A Serious Man star Michael Stuhlbarg has been honoured with the Chopin Virtuosos Award at this year’s Santa Barbara International Film Festival along with  Carey Mulligan (for An Education), Saoirse Ronan (for The Lovely Bones) and Gabourey Sidibe (for Precious).

Of Stuhlbarg’s performance SBIFF Executive Director Roger Durling said ; “Best known for his talents on the Broadway stage, Michael Stuhlbarg’s performance in “A Serious Man” as a suburban father in 1967 whose life crumbles right before him is thought-provoking and allows us to laugh at life’s seemingly insurmountable troubles.”

Nothing much to say except – behold…

That’s right folks, Universal Studios Home Entertainment have announced the release of the Coen brothers’ latest, A Serious Man for DVD and Blu-ray. The release date is 2nd February 2010, this is, of course, in the US and Canada. The release will contain three featurettes; Becoming Serious, Creating 1967 and Hebrew and Yiddish For Goys. The Blu-ray will also have some, as yet unannounced, BD-Live nonsense. DVD audio will be Dolby Digital 5.1, while the Blu-ray will feature DTS-HD MA 5.1.

More details as and when I get them.

Here’s hoping the Blu-ray is of the region-free flavour so those of us in Europe don’t have to wait for aeons! Judging by this very reliable resource all of Universal’s previous Region A Blu-ray output has been region-free so I see no reason why this won’t be.

The nominations for the 67th Annual Golden Globe Awards have just been announced and A Serious Man star Michael Stuhlbarg is up in the BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE – COMEDY OR MUSICAL category! Unfortunately this is the movie’s only nomination.

The very best of luck to him!

A Serious Man has been nominated in two categories for this year’s Critic’s Choice Movie Awards. It has been nominated for Best Picture and Joel and Ethan Coen have been nominated for the Best Original Screenplay gong.

Leading the charge with the most nominations with 10 apiece are Quentin Tarantino’s awesome Inglourious Basterds and Rob Marshall’s Nine. King of the World, James Cameron’s Avatar has 9 noms with The Hurt Locker and Up In The Air having 8.

I sometimes wonder if the Coens are bored with Best Screenplay nominations and awards…

The American Film Institute has listed the Coen brothers’ latest movie, A Serious Man, as one of 10 movies of the year. The AFI’s intent is to generate a sort of visual history of American cinema by adding movies and TV shows of worth to the collection every year. Here is their explanation of what they do;

“AFI was created to protect and preserve the legacy of the moving image art form so that future generations will have a greater understanding and appreciation for the proud heritage reflected in the realities of a new modern day.

Each year, AFI AWARDS honors excellence in the moving image arts within the context of a Year in Review. One of AFI’s national mandates is the creation of an annual almanac that records and preserves the evolution of the moving image arts in the 21st century.”

Anyway, A Serious Man was joined by Coraline, The Hangover, The Hurt Locker, The Messanger, Precious, A Single Man, Sugar, Up and Up In The Air. Additionally, No Country For Old Men made the cut in 2007’s awards and Roger Deakins was awarded their Cinematographer of the Year award for The Man Who Wasn’t There back in 2001.

The National Board of Review has announced it 2009 award winners and A Serious Man scooped the gone for Best Original Screenplay.

Just spotted this on Twitter but, for some reason, the Raindance website has made the screenplays for EVERY, and I mean EVERY, Coen brothers’ movie available for download. Now, this includes the screenplays for both A Serious Man AND their next movie, True Grit!!! You heard me right- including TRUE GRIT!

I suggest you get them ALL while you can because I can’t imagine the True Grit one being available for long. Get them HERE!

Obviously most of them are available right here on YKFK and have been for a long time however, I have gotten into a bit of legal deep water in the past for posting up scripts for forthcoming movies before which is why I have not uploaded the ones for Burn After Reading, A Serious Man and True Grit…

The Coen brothers’ latest movie, A Serious Man has been nominated for two awards at the 25th Film Independent Spirit Awards. The nominations for Joel and Ethan Coen in the Best Director category and for the ridiculously awesome, Roger Deakins in the Best Cinematography category. In addition the movie has been awarded their Robert Altman Award which is a special one awarded to just one film’s the director, casting director and its ensemble cast. The award ceremony takes place on Friday March 5th 2010.
The Coens have been successful at the Spirit Awards before. In 1997 Fargo won the awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Female Lead (Frances McDormand), Best Male Lead (William H. Macy) and Best Cinematography (Roger Deakins – told you he was awesome!). In 1986 Blood Simple was nominated for Best Picture but was beaten by Martin Scorsese’s After Hours while that movie and Blood Simple shared the gong for Best Director, M. Emmet Walsh also won the Best Male Lead award for his creepy, slimey portrayal of Loren Visser.

15 year-old Aaron Wolff who played Danny Gopnick in the Coen brothers latest movie, A Serious Man, is not old enough to see his own movie! He tried to go see the R-rated movie with a bunch of his pals at his local cinema but was turned away because all of the kids didn’t have an accompanying adult. Read the full story here. Thanks to Padi for sending this one in.
I’ve often wondered how kids in adult-rated movie get to see them. Do they have to wait till they’re old enough? Do they get to go to the premiere? Like another Danny from The Shining, I don’t care how much of the process he saw during the making of the movie, there is NO WAY at his age he could have watched that movie.