Having seen YKFK’s brand new section, Other Works, someone has been kind enough to send me the link to an advertising agency’s site, Company Films, which have the Coen brothers listed as a “special project” (for reasons I am unsure about). Anyway, from there you can view and download three ads directed by the brothers and also what the site is calling trailers but isn’t. The three ads are for Gap, H&R Block and Parisienne Cigarettes which play one after the other in a loop. The “trailers” part shows the trailer for No Country For Old Men followed by the Gutterballs dream sequence from The Big Lebowski and ends with an extended bunch of clips from Fargo which pretty much runs through the entire plot.

Enjoy!

You asked for it. You repeatedly asked for it. And now it’s here. I have just added a section to YKFK detailing the rest of the Coen brother’s creative endeavours. Read about Crimewave, Bad Santa, Joel’s early editing work, Ethan’s books and more.

I expect I will have missed some things so please do not hesitate to let me know and I will add to the page over time and one day it will be authoritative. So you can email me or simply comment at the foot of the page. Perhaps you have more information than I do? If so write it up and I’ll add it.

You can the ”Other Works” section here. and it is always available from The Movies pull down menu at the top of each page.

Poor old Walter, seems he really can’t get away from the horrors of ‘Nam. Below are a few screengrabs from PC first person shooter, The Hell in Vietnam (released in 2007 with an average Gamespot user score of 4.4/10). These shots were clearly taken before Walter dabbled in pacifism…

Thanks to JD for emailing this one in. Originating story.

Hi, just a quick note to remind you that the poll is still running. I think I’ll run it for one calendar month which means it’ll end on August 18th.

Well according to Working Title’s site it is! Accoring to this it’s out on September 5th in the UK!!! Which is only 9 days after it’s world premiere at the Venice Film Festival and a full 6 weeks before the previously reported release date of 17th October!

Here’s hoping this is correct, and why wouldn’t it be? This is pretty much the horse’s mouth!

I’ve stumbled upon some new Burn After Reading promotion photographs. You can see them in the movie’s multimedia page or right here;

• Clooney on stairs
• Clooney panicking near car
• Clooney shoots!
• Clooney and MacDormand do dinner
• Pitt with bloody snozz
• Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich
• Pitt relieves cramp
• Joel and Ethan Coen on set
• Clooney and MacDormand

I’ve no idea if it’s official or where it came from but movie blog Land of Movies has the below image heading their post about the Burn After Reading green band trailer which was released a few weeks ago. I like it and hope to see a hi-res version one day…

EDIT: It would seem this is the poster that us UK-based folks will see. Confirmed by Working Title’s website. They display a vertical version of the above poster, here it is…

What with all the news of The Dark Knight being the bestest movie in the world since time began (according to it’s IMDB user rating) and in conjunction with YKFK’s currently running poll to find out which was the best (or more accurately- most favourite) Coen brothers movie, I thought it might be interesting to see what the IMDB users thought in comparison. In terms of ratings here’s IMDB’s rundown of Coen awesomeness first by rating and, where there’s a tie, I’ve given preference to the one with the most votes…

1. No Country For Old Men (8.4, 118,396 votes)
2. Fargo (8.3, 122,902)
3. The Big Lebowski (8.2, 122,119)
4. Miller’s Crossing (8.0, 31,861)
5. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (7.8, 71,292)
6. Blood Simple (7.8, 19,584)
7. The Man Who Wasn’t There (7.7, 30,891)
8. Barton Fink (7.7, 22,073)
9. Raising Arizona (7.5, 35,918)
10. The Hudsucker Proxy (7.4, 23,968)
11. Intolerable Cruelty (6.4, 26, 521)
12. The Ladykillers (6.2, 27,747)

Now, obviously, this is a live list so it will change over time. I just thought it might be interesting to compare what general movie fans think as opposed to specific Coen brothers fans who visit YKFK. At the moment the YKFK poll has Miller’s Crossing and The Big Lebowski tied at the top with 19% of the votes a piece. Next up is Fargo with 16% followed by Barton Fink with 13%. The bottom two in the YKFK poll unsurprisingly mirror the bottom two in the IMDB rankings, each taking up zero percent of the votes thus far- come on- SOMEONE must like them .

I was very surprised to see No Country For Old Men top the IMDB list whilst it is sixth on ours, but these type of things are always coloured by short memory. Will the IMDB voters still consider No Country superior to Fargo and The Big Lebowski in 10 years time?

Come the end of the YKFK poll (I ain’t decided how long to run it really- perhaps it should never end- your thoughts welcome) we need to decide which of the two polls is more important to us here at YKFK- the one voted for by dedicated Coen nuts or the one voted for by a more general movie fan…

Incidentally, I’m seeing The Dark Knight tomorrow afternoon and am looking forward to it immensely. I am expecting great things but the best movie of all time… nope.

Just a quickie to share these with you guys. Universal have released three menu shots from the forthcoming The Big Lebowski: 10th Anniversary DVD, out on September 9th. They use the theme of a bowling score card and some promotional shots of the Dude and Walter. I’ve never seen the photo with our heroes reclining on the sofas before.

The website for Tilda Swinton’s (soon to be seen in Burn After Reading) Scottish film festival, the Ballerina Ballroom Cineam of Dreams is live and has been updated with the programme choices of Joel Coen. He has chosen Busby Berkeley’s Dames and Akira Kurosawa’s High & Low (Tengoku to jigoku) . Dames will be showing on the festival’s opening night- Friday 15th August, with High & Low showing on Tuesday 19th. As most of you will know Busby Berkeley’s musical numbers were the inspiration for The Dude’s dreams in The Big Lebowski.

Thanks to Bunnie for mailing this in to me.