The Coens are turning into such workaholics! After banging out No Country For Old Men then swiftly moving to to shoot Burn After Reading, younger Coen sibling, Ethan, has found time to write a triptych of short plays. This sums it up neatly;“In the world premiere of Ethan Coen’s Almost an Evening, three short plays unsuccessfully tackle important questions. In Waiting, someone waits somewhere for quite some time. In Four Benches, a voyage to self-discovery takes a British intelligence agent to steam baths in New York and Texas, and to park benches in the U.S. and U.K. In Debate, cosmic questions are taken up. Not much is learned.”

YAY! Some clips of No Country For Old Men!!! Packaged along with some brief interview clips with Joel and Ethan. AWESOME!

The first clip shows Tommy Lee Jones’ Sheriff Bell surveying the scene of a drug deal gone bad. The second, the menacing Chigurh (Javier Bardem) on the phone to Moss (Josh Brolin). The third section shows Moss at home with his girlfriend Carla Jean (Scottish actress Kelly MacDonald) and the final one has Chirurh at his most menacing. I think “what’s the most you ever lost on a coin toss” will become much quoted. Check them out using the links on the right.

Behind the Coens during their bits is the poster for the movie too, I can’t wait for a hi-res version of that to show up!

Dutch movie site (Real player)

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The LA Times and JoBlo have the same story, it seems Ethan is going it alone. He and his wife, editor Tricia Cooke, have penned what is billed as a “lesbian, road-trip, action, sex comedy” called Drive-Away Dykes to be directed by Allison Anders. I’ll hand over to The LA Times for the synopsis…

“When Marion, a skirt-chasing party girl, gets kicked out after her cop girlfriend finds her in bed with another woman, she convinces her buttoned-down friend Jamie to let her come along on a get-away-for-a-few-days drive-away car assignment from Philadelphia to Miami. Packed along for the ride are Jamie’s crush on Marion, Marion’s unrelenting desire to cruise every lesbian bar on the eastern seaboard, and — since this is Coen territory — a severed head in a hatbox, a mystery briefcase full of plaster phalluses, a mélange of angry pursuers, an evil senator, a bitter ex-girlfriend and loads of hot boyless sex.”

Coen says, “The sensibility is exploitive but innocent. We were both taken with the title and, as with old exploitation films, it all derived from that. We figured, ‘All right, what kind of movie has this title?’ “

JoBlo questions if this could be the greatest movie ever and mentions an unofficial website which appears not to work anymore. Perhaps it has been taken down but which apparently featured story boards and character information. If anyone managed to see/save any of this info I’d love to hear about it.

Thanks to Bunnie and Matthew for pointing these links out.