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Intolerable Cruelty (2003)
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"Burn After Reading You must first know (if you don't know me well already) that I am a full out Coen brothers fanatic. I have always loved everything they have done to an extreme. I have rated every single movie they have directed a 10 out of 10 except for their first Blood Simple which just about made it there with a 9 out of 10. Yes even the often despised The Ladykillers and Intolerable Cruelty for me are amongst my top tier of most enjoyable cinema. Some may argue that their work was so formative in my love of film altogether and has grown to such hyperbolic proportions that I no longer have a real critical eye for any of their work and would be blind to any real sub-par work they may have or will ever release. Perhaps this is true in a ways, but as long as I truely am enjoying myself watching their movies I have no reason to feel bad. And I LOVE THEM ALL! So obviously I had been looki "
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"In honor of Burn After Reading hitting theaters last week I decided my latest mini festival was going to be some of the Coen Brothers movies I have in the library. There are some notable omissions from that collection that I don’t have a good excuse for but I did want to rewatch some of the ones I’ve picked up. First up was Barton Fink, my first introduction to the Coens way back when it was first released. I’d seen bits of Raising Arizona but never really gotten into it. Fink, though, sucked me in and turned me into a fan of the brothers. The darkly comic tale of a writer who migrates from New York to Los Angeles in the mid-40s is always a treat on a number of levels. Not only are all the performances pitch-perfect, but the scene where Barton finally figures out what he wants the wresting picture he’s commissioned to write to be about and he winds up essentially re-writing the play we see in the movie’s opening always kills me. It completely undermines everything that we’ve seen a ... "
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"Anyone with an appreciation for the comedies of the ~40's will like this movie. Clooney channels Cary Grant as a smitten, although seemingly heartless divorceattorney. I can't say I usually care for Zeta-Jones, but she is scathing in this film!They're both gorgeous, hilarious and the chemistry is palpable. Love it. "
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"Well, let me start off by saying that I originally saw this two weeks ago and loved it. So I decided to go back and see it again. The Coen Brothers seem to have formed a pattern that has worked for them over the years. After putting out a serious film, the switch gears to a comedy one. Blood Simple brought Raising Arizona. Miller’s Crossing brought The Hudsucker Proxy. Fargro brought The Big Lebowski. The Man Who Wasn’t There brought Intolerable Cruelty and The Ladykillers (both of which kind of suc "
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"These may not be the greatest titles of all time, but they're the right movies for right now The summer is starting, vacations are being planned, station wagons are being packed but all you can think of is sitting down in your favorite chair and zoning out in front of the tube. These are for you. Falling Down (1993) – Some people remember Joel Schumacher as the director that tried to ruin the Batman movies, some remember him much loved generation X classic, The Lost Boys. I choose to think of him as the director of this gem of an action/drama/dark comedy. This movie is perfect for the beginning of summer because one of the most memorable images is that of Michael Douglas’ sweat beaten body stuck in traffic with no air conditioning. Intolerable Cruelty (2003) – I think of Fargo and No Country for Old Men as the Oktoberfest special batch from the Coen brothers’ brewery. This movie would be slightly dilut ... "
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"Just as many rock bands will at some point record a song or perhaps a entire record about the difficulties of being on tour and famous (The Kinks alone did three entire albums on this topic), eventfully, many filmmakers will want to make a statement about making movies or the Hollywood life style. In each film, even the great ones (such as Sunset Boulevard) we get the same message: Hollywood is some sort of soul sucking vortex, where dreams are inevitably shattered and shallowness and corruption reigns supreme. The Coen Brothers made a great film about this subject before with Barton Fink, and one of their masterpieces, Fargo, took place in a near soulless vortex of a different kind. They return to the subject with Intolerable Cruelty, a movie that, to be frank, sucks. The film is in a tie with The Ladykillers as the least of their work, and I can't figure out which is worst- Intolerable Cruelty is has so many lame ideas it's rarely boring, whereas The Ladykillers is too boring to ... "
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