Tag: Joel and Ethan Coen
More Grit
About 7 months ago, Daily Helping reported on the Coen Brothers upcoming western, “True Grit.” Immediately one envisions the fat, one-eyed icon made famous by John Wayne, in the sunset of his career. This won’t be a remake of the Duke’s classic, for the Coens are looking to stick to the original novel which has [...]
Posted: August 16th, 2010 under magazine, movies, television, website.
Tags: Barry Pepper, Jeff Bridges, Joel and Ethan Coen, Josh Brolin, Matt Damon, The Unforgiven, True Grit
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Coen Brother Update, True Grit for the holidays.
As reported here back in March, Joel and Ethan Coen were planning to make a film based on the book, “True Grit” by Charles Portis. Those that are expecting a rehash of the John Wayne/Glen Campbell movie will be disappointed, for the book was quite a bit different than the movie. As usual, the cast [...]
Posted: January 21st, 2010 under books, movies.
Tags: Charles Portis, Glen Campbell, Jeff Bridges, Joel and Ethan Coen, John Wayne, Matt Damon, No Country For Old Men, The Big Lebowski, True Grit
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The best of the past ten… (film)
The Daily Helping is proud to present our personal favorites for the past ten years. Now please note that this in no way implies that these are the best artistic efforts for the decade. That’s a bit pretentious. Instead these are personal favorites that speak to a particular taste.
If you’ve taken the time to put [...]
Posted: January 10th, 2010 under books, movies, weaponry.
Tags: A History of Violence, Alfonso Cuaron, Children of Men, Christian Bale, Christopher Nolan, Clive Owen, Cormac McCarthy, David Cronenberg, Eastern Promises, Goodfellas, GOSFORD PARK, Hannibal Lecter, Heath Ledger, Infernal Affairs, Jack Nicholson, Javier Bardem, Joel and Ethan Coen, Leonardo DiCaprio, Martin Scorsese, Matt Damon, Michael Cain, Momento, No Country For Old Men, Norman Bates, The Academy Awards, The Dark Knight, The Departed, The Golden Globes, The Inside Man, The Prestige, Viggo Mortensen
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The Golden Globe Film Nominations
“Up in the Air,” starring George Clooney as a man who flies about the country firing people for a living, nabbed six Golden Globe nominations on Tuesday, including best drama.
“Up in the Air” had the most nominations this year, followed by the musical “Nine,” with five, including top musical or comedy. The recently released science-fiction [...]
Posted: December 16th, 2009 under comedy, movies, music.
Tags: (500) Days of Summer, A Prophet, A Serious Man, A Single Man, An Education, Baaria, Broken Embraces, Brothers, Carey Mulligan, Colin Firth, comedy, Crazy Heart, Daniel Day-Lewis, Duplicity, France, Germany, Helen Mirren, Hollywood Foreign Press, Invitcus, It's Complicated, Jeff Bridges, Joel and Ethan Coen, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Julia Roberts, Julie & Julia, Marion Cotillard, Matt Damon, Meryl Streep, Michael Stuhlberg, Morgan Freeman, music, Nine, Pedro Almodovar, Precious, Sandra Bullock, Sherlock Holmes, The Academy Awards, The Blind Side, The Golden Globes, The Hangover, The Hurt Locker, The Last Station, The Maid, The Oscars, The Proposal, The White Ribbon, The Young Victoria, Tobey Maguire
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A tribute to the Coen Brothers
The films of Joel and Ethan Coen have been mentioned a number of times at Daily Helping. Their exquisite collection of work is diverse, complex and visually stunning. It’s always exciting to see what they’ve come up with next, and with the breakout box office success of “No Country For Old Men”, the Brothers Coen [...]
Posted: May 17th, 2009 under movies, music, website.
Tags: Joel and Ethan Coen, No Country For Old Men
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Not the easy road…
For all of the critical acclaim that American novelist Cormac McCarthy had has earned over the past twenty-five years, it wasn’t until the Coen brothers put his novel, No Country For Old Men on the screen that he became something of a household name. Considered by some to be our generation’s William Faulkner, he’s widely [...]
Posted: May 15th, 2009 under books, movies.
Tags: All the Pretty Horses, Charlize Theron, Cormac McCarthy, Joel and Ethan Coen, Mad Max, National Book Award, No Country For Old Men, Pulitzer Prize, The Road, Viggo Mortensen, William Faulkner
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Coen watch
The Daily Helping always keeps an eye on whatever Joel and Ethan Coen are doing. The brothers from Minneapolis have been a steady source of cinematic adventure. Some of it works, some of it doesn’t; but more often than not it’s original and smart.
Joel and Ethan studied film at NYU, and upon graduation, Joel scored [...]
Posted: March 25th, 2009 under books, comedy, movies.
Tags: Blood Simple, Evil Dead, Fargo, Joel and Ethan Coen, John Wayne, Kim Darby, Michael Chabon, Miller's Crossing, NYU, Sam Raimi, The Big Lebowski, The Yiddish Policeman's Union, True Grit
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