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...limited release, A Serious Man got the Job done, with $252,000 in six theaters in New York, L.A. and the Minneapolis suburbs, where the movie is set. How this Jewiest of Coen brothers parables will play in more gentile climes, only God knows. More Than a Game, the inspirational sports drama (is there any other kind?) starring NBA titan LeBron James, was no winner, earning less than the Coen movie in twice as many theaters. The real specialty buzz was for Paranormal Activity, a Blair Witch-y haunted-house thriller that reportedly scared the pants off Steven Spielberg. Paramount...
USAGE: "Intermovies have long been a way for filmmakers to offer wry asides on the industry. In Burn After Reading, the Coen brothers featured a rancid-looking cookie-cutter romcom called Pushing Up Daisy...
Intermovie n.--A film within a film, a technique used by directors such as Joel and Ethan Coen...
...Harvard’s a very big, physical football team,” Lehigh coach Andy Coen said. “But I thought, all in all, the defense played well enough that if offensively we were doing what we do, we would have had a chance to win the football game...
...feel-good democratization is politically correct, it fails in practice. Populist American optimism tends to cut the legs out from beneath potent terms like “genius”; the harsh truth is that not everyone is capable of producing works of incredible beauty or sublimity. In the Coen brothers’ 1991 movie “Barton Fink,” a studio boss dresses down his star scripter: “You think you’re the only writer who can give me that Barton Fink feeling? I got 20 writers under contract that...