Frances McDormand News

Marge Gunderson is a pregnant police chief whose folksy manner masks a very sharp mind.

Fargo is next Tuesdaya TMs classic film at the National Gallery, Castellani House.

The defending champhion Phillies are in New York to play the Yankees in Game 1 of the Fall Classic.

"Fargo" vs. "Miller's Crossing"? "No Country" vs. "Lebowski"? We put the film geek question to a panel of our faves Compiled by Jed Lipinski Frances McDormand in "Fargo," and Jeff Bridges in "The Big Lebowski" Oct.

Ed: Billy Bob Thornton Doris: Frances McDormand Frank: Michael Badalucco Big Dave: James Gandolfini Birdy Abundas: Scarlett Johansson Usa Films Presents A Film Directed By Joel Coen.

If the Coen Brothers' weird comedy O Brother, Where Art Thou? was neither weird nor comic, this schematic noir is its unfortunate sibling: the drama that wasn't. As usual, the siblings nurture terrific performances: Billy Bob Thornton provides another nuanced turn as Ed, a morose barber in small-town 1940s California; Frances McDormand is at times ...

THE story goes that during a Sabbath service a rabbi is seized by a sudden wave of guilt, prostrates himself and cries out, "God, before you I am nothing!" In order to view this feature, you must download the latest version of flash player here .

Dramatic and funny, director Curtis Hanson's "Wonder Boys" wonderfully presents the ups and downs of the practice of writing.

A poster of Moscow, London, Paris and Fargo isna TMt so tongue in cheek now that Fargo is cool.

False. Paul Newman won the 1986 best actor award for "The Color of Money" 29 years after wife Joanne Woodward won best actress for "The Three Faces of Eve"; 11.

So far I've seen eight Coen Brothers films: Raising Arizona The Hudsucker Proxy Fargo The Big Lebowski O Brother, Where Art Thou? The Lady Killers No Country for Old Men Burn After Reading Until now I've found something to praise about all of them.

Crazy In Love : Monday, 19:30, TCM Holly Hunter, Frances McDormand and Gena Rowlands play in this fine drama about a family of women who have suffered through the infidelities of their partners.

Beyond Rangoon is absolutely typical of the way Hollywood can take a compelling story, full of genuine characters and heartfelt emotion, then hack it to tiny bits and put it back together, Frankenstein-like, into a sappy, overwrought drama that is without a soul and without a point.