The Coen Brothers’ newest film is the haunting black comedy, “A Serious Man,” about a physics professor in a midwestern Jewish community in 1967. The trailer is an intense, and frankly frightening, couple of minutes that reveals almost nothing about the plot. Take a look:
Thursday, September 17, 2026
A Serious Man Trailer
By Eric M. Armstrong
July 30, 2009
Recent Articles
- Review: ‘A War’ explores war’s quiet, forgotten horrors
- TMA FilmCast #33 — Vera Chytilova and the Czech New Wave
- The fantasist: The comic art of Woody Allen
- Tribeca picks up North American rights to ‘Misery Loves Comedy’ at Sundance
- TMA FilmCast #32 — Alison Frank interviews Ana Geislerova
- ‘Grand Budapest Hotel’ tops Online Film Critics Awards
- TMA FilmCast #31 — Alison Frank reports from 67th Locarno Film Fest
- 5 ½ hour film dominates awards at Locarno
- Shorts at #Locarno67: meditation vs testing the audience’s patience
- ‘The Fool’: A modern propaganda film
Sections
- News (418)
- Features (349)
- Film Reviews (219)
- Blogs (162)
- Festivals (136)
- Drama (126)
- The Wider Screen (115)
- Trailers (92)
- Comedy (70)
- videos (69)
- Sci-Fi (66)
- FCS (59)
- Essays (56)
- Action/Adventure (46)
- Below the Line (40)
Topics
news Review Universal Trailers Universal Pictures Focus Features E.L. James Fifty Shades of Grey Kelly Marcel Another Earth Brit Marling Sound of My Voice Zal Batmanglij Disney videos Warner Bros Tallgrass Film Festival essay Tallgrass Film Association Paul Thomas Anderson The Hobbit Joaquin Phoenix Leonardo DiCaprio Phillip Seymour Hoffman London Film Festival The Master After the Revolution Leticia Agudo Mary Ann Smothers Bruni Quest for Honor Martin Scorsese casting MGM Black Swan P.T. Anderson Podcast The Social Network Stanley Kubrick Guillermo Del Toro Pixar Lord of the Rings George Clooney Robert De Niro J.R.R Tolkien Peter Jackson
