![]() None of these characters knows they’re in a short story, they all think they’re the star of their own epic novel, and by this point anyone even half paying attention knows that the Coen Bros. “The Gal Who Got Rattled” goes on so long you almost forget you’re watching an anthology, but the Coens are luring you into a false sense of security. But when her brother dies she’s left to her own devices in the middle of a wagon train, with hard decisions to make but, for the first time, the possibility of building her own future. Play The penultimate installment, “The Gal Who Got Rattled,” stars Zoe Kazan (The Big Sick) as a young woman whose brother is dragging her across the country to get her married. film so all does not go according to plan, but perhaps it’s more important to notice how nature responds to his misadventure, clearing the hell out when he arrives and moving right back in the second the coast is clear. But times are hard, audiences are scarce, and if the artist can longer carry his own weight, what’s the impresario to do? Cheer up! Because “All Gold Canyon” is next, and it stars Tom Waits as a prospector alone in the wilderness, working his tail off to find a pocket of gold that could change his fortune forever. It’s about to get depressing, because the next segment, “Meal Ticket,” is about the sad life of a young actor with no arms or legs (Harry Melling, from the Harry Potter franchise), who depends entirely on his manager (Liam Neeson) for his care. It’s a trifle of a short but it makes the point of the movie quite clear: death is around every corner, and it’s got a sick sense of humor. It’s as though destiny wants to kill him but always gets distracted at the very last minute. A series of violent and hilarious shenanigans later, he’s on the verge of death, but fate isn’t done with him. The next segment, “Near Algodones,” stars James Franco as a bank robber who gets more than he bargained for when he tries to pull a heist in the middle of nowhere. ![]() The wild west wasn’t fun it was brutal and hard, and when you juxtapose the fun films in the genre with anything resembling actual history you get something disturbing and wrong. It’s self-aware about the western genre, evoking no recognizable reality and instead commenting on the lie of the genre. ![]() ![]() Production begins in mid-July and goes until September, and hopefully we'll see The Ballad of Buster Scruggs in 2018.14 Images “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs,” the short, is set apart from all the other segments in the movie. With shooting about to get underway, I'm sure we'll get more details on The Ballad of Buster Scruggs soon, perhaps even before the Coen Brothers-scripted and George Clooney-directed Suburbicon hits theaters in November. When news of the series first broke, it was mentioned Annapurna is "pursuing a combined TV / theatrical release," not dissimilar to the old plans for The Dark Tower series that was going to be a tie-in for the upcoming movie. Where we'll be able to watch these stories unfold hasn't been announced yet. Per The Tracking Board, Daly will star in this episode. Lastly, "The Mortal Remains," about the five very different passengers on a stagecoach of mysterious destination. ![]() Kazan, who's great in Ruby Sparks and has been heavily lauded for her work in The Big Sick, might play "the gal who got rattled." The fifth, "The Gal Who Got Rattled," follows two trail bosses on the Oregon Trail and a woman on the wagon train who needs the help of one of them and who might be a marriage prospect for the other. The fourth, "All Gold Canyon," is about a prospector who happily finds a gold seam but then unhappily finds an evil encroacher. ![]()
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