A Serious Man's DP Roger Deakins Wins A Spirit Award

by Peter Bowen | On March 06 @ 10:36 AM

The 25th Film Independent Spirit Awards took place Friday night (March 5) in Los Angeles. Among the winners were cinematographer Roger Deakins who won a Spirit Award for his work on the Coen brothers comedy A Serious Man. In addition,the Robert Altman...

Ben Stiller Chats with Jeffrey Wells

by Nick Dawson | On March 04 @ 09:52 AM

Jeffrey Wells, the proprietor of Hollywood Elsewhere, has a nice post on his blog at the moment about Greenberg. And Wells is unabashedly a fan, going as far to say that "If your girlfriend doesn't like it (and she may not), you may want to think about...

A Prophet's Tahar Rahim on Eagle of the Ninth

by Peter Bowen | On March 03 @ 01:31 PM

Tahar Rahim, the star of Jacques Audiar's prison/crime saga A Prophet has been getting lots of attention of late. Not only did he win two Cesars last week (one for best actor and one for most promising actor), he's been popping up in article after...

A Serious Man blackboard benefits St. Olaf College

by Peter Bowen | On March 03 @ 01:07 PM

Among the treasures to be bid on at St. Olaf's recent Black and Gold Winter Gala auction was part of the chalk board used in the Coen brothers' Oscar-nominated A Serious Man. According to the St. Olaf's Press, the gala raised "$109,000 for St. Olaf,...

Slate Ponders A Serious Man

by Nick Dawson | On March 02 @ 02:23 PM

Over at Slate, Juliet Lapidos has gone against the advice of Clive's father in A Serious Man, namely to "Accept the mystery." Instead, she has immersed herself in the rich complexities of the Coen brothers' latest, which she terms "enigmatic to the point...

Kevin Macdonald talks The Eagle of the Ninth

by Nick Dawson | On February 26 @ 03:59 PM

Kevin Macdonald, director of Focus Features' upcoming The Eagle of The Ninth, has talked to The Times of London about and politics, accents and the politics of accents in the Roman adventure movie. Here are some quotes from his conversation with The...

San Francisco’s Kanbar Award to go to James Schamus

by Peter Bowen | On February 23 @ 11:34 AM

On April 29, Focus Features CEO James Schamus is set to be honored for his artistic side when the San Francisco Film Society awards him their Kanbar Award for excellence in screenwriting. According to ScreenDaily, “The Kanbar Award acknowledges...

Noah Baumbach Tells LA Magazine all about Greenberg

by Peter Bowen | On February 22 @ 11:39 AM

The current issue of Los Angeles Magazine has a first-person account by Noah Baumbah (as told to Amy Wallace) about the making of Greenberg. The piece, entitled "Los Angles I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down"––which you may recognize as a...

The Kids Are All Right wins Teddy in Berlin

by Peter Bowen | On February 20 @ 02:59 PM

On Friday, at 24th annual Teddy Awards at the Berlin International Film Festival, Lisa Cholodenko’s marriage comedy The Kids are All Right took home the feature film Teddy Award. Started in 1987, the Teddy Awards recognized LGBT work shown in all...

A Serious Man Car to be Auctioned for Charity

by Peter Bowen | On February 20 @ 01:51 PM

Ebay bidders, start your computers. Focus Features and Variety––The Children’s Charity of Southern California have teamed up to auction off the 1966 Dodge Coronet used in A Serious Man. The auction kicks off on Monday, February 22, 2010...

A Serious Man wins big with the International Cinephile Society

by Peter Bowen | On February 19 @ 08:49 AM

The International Cinephile Society recently announced their awards for both American and International films of 2009. And A Serious Man was in top form. It won the ICS award for Best Flm, as well as Joel and Ethan Coen taking home Best Director and Best...

Noah Baumbach on Greenberg's L.A.

by Nick Dawson | On February 18 @ 02:34 PM

In Berlin for the world premiere of his latest movie, Greenberg, writer-director Noah Baumbach sat down with The Hollywood Reporter's Gregg Kilday. In the following extract from their conversation, Baumbach - who has previously always set his movies in...

Greenberg Comes to Berlin

by Peter Bowen | On February 16 @ 08:04 AM

Noah Baumbach's Greenberg hit the red carpet this weekend, premiering at the Berlin Film Festival on February 14––yes, that would be Valentine's Day. Rhys Ifans, Greta Gerwig, Ben Stiller and Noah Baumbach all took to the Red Carpet and then...

The Coen brothers on Serious success

by Nick Dawson | On February 09 @ 09:50 AM

Film journalist Joe Leydon's chat with Joel and Ethan Coen conducted during the Toronto International Film Festival has just gone up on the Cowboys and Indians website. (The main reason they were being interviewed by this particular publication is...

Coraline wins 3 Annies

by Peter Bowen | On February 08 @ 07:02 AM

The 37 annual Annie Award were presented by the International Animated Film Society on Saturday February 6 at UCLA's Royce Hall. While the Pixar megahit Up took away Best Picture, Coraline was congratulated with three major awards: Shane Prigmore won...

USA Today meets the stars of Babies

by Peter Bowen | On February 08 @ 06:48 AM

Susan Wloszczyna of USA Today got to profile four upcoming movie stars: Ponijao, Bayarjargal, Mari, and Hattie––the underage stars of upcoming film Babies. The article looks at the lives, famies and locations of the four babies with...

Mark Ruffalo on The Kids Are Alight

by Peter Bowen | On February 05 @ 12:13 PM

Mark Ruffalo, who stars in the recently acquired Focus film The Kids are Alright, directed by Lisa Cholodenko, has had a quite a year. In addition to staring in Kids, Ruffalo made his directorial debut with Sympathy for Delicious (which appeared in...

Mark Duplass Talks Greenberg, Noah Baumbach & Mumblecore

by Nick Dawson | On February 04 @ 12:12 PM

A Greenberg-centric post at The Playlist blog has pointed us towards an entertaining interview from last summer in which actor-writer-director Mark Duplass, one of the leading figures of the Mumblecore movement, chats with Movieline's Kyle Buchanan about...

LA Times on Oscar's Jewish Themes

by Peter Bowen | On February 04 @ 12:04 PM

In the recent post in Los Angeles Times blog “The Big Picture” entitled “Jews in Oscar films: Are they vile throwbacks to Jewish stereotypes?”, Patrick Goldstein takes up the issues that is being hotly debated in the Jewish...

Ned Vizzini wraps up It’s Kind of A Funny Story

by Peter Bowen | On February 04 @ 07:27 AM

Ned Vizzini is the author of the novel It’s Kind of a Funny Story, which is being adapted into a film by Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden for Focus Features. Vizzini has been blogging about the production––and quite a witty blog it...