I've updated the No Country For Old Men reviews page with some reviews (many, many more to come) including one from your humble web servant- my own (I saw it last night- yay!) and our very first YKFK reader review (thanks Matt!). Why not make a cuppa, pop over there and have a read?

If any of you have seen it and fancy penning a quick review email me it and I'll be happy to post it up for fellow Coen fans to read. I often canvass for reader input but until Matt no one has ever taken me up on it.

In what has to be one of the most interesting photo shoots I think I've ever seen the New York Times has comissioned a shoot involving past Coen alumni including Javier Bardem, Kelly MacDonald, Jeff Bridges, Julianne Moore, Jon Polito, Holly Hunter, Tara Reid, Sam Elliot, Steve Buscemi and John Turturro in a series of strange scenes. I think it's best if you just look for yourself. Below is the accompanying text.

At first glance, “No Country,” which is a kind of modern western with almost mythological themes set against the landscape of Texas, would seem to be a surprising fit with the Coens, who are known for dark, almost surrealistic comedies like the Oscar-winning “Fargo,” the Hollywood noir “Barton Fink” and their ode to stoner iconoclasm, “The Big Lebowski.” But “No Country,” like their other movies, allowed them to create unique characters and simultaneously twist a genre. From the start of their career, with the film “Blood Simple” in 1984, the Coens have consistently reinvented conventional types of cinema by tweaking and reimagining instantly recognizable archetypes. In “No Country,” Javier Bardem plays an unstoppable, coldblooded killer with an existential streak. Though he is not described this way in McCarthy’s book, the Coens pictured him with a Prince Valiant haircut and a fastidious style of dress — a potentially stock cinematic character transformed into a new western classic. “He’s like the man who fell to earth,” Joel suggested. “He’s the thing that doesn’t grow out of that landscape.”

The West was built on transplants, on men and women who sought to redefine themselves in a land of opportunity. Since many of their movies are set in that part of America, the Coen brothers have observed and then reimagined many of those strivers, weirdos, beauties, believers and would-be prophets. From Holly Hunter’s baby-nabbing cop in “Raising Arizona” to Sam Elliott’s philosophical cowboy in “The Big Lebowski,” the Coens have created, again and again, instantly iconic creatures of the West. In this portfolio, photographed by Finlay MacKay, we sought to further the adventures of those Coen-devised personalities.

“We still want to make a real period western,” Joel said. “With no cars and in black and white. But it might be a little narrow.” Ethan nodded. “ ‘No Country’ was kind of like a genre thing, but in a genre thing the characters end up differently,” he said. “ ‘No Country’ is perverse. And we always like something perverse.”

Thanks to John on the forum for alerting us.

NEW FORUM!!!

Just a little bit of YKFK site news to update you guys on, I've finally gotten round to updating the forum. However I am yet to update all of the links to it in the header above, it us a big job because every single page has its own header- a mistake I will never repeat again! Anyhoo you can access it now via this link here and get chatting away.

You will need to complete a short registration to post but are free to read. Please DO pop by and let me know what you think of it or how you think it could be improved. Thanks!

Time magazine's site has a frankly awesome transcript of a chat that Joel and Ethan had with Cormac McCarthy, terrific author of the terrific novel No Country For Old Men.

Thanks to John and Ulli (a nihlist?) for the link.

The No Country For Old Men website has been updated. Each section is preceded by an animated clip from the film and has its own looping music. There are wallpapers, AIM icons and a screen saver (coming soon), lots of information on the cast, the movie and the book, an image gallery and, of course, the three excellent trailers.

Wallpaper 3 is particularly gorgeous and shows, once again, how good the Coens and Roger Deakins are when working together. Shame Deakins is not working on Burn After Reading too, which is the first Coen brothers movie to be without him since Barton Fink back in 1991.

In addition I have cheekily used the footer from the wallpapers and used them to concoct 5 of my own desktop wallpapers. You can see them in the No Country Multimedia page (at the bottom). I particularly like this one.

Discuss here.

Some new pics from the Burn After Reading shoot have popped up on IMDB. Go check 'em out using the link on the right (I'll add them to the film's YKFK gallery as soon as I get time).

Thanks to JD for the tip off.

