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2009 | 2008
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A serious actor, Mystic critics, Unhappy Haneke | Trailer Trash
14 November 2009 4:07 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
>>A serious actor Michael Stuhlbarg is being talked of for Oscar nominations following his impressive performance as Larry Gopnik in the Coen brothers' latest comedy A Serious Man. Stuhlbarg is a little-known actor, despite a 20-year career on and off Broadway. He met Joel Coen after performing with the film-maker's wife, Frances McDormand, in a community theatre project. "It was the 52nd Street Project in which kids wrote the plays and professional actors would come in to perform their work," the actor tells me. "It was quite a thrill and I became good friends with Frances." She took her husband to see Stuhlbarg in a David Mamet adaptation of The Voysey Inheritance. Joel called Stuhlbarg in initially to play the Yiddish husband in A Serious Man's Yiddish prologue but was so impressed that he eventually gave him the lead. "I'm still reeling from it, and it's certainly the biggest break of my film career, »
- Jason Solomons
Focus Features Sets 2010 Release Dates for Six Films
12 November 2009 4:04 PM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
The other day we premiered the first images and official synopses from Focus Features Greenberg, The Eagle of the Ninth, and Somewhere. Now, thanks to Focus sending out a press release, we have an idea when some of them are getting released.
On March 12th, director Noah Baumbach’s Greenberg will hit theaters for a limited release. The film stars Ben Stiller. After that we’re getting Thomas Balmes Babies on April 16th and director Anton Corbijn’s The American on September. 1st. That’s the George Clooney assassin film. Sometime in the third quarter will be Kevin Macdonald’s Roman adventure The Eagle of the Ninth, and in November It’s Kind of a Funny Story gets released. The big question mark is Sofia Coppola’s Somewhere, which still doesn’t have a release date.
The thing to remember is release dates change all the time, so before you »
- Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub
Exclusive: A Serious Man Clip
12 November 2009 2:01 AM, PST | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »
The new film from the Coen Brothers, A Serious Man, comes out next Friday, and we have an exclusive new clip from the film to give you a sense of what you're in for. Just don't ask the Coens what the whole thing is about, because if they know they're not telling. We do know, however, that it's blooming good, and that it's all about Larry Gopnik (Michael Stuhlbarg), a Jewish physics professor in a quiet Midwestern community in the 1960s who's experiencing something of a midlife crisis. Both in his personal and professional life everything seems to be falling apart - and his confrontation with student Clive Park (David Kang) in this clip doesn't help his rapidly deteriorating state.A Serious Man is out on November 20 here, so you can see the whole thing at that point and try to explain to us what the bit at the start is doing there. »
Film review: A Serious Man
11 November 2009 9:01 AM, PST | t5m.com | See recent t5m.com news »
The latest offering from the Coen Brothers is the mildly amusing A Serious Man. The movie follows the trials and tribulations of Larry Gopnick (Michael Stuhlbarg) a physics teacher in the 1960s. Gopnick is trying desperately hard to make sense of a life that is rapidly testing not only his resolve but his faith. At home his wife wants to leave him for an smarmy acquaintance, his oddball high maintenance brother who is living with him is getting into all types of scrapes, his son seems to only be interested in TV and smoking pot, his daughter is obsessed with getting a nose job and his attractive neighbour is taunting him by sunbathing nude in the garden. At work his hopes of tenure are being apparently sabotaged by a mystery letter writer and one of his students tries to bribe and then sue him for defamation. You can’t accuse »
- Sav D'Souza
Meeting Marshak: exclusive clip from the Coen brothers' A Serious Man
11 November 2009 7:30 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
I loved the Coen brothers' masterpiece of suburban comedy, and this exclusive clip gives a wonderful hint of its distinctive pleasures
Here's an exclusive clip from the new Coen brothers film, A Serious Man – which luckily contains the moment when the lead character Larry Gopnik (played by Broadway veteran Michael Stuhlbarg) announces himself as such. Or at least he stutters out: "I've tried to be a serious man, you know? Tried to do right."
A Serious Man is essentially about things not always being what they seem. Gopnik is a man in search of answers: his life is falling apart, his wife wants to leave him, one of his students is trying to bribe his way through his exams, his neighbour is building too close to the boundary line.
He therefore attempts to gain the wisdom of the ancients by going to see the rabbi and finds it an increasingly baffling and frustrating experience. »
- Andrew Pulver
Clips: A Serious Man
9 November 2009 8:59 PM, PST | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
Here’s a couple of nice little clips (embedded below) from the Coen Brothers latest, A Serious Man. Jon was lucky enough to see the movie at the London Film Festival (review here) and he loved it. The movie stars Michael Stuhlbarg, Sari Lennick, Richard Kind, Fred Melamed, Aaron Wolff, Jessica McManus and Adam Arkin.
