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...been a great year for Art Deco. The hype for Barbra Streisand's auction of her extensive Deco collection has been almost as impressive as the objects themselves. And now the Coen brothers, Ethan and Joel, have made a movie in which the massive moderne settings by production designer Dennis Gassner and the glowing light cast on them by cinematographer Roger Deakins make you wonder how a decorative style at once so sleek and warm could ever have fallen out of favor...
They follow the lead of Joel and Ethan Coen's Blood Simple (1984), which targeted as its audience the cinema intelligentsia bored with both the languid pace of European festival films and the exhausted formulas of Hollywood. These moviegoers want a little kick with their chic. To their rescue ride the art- house outlaws...
...tradition of Pirandello and the Coen brothers Brad Rouse has put the life of the author centerstage. Supposing Rommilly tells the story of Paul (Bred Rouse), a budding novelist with writer's block. He faces not only his own frustrations, but also the wrath of his characters, who demand a conclusion to the work-in-progress...
BARTON FINK. The work of two gifted brothers, Joel and Ethan Coen (Raising Arizona, Miller's Crossing), this was the first film ever to accomplish the hat trick at the Cannes festival -- Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor. The Coens revise the legend of innocent talent corrupted by Hollywood...
CINEMA Barton Fink? Weird but brilliant. The Coen brothers? Ditto...