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The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)
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Burn After Reading
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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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"You know about a bad hair day; well, this was a bad movie night—three promising rentals, three disappointments. Although the period detail is excellent in The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001), the main character, played by Billy Bob Thornton, is too unrealistic in contrast to the other characters, who may be a bit off kilter but seem plausible. For example, early on, the protagonist and his wife entertain her boss and his wife for a painful dinner, the social interaction saying all that needs to be said. In contrast to this fine presentation of self in everyday life, our protagonist is so clinically depressed that the interaction involving him seems fakey because ordinarily people would not put up "
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"Everybody remembers the bigger name Coen Bros. regulars, such as John Turturro, Steve Buscemi, John Goodman, Frances McDormand, Billy Bob Thornton and now George Clooney. And of course, there are the one-shot stars, like Nicolas Cage, Gabriel Byrne, Jeff Bridges, William H. Macy, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Julianne Moore, Paul Newman, Albert Finney, Woody Harrelson, Tim Robbins and now Brad Pitt and John Malkovich. But who ever talks about Michael Lerner? He received an Oscar nomination for his supporting role in Barton Fink, yet he never seems to get the same kind of respect that Javier Bardem gets, and it’s not just because Bardem won the award for No Country for Old Men. With their new film, Burn After Reading, the Coens have again recast some lesser known character actors that I hope get the recognition they deserve. Both Richard Jenkins and J.K. Simmons have previously appeared in the Coens’ films, but each has seriously risen in notability since their last collaboration with the f ... "
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"Finally then! Craig was right again.One of the best cinematic experiences I've ever had was watching The Man Who Wasn't There on the big screen, 4 years after it came out, and after two or three viewings on DVD. Roger Deakins' own print was being shown, and the man himself was in attendance. I've never seen black and white more glorious, more crisp but at the same time also oddly warm, and this screening is when my love for this film turned to adoration.Deakins also did a Q&A afterwards. I didn't really understand half of the Q's and three quarters or the A's due to all the technical lingo, but I sat there fascinated anyway because he spoke with such enthusiasm about his craft. He was impressively modest. It wasn't any sort of false humility: he knows he's good at what he does. He clearly sees what he does as a craft though, something you need some talent for but mostly a lot of experience, and there was not an ounce of pretentiousness "
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"Have you ever heard the phrase "too clever by a half"? That's how I felt about The Man Who Wasn't There, an infuriating movie to review, and even harder to describe, especially if you haven't seen it. I can sort of describe the plot of the movie, but that's missing the point, since it's all the style, and dialogue, and references to other films. Lots and lots of references to other films. I say clever not in the pejorative sense that I use the word to describe my dreaded Clever Comedy genre. I mean it literally. Joel and Ethan Coen, who made at least four great movies and a few terrible ones, are obviously very witty, intelligent, and, well, clever. This is smart movie made by smart people, but I am not sure if it is anything else. On the surface, it is a subtle parody of the film noir genre, so subtle that I would guess that most people who have not seen a lot of the classics might think the movie was played for real and find it infuriating. Shot in black-and-white, it stars Billy ... "
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"…of my list. I’m keeping the blurbs short on this one. 11. The Godfather Part 1 & 2 As close to perfect as films get. There is not much to be said about these films that hasn’t already been said. Completely timeless classics. 12. The Fisher King Another great Gilliam film. Robin William’s performance is amazing, as are Jeff Bridge’s and Mercedes Ruehl’s. The emotional power of this movie is phenomenal. 13. Children of Men "
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"One thing, maybe the thing, that makes The Good German perplexing is that its best quality, the meticulous recreation of a 40s international noir ala Casablanca (1942) or The Third Man (1949), is also its biggest weakness.There are some beautiful and authentic images in the film, but there are others that verge on parody (mostly those involving rear projection; sorry no stills or screen grabs available - I popped the film back into the mail before thinking I might want it). By itself, that wouldn't be a problem except that director Steven Soderbergh and writer Paul Attanasio haven't rethought the films they reference so much as attempted to reproduce them, but with the jarring addition of language, violence, and sex that wouldn't have been allowed in the 1940s. Unlike, say, homosexuality (and, really, race) in Far From Heaven (2002) or the disappearing blandness of Ed (Billy Bob Thornton) in The Man Who Wasn't There (2001), the updating and revisioning of genre in The "
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