Fargo

Marketing the Truth

Joseph Rauch | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Movie Industry, Cohen Brothers Movie, Film Industry, Fargo, Fargo Movie, Marketing, Takako Konishi, Based on a True Story, College News

I was surprised when I found out that many movies claim to be based on true events when, in fact, they are completely or almost completely fictional.

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A 'Fargo' TV Series? Oh, Yah

Posted 03.24.2012

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Get your wood chippers ready: 'Fargo' may be heading to TV. According to Variety, FX is in talks to adapt the Coen Brothers' 1996 black comedy into...

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Movie Review: Thin Ice

Marshall Fine | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Jill Sprecher, Movie Reviews, Fargo, Film Noir, Billy Crudup, Alan Arkin, Lea Thompson, Greg Kinnear, Thin Ice Movie Review, Coen Brothers, Thin Ice, Movies, Clockwatchers, Entertainment News

Almost 20 years later, there has yet to be a film noir that out-Fargos the Coen brothers' Fargo. Jill Sprecher's Thin Ice takes a run at it.

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Bachmann Announces Candidacy -- Explains Gaffes

Mark Steinberg | Posted 08.28.2011

Read More: Waterloo, Gaffes, Second Amendment, Fortune Cookie, Jesse Helms, Fargo, Slavery, Iowa, Founding Fathers, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, President, Shot Heard Around the World, Bachmann, Nomination, Comedy News

"I know that millions of reporters in this country and in Hawaii have claimed that I make a lot of factual mistakes. Well, here and now I want to look the American people right in the eye and give them the facts."

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William H. Macy Goes for Broke (and Drunk) in Showtime's Shameless

Cynthia Ellis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Camel, Chicago, Jurassic Park, The Office, St Nicholas Company, House of Games, The Oscars, Desperate Housewives, Shameless, Magnolia, Fargo, David Mamet, The Cooler, Archie Bunker, Joan Cusack, Wag the Dog, William H. Macy, Seabiscuit, John Wells, Er, Showtime, Boogie Nights, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, 2011, Stuart Gordon, Atlantic Theatre Company, Paul Abbott, Goddard College, Cynthia Ellis, Marlon Brando, Felicity Huffman, The Spanish Prisoner, Leslie Hassler, John Levy, Entertainment News

William H. Macy has a voice that could sell needles to a porcupine. He can say the word "Golly" and have it be rife with unspoken meaning and depth.

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'Blue Valentine' Got You Down? 9 Functional Movie Couples

The Huffington Post | Posted 11.17.2011

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The film "Blue Valentine" is both a critical darling and a scourge of censorship, but everyone seems to agree on one point: Its gritty depiction of a ...

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7 Stories That Walk The Line Between Drama And Comedy

Gabe Rotter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slidepollajax, The Comedy Writer, Fight Club, Rotter Duck Duck Wally, Caught Stealing, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Fargo, Duck Duck Wally, Gabe Rotter, Pulp Fiction, American Psycho, Rotter, The Human Bobby, Books News

I hoped to write a story that would pay homage to my favorite books and films; the kind that walk the tightrope between humor and drama. A story that occasionally makes you laugh, but also makes you uneasy.

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Banks: Too big to change?

Brett King | Posted 05.25.2011

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Reformists and regulators in the US, in the EU and in other jurisdictions are grappling with the problem of massive banks and how their financial heal...

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Interview: Oscar Alumni Joel & Ethan Coen Make A Serious Man No Laughing Matter

Brad Balfour | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Oscar Alumni, The Academy Awards, Jeff Bridges, No Country for Old Men, Fargo, A Serious Man, Serious Man Movie, A Serious Man Oscar, Serious Man, Oscars a Serious Man, Entertainment News

The Coen brothers had "Jewish technical advisors, helping with language and liturgical stuff" in their movie A Serious Man, as well as "a raft of translators for the Yiddish."

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Dumped by Answering Machine During the 1996 Oscars

Lea Lane | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Hawaii, Fargo, Chris Noth, Academy Awards, The English Patient, Frances McDormand, Dating, Travel, Realtionships, Oscars, Sally Field, New Years Eve, Valentine's Day, Lanai, Healthy Living News

I cannot watch an Academy Awards ceremony without remembering the crazy way a boyfriend ended our relationship on Oscar night in 1996. It's one thing ...

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In the tank for Scorsese?

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jeffrey Wells, Pret a Porter, Martin Scorsese, O Brother Where Art Thou, No Country for Old Men, Kundun, Gosford Park, Coen Brothers, Hollywood Elsewhere, Marshall Fine Blog, Intolerable Cruelty, The Players, Fargo, Shutter Island, Nashville, Cookie?S Fortune, Blood Simple, New York Times, Robert Altman, Goodfellas, Burn After Reading, A.O. Scott, A Serious Man, Casino, Bringing Out the Dead, Popeye, Entertainment News

My friend Jeffrey Wells recently ran a link to my review of Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island, which I really liked, on his always interesting website,...

