Comments on: Coens get ‘Serious’

By: Craig Kennedy

Craig Kennedy — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:12:10 +0000

The blackout won’t permit me to click on that link, but yeah, we want samples from the craft services table Daniel.

By: Evan Derrick

Evan Derrick — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:44:46 +0000

We expect daily reports and fuzzy cameraphone pics, Daniel. This is your DUTY. Don’t let us down.

By: Daniel G.

Daniel G. — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:02:06 +0000

The only thing I know about Burn After Reading is that the Coens are directing. Well, almost, and hopefully that’s how it will stay.

A Serious Man will not be so easy. Buzz started here in the spring and is about to get crazy. Filming begins Sept. 8th, and they’ve already made several of the locations public. Most of it is going to be on a residential street in Bloomington (suburb of Mpls and home to the Mall of America). Here’s an interesting local take on how they chose the location: http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/movies/26437374.html?elr=KArksUUUU

It’s pretty cool how they found a real street that looks like it’s right out of the 60’s.

Maybe I’ll do some guerrilla reporting once it gets going, but if one of the monkeys wants to come out on assignment, I promise I’ll show them a good time.

By: Craig Kennedy

Craig Kennedy — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:54:52 +0000

I love how seriously some of us are taking our private Coen blackouts.

By: Alexander Coleman

Alexander Coleman — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:46:58 +0000

I could tell the Burn After Reading trailer won over the audience before Vicky Cristina Barcelona. The Women, not so much, except there was this one woman almost directly behind me by one row laughing at everything in every movie trailer; usually no one else was at all. Interestingly, she only laughed a handful of times during the Allen film.

By: Alison Flynn

Alison Flynn — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:40:29 +0000

I always welcome more Coen Brothers movies. And I also like the idea that they’re using relative unknowns.

Every time a commercial for Burn After Reading I have to leave the room. So psyched for that movie.

By: Craig Kennedy

Craig Kennedy — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:18:02 +0000

I don’t have an opinion about the cast either way, but I agree I like the idea of relative unknowns (ie no Clooneys or Pitts).

By: Alexander Coleman

Alexander Coleman — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:10:42 +0000

Three Coen films, three years in a row. Never happened before. Ecstatic that it’s happening now.

Yes, yes and yes to the three previous comments.

By: joel

joel — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:39:11 +0000

Yep, I agree Hedwig. Glad to see them scaling down to something (probably) smaller than their last few productions for this. Feels more like the early days of the Coens, which hopefully is a good thing.

And with that, A Serious Man is off my immediate radar while I patiently wait for it’s release, as ignorant as humanly possible. Considering my general level of healthy ignorance on all things, this shouldn’t be hard to maintain.

By: Hedwig

Hedwig — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:14:59 +0000

Well…I’ve always found Richard Kind kind of annoying, but we’ll see. And I like that after an all-star cast, they’re going for relative unknowns.

By: Nick Plowman

Nick Plowman — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:44:36 +0000

Yay! Such awesome news.