“The Big Lebowski” introduced the world to John Turturro’s Jesus Quintana, and now, the character is ready to roll again in the first look at the new film “Going Places.”
The premise of “Going Places” is inspired by French filmmaker Bertrand Blier’s 1974 “Les Valseuses.” It revolves around a three smalltime crooks and is being billed as an irreverent, sexually charged comedy. The tale evolves into a surprising love story as some of the characters’ flippant attitudes backfire time and again, and they wind up inadvertently performing good deeds.
After the trio makes enemies with a gun-toting hairdresser, they find themselves fleeing from law and society as their unlikely bond strengthens.
Bobby Cannavale, Audrey Tautou, Susan Sarandon and Sonia Braga also star in the film with Turturro directing from his own script adaptation. The Coen brothers are not involved in the film.
Sidney Kimmel, Fernando Sulichin and Paul-Dominique Vacharasinthu are producing along with SKE’s Penotti and Robert Salerno. Bruce Toll, Max Arvelaiz and Michael Lewis are executive producers. Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, New Element and Tribus P Film are financing the project.
Cornerstone Films is covering international sales and distribution and ICM Partners is handling domestic rights.
Check out the photo below, and as always, don’t f— with the Jesus.
All Coen Brothers' Movies Ranked, From Worst to Best (Photos)
17. The Ladykillers (2004)
A very poor remake of a classic 1950s British comedy starring Alec Guinness and Peter Sellers, this film is unnecessary and off in every way.
Buena Vista Pictures
16. The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)
A disaster where every rhythm and line reading feels horribly off, this period comedy gave Coen critics all the ammunition they would need to write them off as sarcastic pastiche artists giggling over private jokes.
Warner Bros.
15. The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)
A self-consciously arty tale of existential despair, shot in black and white, that could also be called "The Film That Wasn't There."
Focus Features
14. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
A perfectly nice movie with lots of music, where George Clooney gets a chance to sing, but nowhere near their best work.
20th Century Fox
13. Intolerable Cruelty (2003)
This is as close to a standard commercial movie as the Coens have ever come, a sharp-edged romantic comedy vehicle for George Clooney and Catherine Zeta-Jones, enjoyable but not fully theirs (the script was worked on by other writers).
Universal
12. Blood Simple (1984)
The first Coen movie is a now-neglected noir, well-shot and well-played, but mainly a hint of things to come.
MGM
11. Raising Arizona (1987)
The Coens' second film, a boisterous comedy, is a real love-it-or-hate-it proposition. It's noisy and cartoonish and obnoxious, and it seems either delightful or awful based upon the mood you are in when you see it.
20th Century Fox
10. Barton Fink (1991)
An odd film about a Clifford Odets-like writer (John Turturro) trying to keep his integrity in old Hollywood, most memorable for the fearsome performance of John Goodman as insurance salesman Charlie Meadows.
20th Century Fox
9. Hail, Caesar! (2016)
Mercilessly accurate, inventive, and cold look at old Hollywood, filled with obscure inferences and references. Many poetic ideas, like having gossip columnists Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons split up into two sisters played by Tilda Swinton, a homoerotic musical sailor number with Channing Tatum that is notable for the distant and unenthused way it's filmed, and George Clooney at his best as a dim Robert Taylor-like movie star. Is it religiously conservative or just misanthropic? Time will tell.
Universal
8. True Grit (2010)
Unexpected and very graceful, this loving adaptation of Charles Portis' wordy novel displayed the Coens' eye for period detail and their love for unusual wordplay. The last half hour or so is as beautiful and deadly as anything they have ever done.
Paramount Pictures
7. Miller's Crossing (1990)
The Coen brothers' third movie, a tale of gangsters and crime in the Prohibition era, was a first glimpse of their pared-down strength and their tough treatment of dramatic material, nowhere more apparent than in the extended scene where John Turturro's character begs for his life.
20th Century Fox
6. Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
This bleak and unforgiving tale of a non-popular musician (Oscar Isaac) trying to make his way in the 1960s folk scene in Greenwich Village has the internal logic and forward progression of a cut-to-the-bone first-person novel. It makes you feel what it's like to be far from success or comfort, as epitomized by the moment when Isaac's Llewyn steps into a cold puddle as he walks on a wintry street and gets a shoe and sock all wet.
CBS Films
5. The Big Lebowski (1998)
A fan favorite, this shaggy dog story made a stoner icon out of Jeff Bridges's The Dude. Best pot-fuddled line reading from Bridges: "Mr. Treehorn treats objects like women, man!"
Gramercy Pictures
4. Fargo (1996)
An instant classic, a tale of violence in a small town that was an early indicator of just how fresh and unexpected a Coen brothers movie could be. Who can forget the scene where Mike Yanagita (Steve Park), an old school friend of police officer Marge (Frances McDormand), suddenly confesses his love for her?
Gramercy Pictures
3. A Serious Man (2009)
The dark comedy is suffused with a slow-burning and Kafka-esque dread, and it bears comparison to any similar Saul Bellow or Philip Roth novel of the late 1960s and early 1970s in its clear-eyed moral rigor.
Focus Features
2. Burn After Reading (2008)
A broad and unsettling comedy that is loose and instinctive and moves like a dream. Brad Pitt was never better or funnier than as gym trainer Chad Feldheimer, a dumb guy who lets the equally dumb Linda Litzke (Frances McDormand, hilarious) draw him into a CIA plot. The way the Coens toy with audience expectation is masterful.
Focus Features
1. No Country for Old Men (2007)
An unforgettable noir suffused with existential dread. Javier Bardem's bowl-cutted killer entered the cultural zeitgeist, but Tommy Lee Jones's final monologue is equally memorable in its decent-minded and fed-up despair. Plus, the dog that chases Josh Brolin over water is like something out of a nightmare.
Miramax
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TheWrap’s Dan Callahan assesses the directorial body of work of Joel and Ethan Coen, from ”Fargo“ to ”No Country for Old Men“ to ”Hail, Caesar!“
Buena Vista Pictures
