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The Green-Wood Historic Fund announced Tuesday that five prominent Americans from the fields of art, academia, music and film have been named to a special selection committee that will choose a new "Angel of Music" sculpture to grace the gravesite of 19th century American composer and pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk in Green-Wood Cemetery.

Early on, moderator Nancy Franklin admitted that the theme " Character Actors " was a bit of a ploy, designed to get a bunch of renowned actors together for one event.

This week's new releases,available Tuesday, are rated by Jay Bobbin of Zap2it on a scale of one to four, with H equivalent to a poor rating and *** meaning excellent.

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

Representing another half-step back toward the studio-film opulence of their sole commercial disaster, The Hudsucker Proxy , the Coen Brothers' latest continues their longtime penchant for recapitulating American movie classics while combining seemingly incompatible genres.

It's almost as if the Coen brothers have been daring us to come along with them with their every film.

Writer/director Joel Coen on the set of a oeA Serious Mana with actor Richard Kind and brother Ethan Coen .

Coen Brothers: "No Jews were hurt in the making of this motion picture." Filled with unfamiliar faces, "A Serious Man," which opens on Oct.

Movie & Entertainment News provided by World Entertainment News Network 2009-09-29 03:03:02 - Filmmaking duo THE COEN BROTHERS are considering making a sequel to their 1991 movie BARTON FINK.

This week, on its 20th anniversary, Jason Solomons meets director Spike Lee to talk about the legacy of Do the Right Thing, its profound effect on American independent cinema and the role it played in bringing the Obamas together.

Jesus Quintana is, without a doubt, the most popular pederast in movie history. Ok, it's not much of a competition.

Joel Coen The Dude abides, but will the "Big Lebowski" character ever return to the big screen? That's been an open, if admittedly unrealistic, question for more than a decade, as the cult love for Jeff Bridges' White Russian-swilling hippie Jeffrey Lebowski shows no signs - unlike his royal Dudeness - of slacking off.

We've been keeping a bit of an eye on the TechCrunch 50 , which took place earlier this week in San Francisco, to try and spy and cool movie-related tech companies who showed up to present there.

BayNewser is at TechCrunch50 this week, taking a gander at some of the most promising new startups in media and advertising.

Might the Dude morph into the Duke? Jeff Bridges hasn't worked with the Coen brothers since The Big Lebowski, but casting him in their remake of John Wayne's True Grit could be a wonderful reunion There's just a letter in it a John Wayne in True Grit and Jeff Daniels in The Big Lebowski.

As part of the celebration of the Walker's 50th Regis Dialogue and Retrospective event - Joel and Ethan Coen: Raising Cain - weA asked local and national film critics and film exhibition programmers to weigh in: In 25 words or less, what is your favorite Coen brothers' film, and why? As you'll see below, the question was so intriguing that several ...

Featuring out-of-this-world heroes in the form of the mighty AUTOBOTS and a malevolent and powerful villain known as THE FALLEN, the film boasts some of the most sensational - and complex - visual effects in film history set against the backdrop of spectacular locations around the world.

It's a very Italian time for John Turturro. Aside from his documentary "Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy," unspooling here out-of-competition, the Queens-born thesp/helmer whose family hails from Italy, has several other local projects in the pipeline.

BHAJI ON THE BEACH Don't expect abrasiveness from the usually prickly writer Meera Syal.

Studio suits are frequently cast as the villainous bogeymen in the folklore of the film industry.