The New York Times is carrying an interesting article about the sound design of No Country For Old Men. Sound Editor Skip Lievsay, a Coen stalwart since Blood Simple is quoted along with Composor Carter Burwell and, of course, Joel and Ethan. You can read it by following the link.

Thanks to William for the link.

The ceremony was cancelled due to the WGA strike but the awards were still dished out. That’s right the Golden Globe winners have been announced and the fact that you’re reading this here can mean only one thing- No Country For Old Men has won something! Not just some thing but TWO things. Javier Bardem took home the Globe for Best Supporting Actor while Joel and Ethan took home the award not for directing but for writing- Best Screenplay. Surprisingly Best Film (Drama) went to Atonement, Best Film (Comedy/Musical) to Tim Burton’s Sweeny Todd and Best Director to Julian Schnabel for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.

Congrats to all and let’s hope for further recognition at the Oscars.

finishdish chimes in again this time with an alert to the fact that awesome George Clooney fansite clooneystudio.com has a lot, and I mean a lot, of on set photos from the shoot for Burn After Reading. Go check them out. Clooney’s beard is ace!

About.com have an interview with Joel and Ethan Coen in which they discuss both No Country For Old Men and the forthcoming, Burn After Reading. They don’t give much away (as usual) but it’s always nice to hear from them. Nothing new is said about No Country but they talk about shooting in their current home town of New York for Burn. Ethan- “We live there and we had never shot and gone home at night to bed, so it was strange by virtue of that.” Joel made the amusing comment about their relationship with George Clooney- “George loves to play idiots for us.” Ethan Coen added, “The day we wrapped, just a few days ago, we called wrap on George’s last shot and he said, ‘All right, that’s it. I’ve played my last idiot.’ So we told him it was sad that he wouldn’t be working with us anymore.”

Thanks to finishdish for the head’s-up.

The Directors Guild of America has announced it list of nominees for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film and, I’m delighted to say, No Country For Old Men is one of them. This year marks the 60th DGA awards and it’s a good one to win as the directors up for the award have been nominated by their peers not some stuffy board. The Coens are up against Paul Thomas Anderson with There Will Be Blood, Sean Penn with Into The Wild, Tony Gilroy with Michael Clayton and Julian Schnabel with The Diving Bell And The Butterfly. I’m afraid to say I am yet to see any of No Country’s competitors as yet. The winner will be announced on January 26th.

Good luck to the Coens then!

Working Title’s site confims who is playing who in Burn After Reading. Thus;

George Clooney – Harry Pfarrer

Frances McDormand – Linda Litzke

Brad Pitt – Chad Feldheimer

John Malkovich – Osbourne Cox

Tilda Swinton – Katie Cox

Happy New Year one and all. And what better way to start a new year than taking yourself off to the cinema to see a new Coen brothers film? That’s right the UK release date of No Country For Old Men is now confirmed as 18th January with previews on 12th and 16th. The release date of this movie has moved around a fair bit, from the originally reported February (the horror!) to the end of January before settling on 18th.

I’m going to go see it again I know that much for sure! Are you gonna go? Call it Friend-o…