Looks like A Serious Man is destined to be the Coens follow up to Burn After Reading, My Way news has this;

Home Again: Coens Filming in Minnesota

Sep 29, 3:44 PM (ET)

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Will the Coen brothers ever return to their native Minnesota to film another movie? Yeah sure, you betcha! Joel and Ethan Coen haven't made a movie in Minnesota since their 1996 Oscar-winning "Fargo," but come March they plan to roll cameras for "A Serious Man," set in their home town of St. Louis Park, a Minneapolis suburb.

The brothers helped scout locations this summer, said Lucinda Winter, executive director of the Minnesota Film and TV Board.

"They looked in Richfield, Brooklyn Center, maybe Hopkins - neighborhoods that would match the one they grew up in," she said.

The film is about a Jewish college professor during the 1960s. According to the online entertainment journal FilmJerk.com, the main character is bedeviled by children who lift his wallet, a wife who wants a divorce, an intense grad student and a hot neighbor who sunbathes in the nude. With all of that, "he starts to question the value of life."

It's not autobiographical but is based on the Coen brothers' experiences here, said Bob Graf, one of the film's executive producers and also a native Minnesotan.

Graf said it's important to capture the uniqueness of Twin Cities suburbs.

"It's just plain different," Graf said Friday from New York.

Thanks to Juan on the brand new forum for the news. Also the new forum's debut post, may there be many more.

Discuss here.

Trailer 3 for No Country For Old Men has been released. It is availble in HD from Apple's site and contains LOTS of new footage. Go check it out!

Thanks to JD.

Bumper news day today folks, primarily because I've been too busy to work on the site for about a week. First up and thanks to Navid over on the forums we can all wallow in the splendour of these three awesome posters for No Country For Old Men. Shame they're not at a higher resolution though.

"There are no clean getaways" Moss

"There are no laws left" Bell

"You can't stop what's coming" Chigurh

New desktop backgrounds for most of you I'm sure ;-)

I'm sure most of you will have read by now about George Clooney's iddy biddy accident. He and his current squeeze, Sarah Larson, came off their motorbike. Clooney has bust a rib and Larson a foot. They're fine though and the injury will not hold up shooting of Burn After Reading.

Thanks to Mike for mailing the story in to me.

The first (to my knowledge at least) pic from Burn After Reading has emerged. It is of Brad Pitt with a bloody nose. You can see it here.

Thanks to JD.

Four new pics from No Country For Old Men have emerged into the wild. You can check them out using the link on the right or sticking with YKFK and clicking here, here, here and here.

Thanks to JD for the nod!

According to this month's Empire magazine the UK release date of No Country For Old Men is January 18th NOT the previously suggested February. So that's a bit better then ain't it? Now only 3 months behind you lucky Americans!

The cover of the magazine had me very, VERY excited when it plopped through my door this morning. Emblazoned on the front - "The new Fargo- The Coens reboot with No Country For Old Men" I was expecting a good sized article but, alas, just the one page (two if you count the full page pic of Bardem's Chigurh.

Some information about shooting locations for Burn After Reading. From Wikipedia - "Clooney, Pitt and Malcovitch have been filming recently in the Mamaroneck area, a susburn of NYC. A scene is being filmed today (9-20-07) @ 78th St and Broadway NYC". And this interesting article too.

Thanks to Bill for the info.

Charles Durning will need to introduction to anyone reading this site I'm sure. The fine character actor who brought us Wareing Hudsucker (The Hudsucker Proxy) and Pappy O'Daniel (O Brother, Where Art Thou?) is to be honoured with a lifetime achievement award by the Screen Actors Guild. He's 84 years old now and has led quite a life which would, one day, make a fascinating biopic. He served his country WWII including the Normandy landings on Omaha beach which was, of course, made famous by Speilberg's Saving Private Ryan and was also the sole survivor of the battle of Malmedy in Belgium. He received three Purple Hearts and a Silver Star for bravery. Hats off to the man and I hope he has many more memorable roles in him.

Thanks to M@ for emailing this in.

Another day, another amusing Coen brothers Youtube edit. This time it's all the "yeahs" from Fargo. Heh!

Thanks to Mark for the link.

John Turturro has been talking about a possible Big Lebowski Jesus Quintana spin off movie again. In an interview with Gothamist.com he brought it up, pertinent parts below but you can read the whole thing here.

Back on the subject of cult classics, The Big Lebowski has gone on to become one. Yeah, look at that. Didn’t do great here originally but now it has.

