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The one scene where she’s telling me why she has to free this creature, we rehearsed it forever. We rehearsed it day and night, day and night, because she wanted to practice sign, and I wanted to understand what she was saying so I didn’t get ahead of her or behind her. And when we shot it, it was nothing like we rehearsed, which is the best thing. She actually hit me, which we had never done, and it happened because I said [to myself], “I’m gonna look at my watch halfway through this,” and so I looked at my watch and she–wham! hit me–and I said, “You hit me!” You know, but that’s the take he [Guillermo] used. - Richard Jenkins
Review: Intolerable Cruelty (2003)
Okay, I'll admit it right off the bat. This film is, very much, an example of "minor" Coen Brothers. The story for the film was actually devised by Robert Ramsey and Matthew Stone (no, notthat Matt Stone), and was shopped around for several years to directors such as Jonatham Demme and Ron Howard, before the Coen Brothers themselves finally picked up the project, and wrote the last draft of the screenplay. So, in that way, it's true that this film is perhaps the closest they've gotten for doing an entirely "For Hire" project.
But all that being said, the film, to me at least, was still a wild, hilarious, very much self aware ride.
Review: The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001)
The Coen Brothers, eclectic as always, take on film noir in this hyper subdued, intentionally self serious yet absurd deconstruction of the film noir genre, where, in playing the standard tropes and motifs of the genre dead straight, stretching them to the point where they snap back on themselves. It's a dense, cerebral film, and one that, while lacking the gonzo charms of, say, O Brother, Where Art Thou? or The Hudsucker Proxy, still manages to be a fascinating work of art, and a vital stepping stone in their filmography.
Review: Burn After Reading (2008)
Burn After Reading is the Coen Brothers sarcastic and intentionally screwball riff on the notoriously straight laced genre of spy thriller. Intentionally taking the multitudes of tropes and plot points that fill the genre and playing them for pure absurdity, the film revels in it's madness and lack of logic, in a way that really, only a Coen Brothers film can.
Review: Spotlight (2015)
Well, since nobody would shut up about this movie in regards to it's awards potential, I finally got around to watching the DVDScreener I downloaded for Spotlight.
And I was greeted by what is surely one of the most disappointing cinematic experiences of 2015 for me.
Tom McCarthy spins a stale, by the numbers homage to the world of journalism that feels at times almost like a propaganda piece then an actual film, with borderline cartoonishly evil villains, and heroes that are always perfectly on the side of Good™ and fight against the daunting forces of The System™ in order to expose some grand conspiracy.
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North Country (USA, 2005)