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 O Brother, Where Art Thou? (DVD)
 O Brother, Where Art Thou? (DVD) ... / DVD released 09 April, 2001 at Momentum Pictures / Features of the DVD: Anamorphic, PAL, Widescreen / Only Joel and Ethan Coen, masters of quirky and ultra-stylish genre subversion, would dare nick the plotline of Homer's Odyssey for O Brother, Where Art Thou?, their comic picaresque saga about three cons on the run in 1930s Mississippi. Our wandering hero in this case is one Ulysses Everett McGill, a slick-tongued wise guy with a thing for hair pomade (George Clooney, blithely sending up his own dapper image) who talks his chain-gang buddies (Coen-movie regular John Turturro and newcomer Tim Blake Nelson) to light out after some buried loot he claims to know of. En route they come up against a prophetic blind man on a railroad truck, a burly one-eyed baddie (the ever-magnificent John Goodman), a trio of sexy singing ladies, a blues guitarist who's sold his soul to the devil, a brace of crooked politicos on the stump, a manic-depressive bank robber, and--well, you get the idea. Into this, their most relaxed film yet, the Coens have tossed a beguiling ragbag of inconsequential situations, a wealth of looping, left-field dialogue and a whole stash of gags both verbal and visual. O Brother (the title's lifted from Preston Sturges' classic 1941 comedy Sullivan's Travels) is furthermore graced with glowing, burnished photography from Roger Deakins and a masterly soundtrack from T-Bone Burnett that pays loving homage to American 30s folk-styles: blues, gospel, bluegrass, jazz and more. And just to prove that the brothers haven't lost their knack for bad-taste humour, we get a Ku Klux Klan rally choreographed like something between a Nuremberg rally and a Busby Berkeley musical. --Philip KempOn the DVD: This two-disc set duplicates the original single-disc release of the film which included a handful of cast and crew interviews, and adds an additional disc with more interviews, two brief behind-the-scenes featurettes about the production design and the post-production digital colouring of the film, a couple of storyboard-to-scene comparisons and a music video of "Man of Constant Sorrow". There's also a 16-minute documentary to promote the companion Down from the Mountain concert. Frankly there's not a lot here to justify spreading it across two discs: a more pleasing not to say generous offering would have been to cram all these extras onto Disc 1 and give us Down from the Mountain as the second disc. --Mark WalkerNewest Review: ... ride of the ups and downs of these hapless three in their quest for freedom, and the supposed treasure buried in an area due ... more ... to be flooded out by the building of a new dam.
When they hitch a ride on a railroad push cart, a blind seer (played by Lee Weaver) tells them they will see things they never expect to see and proceeds to enlighten them of some. They are disbelieving and think him simple ... and yet things come to pass.
There are so many scenes which seem to be THE scene that you'll most remember, only to watch another a few minutes later and realise it's a hard choice to make. There are so many that will have you either chuckling...more |
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O Brother, Where Art Thou? [DVD] [2000]
Only Joel and Ethan Coen, masters of quirky and ultra - stylish g ... Last Update 08.12.2009 06:07
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O Brother, Where Art Thou? (DVD): Employ A Decent Script Writer (771 words)
by - written on 28/10/03 (Very useful, 67 readings)
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~ ~ I’ve been looking forward to this movie ever since watching the second in the series of three movies by Director Robert Rodriguez, “Desperado”, on Sky Movies a couple of years back. ~ ~ I’d never even heard of “El Mariachi”, the Mexican gunslinger and part time avenging angel up until then. But I thoroughly enjoyed the brooding and sultry way that Antonio Banderas played the part, and the gun-slinging action sequences were superb, reminding me of the “Man With No Name” spaghetti westerns made famous (infamous?) by Clint Eastwood. This prompted me to watch the first movie, “El Mariachi”, which ... Read the complete review
Desperately Disappointing Desperado Sequel (914 words)
by - written on 10/10/03 (Very useful, 103 readings)
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Dusty, dismal and dull sums up this violent and disappointing third instalment in a trilogy of films featuring the adventures of the mythical, Mexican El Mariachi (Antonio Banderas) – a man-with-no-name type character who strums the guitar and dispatches the bad guys with equal skill and efficiency. Banderas starts the film very quietly, and rather improbably, as a would-be guitar tuner in a hot and dusty Mexican village. It seems the great man has finally realised the error of his trigger-happy ways, hung up his pistoleros and taken to the peaceful life like any good citizen should. But if there is to be any action in this so-called action movie ... Read the complete review
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (DVD): You're Once, Twice, Three Times a Mariachi (1731 words)
by - written on 10/10/03 (Very useful, 64 readings)
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I'm not really a film buff, you know. It's rare that I would go to see a film purely because it featured a certain actor. And it's even rarer that I would go to see a film because it was directed by a certain person. A lot of the time, I can watch a film and not have a clue who the director even was. There is one exception to this rule. Robert Rodriguez's "Mariachi" series. The first was famously made for only $7000, but was still a fun action movie. There was more story in the second, "Desperado", but it was still fun. Even from the early days, Rodriguez planned to write three scripts, and this film has been ... Read the complete review
Oh brother, what an excellent film (407 words)
by - written on 31/05/09 (Very useful, 3 readings)
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If you only watch one movie this year, let it be this one! This is a wonderful movie in every way - the story, the soundtrack, the acting and the backgrounds. Absolutely brilliant! From the opening scenes of the chain gang, working alongside the road, you are back in the South in a time long gone. Mississippi in the 1930's to be exact. When Pete (John Torturro), Delmar ( Tim Blake Nelson) and Everitt (George Clooney) escape, so the movie takes off on it's roller coaster ride of the ups and downs of these hapless three in their quest for freedom, and the supposed treasure buried in an area due to be flooded out by the building of a new dam. When they ... Read the complete review
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (DVD): Are you Mexi-can or Mexi-can't (691 words)
by - written on 26/02/05 (Very useful, 138 readings)
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Once Upon a time in Mexico is the third and final(?) film in this trilogy by director Robert Rodriguez. This film is easily the most ambitious of the three. Although the plot doesn't seem to have changed a great deal, Rodriguez does manage to add numerous overdramatic stunts and action scenes. El Mariachi, the legendary gun slinging guitar player, carrying his guns in his guitar case is awoken out of hiding when the lives of the people in the town he is living, are threatened by a group of hoodlums, working for CIA Agent Sands, played by Johnny Depp. He offers money to El in exchange for his services in killing General Marquez, the head of a military ... Read the complete review
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