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...lower Earth--in the roiling depths of California film noir--there are plots every bit as dark and complex as those in the season's fantasy films. Just look into the barely beating heart of Ed Crane (Billy Bob Thornton), the barber of Santa Rosa, in Joel and Ethan Coen's tragicomic cardiograph The Man Who Wasn't There. He's got a cheating wife (Frances McDormand), a conniving friend (James Gandolfini), a dead-end job and the depressive sense that "life has dealt me some bum cards. Or maybe I didn't play them right." But the Coens...
...drama The Son's Room; second prize and both actor awards to Michael Haneke's sexual war of wills The Piano Teacher; the screenplay citation to a Bosnian film, Danis Tanovic's No Man's Land; and director laurels to two Americans, David Lynch for Mulholland Dr. and Joel Coen for The Man Who Wasn't There. Worthy films all - but the best of a mediocre bunch...
...Lynch and Coen pictures would make a fine set of bookends for your hardboiled fiction shelf. Both are set in the prime film-noir territory of sunny, sepulchral California: Los Angeles, home of Philip Marlowe (among other truth seekers) and moviemakers (among other chronic liars) for Mulholland Dr.; Santa Rosa (scene of Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt) for the toxic scent of small-town failure in The Man Who Wasn't There. Both films serve up a lovely, lurid brew of greed, murder and twisted identities. But the Coen movie, with Billy Bob Thornton and Frances McDormand locked...
...temper of the times, the state of the art. And at Cannes 2001 some magic was missing. A day before the festival's Sunday climax, veterans were guessing that the jury, headed by actress Liv Ullmann, would award prizes to Nanni Moretti's The Son's Room, Joel Coen's The Man Who Wasn't There, Jacques Rivette's Va savoir (Who Knows) and the first-ever entry from Bosnia, Danis Tanovic's No Man's Land. Worthy films all?but the best of a mediocre bunch. There was no Crouching Tiger to send the collective spirit soaring, no Dancer...
MOVIE The Big Lebowski "Anything the Coen brothers do turns into gold...