  | AP Entertainment catches up with Brad Pitt, Tilda Swinton and John Malkovich at the 'Burn After Reading' premiere in Toronto. (Sept. 9) Auteur: AssociatedPress Tags: 'burn after burn coens film pitt premiere reading reading' Ajoutée: mardi 20 mai 2031 08:22:12 |
 | Acclaimed filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen deliver their most gripping and ambitious film yet in this sizzling and supercharged action-thriller. When a man stumbles on a bloody crime scene, a pickup truck loaded with heroin, and two million dollars in irresistible cash, his decision to take the money sets off an unstoppable chain reaction of violence. Not even west Texas law can contain it. Based on the novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy, and featuring an acclaimed cast led by Tommy Lee Jones, this gritty game of cat and mouse will take you to the edge of your seat and beyond - right up to its heart-stopping final act.
No Country For Old Men -- Available on DVD and Blu-rayTM Hi-Def March 11, 2008 Auteur: BVHEMiramax Tags: Bardem Brolin Brothers Coen Country Films For Harrelson Javier Jones Josh Kell Lee Men Miramax No Old Tommy Woody Ajoutée: jeudi 12 mars 2009 17:33:49 |
 | See Kyle Coen soar over 100 feet on his BBR Perimeter 50 for an official Guinness Book World Record. Auteur: BBROfficial Tags: 110 BBR bike KLX mini motorcycle Motorsports pit stroke Ajoutée: vendredi 14 juillet 2006 14:53:31 |
 | On a recent trip to Ethiopia, Amy Coen, President/CEO of Population Action International, had the opportunity to meet Dr. Bogaletch Gebra - affectionately called "Boge" - who is spearheading a national campaign to end the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM). They participated in a rally of over 15,000 girls, mothers, fathers and village elders who demonstrated their commitment to ending FGM in their communities. It takes a commitment from every level of a society to triumph over a traditional practice that has been performed for centuries in some communities and rallies like this one bring the world even closer to ending to this form of human rights abuse.
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To learn more about Population Action International, please visit www.populationaction.org Auteur: Paiwdc Tags: Action female FGM genital health International mutilation Population reproductive Ajoutée: dimanche 31 mars 1974 14:20:14 |
 | No Country For Old Men has become an Oscar front-runner after bagging the top gong at the Screen Actors Guild Awards. Auteur: Itn Tags: Coen Country Daniel Day-Lewis Ethan For itn Joel Men news No Old showbiz Ajoutée: samedi 19 août 2006 01:50:42 |
 | Due to a technical glitch, some astute moviegoer inside WKBW-TV's newsroom was overheard saying, "I don't believe in this Oscar bullshit but it's the best movie of the year" when the Coen brothers won Best Director for "No Country for Old Men". Auteur: Anotherjpeg Tags: Academy Award Best Brothers Coen Country Director For glitch Men No Old Oscars swearing tal techical trash WKBW Ajoutée: vendredi 25 septembre 2009 17:02:00 |
 | Coens, Bardem, Cotillard Win Oscars
By DAVID GERMAIN -- 21 hours ago
LOS ANGELES (AP) ? "No Country for Old Men" was living up to its front-runner status at Sunday's Academy Awards, winning adapted screenplay for the Coen brothers and supporting actor for Javier Bardem. "La Vie En Rose" star Marion Cotillard was a surprise winner in the best actress category.
Cotillard rode the spirit of Edith Piaf to Oscar triumph over Julie Christie, who had been expected to win for "Away From Her."
Joel and Ethan Coen are mainly known for their original screenplays, making only two films based on adaptations, "No Country" from Pulitzer winner Cormac McCarthy's novel, and "O Brother, Where Art Thou?," loosely inspired by the ancient Greek epic "The Odyssey."
"I think whatever success we've had in this area has been entirely attributable to how selective we are. We've only adapted Homer and Cormac McCarthy," said Joel Coen.
Previous original-screenplay winners for 1996's "Fargo," the Coens came in as the best-picture and directing favorites for "No Country."
The Coens missed out on a chance to make Oscar history ? four wins for a single film ? when they lost the editing prize, for which they were nominated under the pseudonym Roderick Jaynes.