Were you surprised by the lukewarm response the film received when it came out? No, wasn’t surprised; I didn’t realize how funny it was.

When I first saw it in the theater I thought, “That was interesting.” But then over repeated viewings it’s just gotten better and better for me. One of my favorite films. It’s really, really, really – It’s really, really good. It’s really, really good! It’s hilarious. Maybe someday we’ll do a little spin-off of it. We’ve talked about it. But we’ll see.

Is there any chance of that? I want to make a Jesus film but Joel and Ethan… We’ve got to sit down. Maybe next year I’ll get them to write it. We’ll see.

Was that your idea to lick the bowling ball? A lot of those ideas were mine, yeah. But Joel and Ethan and I kind of share the same sensibility. And that’s why they were so helpful on my film, editing it. Because I don’t have to explain things to them. They understand. And they know how to make it better.

Thanks to John for emailing this in.

I've just spent the last few hours dodging Big Brother by taking screen grabs from the ace new trailer (see entry directly below this one). You can see them all on the No Country For Old Men Multimedia page.

Phew! It takes a lot of time so please do check 'em out.

A couple of updates today but first, and best, thing's first- the official No Country For Old Man site has updated with a new "red band" trailer. Red band basically means it starts with a red screen instead of the familiar green, it's Restricted, it's for adults, it has some gore in it. It almost pitches it as a chase movie which, to an extent, it is. Fucking amazing! I really cannot wait to see this movie!!!

Thanks to forum member M@ and Armon by email for tipping me off. I'm a little peeved that I needed tipping off- I've been checking the site for updates about three times a day and the one day I don't... ;-)

Also there are a few new images from the movie. Feast your eyes...

Image one- Chigurh, Image two- Moss, Image three- Chigurh

Thanks again to Armon

The French DVD of Paris Je Taime is out (alas no English subtitles) and awesome You Know, For Kids! reader "Junior" has taken the time to email in a little write up and also some screen grabs from the making of documentary. Below is his write up verbatim;

"The Coen Brothers "making of" is VERY revealing (more than any other Coen
DVD so far) just short of a step by step process on the shooting of the
short, as the brothers explain why they made certain choices--even why they
chose to shoot in a subway--the initial story was going to be a cowboy from
Texas who visits Paris for the first time but then they thought it might
rain during shooting and they only had 2 or 3 days to film hence they
thought up the "subway" story. They thought it was great that the only parts
of Paris that you see beyond the subway is in the Tour Guide Book that
Buscemi has.

We even see the stunt reherasals and Joel & Ethan making decisions on the
set as they shoot the short. I have never seen them as more "human" than in
this documentary. They laugh, get excited and you see how they figure
things out as they shoot--of course this is easier because they have
pre-planned every detail in advance.

Steve Buscemi is also interviewed. One funny quote is when Joel Coen says
he and Ethan were discussing working with Steve Buscemi and how he gets
beaten up or killed when he appears in their films. They also said the
older he gets, the more Buscemi looks like Buster Keaton to them.

They also interview the cinematagrpher, Bruno Delbonnel (who shot Amelie, A
Very Long Engageent & Jean-Pierre Jeunet short films--ironic because Jeunet
is a huge Coen fan and even "borrowed" a shot from the Coen's Barton Fink
for his film Delicatessen--but I digress). I thought I had recognized some
of the tricky camera moves, the look of the film, etc--it's very Amelie!

Other crew members and the actors are interviewed as well but those,
including Bruno's are all in French and w/o subtitles so I'll have to wait
until a proper subtitled version comes out.

One thing that I didn't need to understand French to learn is when everyone
comments in French and with hand gestures how Joel and Ethan are like "one'
person.

Joel comments that they have the ability to each go off and do different
things while filming but that doesn't necessarily translate as more
efficiency--it's just easier on them. Ethan adds, they both wear different
underwear, LOL!

Joel goes on to say in the U.S. That they have worked with the same crew for
20 years but for this they worked with all new people and they had no idea
what they were getting into but everything was so calm and smooth. Joel
says this is really unusual because Ethan is a real chair thrower on the set
and like to yell at people because of a lack of sleep and that he, Joel must
have been drugged before making this movie because he was not aware of any
problems this time--wink, wink. They actually credit Bruno DelBonnel and
the French crew with making it such an easy and enjoyable shoot. You get a
sense from all the French crew and Actors that they are the biggest Coen
Brothers fans."