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The Big Lebowski Spawns Literary Works

The New York Times | Dwight Garner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Umberto Eco, Fargo, Academic Studies, Joel and Ethan Coen, Big Lebowski, Jeff Bridges, Coen Brothers, Movies, Books News

Joel and Ethan Coen's 1998 movie, "The Big Lebowski," which stars Jeff Bridges as a beatific, pot-smoking, bowling-obsessed slacker known as the Dude,...

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Haywood Jablome Strikes Again (PHOTO)

Posted 05.25.2011

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Haywood Jablome, everyone's favorite pseudonym, is back and having some fun with a local newspaper in Fargo. If only we could be there to hear the rep...

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The Coen Brothers Get "Serious" with a Comic (and Spiritual) Masterpiece

Cathleen Falsani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Toronto Film Festival, The Coen Brothers, Doubt, Hudsucker Proxy, Miller's Crossing, Suffering, No Country for Old Men, Fargo, Fred Melamed, Joel Coen, Faith, A Serious Man, Ethan Coen, The Big Lebowski, Entertainment News

The Coens have created moral universes in which some of life's essential questions are asked -- if not always answered. It seems there's no question the brothers are afraid to tackle.

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Disaster Preparedness Pays Off in North Dakota

ProPublica | Posted 05.25.2011

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The successful transfer of patients in Fargo stands in sharp contrast with the chaotic hospital evacuations that took place after the flooding of New Orleans following hurricane Katrina in 2005.

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Fargo Blizzard Approaches On Heels Of Flooding

AP | DAVE KOLPACK and NATE JENKINS | Posted 05.25.2011

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FARGO, N.D. — A blizzard battered North Dakota on Monday, threatening to create wind-whipped waves that could lash the patchwork levee system th...

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CNN Journalist Arrested In Fargo

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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FARGO, N.D. — A CNN journalist and seven other people have been arrested for standing on top of sandbag levees in the Fargo area. Fargo Police ...

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Best Movies By Farr: When Oscar Screws Up

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Edward G. Robinson, The English Patient, The Exorcist, Tom Hanks, History of the Academy Awards, Julie Andrews, Milk, Fred MacMurray, John Wayne, The Wrestler Stanley Kubrick, As Good as It Gets, Capote, The Great Ziegfeld, Traffic, L.A. Confidential, Driving Miss Daisy, Dr. Strangelove, Fargo, High Noon, Million Dollar Baby, Joan Allen, My Left Foot, Around the World in Eighty Days, Slumdog Millionaire, The Academy Awards, The Sting, Rocky Balboa, Letters From Iwo Jima, Double Indemnity, Shirley MacLaine, Rex Harrison, Little Miss Sunshine, Ed Harris, Life Is Beautiful, Peter Finch, Shakespeare in Love, Charles Chaplin, James Dean, Giant, Crash, My Man Godfrey, Barbara Stanwyck, The Contender, Network, Imelda Staunton, Academy Awards, Titanic, Louis B. Mayer; Daryl Zanuck; Samuel L Goldwyn, Hotel Rwanda, The Apartment, The Departed, Peter Sellers, Pulp Fiction, Burt Lancaster, Gladiator, Vera Drake, Sean Penn, Modern Times, Elizabeth Taylor, Chicago, Field of Dreams, Billy Wilder, Pollock, Al Jolson, Forrest Gump, William Powell, John Travolta, Carole Lombard, Singin' in the Rain, Taxi Driver, Cecil B. DeMille, My Fair Lady, Jack Lemmon, The Searchers, The Hours, Robert De Niro, Entertainment News

2005 -- for Best Picture, give me Capote over Crash any ol' time. Another uninspiring year, I thought.

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Movie Review: New in Town

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fargo, Renee Zellweger, New in Town Movie Review, Marshall Fine Movie Review, Frank Capra, Entertainment News

If Frank Capra were to make a movie today, it would probably look a lot like New in Town. Of course, Frank Capra is dead. Then again, so is this movie.

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"I Just Think I'm Gonna Barf."

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Troopergate, Francis McDormand, Bristol Palin, Record, Feeding Frenzy, Media, Campaign, Pasty, Republican, Fargo, Fiancé, 2008, Sexism, 2008 Campaign, Media Bashing, Pasties, Victim, Issues, Alaska, John McCain, Pregnant, Minnesota Pasties, Marge Gunderson, 2008 Elections, 08, Bridge to Nowhere, 2008 Election, Republican Convention, Minnesota, Barack Obama, Election, I Just Think I'm Gonna Barf, Barf, 08 Election, Mainstream Media, Morning Sickness, Elections, I Just Think I'm Going to Barf, Access, Fiancee, 08 Campaign, Levi, Margie, Palin, Sarah Palin, 2008 Presidential Race, Fiance, Republican National Convention, Politics News

"Oh, I just think I'm gonna barf...."-- Marge Gunderson (Francis McDormand), from Fargo I open today with that Fargo quote for many reasons. T...

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