A Serious Man

[res0nat0r]

New Cohen Brothers flick!

This comes out next week.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1019452/

http://www.apple.com/trailers/focus_features/aseriousman/

A Serious Man is an exquisitely realized work; the filmmakers’ technical mastery of their craft, always impressive, has become absolute. The script reads like a novel, densely allusive, funny, and terse. The casting of near-unknowns in all the major roles (Michael Stuhlbarg is a renowned Broadway actor but unfamiliar to movie audiences) was a stroke of genius, and every performance is impeccable, as is the lambent cinematography by Roger Deakins (the Coens’ longtime collaborator). The costume design and set design (by Mary Zophres and Jess Gonchor) brilliantly evoke the staid and clannish world of semi-assimilated Midwestern Jews (a group for whom the new mores of the ’60s arrived much later than for the urban gentiles of Mad Men).

Cant wait for this. I have been hearing that this is such a dark comedy it will make Fargo look like Sesame Street.

[day_for_night]

Re: A Serious Man

excellent, very excited for this. absolutely hated burn after reading, hoping this is a return to form. no country for old men is one of my favorite films ever...

[res0nat0r]

Re: A Serious Man

i need to watch burn after reading again, i kept getting interrupted the one time i saw it and missed half the movie. i am trying to catch up on some of the older cohens ive missed:

millers crossing
the man who wasn't there
barton fink

no country was amazing. i saw that in the theater. i cant believe how great javier barem was in that movie, he was so fcuking scary. i never get creeped out by badguys in movies but i just remember watching him in the theater and thinking how f'ing scary that dude was. the entire scene in the gas station was amazing.