JAKE ROCKS HIS FIRST COWBOY HAT ON SCREEN SINCE BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
It comes out in September, debuted at Venice, where it was nominated for Best Film. His first English-language film, it's a western set during the California gold rush. John C. Reilly is the star.
THE SISTERS BROTHERS (Jacques Audiard). France 19 Sept., US 21 Sept. 2018 release. With Jake Gyllenhaal, Joaquin Phoenix, Riz Ahmed, John C. Reilly, Rutger Hauer, Carol Kane, Creed Bratton, Niels Arestrup, and others. Cinematography by Benoît Debie, Score by Alexandre Desplat. A new film by Audiard is an event. Previous ones, which have won many awards, were A Very Discreet Hero, Read My Lips, The Beat My Heart Skipped, A Prophet, Rust and Bone, and Dheepan.[/I] Some details about the source novel, which shortlisted for the Man Booker prize, by Patrick DeWitt; Audiard collaborated on the adaptation, as before, with Thomas Bidegain. Reactions to the book were varied in England, according to a Guardian article.Patrick DeWitt's second novel, The Sisters Brothers, begins with a cruel image: a horse burning up in a fire, "his kicking, burning legs, his hot-popping eyeballs". If you don't care for that image, then you might not care for DeWitt's novel, especially as it is blurbed as "hilarious" and "relentlessly absorbing". The narrator and main character is Eli Sisters, a hired killer on the American west coast in 1851, around the time of the Gold Rush in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Eli's older brother is the dominant member of the killing team; while Eli is reflecting upon the death of his previous horse and the sad-sack qualities of his new horse, "Tub", Charlie is taking orders from the Commodore – they are to head down to San Francisco and put to death a mysterious stranger named Herman Kermit Warm for some undefined reason. The Sisters Brothers relates their odyssey and, like all odysseys, it is full of both strange adventures and revelations.
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