Archive for Tag Coen Brothers

  • Fargo

    Yah, just small town people being super competent and city slickers being buffoons. Extremely low cosmopolitrometer, but not phoney like Ben Affleck. Give all the Oscars to Frances McDormand, she deserves them.

  • Inside Llewyn Davis

    A bona fide musical and a Bob Dylan fictional biography at the same time. Top that, future Timotheé Chalamet biopic, I bet it’s going to be worse than this.

  • A Serious Man

    That’s some esoteric shit. If this is an autobiography of the Coen brothers, were they the perma-high kid who goes through the motions at the bar mitzvah?

  • Burn After Reading

    Play it, Tuli!

  • True Grit

    A posse of Coen actors casually creates one of the best westerns ever, providing The Dude with another character for the ages.

  • Blood Simple

    A reversed noir with an horror twist. A great start to a meteoric career.

  • Miller's Crossing

    Takes the cake for one of the most convoluted plots in a film noir. Makes Memento seem like The Straight Story. I posit it’s literally impossible to follow on the first view.

  • O Brother, Where Art Thou

    This is almost a variety act: singing and dancing is the bulk of it, but there’s also some drama, theatricals, and even space for political points (either more towards philosophy, or straight up politicking).

  • Barton Fink

    A writer going crazy, or is it? What’s in the box, what’s in the box? What’s in the box, is it the same thing as Se7en? ‘Cause I think it is…

  • The Big Lebowski

    That’s just, like, your opinion, man. The Dude abides. Nobody fucks with the Jesus. This is what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass! You human paraquat!

  • Hail, Caesar!

    SQUINT! SQUINT AT THE GRANDEUR!

  • Fargo

    An anthology series, spiritually related to the film, but without much overarching mythos. It’s a standalone recreation, with TV people.

  • The Hudsucker Proxy

    ◯. Ya’ know, fo’ kids!