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Fred Melamed stars as Sy Ableman and Sari Lennick stars as Judith Gopnik in "A Serious Man." TORONTO -- A playful note at the end of "A Serious Man" affirms: "No Jews were harmed in the making of this motion picture." Actress Sari Lennick, however, did sacrifice her long blond hair and Richard Kind, his waistline and vanity.

Back in May, we heard about the Frank Sinatra biopic that Martin Scorsese will be directing with Universal producing.

The Coen brothers may just have made their masterpiece with this, their 14th feature and yet another hairpin-bend change of direction, which has been their trademark for their entire career.

Universal Studios Home Entertainment has announced that it will release Quentin Tarantino's summer blockbuster Inglorious Basterds on Blu-ray and DVD December 15th.

The latest incarnation of "The Academy: Orange County Fire" moves from the training school for the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department to that of the Orange County Fire Authority, where 28 candidates train to fight the wildfire breakouts of Southern California.

The Coen brothers aren't sure whether their latest movie is a comedy or a tragedy - that is for the viewers to figure out.

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For more than two decades now, Joel and Ethan Coen have been thrilling critics -- and, here and there, audiences -- with their distinctive blend of dark humor, colorful violence, and singular visual flair.

The Coen brothers' latest film, the madcap comedy "Burn After Reading," has sharply divided the critics, unlike last year's acclaimed "No Country For Old Men" which won four Oscars including best picture.

Careful observers of the career of Joel and Ethan Coen know that more often than not, they prefer to set their films in anything but the modern day.

Combined with "No Country for Old Men" and "Burn After Reading", The Coen Brothers' latest movie, "A Serious Man" could complete an unofficial "Existentialist Trilogy".A "No Country" says that the world is an uncertain and unforgiving place.A "Burn After Reading" says the same thing but the idea is played for laughs instead of drama.A "A Serious ...

Joel and Ethan Coen are responsible for some of the more unusual and intelligent movies of the past 25 years.

Star criticises lies in gossip reporting while Kevin Spacey says it bewilders him as 'a function of a human being' Kevin Spacey and George Clooney promoting 'The Men Who Stare At Goats' in London.

Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg The writer and performer of 12,000 scripts, Gertrude Berg was America's de facto Jewish matriarch, starring as the lovable Mrs.

Character Minnesota's most famous filmmaking brothers have delighted and confused America with movies from Blood Simple to their latest A Serious Man .

As Larry Gopnik, the hero of "A Serious Man,'' the latest movie from the Coen brothers, Michael Stuhlbarg has the look of someone campaigning to be president of the Eugene Levy Fan Club: horn-rimmed glasses, caterpillar eyebrows, an overall appearance of industrial-strength uncoolness.

Academy Award-winning actress Tilda Swinton has joined the fight against Donald Trump's plans for a multi-million pound golf resort in Scotland.

Ethan, left, and Joel Coen's latest film, "A Serious Man," has a lot in common with their own lives.

"A Serious Man" isn't a mystery -- except in the most existential sense. Instead, it's the small-scale story of a quiet physics professor in 1967 suburban Minnesota, with a wife and two kids and a tenure review around the bend.

Liam Lacey From Saturday's Globe and Mail Published on Friday, Oct. 09, 2009 3:08PM EDT Last updated on Friday, Oct.

When you go see a Coen Brothers film, you know what you're going to get, inasmuch you can always expect at least a few of their recurring themes to rear their heads.

There's only one film opening this weekend with any awards chances to talk about: The Coen brothers' latest quirkfest, A Serious Man .

Although it's well-known that George Clooney is a merry prankster off-screen, the debonair actor is best known for his impeccable red carpet style.

Despite the ambiguity of its ending, those who see the film for what it truly is will not be disappointed, as it is one the Coens' best and deserves a spot alongside "Fargo" and "No Country for Old Men." Larry Gopnik lords over his mighty suburban domain, unaware of the misfortune about to befall him.

In this film publicity image released by Focus Features, Fred Melamed, left, and Sari Lennick are shown in a scene from, "A Serious Man." As the curtain rises on Joel and Ethan Coen 's suburban comedy "A Serious Man," you may wonder if you're in the right theater.

Writer/directors Ethan, left, and Joel Coen on the set of their new film "A Serious Man." In the beginning was the Dude.

After spending a quarter-century making intriguingly edgy, smart films that have little to do with their own experience, the Coen brothers have gone back to their roots.

DMN Newswire--2009-10-2--Luma Pictures was the sole visual effects provider for Focus Features' "A Serious Man", the new film from Academy Award-winners Joel and Ethan Coen, opening in select cities beginning October 2nd and expanding throughout October.

No filmmaker can torture a man quite the way these two can. From the Dude to Llewelyn Moss' bloody end, angst is never so much fun as it is in a Coen brothers film.

Job has nothing on Larry Gopnik. A Serious Man, Joel and Ethan Coen's darker-than-dark comedic update of the Old Testament story to a modern, thoroughly Jewish setting, places its pathetic protagonist in the position of fate's punching bag.

Kodi Smit-McPhee, Chloe Moretz and Oscar-nominee Richard Jenkins will headline the cast of Let Me in , Matt Reeves' adaptation of Let the Right One in , when principal photography begins this fall in New Mexico.

Joel and Ethan Coen took the title of their latest film, "A Serious Man," from the dialogue they created for the characters in their surreal, darkly affectionate look at a Midwest Jewish community.