My top 4:
Blood Simple
No Country for Old Men
Fargo
O Brother Where Art Thou
5-10 range, unsure of order:
Big Lebowski
True Grit
Hudsucker Proxy
Intolerable Cruelty
Burn After Reading
Bad Santa
Need to see again (been too long since watched it):
Miller’s Crossing
Barton Fink
Raising Arizona
The Man Who Wasn’t There
Coffee and Cigarettes
Haven’t seen:
Llewelyn
Hail Caesar
Suburbicon
Buster Scruggs
Crimewave
Any I missed
Not Great:
Ladykillers
A Serious Man
Maybe I need to watch it again
I saw it in the Cinerama dome theater in Hollywood when living in LA and my friend came to visit but I remember it being slow and not enjoying it too much. I didn’t hate it so I’ll try it again
It’s quite slow for most, but so was No Country.
O Brother is criminally underrated ITT. One of the absolute GOAT soundtracks. No Country deserves an asterisk bc Cormac McCarthy did a lot of the heavy lifting.
O Brother is definitely top-tier.
Also reminded me that @Devil is a Coen Bros. fan based on this post and should be in this thread!
It took me a long time to recognize I’m more a fan of adaptations of Cormac’s work than I am the Coens. That pairing was superb. It brought together everything I love about both without everything I wish they’d both stop indulging.
I also very much enjoyed The Counselor, a not well received movie with Ridley Scott directing and Cormac McCarthy writing the screenplay. It’s like the studio forgot that most people hated No Country for Old Men or didn’t understand it.
A cool thing about O Brother is that Alan Lomax’s daughter managed to track down one of the prisoners in the chain gang song and cut him a check for his performance on the soundtrack. $20k is kind of bullshit, but w/e.
Bought that CD back in the day. Also made a “Bluegrass” Pandora channel based on ‘Man of Constant Sorrow.’ It turned out much weirder than that after a while, but it’s still my go to when I know I’ll be driving through small town North Florida or South Georgia.
That album was my introduction to bluegrass, which was very handy when I wound up living in Virginia and able to see some of those musicians live.
Same here regarding bluegrass. It’s like if country music had soul and played interesting stringed instruments.
Do you watch other videos like this? Nice find.
ya. that whole channel is excellent. the jackie chan one is prob my favorite
ittil that Bad Santa is a Coen Bros film.
But once you know, it’s like
Well I dunno. I don’t want to go all purist on you so I’ll go all purist on you instead.
Spielberg produced and had a hand in some films that are never described as Spielberg films. I’m not touting auteur theory here, just saying I probably only count films they themselves (or at least one of them) directed.
Although I feel guilty because there are a couple of their well known movies I have never seen but always wanted to see. Maybe just Miller’s Crossing. I think I did see Blood Simple at least once.
Huge fans of the Coen Brothers. Some of their movies landed less solidly with me than others but so much goodness.
Anyway, that’s a very strong body of work by the bros.
No Country For Old Men
Fargo
Raising Arizona
The Big Lebowski
Miller’s Crossing
Blood Simple
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
The Man Who Wasn’t There
Haven’t seen the rest
