Ethan 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

Drive-Away Dolls review: This yellow-pack comedy from Ethan Coen raises the question ‘Oh brother, where art thou?’

No good will can wholly brush away the ersatz hokeyness of this venture. It’s as if The Beatles managed to release a record by Herman’s Hermits

Wed Mar 13 2024 - 05:00

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

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

How Goodfellas and the gangster class of 1990 changed Hollywood

How Martin Scorsese and other crime tales raised the stakes for filmmakers to come

Wed Sept 23 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

Oscars 2019: Donald Clarke’s guide – Who will win? And who should?

The Favourite may be overlooked for the big prizes with Roma likely to steal the show

Sat Feb 23 2019 - 05:00

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

101 films to watch on Netflix right now

The best movies to stick on on the streaming app, from 'Taxi Driver' to 'Whiplash'

Sat Dec 22 2018 - 05:00

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

Hey dudes! The Coens on George Clooney, Hollywood and that Lebowski sequel

Brothers Joel and Ethan Coen have teamed up with George Clooney for a fourth part in their ‘knucklehead’ trilogy - and there’s not a single Lebowski in sight

Fri Mar 04 2016 - 06:00

Agyness Deyn: “I never intended to be a model. I didn’t have a clue about it"

As her new movie Sunset Song opens in cinemas, the accidental-model-turned-actress explains her journey from fish-and-chip shops to the catwalk to the big screen

Fri Dec 04 2015 - 06:00

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

Inside Llewyn Davis

The laughs are tinged with barbs and pathos in the Coens’ evocative, stylised depiction of a struggling NYC folkie circa 1961

Fri Jan 24 2014 - 13:36

Inside Llewyn Davis star Oscar Isaac on folk, film and working with cats

An anti-hero like only the Coens could create, downtrodden folk singer Llewyn Davis has been described as one of the biggest a**holes ever put on film. Oscar Isaac sees it differently, however. "He’s not all that selfish. He spends almost the whole movie trying to take care of this f**king cat”

Fri Jan 17 2014 - 00:00