Word: coens
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...being at the tired end of a line of movies about weird or failed show-biz types (Ed Wood, Larry Flynt, Andy Kaufman, Bob Crane). But Clooney turns out to have a flair, puckish and audacious, for his new job. Learning from working with Steven Soderbergh and the Coen brothers and from watching the '70s thrillers of Alan J. Pakula (Klute, The Parallax View), Clooney figured out how to turn images and performances into menace and sizzle. He's already a real director. If he ever tires of his name above the title, he could build a cottage industry...
WELCOME TO COLLINWOOD. In the vein of recent heist movies like Snatch, Welcome to Collinwood looks like something reminiscent of the Coen brothers. Co-written and directed by brothers Anthony and Joe Russo, Welcome to Collinwood premiered at Cannes and features big-shots George Clooney and Steven Soderbergh as producers. The film chronicles the exploits of several small-time criminals in a neighborhood on Cleveland’s east side. Led by your average petty felon Cosimo (Luis Guzman), a brainless band of six rogues decides to do some safe-cracking. What actually happens when they try to pull their...
...having an easier time finding homes. The country's top 75 markets all have art houses or artistically bent multiplexes where small movies are sought after. "The only time it's dangerous to open against a commercial film is when that film is by Scorsese or Soderbergh or the Coen brothers," says Jack Foley, distribution and marketing chief for Focus, which is releasing The Kid Stays in the Picture, a documentary about maverick '70s movie producer Robert Evans, opposite the Austin Powers sequel...
Soon the world will find out if Burnett is right. In partnership with the Coen brothers, T Bone (real name: Joseph Henry) releases this week the first products from DMZ Records, a boutique label that plans to ignore every bit of conventional record-industry sales wisdom. DMZ's first two releases, both Burnett productions, are the Louisiana-laden sound track to Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood and a new album--the 186th--from mountain-soul legend and O Brother featured player Ralph Stanley. There will be no large promotional budgets, no appeals to commercial radio. Burnett is convinced...
...behind-the-scenes chicanery than mere onscreen magic. Unfortunately, many of the more excellent films do not have the resources to compete for Academy votes on the same level as Hollywood’s studio behemoths, who often simply decide to put all their eggs in one basket. The Coen Brothers’ The Man Who Wasn’t There, for example, may have been more heavily marketed in other years, but its distributor, USA Pictures, has instead decided to throw all of its support behind the more critic-friendly Gosford Park. As a result, only Roger Deakins?...