Tag: 10 Days of Coen Brothers
10 Great Performances To Revisit From Coen Brothers Films
As we hurtle towards the close of our Coen brothers season, we spontaneously picked 10 of our favorite performances from their bravura film collection. I…
Video: (some of) the Music from the Coen Brothers Films
Oh how I wish the Coen brothers chapter of Filmotomy could go on a little longer. Same time next year? Let’s salute the brothers grim…
Ranked: The Films of the Coen Brothers
Total silence, two can play at that game, pal. Remember to always put one in the brain. What’s the most you ever lost on a…
Intolerable Cruelty – an Ode to an Underrated Coen Brothers Classic
The idea of an “underrated film” is a fairly subjective notion. We all have movies we personally love that many people do not. That’s the…
And It’s a Beautiful Day: Fargo Review
As a lifelong resident of the Midwest, I’ve heard many variations of “Oh, I never thought something like that would happen around here.” I grew…
Untitled Barber Movie: The Coen Brothers in Black and White
Visionary master Roger Deakins finally won his very first Oscar recently for Best Cinematography. No, you are not reading an article first published twenty years…
O' Brother, Where Art Thou? A Coen Brothers Odyssey
I am a man of constant sorrow, I’ve seen trouble all my day I bid farewell to old Kentucky, The place where I was born…
The Coen's get Serious… Sort of – A Serious Man Review
As filmmakers the Coen Brothers have always managed to blend broad, bright comedy with the darkness of human nature. And the same is apparent here in…
The Case Against the “Imaginary Donny” The Big Lebowski Fan Theory
I want you to consider a scenario with me for a moment. You want to write a movie, and you have an idea. This idea…
Bringing Up Baby: How the Coen Brothers Delivered a Classic Comedy with Raising Arizona
Only the Coen’s could manage to make the tale of child snatching funny. There’s so many frankly hilarious moments in Raising Arizona, that the film…
Loopiness Unleashed – Burn After Reading (2008)
The Coen’s may have produced more highly praised films in their brilliant run, but none have the breezy celebration of pure idiocy as this comedic confection that allows top drawer performers to explore their inner fools.
Vote: Ranking The Films of Joel and Ethan Coen
At Filmotomy the next directors we are eager to cross paths with are the Coen Brothers, Ethan and Joel. The 10 Days of the Coen…