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Last night, Frank Librio at Dallas City Hall sent word that before everyone at 1500 Marilla Street goes on extended holiday vacay -- tomorrow's a furlough day -- there's one last press conference on the schedule.

Movie-making brothers Joel and Ethan Coen have gone back to their roots in A Serious Man, a dark comedy set in the suburban Midwest of their youth.

Michael Stuhlbarg gets serious in the Coen brothersa latest. A Serious Man / Films by the Coen brothers usually fall under three genres, unless you make a fourth slot for a oeill-conceiveda -looking at you, The Ladykillers ! But otherwise, therea s the grim crime thriller and the wacky hyper comedy .

Mickee Faust Club: Gourds go airborne and spill their guts at the 15th Annual Mickee Faust Punkin' Chuckin' event at 1 p.m. Sunday at the Mickee Faust Clubhouse in Railroad Square Art Park.

Any time a new Coen brothers movie opens, it's reason to celebrate. Joel and Ethan Coen's 'A Serious Man' is a dark comedy that's now showing at the Miracle 5. The Coens' brilliant career has had but a few missteps, so we hate to point out the misfire remake of 'The Ladykillers.' But we will.

Careful observers of the career of Joel and Ethan Coen know that more often than not, they prefer to set their films in anything but the modern day.

Michael Stuhlbarg stars as physics professor Larry Gopnik in writer/directors Joel & Ethan Coen's "A Serious Man", a Focus Features release.

What do the Coen brothers want from us?

For 25 years, the writer-directors Joel and Ethan Coen have hovered like indifferent gods over a universe of their creation, making movies so dense with opaque meaning and tonal contradictions that they can be parsed with verve bordering on the exegetical.

'A Serious Man,' their most explicitly autobiographical movie to date, may well come to be seen by Coen disciples as the filmmakers' ur-text, a distillation of the themes, preoccupations and flaws that have animated the best and worst films of their career. Considered within that oeuvre, 'A Serious Man' might not be 'Fargo,' but it nestles comfortably somewhere beneath that masterpiece and 'Miller's Crossing,' yet far above such minor works as 'The Ladykillers' and 'Intolerable Cruelty.'

J ews making fun of Jews, with affection and without, have provided some of the most savagely funny American art of the past 50 years.

GI Joe star Marlon Wayans is in negotiations to play Richard Pryor in a biopic on the comedian.

Capitalism: A Love Story Studio: Overture Directed by: Michael Moore Starring: Michael Moore The plot: Documentary filmmaker Michael Moore sets out to uncover the truth behind the current economic crisis with interviews from Wall Street and government insiders.

One of our favorite NY indie institutions, In God We Trust, has returned to its Brooklyn roots with the opening of it's 4th shop in Greenpoint .

The sibling filmmakers are asking the Big Questions. Josh Hurst posted 9/30/2009 09:17AM 1 of 1 I n the cinematic universe of award-winning directors Joel and Ethan Coen, morality matters.

Earlier this month the British actor/comedian Peter Sellers, best known to the world as the bumbling Inspector Clouseau in the "Pink Panther" series, would have turned 84.

A BAHAMIAN FILM whose central motif is the transforming effect of rain opened the Flow Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival on Tuesday night at a gala event held at MovieTowne Invaders Bay, which saw artists, film-lovers, diplomats and Government ministers attend.

"Blood Simple," 7:30 p.m. today, 9:45 p.m. Sat. ; "Raising Arizona," 4 p.m. Sat., 7:30 p.m. Oct.

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When I covered the 2008 Toronto film festival, my first screening was a Friday 9 AM showing of Joel and Ethan Coen's Burn After Reading .

No doubt some filmgoers will be more than a little surprised by the overtly religious themes explored in A Serious Man , the latest film from brother-filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen, which makes its premiere at the Toronto Film Festival today.

Blocky, steely-eyed, flamboyantly talented character actor who has played comic foils and glowering villains with equal aplomb in a score of British and international features.