Joel Coen

Sass, sex and recreational slaying: Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke on Drive-Away Dolls

The film director and his wife have long worked together. Now they’ve teamed up to direct a wacky, anarchic, proudly lewd lesbian road movie

Sun Mar 17 2024 - 05:15

Oscars 2022: This best picture list is even better than the real thing

Here are 10 films that could have been nominated for best picture, but weren’t

Wed Mar 23 2022 - 10:19

Mark Rylance on theatre, film and his family’s tragedy: ‘For me, love is stronger than death’

The actor’s beloved stepdaughter, Nataasha van Kampen, died aged 28 in 2012

Mon Jan 10 2022 - 10:07

The Tragedy of Macbeth: Lean, efficient take on the Scottish Play

Joel Coen delivers an expressionist version of the often-filmed drama

Tue Dec 21 2021 - 05:00

Donald Clarke: When is a new take on a movie not a remake?

A complex formula involving several variables dictates whether the word is appropriate

Sat Oct 23 2021 - 05:00

Frances McDormand: ‘I’m not going to be your movie star’

The Nomadland actor likes to keep out of the public eye. That’s tricky for a triple Oscar winner

Mon Apr 26 2021 - 14:00

From Saoirse Ronan’s Ammonite to Spielberg’s West Side Story, 50 films to watch in 2021 (we hope)

The Covid-19 pandemic has caused a traffic jam of anticipated films for this year

Sat Jan 02 2021 - 06:00

Netflix: The best 50 films to watch right now

There’s been another major turnover but catch the classics while you can

Sat Oct 10 2020 - 06:00

Netflix: The best 101 films to watch right now

Half our favourite movies have vanished. But there’s still plenty of great stuff to search for

Sat Jan 18 2020 - 06:10

Film 2020: The 50 films to watch out for

The best biopics, documentaries, cartoons, features and award favourites of the year

Sat Dec 28 2019 - 05:00

Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand to star in Joel Coen’s Macbeth

Oscar winners to take lead roles in Coen’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy based on his own script

Fri Mar 29 2019 - 12:15

Oscars 2019: the complete list of nominations

Irish-produced film The Favourite and Netflix’s Roma lead the way with 10 nominations each

Tue Jan 22 2019 - 14:13

The Dude abides: The Big Lebowski 20 years on

The Coens’ 1998 comedy works as a caper but repeat viewings unwrap layers of meaning

Sat Sept 22 2018 - 05:00

2016: The 50 best films on Netflix

While some movies have vanished from the streaming service, many have arrived and there are plenty to fill the summer evenings, from comedy classics like ‘Airplane’ to thrillers such as ‘Winter’s Bone’

Fri Jul 29 2016 - 12:30

Irish co-production ‘The Lobster’ wins Cannes Jury Prize

Jacques Audiard’s Dheepan’ wins Palme d’Or to gasps in the auditorium

Mon May 25 2015 - 09:56

Cannes 2015: who’ll bag the Palme d’Or?

It looks like a three-horse race led by Todd Haynes’s ‘Carol’, starring Cate Blanchett, and László Nemes’s ‘Son of Saul’. Could Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s stunningly beautiful ‘The Assassin’ sneak through to win?

Sat May 23 2015 - 07:15

Cornucopias of delight still in prospect at 68th Cannes Film Festival

The race for the 2015 Palme d’Or looks at this stage to be between ‘Son of Saul’ and ‘Carol’, two extraordinary pictures from two very different film-makers

Mon May 18 2015 - 01:00