The Coen brothers' THE MAN WHO WASN'T THERE is a brilliantly photographed black-and-white absurdist noir set in Santa Rosa, California, in 1949. Ed Crane (the outstanding Billy Bob Thornton) is a slow-moving, barely talking barber who doesn't seem to want much out of life. He has virtually no relationship with his wife, Doris (.. Read more
| Starring | Billy Bob Thornton, Frances McDormand, James Gandolfini, Michael Badalucco |
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| Director | Joel Coen |
| Genres | Drama |
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Monster's Ball star Billy Bob Thornton is to appear opposite Shia LaBeouf and Rosario Dawson in a new thriller entitled Eagle Eye. The Hollywood Reporter said today that Thornton, whose credits include Pushing Tin and The Man Who Wasn't There, will star in the movie and be directed by DJ Caruso. Eagle Eye tells the story of a single mother, to be played by Michelle Monaghan, and a young man (LaBeouf) who are blackmailed into joining a terrorist cell. Thornton will play a "patriotic hero&quo Read more
The term "movie brats" was coined in the 1970s to describe the likes of Martin Scorsese, Brian De Palma and Steven Spielberg - the first generation of filmmakers that had grown up weaned on movies and TV. It fits the Coen brothers just as well. A Coen film filters life through the lens of old movies, many of them made well before they were born: the screwball comedies of Preston Sturges; the pinball wisecracks of Billy Wilder; Kubrick's chilly nihilism; Busby Berkeley musicals… They're all... Read more
Four stars While you can't really knock the idea of sitting through five films a day then putting away Campari Sodas with cream-suited hacks until the wee hours, Cannes can still be quite the harsh mistress when it wants to, with scenes of misery and heartbreak occurring as much outside as inside the cinema screens. The corporeal queuing system could easily be the subject of a scholarly essay on emotional torture, and the myriad levels of press accreditation mean that waiting patiently for two Read more
We took a break from our Girl Power list last year to focus on the guys - so who knows? Maybe this will become a bi-annual feature. It says something about the movie biz that when it came to up-and-coming male actors we felt we had to raise the age range to 30 to get in the likes of Ryan Gosling, Ben Foster and James McAvoy. Initially we wondered if we might have to do the same this year for the girls. Some high profile names have fallen out of the 25 or younger bracket, among them Natalie... Read more
With the smell of Oscar polish still in their nostrils after No Country For Old Men, the Coen brothers are to debut their new film at the Venice Film Festival, it has been reported. Digital Spy says the black comedy, Burn After Reading, will open the 65th edition of the prestigious moviefest on August 27th. The movie follows a CIA spook who mislays a disk containing his memoirs. When it falls into the clutches of two unscrupulous gym employees, they try to sell the spy's secrets. A stellar cast Read more
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