sounds perfect for the Coens.

Before we get to see this cool sounding project, we will be privileged to see the CIA comedy/thriller BURN AFTER READING which is due out in September with George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Tilda Swinton and John Malkovich starring.

After READING, they will move straight onto A SERIOUS MAN, a dark comedy about a Jewish college professor in the Midwest ...]]></description>
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