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Show 7 THE MAGNA TIMES, WEST VALLEY NEWS, KEARNS POST September 18, 2008 I 'Into the Woods' to feature new stage elements, special effects HCT's iUDiYIOM Auditions for Its a Wonderous Life parody (HCT) will present the Broadway musical Into 0: 8-- By f a S ! t fj ' j This past week I sawJoel and hthan Coen's latest picture, Burn After Reading. However, since the Coen Brothei s are a couple of my favorite directors, instead of just reviewing their latest, I want pay them a tribute and do a Directors Spotlight. Joel and Lthan Coen caught their big break in 1984 when they made their first wide release film, Blood Simple. ThL film is about a rich man who hiies a private investigator to find and murder his wife and the man with whom she is having an affair, but he soon realizes that murder is never a simple affaii. This film is a wonderful example of modem film noir and is quite fascinating. Blood Simple is rated: R for violence and language. It was during the filming of Blood Simple that Joel Coen met his future wife, Frances McDormand, who has starred in many of the Coens films and even won an Oscar for Best Actress in the next film I want to talk about, Fargo. Fargo tells the stoiy of really police officer Marge Gunderson, played pregnant 12 tion tor Best Actor in a Nathan Unck by McDormand,. who solves the mysteiy of a crime committed by two inept men. This film is a great crime drama and thriller. It won an Oscar for Best Screenplay and nominations for Best Picture, Best Cinematography, Best Director, and Best Film F.diting, and William II. Macy received a nomina- - characters, brought to life by Nicolas Cage and Holly Hunter, really make this movie a must-seRaising Arizona is about a man named H.I. McDunnough who has robbed the same convenience store over and over. After so many arrests, he eventually develops a relationship with the policewho takes his woman mugshots and fingerprints. When he promises to go e. marries and straight Fdwina, the policewoman, they plot a kidnapping from a couple that has just given birth to five babies at the same time, since they are unable to have children of their own. The idea itself is outrageous, but when you add John Goodman and William Forsythe as H I.'s cellmates from and best friends prison, who escape signature 30-fo- ot Brothers Spotlight on the larCoen to the casino and Supporting Role for playing one of the films criminals. Pargo is rated: R for violence, language, and sexual situations. Not only have the Coens made wonderful crime thrillers, but they have also made some of my all-tifavorite comedies. the In Coen 1987, Brothers made Raising Arizona, which to this day remains one of my top favorite films. Its quirky "redneck'' center stage. Through a series of ramps and lifts, the characters travel on the moving set to different areas of the forest. The staging includes tower, the tallest set piece ever used in an HCT production, which rises out of the floor and grows before the audiences eyes. Special effects also the Woods, Oct. 1 through Nov. 29. The HCT production of Stephen Sondheims modem classic weaves together fairytale characters and stories with special effects and new stage elements to illustrate the shows profound messages about parenting and how one persons actions can affect another person. The Off Broadway Theatre announces open auditions for its Christmas play, "It's a Wonderous Life," an original parody written by I ric R Jensen and directed by Mike Brown. Uncle Billy, George Parts are available for ages kids: four (double casting), Bailey, Mary Baily, ages Bert, Violet, Mr. Potter, Potter Jr., Angel. Bring resume and headshot, and be prepared tor cold readings from script. for more details. Auditions held at Off Call Broadway Theatre at 272 S. Main Street, Salt Lake City. include pyrotechnics such as the Witchs staff; and Cinderellas mother, who dresses as a tree and flies down from the theaters ceiling to have her branches cover the stage. Parents will see themselves in the characters and feel the power of the influence they have on their children, said Jennifer llohl, Into the Woods director. What we say and do affects our children een The HCT production features a new moving set piece that surrounds the theaters The Hale Centre Theatre and come to the new "family" for help, and a crazy, motor- cycling bounty hunter, played by Randall "Tex Cobb, the film is hilarious. Raising Arizona is rated PG-1- 3 for violence and lan get caught by the old woman, the gang decides that she must be "taken care of." However, each person in the group has a horrible experience and is unable to complete the task. It really is a great film, and it is sad that it is mined by a lot of bad language. The Ladykillers is rated R for language. The spotlight wouldn't be guage. Another of my favorite Coen comedies is O Brother, Where Art Thou? This film is actually an updated retelling of the epic poem The Odyssey, by Homer. However, it is set in the Deep South during the 1930's, in the middle of the Great Depression. It stars George Clooney, who is a comic genius when he is paired up with the Coens, as a man named Everett who escapes from a chain-gan- g with his two buddies, to go and win his wife back when he learns that she is going to marry someone who is "bonafide." John Turturro and Tim Blake Nelson are wonderful in their roles as Pete and Delmar. Holly Hunter is also great. O Brother, Where Art Thou? has a wonderful soundtrack featuring some of the greatest Blue Grass music you will ever hear. O Brother, Where Art Thou? is rated PG-1- 3 for language and violence." The Ladykillers, a dark comedy from 2004, is also a pretty good comedy from the Coens, but tit has elements that feel out of place. It is worth seeing, but the pervasive bad language is enough to turn a lot of people off from this otherwise delightful comedy about a group of criminals led by a evil wonderfully complete without mentioning the film that won Best Picture and best Director(s) at this year's Academy Awards, No Country For Old Men. No Country for Old Men follows the story of a man who is at the wrong place at the wrong time, finds some money, doesn't want to give it up, and spends the rest of the film being hunted by a ruthless killer who will stop at nothing to get the money back. Despite the best efforts of a local sheriff, played by Tommy Lee Jones, he is unable to resolve the situation and learns that he is just tdcToId for the line of work " that he was once able to carry out. No Country for Old Men is definitely a great film, but it may leave people scratching their heads. Great acting and suspense really carried this film a long way. No Country For Old Men is rated R for language and violence. This now brings me to the Coen Brothers most current film, which is in theaters now. Burn after Reading is a d comedy starlaugh- as an Malkovich John ring ex CIA agenr who plans to write and publish his "mem man, played by Tom Hanks, who rent a room from a nice, old African American woman m the South. When they rob a casino by tunneling from the woman's root cel when we think theyre not listening. The story is complicated, much like life, and teaches the idea that we are in control of our own lies but may not be alone in the consequences of our choices. Tickets may be purchased online at www.halecen-tretheatre.or- g, by telephone or at the at (801) Hale Centre Theatre box office, 3333 South Decker Lake I)rie, West Valley City, Utah. 984-900- 0, make sense of everything oirs," but when his wife that happens, since nothing copies the files accidentally is really based on a logical finanonto a CD with other take to to cial information thought. Burn after Reading is great her divorce lawyer, the CD in but is definitely not for fun the ends accidentally up hands of Linda and Chad, everyone and earns its R ratFrances ing very quickly through the by played McDormand and Brad Pitt language. Still, if you can in two of the funniest charput up w ith the language and a very crude invention that acters that I have seen in a film in recent memory, who George Clooney's character comes up with, then you then unwittingly try to sell should have a pretty good the CD for money, but cause I give it a 7 out of 10. time. for a headache everyone The Coen Brothers have involved. created a diverse group of George Clooney plays a films. This was only a handthe man character as great ful of them. 1 would also recwho is having an affair with ommend The Hudsucker the woman married to the d ex CIA agent. 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