A Serious Man is the latest from America’s favorite filmmaking duo, the Coen Brothers, (who will be referred to here as CoBro—it’s faster) whose cannon of black comedies and tense dramas have earned them a place in the most casual filmgoers’ vernacular, as well as a Best Picture Oscar for No Country for Old [...]
When this short film premiered at the Telluride Film Festival in 2006, it was booed at every screening it played at, in three separate venues, by three different crowds of people. When We Are Big was paired with The Page Turner, a French thriller soon forgotten in the midst of all the hubhub. [...]
Jane Campion’s latest, Bright Star, details the romance between Fanny Brawne and the poet John Keats before his death at age 25. The film promised a chaste yet sizzling love affair, but for those of us expecting Twilight with verse, Bright Star falls a little short. Don’t laugh—we weren’t overreaching to expect vampires [...]
Everyone loves a good rags-to-riches story, especially if the riches yield from the world of haute couture, but Coco Before Chanel has none of the Sex and the City decadence or Julie and Julia warmth that a Chanel biopic suggests. Hers is the story of an orphan who goes on to be one of [...]