(Welcome to The Quarantine Stream, a new series where the /Film team shares what they've been watching while social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.) The Movie: Hail, Caesar! Where You Can Stream It: Netflix The Pitch: In 1950s Hollywood, a studio fixer named Eddie Mannix must solve several crises around the lot, including the fact that a big…
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Read an exclusive excerpt from Adam Nayman's The Coen Brothers This Book Really Ties the Films Together, focused on Inside Llewyn Davis.
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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs early buzz out of the Venice Film Festival says the Coen Brothers have created a curious Western anthology.
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The Coen Brothers have re-edited their Western TV series The Ballad of Buster Scruggs into a movie, just in time for the Venice Film Festival.
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Here are best movies streaming right now, including a ghost story unlike any other captured on film before, a hilarious movie with puppets, and many more.
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The Quentin vs Coen Art Show comes to San Francisco four years after debuting there. It's at the Spoke Art gallery featuring work based on the filmmakers.
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The Coen Brothers' Inside Llewyn Davis has earned strong buzz from the get-go, picking up the Grand Jury Prize shortly after its Cannes debut and earning Best Feature at the Gotham Independent Film Awards this past weekend. Now, after months of hype and even more months of marketing, it's finally about to arrive in theaters. Oscar…
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The number of filmmakers who continue to shoot movies on film dwindles every single day. Now, one of the most well-respected holdouts are going to the digital side. The Coen Brothers, Joel and Ethan Coen, believe their new movie Inside Llewyn Davis will be the last one they ever shoot on film. The Coens said that in a…
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Unless you were at a film festival recently, you're probably still waiting for the new Coen Brothers movie, Inside Llewyn Davis. The tale of a '60s New York folk singer got stellar reviews out of Cannes and Telluride. It hits US theaters on December 20. Of course, with the pending release of one Coen Brothers movie,…
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Whereas some filmmakers prefer to stick with one mode or another, the Coen Bros. have shown an ability to leap from Depression-era Greek musical epic to '90s stoner neo-noir comedy to violent Oscar-winning thriller. Their newest film, Inside Llewyn Davis, sees them dropping by '60s New York for an intimate character study of a folk musician.…
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A sequel to The Big Lebowski never seemed all that likely to happen, but if you were still holding out hope somehow you might as well stop now. Joel and Ethan Coen have expressed their total lack of desire to make any more Lebowski-related films, including the long-rumored spinoff about Jesus Quintana. For that matter, it doesn't…
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One of our favorite blockbuster superstar actor is returning to his roots on TV; a popular author is about to Geek Out; and the Coen Brothers go back to Fargo. Here's what's in this edition of TV Bits: Joseph Gordon-Levitt is bringing HitRECord to TV. AMC orders Geek Out pilot starring Fanboys writer Ernie Cline. Actress…
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When Angelina Jolie signed on last year to replace Francis Lawrence at the helm of Unbroken, she became the latest in a long line of filmmakers who've tried to bring the Lou Zamperini tale to the big screen. And I mean long: Universal has been attempting to make a biopic of the Olympic track star…
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Superheroes aren't the only ones showing off their goods today. A batch of new photos have dropped for a trio of highly anticipated releases that don't involve flowing capes or secret powers (at least, that we know of): Ti West's The Sacrament, Joel and Ethan Coen's Inside Llewyn Davis, and Terrence Malick's To the Wonder. Check…
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For their follow-up to 2010's True Grit, Joel and Ethan Coen are heading to a whole other time and place. Based on the memoir The Mayor of MacDougal Street by musician Dave Van Ronk, Inside Llewyn Davis follows the a rising singer-songwriter (Oscar Isaac) through the folk music scene in '60s New York. The film's been at…
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What we've got here is a remake of a classic caper movie from the writers of Fargo starring an Oscar-winner, a box-office bombshell and a naked Professor Snape. The movie is Gambit, directed by Michael Hoffman, with a screenplay by Joel and Ethan Coen starring Colin Firth, Cameron Diaz and Alan Rickman. Firth plays an…
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The classic Marge Gunderson quote "I just think I'm gonna barf" might comes to mind when you hear that FX has begun adapting the classic Coen Brothers film Fargo for television. But don't go tossing your cookies just yet. While the idea was already attempted ten years ago without the Coen's blessing both Joel and…
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Inside Llewyn Davis gets a spot on our most-anticipated list simply because it's a new Coen Brothers project, but so far it's been tough to get a good sense of what the film will actually be like. We've seen a few stills and have a basic idea of the premise, but no clips, teasers, or…
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Any excuse to write about Fargo is a good thing. So, even though this 25-minute documentary about The Coen Brothers' classic has been online for a year and is available on the Blu-ray release, we haven't posted it before and figured, who couldn't use a little extra Marge Gunderson in their day? Darn tootin'. After…
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An Education wasn't Carey Mulligan's first film, but it's the one that launched her to the top of every director's wishlist. Since that coming-of-age tale opened in 2009, she's been picking up one juicy role after another. This year saw her starring opposite Ryan Gosling in Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive and earning praise for her…
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No matter what the judge's score cards say about who won Quentin vs. Coens Rounds One and Two, the real winners are us. We, once again, get to enjoy awesome art based on the films of Quentin Tarantino and The Coen Brothers. After two successful shows in New York and San Francisco, Spoke Art is…
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Like so many film geeks, I'm an ardent admirer of the Coen Brothers (obviously), so I'm thrilled to reveal that a couple of interesting new tidbits have dropped about their next feature. Earlier this summer, the Coens revealed that their next movie would be based on the '60s folk scene in New York's Greenwich Village,…
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Bowling shirts and bathrobes packed the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City Tuesday night for a cast reunion and screening of The Big Lebowski, in honor of the film's limited edition Blu-ray release. On hand to discuss the beloved cult classic were musical archivist T-Bone Burnett and stars Jeff Bridges, John Turturro, Julianne Moore, John Goodman,…
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Last month, a battle between Quentin Tarantino and The Coen Brothers began on art gallery walls in New York City. Later this week, that battle continues in San Francisco as Spoke Art presents Quentin vs. Coen Round Two, a follow-up exhibit to their wildly successful New York show. Tons of recognizable artists have contributed new…
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Quentin Tarantino and the Coen Brothers are, without a doubt, three of the most revered filmmakers working today. The release of a new film by Tarantino or the Coens insights a Pavlovian response in most film fans as each writer/director has such an incredibly high success rate, we're almost guaranteed to see, at the very…
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If you've been to a movie theater in the past month or two (and if you are reading this site, you probably have) you've seen the teaser poster that Paramount released for The Coen Brothers' True Grit, starring Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, and newcomer Hailee Steinfeld. It evoked an old west wanted poster,…
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With Christmas falling on a Saturday this year, Paramount just announced they'll move their tentpole holiday release True Grit, directed by the Coen Brothers and starring Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin and newcomer Hailee Steinfeld, up three days to December 22. It'll now be in direct competition with Gulliver's Travels starring Jack Black and…
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