Sorry for no posting yesterday, eye exams and a general malaise robbed me of motivation. Good news is I have now fully recovered from my cataract surgery, and all is well with my eyes.

The brother Ethan and Joel Cohen have been responsible for some entertaining, irreverent, and darkly cynical films everything from the fable and silly The Hudsucker Proxy to the grim examination of the human condition in No Country for Old Men. What these films had in common was the team of Joel and Ethan a cinematic team that seems to have reached their end.

Ethan has of late been writing short stories, plays, and directing live theater and apparently have fallen in love with the live stage world. Joel is remaining in the cinematic arts and luckily, I have seen no reports that this spilt represents animosity between the brothers but solely a differencing of artistic desires.

The question is just how much like a Cohen Brothers film is there is only one present? Christopher and Jonathan Nolan often but not always work together and when Jonathan is part of the project the storylines turn darker and more cynical. It will be interesting to see what, if any, detectable tone shift arrives by the departure of Ethan. We shall have a chance soon. Later this year will see the release of Joel Cohen first truly solo direction feature film The Tragedy of Macbeth. (One thing I can say is that it seems Joel does not share superstitions about ‘the Scottish Play.’ An A24 release, a studio I have come to admire for its bold commitment to artistic films, and my favorites play by the Bard, there is no doubt that I am there for this feature.