Now for the great screen grabs. In the structure of my site, I'm not sure where to pop these yet so please just click them here for now;

Image 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30.

A massive, huge thanks to "Junior" for taking the time to do this for the greater good of us Coen bro fans. Thanks!

Hurrah! Thanks to the frankly awesome dedication of You Know, For Kids! reader, Bob, you can now download the script for No Country For Old men in text format. Link on the right and also in the SCRITPS section above.

Thanks very much Bob!

The official website for No Country For Old Men has gone live. At the moment it's pretty much just the trailer, a synopsis and the movie's logo. Take a peek.

Thanks to Armon for the heads up.

God bless YouTube! Remember Paris Je t'aime? The movie made up of 20 or so 5 minute segments directed by different directors? Well the Coen's segment, Tuileries, starring Steve Buscemi is up on YouTube. Follow the link on the right.

Thanks to Joseph for the link!

Tuileries on YouTube

Now that the post-Cannes dust has settled and No Country For Old Men has finally started to feel like a real movie, what better way to cement that notion that the release of its trailer? It contains many new shots and focuses mainly on Javier Bardem's Chigurh. It also confirms the MPAA's R rating which means the story has not been compromised to achieve a lower rating.

What are you waiting for? Clicky, click, CLICK!!!

Thanks to Armon for sending in the link.

No Cannes glory for the Coens this year. No Country For Old Men was in competition but did not win. The Palme d'Or went to Romanian abortion movie 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days. Julian Schnabel won the best director award for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.

Cack! Disappointing AND we have to wait months to see the movie! Boo! Oh and if anyone responsible for the official Cannes Film Festival website is reading- you should be ashamed of yourself, the site is terrible.

More clips! Slightly longer versions of the four listed below plus one of Moss at the drug deal site (extrait 1).

Thanks to MacGhillielaid for an email with the links.

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!

So the Coens new film, No Country For Old Men, was shown in competition at the Cannes Film Festival this morning and the notices are coming in and, for the most part, they're raves! Brilliant news, follow the links to read them for yourself and if you spot anymore let me know and I'll add them;;

The Guardian (UK broadsheet)

"Midway through, I had this down as the brothers' best film since The Big Lebowski. By the end I was wondering if it might not be their masterpiece."

Variety.com

"A scorching blast of tense genre filmmaking shot through with rich veins of melancholy, down-home philosophy and dark, dark humor, "No Country for Old Men" reps a superior match of source material and filmmaking talent. Cormac McCarthy's bracing and brilliant novel is gold for the Coen brothers, who have handled it respectfully but not slavishly, using its built-in cinematic values while cutting for brevity and infusing it with their own touch. Result is one of the their very best films, a bloody classic of its type destined for acclaim and potentially robust B.O. returns upon release later in the year."

Empire

"Drenched in blood and featuring gory scenes that will tax even some of the hardest stomachs, No Country For Old Men is a film so good it really hasn’t sunk in yet: in years to come people will look back and say, oh man, why don’t they make ’em like THIS any more? "

BBC.co.uk

"With no sign yet of an undisputed classic in competition at this 60th Cannes, No Country for Old Men may have emerged as a frontrunner for the trophy Joel and Ethan Coen collected for Barton Fink in 1991. "

Hollywood Reporter

"Audiences will flock to see a mainstream Coen Bros. film with such a colourful villain, but word-of-mouth about its fizzled conclusion may to damage at the boxoffice."

Emanuel Levy

"The Coens are able with their distinctive filmmaking skills to transform McCarthy's rich, wry, resonant, and often humorous storytelling into a bravura movie, based on striking images, crisp dialogue, darkly humorous tone, and splendid acting from all around. "

Bad news I'm afraid. NBC Universal have been in touch with me to demand that I remove the script for Burn After Reading, now I'm only a bloke on his own so I immediately complied with their cease and desist order. Ah well, can't really blame them for wanting to protect their IP.

Sorry all.

WOW! Guess what I was emailed today? You'll never guess so I'm just gonna tell ya- the script for Burn After Reading! The Coen's ain't even started shooting this yet, hell it's still casting, and now we Coen nerds have the script. Oh happy days! I haven't even read it myself yet I was so keen to share it with you all.

Thanks to Matt for mailing it over and sharing the wealth. I suggest you read it and then burn it.