"The Bourne Ultimatum" won the editing Oscar and swept all three categories in which it was nominated, including sound editing and sound mixing.
Cotillard tearfully thanked her director, Olivier Dahan.
"Maestro Olivier, you rocked my life. You have truly rocked my life," said Cotillard, a French beauty who is a dynamo as Piaf, playing the warbling chanteuse through three decades, from raw late teens as a singer rising from the gutter through international stardom and her final days in her frail 40s.
"Thank you life, thank you love. And it is true that there are some angels in this city."
A relatively fresh face in Hollywood, Cotillard has U.S. credits that include "Big Fish," "A Good Year" and the upcoming "Public Enemies," featuring Johnny Depp and Christian Bale.
With a heartbreaking turn as a woman succumbing to Alzheimer's in "Away From Her," Christie had been expected to win her second Oscar. She won best actress 42 years ago for "Darling."
Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Marion Cotillard
Marion Cotillard
La Vie en Rose
NOMINATED ROLE
Marion Cotillard plays Edith Piaf, the legendary French singer who rose to international fame from her beginnings on the streets of Paris.
ACADEMY AWARDS HISTORY
This is the first Academy Award nomination for Marion Cotillard.
FILM SYNOPSIS
In a life marked by personal tragedy and artistic triumph, Edith Piaf grows from a child born in poverty to an internationally acclaimed singer. Raised primarily by her grandmother, a brothel keeper, young Edith is discovered singing on the streets of Paris and begins a remarkable career that cannot save her from a life haunted by drugs, alcohol, and a succession of unhappy love affairs. Auteur: Blacktreemedia Tags: Academy Awards Cotillard En La Marion Nominee Oscar Rose Vie Ajoutée: dimanche 23 août 2009 09:52:37 |
 | Coens scoop top gong at Screen Actors Guild Awards - A-listers provide much-missed star power on red carpet - Adele kept from top spot Auteur: Itn Tags: adele chart coens itn musics news number one showbiz Ajoutée: samedi 19 août 2006 06:24:08 |
 | There's plenty of fire in Burn After Reading, the Coen brothers' playful and pungent tale set amid the bungling bureaucrats of the CIA and an assortment of other ditzy denizens of Washington, D.C.
Focus Features
John Malkovich portrays a CIA analyst with a drinking problem in the Coen brothers' latest film, "Burn After Reading."
In the Coens' coterie of accomplishments, Burn After Reading is less like last year's scary, Oscar-winning No Country for Old Men and more like the giddily humorous Fargo. There is, though, a shocking moment of violence in Burn After Reading.
The film has a clique of dysfunctional, insecure, crazed characters dealing with paranoia, infidelity and spy vs. spy antics. George Clooney and Brad Pitt, in particular, oceans apart from their Ocean's 11, 12 and 13 indulgences, craft moments that are not only funny but touching.
Then there's Frances McDormand, the fine actress who's married to co-writer, co-producer, co-director (with his brother, Ethan) Joel Coen, who guided her to an Oscar for Fargo.
An employee of the Hardbodies Fitness Center in Georgetown, an incessant online dater, desperate for plastic surgery, she creates a heartbreaking portrait of a miserably lonely woman who can't grasp a meaningful relationship.
Consistently histrionic John Malkovich, meanwhile, plays a CIA analyst, demoted because of an apparent drinking problem. His explosions of rancor at agency honchos blasts from the screen: You're a Mormon, he scowls at one lightweight. Next to you, we all have a drinking problem! Then, he bellows, This is a crucifixion! arms spread, Jesus-like.
Malkovich's performance is laced with detonations of a certain four-letter word. He's wild, angry and unforgettable. His most touching vignette is at home, during the day, unemployed, drinking, gazing at the tube, a vintage episode of Family Feud.
Tilda Swinton, the Oscar winner for Michael Clayton, portrays Malkovich's wife, a self-absorbed pediatrician who's cheating on him with Clooney (her Michael Clayton co-star), a bumbling federal marshal. Swinton, so icy, so demeaning, and scruffily-bearded Clooney, so paranoid, so taken with himself (Maybe I can get in a run, he says after every sexual encounter), together again is sweet.
