The last time the Coen brothers attempted a remake, it was 2004’s The Ladykillers, a remake of a beloved bit of a British comedy from 1955 featuring inspired performances from the likes of Alec Guinness and Peter Sellers. It was a spectacular failure, as graceless as the original was graceful, shockingly unfunny, and by far the worst film the pair had ever helmed. What followed was a three-year sabbatical during which they presumably regrouped and figured out where they’d gone wrong, since their next film was No Country for Old Men.

DCist’s highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus The sad final chapter of the career of Heath Ledger comes to a close with the opening of his incomplete performance in Terry Gilliam’s colorful, carnival-esque fantasy. Gilliam had completed most of the location shooting for the film when Ledger died of an accidental toxic interaction of prescription drugs in January…