Ethan Coen

1 month ago | collider.com | Paul Anderson |Ethan Coen |Joel Coen |David Fincher |Jake Hodges

As far back as storytelling goes, drama has been at the forefront. Detailing the minutiae of human experience in the most relatable of ways, the drama genre has a duty to discover the feelings of its audience, holding a mirror up to their soul and giving them an avenue through which to explore their memories and emotions. Throughout cinema's illustrious history, drama has often been the sandbox in which the most critically acclaimed of tales are told.

Dec 10, 2024 | inreviewonline.com | Luke Gorham |Ethan Coen

Joshua Oppenheimer was made famous by two recursive exercises of direct cinema that saw him interrogate, through both performance and observation, the personal and collective histories propagated and effaced by the perpetrators and survivors of the Indonesia mass killings. The first documentary, The Act of Killing (2012), affixed its gaze on the paramilitary gangsters who perpetrated the murders; the second, The Look of Silence (2014), shifted its focus to the families of the period’s victims.

Nov 29, 2024 | hoerzu.at | Matt Charman |Ethan Coen |Joel Coen

BeschreibungAls Rechtsanwalt James Donovan Ende der 50er-Jahre eher widerwillig die Vertretung des unscheinbaren Rudolf Abel übernimmt, weiß er noch nicht, worauf er sich einlässt. Abel wird vorgeworfen, geheime Informationen in die Sowjetunion zu übermitteln und könnte wegen Landesverrats hingerichtet werden.

Nov 15, 2024 | hoerzu.at | Ethan Coen |Joel Coen

» Eine exquisit gespielte Verliererballade « BeschreibungEin Tiefschlag nach dem anderen: Völlig abgebrannt und ohne einen Platz zum Schlafen hat der Musiker Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac) im New Yorker Winter von 1961 nichts zu lachen. In der Musikszene von Greenwich Village vor der Ära Bob Dylans ist Llewyn ein sperriger Individualist, der für eine Folkmusik lebt, von der er selbst leider nicht leben kann. Also schnorrt er sich bei Freunden und Bekannten durch.

Oct 23, 2024 | letterboxd.com | Mitchell Beaupre |Ella Kemp |No Country |Ethan Coen

When you think of Anna Kendrick, chances are your mind goes to her wicked fast whip in films like Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, her musical prowess in Pitch Perfectand Into the Woods, or her Oscar-nominated mixture of frailty and fire in Up in the Air. So, when you settle in to watch the actor’s directing debut, you most likely aren’t expecting an unnerving true story of serial killer Rodney Alcala (Daniel Zovatto), who murdered women throughout the 1970s in Los Angeles.