Clooney is pushing an admirable career that includes The Good German, Good Night, and Good Luck and an Oscar in 2005 for Syriana. Obsessed with flooring (don't ask), suffering from lactose reflux (don't ask), he's a memorable doofus in Burn After Reading.
The frosted-haired Pitt is delightful, too, as a dim-bulb trainer at Hardbodies who gets in over his head after finding a disc of Malkovich's memoirs. He's demonstrated serious acting chops in Babel and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.
In Burn After Reading, his comedic talents are impressive. With iPod earphones attached, he bops to the music. One of these days, Pitt deserves an all-out, singular comedy role.
Richard Jenkins, the skillful actor from The Visitor and TV's Six Feet Under, is the fitness center manager who pines for McDormand though she's too busy online meeting men. With merely a glance, he creates a note of sadness, as he did in The Visitor.
Burn After Reading is a roundelay of suspicion, of who's following whom. The cast has rapport or, as thick-headed Pitt pronounces it, rap-port.
There are numerous small pleasures: Clooney warbling My Eyes Adored You in the shower, Pitt and McDormand plotting at a Jamba Juice, Malkovich in a drunken reunion with his Princeton alumni pals, Swinton nastily threatening a kid in her office to open his mouth.
Small pleasures that add up to a large, 95-minute one. Auteur: Blacktreemedia Tags: after blacktree Brad brothers burn Clooney cohen filmmaker George interview Pitt reading reel trailer tv Ajoutée: lundi 23 juin 2031 22:33:32 |
 | NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN (2007)
Tommy Lee Jones
Javier Bardem
Josh Brolin
Directed by the Coen Brothers
Based on the book by Cormac McCarthy
I remember when I was watching the making-of documentary and the Coens were talking about how they wanted to create the most violent strangulation scene in film history. Whether or not they succeeded, I don't know, but what a hell of a way to start a movie! This scene is more than a strangulation of some unlucky cop; it is the prime theme of the film.
It also shows us how incredibly sociopathically psychotic and evil Anton Chigurh is.
Also, I love the shot of the cop;'s feet against the linoleum with the shoe skids. That is another moment in this film where death is made artistic.
TRIVIA!: The actor playing the cop here is wearing a full chest cuirass with an attached false throat. This was to let Javier Bardem put some real strength and intensity into the strangling without injuring the actor. Auteur: ILOVECINEMA101 Tags: bardem brolin coen cop cormac country ethan for javier joel jones josh lee mccarthy men no old strangulation tommy Ajoutée: samedi 01 juillet 2028 05:10:51 |
 | Trailer for Burn After Reading (2008)
Directors: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Cast: Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Tilda Swinton, John Malkovich, Frances McDormand Auteur: Mongoliit Tags: After Brothers Burn Coen Coens Malkovich Reading trailer Ajoutée: vendredi 08 septembre 2028 12:53:45 |
 | NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN (2007)
Tommy Lee Jones
Javier Bardem
Josh Brolin
Directed by the Coen Brothers
Based on the book by Cormac McCarthy
I was just on IMDB reading comments about this movie. Once again, IMDB has reminded me how unbeliavebly fucking stupid many moviegoers are. No Country is a film that takes a very basic storyline to a whole other dimension. Kudos of course goes to McCarthy, whose books are incredibly subtle and brilliant, but unfortunately, many people can't seem to get that sublety, and see beyond the basic storyline.
I also have to say that the Coens photographed this film immaculatey. There are some scenes that paused are like paintings. Very beautiful.
Anyway, I personally believe that this scene is a recent classic, absolutely brilliant from start to finish. I remember watching this in theatres and thinking, "damn, some really bad things are going to happen". The tension is incredible.
Oh, and I think Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem) is one the greatest villains I have ever seen in a movie hands down. Auteur: ILOVECINEMA101 Tags: bardem brolin coen cormac country ethan for gas javier joel jones josh lee mccarthy men no old scene station tommy Ajoutée: mardi 20 juin 2028 00:00:46 |
 | Encuentro entre 6 paintboleros contra 10 militares(los Coens) de la 1ra Brigada. Auteur: Arozd1 Tags: atc2k paintball dominicano paintball Ajoutée: mardi 12 mai 1914 20:27:11 |
