You can hear it playing over the opening scene, just before George Clooney’s preening, wiley Ulysses Everett McGill cuts through the cornfield to the railroad to escape. Everett has convinced his ...

It didn’t work for him, but it did work for Ulysses Everett McGill in “O Brother.” Q. What attracts you to those old-time bluegrass songs, early American recordings, that whole era?

Clooney was already a star when the film was released, but the Coen brothers handed him a career-defining role as prison escapee Ulysses Everett McGill, and Turturro and Nelson both show why they ...

You can hear it playing over the opening scene, just before George Clooney’s preening, wiley Ulysses Everett McGill cuts ...

[Repeated line] Ulysses Everett McGill: Damn! We're in a tight spot! Tommy Johnson: I had to be up at that there crossroads last midnight, to sell my soul to the devil. Ulysses Everett McGill: Well, ...

In the Coens' odyssey, one Ulysses Everett McGill is the traveller through a mythical landscape. He's played by George Clooney as a dapper fugitive from a rock-breaking chain-gang. Along with ...

For their freewheeling comedy – back in cinemas this week – the Coen Brothers sought creative help from super-producer T-Bone ...

As Everett chivvies his buddies across the Delta, tangling with sheriffs and Klansmen and corrupt politicians, this music dips and swells in glorious sympathy. “Po Lazarus” is the overture ...