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Category: Films

Unquestioned liberalism

There’s a kind of nostalgia for the Cold War, almost in the same way that British culture incorporates a nostalgia … More

Coen Brothers, Joel and Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Bridge of Spies, Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, Matt Charman, James B. Donovan, William Fisher, Rudolf Abel, Strangers on a Bridge

Oozing style and charm

In our trawl through Humphrey Bogart’s oeuvre we’ve been sticking to the best known movies—he acted in over seventy films. … More

Humphrey Bogart, John Huston, Katherine Hepburn, The African Queen

Outside in the Village

A musician’s life is usually precarious, especially if you’re attempting to work as a featured artist. Llewyn Davis, as played … More

bob dylan, Coen Brothers, Dave van Ronk, Ethan Coen, Garrett Hedlund, Inside Llewyn Davis, Joel and Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, John Goodman, Oscar Isaac

A bleak disturbance

Humphrey Bogart reputedly occupied something of a lonely place among his Hollywood peers—although he had his good friends, Louise Brooks, … More

Gloria Grahame, Humphrey Bogart, In A Lonely Place, Nicholas Ray

Craft and language

Coen Brothers genre pieces are rarely without an ironic twist or two, a knowing nod to the implausibilities of the … More

Charles Portis, Coen Brothers, Ethan Coen, Hailee Steinfeld, Jeff Bridges, Joel and Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Roger Deakins, True Grit

We don’t need no stinking…

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is a film that’s been lurking in my brain since childhood, having been on … More

Humphrey Bogart, John Huston, Owen Marks, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Walter Huston

Everlasting uncertainty

Having watched a lot of Coen Brothers movies lately, I’m starting to see their kind of purposefully aimless plotting as … More

Bong Joon Ho, Parasite

The past present serious tense

Roger Deakins’s brilliant cinematography has been conspicuous in some of the Coen Brothers’s films—in O Brother, Where Art Thou?, for … More

A Serious Man, Coen Brothers, Ethan Coen, Joel and Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Michael Stuhlbarg, Roger Deakins

Upended trajectories

At the point at which Burn After Reading was released, the Coen Brothers had a certain amount of form, in … More

Brad Pitt, Burn After Reading, Coen Brothers, Ethan Coen, Frances McDormand, George Clooney, Joel and Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, John Malkovich, Richard Jenkins, Tilda Swinton

A commercial flick gone weird

Of the four films that Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall made together, Dark Passage is undoubtedly the most outlandish, in … More

Dark Passage, Delmer Daves, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall

Fate has a car crash

In Alex Garland’s recent science fiction-series Devs (which is in my opinion as good a piece of SF as has … More

Coen Brothers, Ethan Coen, Javier Bardem, Joel and Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Josh Brolin, Kelly Macdonald, Woody Harrelson

Scenes and scenesters

Watching a film like The Big Sleep in 2020 it’s almost impossible to see past its mythology. This was a … More

Howard Hawks, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, The Big Sleep

Unnecessary translation

I guess no-one hits the target every time, creatively speaking: I certainly know I don’t. But after our project to … More

Alexander Mackendrick, Coen Brothers, Ealing Studios, Ethan Coen, Joel and Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, The Ladykillers

No contest

Having recently watched the Coen Brothers’ Intolerable Cruelty, a film whose production is apparently predicated on a chemistry between the … More

Ernest Hemingway, Howard Hawks, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, To Have and Have Not, William Faulkner

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