Tag: Joel and Ethan Coen
New A Serious Man Trailer and Photo
Focus Features just sent us new trailer and photo for the upcoming Coen Brothers dark comedy “A Serious Man.”
Synopsis: “A Serious Man” is the story of an ordinary man’s search for clarity in a universe where Jefferson Airplane is on the radio and “F-Troop” is on TV. It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik (Michael Stuhlbarg), a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith (Sari Lennick) that she is leaving him. She has fallen in love with one of his more pompous colleagues, Sy Ableman (Fred Melamed), who seems to her a more substantial person than the feckless Larry. Larry’s unemployable brother Arthur (Richard Kind) is sleeping on the couch, his son Danny (Aaron Wolf) is a discipline problem and a shirker at Hebrew school, and his daughter Sarah (Jessica McManus) is filching money from his wallet in order to save up for a nose job.
While his wife and Sy Ableman blithely make new domestic arrangements, and his brother becomes more and more of a burden, an anonymous hostile letter-writer is trying to sabotage Larry’s chances for tenure at the university. Also, a graduate student seems to be trying to bribe him for a passing grade while at the same time threatening to sue him for defamation. Plus, the beautiful woman next door torments him by sunbathing nude. Struggling for equilibrium, Larry seeks advice from three different rabbis. Can anyone help him cope with his afflictions and become a righteous person – a mensch – a serious man?
Coen Brothers’ A SERIOUS MAN Trailer
Here’s a graet trailer for “A Serious Man” from Coen Brothers. Joel and Ethan Coen are back again with another black comedy after last year’s “Burn After Reading.” Check it out below!
“A Serious Man” is the story of an ordinary man’s search for clarity in a universe where Jefferson Airplane is on the radio and F-Troop is on TV. It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik (Michael Stuhlbarg), a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith (Sari Lennick) that she is leaving him. She has fallen in love with one of his more pompous colleagues, Sy Ableman (Fred Melamed), who seems to her a more substantial person than the feckless Larry.
Venice 2008 After Burning
“Burn After Reading” (George Clooney, Brad Pitt, John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton, Frances McDormand) finally had its long awaited premiere at Venice Film Festival.
‘Burn After Reading’ to open 65th Venice Film Festival
The Coen brothers’ ‘Burn After Reading‘ will open the 65th Venice Film Festival. That will be the world premiere of the dark spy comedy, starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt, John Malkovich, Frances McDormand and Tilda Swinton, will launch from the Venice Lido Aug. 27.
‘Burn After Reading’ has its U.K. release on Sept. 5 via Universal Pictures and goes out Stateside via Focus Features on Sept. 12. “Burn After Reading,” which the Coens wrote and directed, revolves around an ousted CIA official, played by John Malkovich, whose memoir falls into the hands of two Washington, D.C., gym employees, who decide to attempt to exploit their find. Highly awaited Coen brothers’ latest is a Working Title production, produced by Joel and Ethan Coen, and executive-produced by Working Title’s Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner and Robert Graf. It has not yet been decided whether “Burn After Reading” will be in competition or out-of-competition at 65th Venice Film Festival. The Coens were last on the Lido with “Intolerable Cruelty,” starring Clooney opposite Catherine Zeta Jones, in 2003, out-of-competition. The Venice Film Festival will run Aug. 27-Sept 6.