There's a Big Lebowski mobile phone game you can download here. I ain't played it myself mind, so I don't vouch for it ;-)

Thanks to Bunnie for the link.

Here's a synopsis of the Coen's section of Paris Je T'aime...

"5. Tuileries by Joel and Ethan Coen- Probably the funniest entry of the bunch. I mean, from the moment Steve Buscemi turns his head toward the camera, you can tell this one is a lighthearted confection. Buscemi is silent all the way through. He's on the Metro, reading a tourist book of phrases and such, when he reads that under no circumstance should he make eye contact with anyone. Of course he locks eyes with a couple (Julie Bataille and Axel Kiener) who are making out across the tracks. The boyfriend takes offense and starts yelling at Buscemi, 'what the fuck are you looking at.' This gets the girl mad and she storms over to Buscemi's side to make out with him and get her boyfriend jealous. The kicker is that she has a lip growth that may or may not be herpes. Not surprising, considering Paris is the city for lovers of love. Eventually the boyfriend comes over to administer a Parisian beating, which is to say, not much of a beating at all. Tony Blundetto would've whacked this punk. All in all, an entertaining five minutes."

The title translates thus;

Tuileries |'twel?re(z)| |?twil?ri(z)| |?twi?l?ri| |tHil?i| (also Tuileries Gardens)
formal gardens next to the Louvre in Paris. The gardens are all that remain of the Tuileries Palace, a royal residence begun in 1564 and burned down in 1871 during the Commune of Paris.

ORIGIN French, literally ‘Tile works,’ so named because the palace was built on the site of an ancient tile works.

Thanks to Joseph for the link and the French history lesson ;-)

As if all this wasn't enough, there's some details on the Coen's follow up to Burn After Reading, A Serious Man courtesy of JoBlo.com...

"Last week when we first told you about the Coen brothers' next film A SERIOUS MAN, we had no details to share. What is this mystery film that was only described as a dark comedy? We knew nothing then but today, we've got some exclusive word on the flick. JoBlo spies are reporting that while filming on A SERIOUS MAN isn't set to begin until after BURN AFTER READING wraps (the next Coen film with George Clooney and Brad Pitt starring), one particular scene is being shot this month. The Coens are assembling for only a few days to shoot a scene that takes place in early 20th century Poland and is entirely in Yiddish. Here's what we now about the scene: A man named Velvel is walking home and meets a stranger he soon recognizes to be a prominent rabbi. Velvel invites the man back to his home for dinner but when they arrive, his wife believes the Rabbi to be a Dybbuk (which Wikipedia tells me is a "malicious possessing spirit"). Velvel is understandly confused and the Rabbi seems amused by the claims but the wife insists the real Rabbi died three years prior. Desperate to save her family, Velvel's wife resorts to drastic measures, much to the horror of her husband. Yikes, sounds pretty messed up! Only the Coens could turn this around and make it somehow comedic. Of course this is just one scene and it's still unclear how it fits into the rest of the production. Stay tuned for more on this as word leaks out."

Hmmm, why are they shooting a scent this month? Does one of the characters have to alter their appearance? Weight maybe? Grow a beard? Hmmm...

I thought I'd posted this up but perhaps I didn't. You can buy Walter and The Dude action figures. They're pretty cool in a super-deformed kinda way.

Thanks to Bunnie and Eugene for the heads up.

If a "slew" could be considered as three, then there is a slew of new pictures from No Country For Old Men on the good old internet today. Check them out in the multimedia section. Also there are a coulple of on set pics on Flickr, links below...

Joel, Ethan and Javier Bardem on set

Javier Bardem as the soon to be infamous, Chigurh

I got all excited when I saw an email about a new Coen brother's trailer in my inbox! Alas, it is not for No Country For Old Men but for Paris, Je T'aime. Remember that? The Coen's directing one of 18 segments. Check it out, link on the right.

Oh! You might have to change your computer's timezone to a US one in order for it to play. Just double click your clock in at the bottom-right of your screen, you can do it from there.

Thanks to Joseph for the link.

So Coen brothers movies are like buses. You wait for ages and then, bam, three come at once!

Hot on the heels of the news regarding Burn After Reading comes news of the Coen's 14th movie- A Serious Man. Nothing is know about it as yet other than it is "a dark comedy in the vein of Fargo" which cannot be a bad thing.

Thanks once again to Empire for the news and, I agree, The Ladykillers and Intolerable Cruely ARE underrated!

