The Man Who Wasn't There News

We continue our five-part series of posts on the decade in movies with another 20 or so of our favorite scenes and moments.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the subject today is acting," said Dennis Brown, an adjunct professor of film appreciation at Webster University, to the audience at Winifred-Moore Auditorium on Tuesday, Dec.

Writer/directors Joel, left, and Ethan Coen on the set of their new film, "A Serious Man." Toronto>> Actor Michael Stuhlbarg took a long pause - 14 seconds - when he asked what detail in Joel and Ethan Coen's script of "A Serious Man" helped him latch onto his character.

The Coen Brothers' A Serious Man is brimming with irreverent humour, discreet compassion and maybe even some autobiography Josef Braun / josef@vueweekly.com It's an unlikely turning point, this scene in The Man Who Wasn't There, one of the richest, most underappreciated of the Coen Brothers' films.

Physics professor Larry Gopnik is distraught. His wife Judith is leaving him for older blowhard Sy Adelman .

For more than two decades now, Joel and Ethan Coen have been thrilling critics -- and, here and there, audiences -- with their distinctive blend of dark humor, colorful violence, and singular visual flair.

Ed: Billy Bob Thornton Doris: Frances McDormand Frank: Michael Badalucco Big Dave: James Gandolfini Birdy Abundas: Scarlett Johansson Usa Films Presents A Film Directed By Joel Coen.

If the Coen Brothers' weird comedy O Brother, Where Art Thou? was neither weird nor comic, this schematic noir is its unfortunate sibling: the drama that wasn't. As usual, the siblings nurture terrific performances: Billy Bob Thornton provides another nuanced turn as Ed, a morose barber in small-town 1940s California; Frances McDormand is at times ...

The wittiest scene in Joel and Ethan Coen's 2001 film The Man Who Wasn't There is one in which a fast-talking defense attorney, Freddy Riedenschneider , invokes Heisenberg's uncertainty principle as grounds for a not-guilty verdict in a murder case: We can't know what really happened.

The Coen Brothers have produced many modern-day classics, including "Blood Simple," "Fargo" and "The Big Lebowski," and we recommend all of them.

Writer/directors Ethan, left, and Joel Coen on the set of their new film "A Serious Man." In the beginning was the Dude.

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 .

Tony Shalhoub got hooked on acting when he was six years old, and his elder sister volunteered him to play an extra in her high school production of The King and I . His father, who had emigrated to the U.S. from Lebanon as an orphaned young boy, hoped that Tony and his nine siblings would stay in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and work in the family's ...

The 13th Annual Hollywood Film Festival and Hollywood Awards, presented by Starz, are pleased to announce their craft honorees for this year's Hollywood Awards.

Our review of Sling Blade , published March 1st, 2000, is also available. I like them French fried potaters.

In the mid-2000s, when gossip stories about twenty-something actresses behaving badly dominated headlines, Scarlett Johansson was nowhere to be found.

Dear Mr. Inman: Will you please tell me where I have seen the man who plays the title role on "Monk"? - Betty, Pensacola, Fla.