Last week in London, the Prince Charles Cinema had a special 20th anniversary screening for The Coen Brothers’ The Big Lebowski. And, no, they didn’t screen it for just one day, it was almost an entire week run! In fact, on some of the screening dates, they served White Russian drinks […]
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Ten years later, No Country For Old Men still holds its place as a masterpiece: a majestically realized character study in which good, evil, and the unsophisticated take turns interacting with the just plain ordinary. Josh Brolin is Llewelyn Moss, a down on his luck trailer park inhabitant who happens […]
In New York City, 1941 we are introduced to successful playwright Barton Fink (John Turturro) an idealistic artist who is inspired to forge a new kind of theater by telling grand stories about “the common man”, his stock in trade. When Capitol Pictures in Hollywood gets word of his genius, […]
To celebrate the month of Noirvember I wanted to delve into the first wave of film noir and its post-modern form that is every bit as exciting. Neo Noir is the (usually) colorized counterpart to the classical black and white films of the 40s-late 50s. They often feature the same […]
Since their debut in 1984, The Coen Brothers have been two of the most interesting writer-directors of offbeat genre cinema and their 1996 black crime-comedy Fargo remains one of their very best works. Jerry Lundegaard (William H. Macy) is a passive-aggressive car salesman who travels to Fargo, North Dakota to […]
I recently watched the remake, or to be more precise the alternate adaptation of the book True Grit is based on directed by The Coen Brothers. I thought the film was well made but at the same time I had my problems with it. Since I’m a longtime fan of […]
“I tried to stand up and fly straight, but it wasn’t easy with that sumbitch Reagan in the White House. I dunno. They say he’s a decent man, so maybe his advisors are confused.” – H.I. McDonough In this 1987 screwball comedy from The Coen Brothers, an ex-con named H.I. […]
The Big Lebowski (1998) went from sleeper hit to a full fledged cult classic spawning all kinds of fan clubs and even a Lebowski Fest held every year where attendees come dressed as their favorite characters. It is one of my personal favorite films of the 90s. It has an […]