Lurking in Twitter I found a link to this, frankly awesome, collection of re-imagined Coen brothers movie posters. The designers at Poster Lab have reworked posters for Blood Simple, Barton Fink, The Hudsucker Proxy, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, The Man Who Wasn’t There and No Country For Old Men. I think you’ll agree that they’re truly beautiful.

Click on the images below to see the full size posters;

Which is your favourite? Mine? It’s a toss-up (no pun intended) between No Country and Hudsucker.

I’ll keep an eye on Poster Lab and update if they do the missing movies, I really hope they do.

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…

Empire magazine’s website has listed what they consider to be the the 20 best micro-part characters from the Coen brothers oeuvre. Here’s are those 20…

1. Loren Visser (M Emmet Walsh), Blood Simple

2. Dot (Frances McDormand), Raising Arizona

3. Nathan Arizona (Trey Wilson), Raising Arizona

4. Johnny Caspar (Jon Polito), Miller’s Crossing

5. Tic Tac (Al Mancini), Miller’s Crossing

6. Jack Lipnick (Michael Lerner), Barton Fink

7. W.P. Mayhew (John Mahoney), Barton Fink

8. Waring Hudsucker (Charles Durning), The Hudsucker Proxy

9. Buzz (Jim True-Frost), The Hudsucker Proxy

10. Mike Yanagita (Steve Park), Fargo

11. Officer Lou (Bruce Lohene), Fargo

12. Marty (Jack Keller), The Big Lebowski

13. Penny Wharvey McGill (Holly Hunter), O Brother, Where Art Thou?

14. Freddy Reidenschneider (Tony Shalhoub), The Man Who Wasn’t There

15. Gus Petch (Cedric the Entertainer), Intolerable Cruelty

16. Wheezy Joe (Irwin Keyes), Intolerable Cruelty

17. Deputy Wendell (Garret Dillahunt), No Country For Old Men

18. Gas Station Proprietor (Gene Jones), No Country For Old Men

19. CIA Superior (J.K. Simmons), Burn After Reading

20. Sy Abelman (Fred Melamed), A Serious Man

Nice to see a couple of entries from Intolerable Cruelty which I still think is massively underrated suffering, as it does, from the weight of Coen quality prior to it.

What do you think? Has anyone been missed?  Only ONE from The Big Lebowski? I would have Knox Harrington (David Thewlis) in there right away! And no Jesus Quintana (John Turturro), surely Jesus’ part is small enough to make this list? None from The Ladykillers? Let’s talk…

I think this only applies to readers in the UK but Sky Movies Indie is showing a “season” of Coen brothers movies building up to their premiere of No Country For Old Men showing on Sky Movies Premiere in HD. They’ve dubbed the season “Scream with the Coen brothers” and have put together this frankly ACE trailer which is a compedium of one of the Coens’ recurring themes- people screaming. It starts on 30th March and end on 12th April.

Information on the Sky site is not very well organised but I’ve been able to root this out;

The Hudsucker Proxy is showing on Monday 30th March at 20:00,

O Brother, Where Art Thou? on Monday 30th at 22:00 and Tuesday 31st at 20:00,

Blood Simple on Tuesday 31st at 22:00,

The Big Lebowski is showing on Wednesday 1st April at 22:00,

Raising Arizona is showing on Wednesday 1st April at 20:00 and Thursday 2nd April at 2:00

Beyond that, scrabbled together information I’m not sure if they’re showing more of their movies or not, certainly there are clips from both Barton Fink and Fargo in the trailer but they have no listings on the site. Perhaps those with a Sky subscription could clarify?

Thanks to Will for the info.

Andyrama has kindly agreed to make his three tremendouns, themed, alternative DVD covers available for download, in hi-res, right here on You Know, For Kids! You can download them using the links below (once they’re opne, right click them and choose “save as”)…

Andyrama cover for The Hudsucker Proxy

Andyrama cover for The Big Lebowski

Andyrama cover for O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Some printing tips from Andy- “I would recommend that your readers print them at full size, without checking any “fit to page” links or the like, as these will distort the dimensions as not to fit in cases. These should print nicely within the margins of A4 sheets. However, those in North America should be aware that it may not fit within the margins of Letter size paper depending on their printers’ capabilities. In their case, they should try to print to a Legal (8.5″x14″) or Tabloid (11″x17″) size sheet if they are able. 

After that, just cut ‘em out, and stick them in cases. ”

Please let me know how you get on with these, I have printed these myself and will post some pics when I’ve united them with my DVDs at home! Also do stop by Andyrama.net to check out his other artwork, he has a lot of cool stuff.

Thanks again to Andy for letting us do this. Here’s hoping he creates more in the future. It would be great to have a unified look for the Coen brother’s DVDs.

Hollywood legend Paul Newman has died at the age of 83 after a long battle against cancer. An Oscar winner, philanthopist and foodie with genuine movie-star looks best known to us here at YKFK as Sidney J. Mussburger from The Hudsucker Proxy, died at his farmhouse in Westport, Connecticut with his family and close friends. RIP.

Paul Newman 1925-2008

EDIT- Empire Online has a photo feature of Newman’s 10 Greatest Roles. His role in The Hudsucker Proxy features.

EDIT 2- Found this clip on YouTube. The man was a true, bona fide LEGEND, the world’s a worse place without him in it.

That’s right, Waring Hudsucker has hit the pavement in a whole new way!

Charles Durning the actor who played two memorable roles for the Coens, Waring Hudsucker in The Hudsucker Proxy and Pappy O’Daniel in O Brother, Where Art Thou? was added to the Hollywood Walk of Fame yesterday.

The veteran of World War II (during which he won three (count them- THREE!) Purple Hearts and a Silver Star) and over 100 movies said, “I never thought this would happen. This is one of the secret awards I wanted. I was hoping this would happen in my lifetime and it did.” He can put his plaque on the shelf next to his Screen Actors Guild Lifetime Achievement award which he won in January.

His star is the 2,366th and puts him next to his hero James Cagney of whom he said, “Cagney was my favorite actor and favorite person. I met him once and he was very kind to me. I never got a chance to tell him what I thought, that he was my hero.”

Three cheers for Charles and here’s hoping he has many more movies in him. Hurrah!

Thanks to Juan on the forum for the notification.