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New on DVD: Hunger, Revanche, Coco Before Chanel

I’m still experimenting with how best to keep up with DVD releases. This week I’m rolling them out on Tuesday (a full week in advance) with a  repeat of the previous week’s column as a reminder of the titles officially available as of today and a link to DVDs on the immediate horizon.
(Coming Soon: Matt [...]

Gotham Nominations: Locker and Fan, Maid and Man

The Gotham Independent Film Awards: 3 for Hurt Locker and Big Fan. 2 for A Serious Man and The Maid.

The Watercooler: Serious Zombie Activity

An end of weekend look at the success of A Serious Man, Zombieland and Paranormal activity plus whatever else you want to talk about.

Mini-Review: A Serious Man (2009) **** 1/2

A few disorderly pre-review thoughts on Joel and Ethan Coen’s A Serious Man. Suffice it to say it’s a must-see for Coen fans.

Poster: A Serious Man

Click to enlarge. Seriously.
The first one sheet for Joel and Ethan Coen’s A Serious Man just landed in our inbox and we couldn’t be happier about it.
It’s the same image we’ve seen now twice, but with a nostalgic patina and a title.
This one is a different stylistic animal from the Fargo needlepoint, but it captures [...]

Why so serious?

The first official image from Joel and Ethan Coen’s A Serious Man

Trailer: A Serious Man

The first trailer for Joel and Ethan Coen’s A Serious Man!

Toronto gets ‘Serious’

It’s not exactly a surprise to hear that Joel and Ethan Coen’s A Serious Man will get its world premiere at the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival (9/10 – 9/19) about a month in advance of its October 2nd release, though that means it won’t be playing the Venice Film Festival like Burn After Reading [...]

2009 Comes Into Focus With Extra Bonus Coens

Focus Features firmed up some release dates today and the outlook for 2009 suddenly got a little more interesting.
Jim Jarmusch’s The Limits of Control arrives May 22 while Joel and Ethan Coen’s A Serious Man is set for October 2. Neither made LiC’s 20 to Watch for 2009 because they didn’t yet have release dates. [...]

Coens get ‘Serious’

With Burn After Reading set to premiere next month, it looks like Academy Award winning filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen are getting down to business with their next project, the black comedy A Serious Man.
According to Variety’s Tatiana Siegel, the brothers have chosen Richard Kind (Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and TV’s Spin City) and [...]