“A Serious Man” is the story of an ordinary man’s search for clarity in a universe where Jefferson Airplane is on the radio and “F-Troop” is on TV. It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik (Michael Stuhlbarg), a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith (Sari Lennick) that she is leaving him. She has fallen in love with one of his more pompous colleagues, Sy Ableman (Fred Melamed), who seems to her a more substantial person than the feckless Larry. Larry’s unemployable brother Arthur (Richard Kind) is sleeping on the couch, »
- David Sztypuljak
A Serious Man Review
2 November 2009 11:48 PM, PST | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »
A Serious Man Written and Directed by: Joel and Ethan Coen Starring: Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Fred Melamed, Aaron Wolff In an age of high profile franchise blockbusters, months in advance it becomes very apparent via very expensive marketing campaigns what the year's event films are going to be. For me though, it is instead a handful of directors' names that predetermine who is getting my money and attention. It should be obvious by the fact that I'd even write this that the Coen Brothers are on this list, and it's wonderful to have such a list when it means you can walk into one of their films relatively cold. It also brings an entirely different set of expectations than you'd give something that has spent months doing everything it can to impress you. My expectations from the Coens have become numerous -- I now demand a higher level of quality. »
- Goon
Movie Review: A Serious Man
2 November 2009 1:29 AM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
Starring: Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Fred Melamed, Sari Lennick
Director: Ethan and Joel Coen
Release Date: October 2, 2009
Running Time: 105 mins.
MPAA Rating: R
Distributor: Focus Features
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Up until A Serious Man, I don't think many would call Ethan and Joel Coen serious men. Looking at Fargo, Burn After Reading, and Raising Arizona, it's clear the Coens prefer to brandish their wickedly black, and sophisticated humor than make forays into stone-faced dramas. Even last year, when the two adapted Cormac McCarthy's heavily philosophical masterpiece No Country For Old Men, the film came out darkly sardonic. This makes their latest film so fascinating. Yes, there is still humor, but it's also heavily meditative and profound.
The cast is largely made up of unknown faces. The protagonist, Larry Gobnik, is played by Michael Stuhlbarg. He's a Jewish physics professor in the mid-west in 1967. His son is a unambituous pothead, »
- blakecgriffin@gmail.com (Blake Griffin)
Movie Review: A Serious Man
2 November 2009 1:29 AM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
Starring: Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Fred Melamed, Sari Lennick
Director: Ethan and Joel Coen
Release Date: October 2, 2009
Running Time: 105 mins.
MPAA Rating: R
Distributor: Focus Features
- - -
Up until A Serious Man, I don't think many would call Ethan and Joel Coen serious men. Looking at Fargo, Burn After Reading, and Raising Arizona, it's clear the Coens prefer to brandish their wickedly black, and sophisticated humor than make forays into stone-faced dramas. Even last year, when the two adapted Cormac McCarthy's heavily philosophical masterpiece No Country For Old Men, the film came out darkly sardonic. This makes their latest film so fascinating. Yes, there is still humor, but it's also heavily meditative and profound.
The cast is largely made up of unknown faces. The protagonist, Larry Gobnik, is played by Michael Stuhlbarg. He's a Jewish physics professor in the mid-west in 1967. His son is a unambituous pothead, »
- blakecgriffin@gmail.com (Blake Griffin)
Movie Review: A Serious Man
2 November 2009 1:29 AM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
Starring: Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Fred Melamed, Sari Lennick
Director: Ethan and Joel Coen
Release Date: October 2, 2009
Running Time: 105 mins.
MPAA Rating: R
Distributor: Focus Features
- - -
Up until A Serious Man, I don't think many would call Ethan and Joel Coen serious men. Looking at Fargo, Burn After Reading, and Raising Arizona, it's clear the Coens prefer to brandish their wickedly black, and sophisticated humor than make forays into stone-faced dramas. Even last year, when the two adapted Cormac McCarthy's heavily philosophical masterpiece No Country For Old Men, the film came out darkly sardonic. This makes their latest film so fascinating. Yes, there is still humor, but it's also heavily meditative and profound.
The cast is largely made up of unknown faces. The protagonist, Larry Gobnik, is played by Michael Stuhlbarg. He's a Jewish physics professor in the mid-west in 1967. His son is a unambituous pothead, »
- blakecgriffin@gmail.com (Blake Griffin)
Movie Review: A Serious Man
2 November 2009 1:29 AM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
Starring: Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Fred Melamed, Sari Lennick
Director: Ethan and Joel Coen
Release Date: October 2, 2009
Running Time: 105 mins.
