{"id":640,"date":"2009-11-05T16:39:07","date_gmt":"2009-11-05T22:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ragtagfilm.com\/blog\/?p=640"},"modified":"2009-11-05T16:39:07","modified_gmt":"2009-11-05T22:39:07","slug":"why-so-serious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/why-so-serious\/","title":{"rendered":"Why so serious?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, November 6, we unveil the new film from the brothers Cohen (<em>Fargo<\/em>, <em>No Country for Old Men<\/em>, <em>Burn After Reading<\/em>), the critically acclaimed <strong><em>A Serious Man<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\"This is by far the most personal and revealing film the Coens have ever made, which might not seem like saying much,\" writes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/ent\/movies\/btm\/feature\/2009\/10\/01\/coens\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Andrew O'Hehir<\/a>. \"They're known for creating mannered, sardonic fictional worlds shaped as much (or more) by film history as by real life. But in recapturing the vanished realm where they grew up - a self-enclosed world of Midwestern Jewish suburbia - the Coens have crafted perhaps their most original work, one that presents itself, early on, as middleweight middle-American domestic comedy before revealing a strange and secret power that's closer to magic or myth.\"<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mDKHWRbK2_Q&amp;feature=player_profilepage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> to watch the trailer and here to read an interview with the film's lead actor, Michael Stuhlbarg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, November 6, we unveil the new film from the brothers Cohen (Fargo, No Country for Old Men, Burn After Reading), the critically acclaimed A Serious Man. \"This is by far the most personal and revealing film the Coens have ever made, which might not seem like saying much,\" writes Andrew O'Hehir. \"They're known [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}