Articles Tagged The Coen Brothers

PODCAST: ABC 774 – 1st May

This week on Friday Film, Raf & I discuss the Zellner Brothers’ not-quite-based-on-a-true-story-film, Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter starring Rinko Kikukchi, and a Ukrainian film in which the characters communicate solely through sign language, The Tribe (limited season at ACMI). Plus, talkback on ‘quest and journey films’ on Drive with Rafael Epstein on 774 ABC Melbourne.

PODCAST: Plato’s Cave – May 23rd

This week’s special edition of Plato’s Cave focuses on the 2013 Cannes International Film Festival with an extended report from Tara at the festival in which she shares her thoughts on the latest films by Asghar Farhadi, Baz Luhrmann, Sophia Coppola, the Coen Brothers, Michel Gondry and more. With Josh Nelson, Thomas Caldwell, Tara Judah. […]

ANALYSIS: She Reminds Me of He: Gender Ambivalence in ‘True Grit’

For mine, the defining moment of Henry Hathaway’s True Grit (1969) occurs towards the beginning of the film. Given the slip by the two men charged with hunting down her father’s killer, Mattie Ross (Kim Darby) takes chase only to be refused passage on the river barge that the pair have boarded. Not to be […]