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Rules of Amusement Why Hollywood (and Tom Hanks) can't resist the lovably eccentric world of Joel and Ethan Coen...
...there are so many of them. I like the Coen Brothers. I like directors who work a lot, who are basically improving constantly. I thought it was a great year for women directors last year. Niki Caro did such an amazing thing with Whale Rider last year. I could sit here forever and name directors. I mean, all the Coppolas. I think Sofia did a spectacular, truly intimate comedy drama, which, I think, is incredibly hard to pull off. In its way, it feels like a real behavior version of a Billy Wilder movie, which is, I think, incredibly remarkable...
Here's an anomaly: a comedy about smart people. Joel and Ethan Coen, having made a film whose title (O Brother, Where Art Thou?) was taken from a Preston Sturges movie, now launch a full, fond invasion of Sturges territory. In the tradition of The Lady Eve and The Palm Beach Story, this is a farce with chic repartee, devious twists and a cheerfully sardonic take on the human need for greed. Intolerable Cruelty sends moviegoers back to the '40s, when pretty people said witty things. It's the brothers' brightest, most accessible jape...
...surprising that so few filmmakers have itched to put it on the screen. And when they do, it is usually The Odyssey they turn to. That picaresque travelogue through the wilder outposts of ancient Greece has inspired ordinary films (Kirk Douglas in a mid-'50s Ulysses), funny ones (the Coen brothers' O Brother, Where Art Thou?) and one masterpiece (Theo Angelopoulos' Ulysses' Gaze, a mesmeric synopsis of a century of Greek history). But where's The Iliad? Hard to find, except in the 1956 Helen of Troy, a sober retelling from the Trojans' point of view...
...premium segment higher by advertising their quality, but beer inflation still trails other products. For many years, German price sensitivity and fierce loyalty to domestic beer - just 3.3% of beer consumed in Germany last year was imported - functioned as a keep out sign for foreign brewers. As Coen Thönissen, from Dutch brewer Grolsch puts it: "The common wisdom was that beer in Germany isn't business. It's culture." That perceived impenetrability is evaporating. In 2001, Heineken entered into a joint venture with Munich-based Schörghuber Group to share control of BrauHolding (820 million liters), which...