MPAA Rating: R
Distributor: Focus Features
- - -
Up until A Serious Man, I don't think many would call Ethan and Joel Coen serious men. Looking at Fargo, Burn After Reading, and Raising Arizona, it's clear the Coens prefer to brandish their wickedly black, and sophisticated humor than make forays into stone-faced dramas. Even last year, when the two adapted Cormac McCarthy's heavily philosophical masterpiece No Country For Old Men, the film came out darkly sardonic. This makes their latest film so fascinating. Yes, there is still humor, but it's also heavily meditative and profound.
The cast is largely made up of unknown faces. The protagonist, Larry Gobnik, is played by Michael Stuhlbarg. He's a Jewish physics professor in the mid-west in 1967. His son is a unambituous pothead, »
- blakecgriffin@gmail.com (Blake Griffin)
Spotlight Review: A Serious Man
2 November 2009 1:29 AM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
Starring: Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Fred Melamed, Sari Lennick
Director: Ethan and Joel Coen
Release Date: October 2, 2009
Running Time: 105 mins.
MPAA Rating: R
Distributor: Focus Features
- - -
Up until A Serious Man, I don't think many would call Ethan and Joel Coen serious men. Looking at Fargo, Burn After Reading, and Raising Arizona, it's clear the Coens prefer to brandish their wickedly black, and sophisticated humor than make forays into stone-faced dramas. Even last year, when the two adapted Cormac McCarthy's heavily philosophical masterpiece No Country For Old Men, the film came out darkly sardonic. This makes their latest film so fascinating. Yes, there is still humor, but it's also heavily meditative and profound.
The cast is largely made up of unknown faces. The protagonist, Larry Gobnik, is played by Michael Stuhlbarg. He's a Jewish physics professor in the mid-west in 1967. His son is a unambituous pothead, »
- blakecgriffin@gmail.com (Blake Griffin)
Spotlight Review: A Serious Man
2 November 2009 1:29 AM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
Starring: Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Fred Melamed, Sari Lennick
Director: Ethan and Joel Coen
Release Date: October 2, 2009
Running Time: 105 mins.
MPAA Rating: R
Distributor: Focus Features
- - -
Up until A Serious Man, I don't think many would call Ethan and Joel Coen serious men. Looking at Fargo, Burn After Reading, and Raising Arizona, it's clear the Coens prefer to brandish their wickedly black, and sophisticated humor than make forays into stone-faced dramas. Even last year, when the two adapted Cormac McCarthy's heavily philosophical masterpiece No Country For Old Men, the film came out darkly sardonic. This makes their latest film so fascinating. Yes, there is still humor, but it's also heavily meditative and profound.
The cast is largely made up of unknown faces. The protagonist, Larry Gobnik, is played by Michael Stuhlbarg. He's a Jewish physics professor in the mid-west in 1967. His son is a unambituous pothead, »
- blakecgriffin@gmail.com (Blake Griffin)
Spotlight Review: A Serious Man
2 November 2009 1:29 AM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
Starring: Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Fred Melamed, Sari Lennick
Director: Ethan and Joel Coen
Release Date: October 2, 2009
Running Time: 105 mins.
MPAA Rating: R
Distributor: Focus Features
- - -
Up until A Serious Man, I don't think many would call Ethan and Joel Coen serious men. Looking at Fargo, Burn After Reading, and Raising Arizona, it's clear the Coens prefer to brandish their wickedly black, and sophisticated humor than make forays into stone-faced dramas. Even last year, when the two adapted Cormac McCarthy's heavily philosophical masterpiece No Country For Old Men, the film came out darkly sardonic. This makes their latest film so fascinating. Yes, there is still humor, but it's also heavily meditative and profound.
The cast is largely made up of unknown faces. The protagonist, Larry Gobnik, is played by Michael Stuhlbarg. He's a Jewish physics professor in the mid-west in 1967. His son is a unambituous pothead, »
- blakecgriffin@gmail.com (Blake Griffin)
Spotlight Review: A Serious Man
2 November 2009 1:29 AM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
Starring: Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Fred Melamed, Sari Lennick
Director: Ethan and Joel Coen
Release Date: October 2, 2009
Running Time: 105 mins.
MPAA Rating: R
Distributor: Focus Features
- - -
Up until A Serious Man, I don't think many would call Ethan and Joel Coen serious men. Looking at Fargo, Burn After Reading, and Raising Arizona, it's clear the Coens prefer to brandish their wickedly black, and sophisticated humor than make forays into stone-faced dramas. Even last year, when the two adapted Cormac McCarthy's heavily philosophical masterpiece No Country For Old Men, the film came out darkly sardonic. This makes their latest film so fascinating. Yes, there is still humor, but it's also heavily meditative and profound.
