Hints and tips:
...Michael Hsu, the current Comptroller of the Currency, points out that if lending becomes more expensive, banks could spend less of their multi-billion-dollar profits on dividends and stock repurchases, rather...
...At Elodie, Michael Wilson, the young barman, serves me a faintly herbaceous pineapple weed gimlet using flowers from the old golf course....
...“We’ve done almost as many films with the Coen brothers as we have with [Four Weddings writer] Richard Curtis,” Fellner says. Straight-backed, dry and 63, Fellner is the more obvious numbers guy....
...Woody Allen, Joel and Ethan Coen and Quentin Tarantino are justly famous for their clever, witty scripts, which also sell well as published screenplays....
...Handcarved Coffins never became a movie but was pursued by notable directors, including Michael Cimino....
...Such as the work of Michael Connelly, whose The Night Fire (Orion, RRP£20) is further proof of his undimmed creativity....
...Pulling no punches was Michael Winterbottom, who also placed a malign figure at the centre of his business satire Greed....
...Now, having worked with film-making legends such as the Coen brothers and Martin Scorsese, Hill is finally seeing his childhood directing dreams come true....
...It’s impossible not to think of Coen fathers past — William H....
...One of those artists who has the ability like Michael Jackson to recognise the pulse of America.” A waitress has arrived to take orders....
...It was at the Polo Lounge that he first met Bernie Brillstein, a talent manager who represented comic stars like John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd and Lorne Michaels, the producer of Saturday Night Live....
...Of the new intake, Michael Pearce’s Beast marks him as a director to watch....
...It also forged a relationship with the Coen Brothers and produced Fargo and The Big Lebowski. It won 10 Oscars between 1991 and 1998....
...It announced this week a first TV foray by film-makers Joel and Ethan Coen, a six-part Western. “We are streaming motherfuckers,” the brothers said....
...The Red Turtle, produced by Japanese animation giant Studio Ghibli, the company behind classics such as Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke, is directed by Dutch-born, London-based animator Michael Dudok...
...She rocketed to renown in 2003 with Sofia Coppola’s understated indie Lost in Translation, having already shone in the Coen brothers’ The Man Who Wasn’t There and Terry Zwigoff’s Ghost World....
...The Romans clump about in their backlot Italy, with overvoice narration by a plummy Michael Gambon (best in show)....
...Working from a tight, spare script, Nichols regular Michael Shannon stars as Roy, the father of a little boy whose otherworldly powers pique the interest of the National Security Agency....
...Communist scriptwriters crop up too in the new film from the Coen brothers, Hail, Caesar!...
...“There’s always a danger of complacency,” says Mr Coen....
...The judges were led by America’s Coen brothers with only one French native, actress Sophie Marceau, in their midst. It was a verdict honestly reached....
...It is a cycle that Peter Coen knows well. Mr Coen has spent his career researching the outer limits of aircraft speed at Nasa....
...Michael Longhurst’s deft production responds with beautifully pitched performances....
...And the ensemble, if rather arch, is very good, from Bramhill’s cute timing to Coen’s perpetually hangdog face....
...Coen brothers’ film Inside Llewyn Davis....
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