Lots and lots of news today! WHOO HOO!

First thing's first, thanks to John who was kind enough to email me the script for the forthcoming No Country For Old Men. Dare you read it BEFORE you've seen the movie? I did and it's great!

It's a PDF file so you will need Adobe Acrobat reader to view it. Easy to find (and free) with a quick Google.

Next up is the fact that No Country For Old Men is showing in competition at this year's Cannes Film Festival. This is truly exciting news as the Coens have a bit of a love affiar with Cannes over the years. It'll be the first time the movie is seen anywhere. From the information I found at the Cannes site I can also tell you that the movie is 2 hours and 2 minutes in length.

Lots of people got in touch to point me in the direction of a featurette over at Apple's site. The Coens have been using Apple's editing software, Final Cut Pro, for some time now and have filmed a short interview for Apple. It mainly concentrates on the use of colour in O Brother, Where Art Thou? but does contain shots from No Country For Old Men of Moss being persued by a truck (I'm doubtful that the shots of a city and taxi are from the movie but you never know). Very exciting indeed- the first footage from the next Coen movie!!! Go check it out - link on the right>

Thanks; Red, John, Doug, Curt, Ramesh, Armon and Ricky (hope I haven't missed anyone).

A Variety article states that No Country For Old Men will be out in the fall. That's Autum to us non-Americans. I think it's in reference to the US release date only though.

Thanks to Amon for pointing this little snippet out.

Things are certainly hotting up on Planet Coen, news now of the next movie, their 13th, Burn After Reading. This one has been mentioned once of twice before (check out the Future Projects section) but it looks like a definite goer now that BOTH George Clooney and Brad Pitt are set to star.

I love the interaction between Pitt and Clooney and it'll be nice to see Pitt finally break his Coen cherry after the aborted To The White Sea. Bring it on!

A lot of people were kind enough to take the time to email me on this one, thanks to you all; Christopher, Joseph, and Bunnie.

I'm sure some of you are very excited about the forthcoming Apple iPhone (personally I wish it had a 60 or 80 gig harddrive- then I'd get one), well the eagle-eyed and stay-up-late amongst you might have noticed that Apple had an ad for its new wonder gizmo running during the Oscars on Sunday night. 'So what?' I hear you cry, well it featured many, many clips from movies of people answering the phone with a simple, "hello." Two of said clips were from two of the Coen brothers' finest movies, Fargo and The Big Lebowski. Check it out- link on right.

Hello to JD for the skinny.

YouTube, you gotta love it! Most of you will be aware of Joel Coen's "acting" history, well you can use the link on the right to see him and Sam Raimi "acting" in the 80's John Landis comedy Spies Like Us. It amounts to about 10 seconds of screen time but is enough for us to appreciate Joel's move to behind the camera ;-)

Thanks to Stephen Glitheroe for digging it up!

That nice man Carter Burwell is at it again. He's giving us his fabulous music for free! YAY! This time though it is of particular interest as he's seen fit to bestow us with two tracks from soundtrack for the forthcoming No Country For Old Men. Also on the site is a little information about the direction the music is taking, with Burwell commenting that it is the quietest film he's worked on.

Jolly nice man that Burwell.

Thanks to abeladi for letting me know.

Shock of shocks- two updates in ONE day!

The Coen brothers are among many "top directors" who are each creating one of 35 three minute films on the subject of going to the cinema. They are being made to celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival. Let's hope we get to see them on DVD one day and also that the Coen's latest No Country For Old Men is in competition this year.

Anna Nicole Smith has passed away at the age of 39. She had collapsed and was found unresponsive in a Florida hotel her lawyer said. No cause of death has been announced.

Smith had a small part as Buzz the elevator boy's girlfriend in The Hudsucker Proxy. RIP.

Coen merch alert!!! From June 2007 you will be able to buy, for the princely sum of $12.99, a 7" The Dude Bobble Head. Follow the link on the right if you think your house or office needs such a thing.

Thanks to Lee for the [bobble] heads up.

Another image from the forthcoming No Country For Old Men has emerged. Via Carter Burwell's website comes THIS bizarre, little image of Javier Bardem as the nefarious, Chigurh. This also doubles as a wee news snippet, Burwell is currenlty writing the score for the film and it is due to begin recording in February. Sweet!

Thanks to Jonathan for the nod.

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.