The cast is largely made up of unknown faces. The protagonist, Larry Gobnik, is played by Michael Stuhlbarg. He's a Jewish physics professor in the mid-west in 1967. His son is a unambituous pothead, »
- blakecgriffin@gmail.com (Blake Griffin)
Spotlight Review: A Serious Man
2 November 2009 1:29 AM, PST | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
Starring: Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Fred Melamed, Sari Lennick
Director: Ethan and Joel Coen
Release Date: October 2, 2009
Running Time: 105 mins.
MPAA Rating: R
Distributor: Focus Features
- - -
Up until A Serious Man, I don't think many would call Ethan and Joel Coen serious men. Looking at Fargo, Burn After Reading, and Raising Arizona, it's clear the Coens prefer to brandish their wickedly black, and sophisticated humor than make forays into stone-faced dramas. Even last year, when the two adapted Cormac McCarthy's heavily philosophical masterpiece No Country For Old Men, the film came out darkly sardonic. This makes their latest film so fascinating. Yes, there is still humor, but it's also heavily meditative and profound.
The cast is largely made up of unknown faces. The protagonist, Larry Gobnik, is played by Michael Stuhlbarg. He's a Jewish physics professor in the mid-west in 1967. His son is a unambituous pothead, »
- blakecgriffin@gmail.com (Blake Griffin)
“Ticket Stubs” Review of ‘A Serious Man’ - The Coen Brothers’ New Film
30 October 2009 4:43 PM, PDT | MovieSet.com | See recent MovieSet.com news »
“Ticket Stubs” review of ‘A Serious Man‘ by Austin Lugar
for MovieSet.com
As we wrap Halloween Movie Month at MovieSet.com, I decided to check out a scary movie. No I didn’t go out and see Saw VI, Cirque de Freak or the horrifying looking Couples Retreat. I decided to check out the latest Coen Brothers’ creation: A Serious Man.
Writer/director Ethan Coen and actor Aaron Wolff on the set of writer/directors Joel & Ethan Coen’s A Serious Man, a Focus Features release.
Now I’m sure all of you’re are screaming at your computer screens in protest demanding that I rightfully categorize it as a drama or even a drama-edy not a horror film. Now let’s just look at what constitutes a horror movie.
To me the effective horror movies are ones where bad things are happening to relatively good people. What’s »
- Austin Lugar
Review: ‘A Serious Man’
30 October 2009 10:00 AM, PDT | The Flickcast | See recent The Flickcast news »
You know how you feel when everyone is in on the joke but you? That’s how I felt about A Serious Man, the latest film from the talented Coen brothers (most recently known for the Oscar winning No Country For Old Men). Dubbed their first “Jewish” film, this movie begins with a Yiddish parable about a dybbuk.
So you don’t know what a “dybbuk” is? Neither did I, because I’m not Jewish. The film doesn’t tell you what that word means, I had to go look it up later. I’m not going to go so far as to say you won’t enjoy the movie if you are not Jewish, but I think you will have an inherently better understanding and appreciation for the movie. I found it frustrating that the Coen brothers seem to take at face value that you know all about Jewish traditions and mannerisms, »
- Shannon Hood
London Film Festival 2009: A Serious Man
29 October 2009 9:55 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
A Serious Man Directed by Joel Coen The Coens are getting positively prolific these days, treating their hardcore fans with a movie a year, and with their latest release, A Serious Man they have taken the comedic strand of their work into uncharted waters to deliver possibly their most haunting and certainly their most personal work to date. Introduced in person in their characteristically succinct manner at this year's Lff, the film, after a mysterious prologue set in a nostalgic Shtetl alights in late 1960's Minnesota. Jewish professor - and I only stress the Jewish status as it is instrumental to the film's chutzpah - Larry Gopnik (Michael Stuhlbarg) is not having a good month. After taking tests for a mystery medical ailment Gopnik is accosted by a disgruntled South Korean student who subsequently attempts to discredit his reputation with anonymous letters to the tenure committee after Gopnik failed him in a critical test. »
- Ricky
"A Serious Man" Interview with Richard Kind
29 October 2009 11:58 AM, PDT | Manny the Movie Guy | See recent Manny the Movie Guy news »
I love this new Coen brothers film, I just love the Coen brothers period! They're one of the most original filmmakers working in Hollywood today, and it's always refreshing to watch their films.
"A Serious Man" will be honored at this coming Oscars. Michael Stuhlbarg, definitely, for Best Actor, and perhaps, Richard Kind for Best Supporting.
Here's my interview with Kind. We talked about:
The Yiddish intro, what does it mean?
How he landed the role?
Who auditioned for what role?
Have fun!
More info about the film from Yahoo:
The story of an ordinary man's search for clarity in a universe where Jefferson Airplane is on the radio and F-Troop is on TV. It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him. She has fallen in love with one of his more pompous acquaintances, »
- Manny
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