Coen Brothers

[Appu s]

No country for old men gave me one of the most satisfying movie watching experiences among hollywood movies. I have not seen a such an engrossing thriller since Silence of the Lambs.

My fav. too , watched it around 5 times.. especially the villain

[Plum]

I dont know nary a thing about them but this interview was hilarious:

Playboy: What can you do with a baby that you can’t do with an animal?

Ethan: A million things.

Joel: The pit. You can’t do that with animals.

Ethan: Believe me, it is remarkable thing to see how animals are monitored. You cannot kill a mosquito on screen.

Joel: When you do a Screen Actors Guild movie that uses animals in any way you have to get the American Humane Society to sign off on it. We blew up a cow in O Brother, which meant we had to send the Humane Society work tapes while the film was being shot. When they saw the cow scene they didn’t believe it was computer generated, but I assure you it was.

Ethan: There is a rule that you can’t get a cow anywhere near a moving car.

Joel: It might cause the cow stress.

Ethan: You can’t upset the animals.

[Plum]

And this:

Playboy: What’s a lizard crash pad?

Ethan: A lizard shoots off a rock in the movie, and we had to have a preapproved soft place for it to land.

Joel: Yeah. With babies, you don’t have to bother about all that stuff.

[P_R]

O Brother Where at Thou

Hmm...kinda bland.

[Avadi to America]

anyone watched miller's crossing????

[kid-glove]

I saw. Don't remember the different plot points as it's somewhat convoluted with a whole lot of double crossing involved. But what struck me was the relationship between Byrne's character (what a nuanced performance) and Finney's character (who is brilliant in that action set-piece with Thomo submach & night gown ) . And both their relationships to the woman, Gay Harden's character..

[P_R]

A Serious Man - enna viLayAttu idhu

[Bala (Karthik)]

anyone watched miller's crossing????

Watched and liked it..but don't remember much as usual...

[Bala (Karthik)]

I saw. Don't remember the different plot points as it's somewhat convoluted with a whole lot of double crossing involved. But what struck me was the relationship between Byrne's character (what a nuanced performance) and Finney's character (who is brilliant in that action set-piece with Thomo submach & night gown ) . And both their relationships to the woman, Gay Harden's character..

In fact, i've seen an interview where the Coens' say it (plot, convolusions) were difficult even for them...

[kid-glove]

B(K),
Yeah and they wrote Barton Fink (they had John Turturro in mind, who plays Gay Harden's brother, a pivotal character, in Miller's) when they suffered this lapse! Interestingly it's about a playwright who suffers from writer's block when confronted to write a script by Hollywood studio head. Lot more minimalistic and low budget, seemingly more personal. Yet, it's amazing how they manage to bring truth to different period pieces with such ease. Can't wait for True Grit in this regard ! Obviously, bigger the budget, the Period is more expansively detailed.

In this regard, as I said to Dagalti in twitter, I regard Zodiac as a meaningful departure (apart from other sign(s) of maturity) for Fincher from 7, Fight club, and in general, geographically nonspecific contemporary films.