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ALAN MENKEN

Coen brothers lead the Oscars pack

No Country for Old Men was living up to its front-runner status at Sunday’s Academy Awards, winning best adapted screenplay for the Coen brothers and best supporting actor for…

  • David Germain
6 min read
FILM

Singing for your supper

<b>MUSICAL OF THE WEEK:</b> Peter Bradshaw reviews Tim Burton’s <i>Sweeney Todd</i>, starring Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter.

  • Peter Bradshaw
2 min read
ATONEMENT TODD

Coen brothers named best 2007 directors by peers

The Directors Guild of America on Saturday chose Ethan and Joel Coen as best feature film directors for 2007 for their gritty crime drama No Country for Old Men. ”It’s nice to…

  • Mary Milliken
2 min read
ALBERT WOLSKY

Oscars: Coen brothers and oilman drama in the lead

Joel and Ethan Coen’s No Country for Old Men, a gory meditation on moral decline, and There Will Be Blood, a gritty drama about a pioneering California oilman, led the…

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6 min read
ATONEMENT TODD

Golden Globe winners are also losers

If a movie wins a Golden Globe, but there’s no ceremony, does the prize still count? That’s the issue faced by the Hollywood studios behind such films as Atonement and Sweeney…

  • Dean Goodman
3 min read