Tag: Coen Brothers
1994 in Film: The Hudsucker Proxy
“Long live The Hud” is what the grey suited, morose, chairmen of Hudsucker industries chant after they witness their President, Waring Hudsucker (Charles Durning) fall…
Festival de Cannes: Hollywood Hell in Barton Fink (1991)
* SPOILER WARNING * Set in 1941 Los Angeles and chronicling the titular writer’s (John Turturro) discovery of the hell within Hollywood while staying at…
Filmotomy’s Best Films of the Decade – Jeremy Robinson’s List
Members of the Filmotomy team agonize over their top ten for the decade (2010-19). Trying to narrow your favorite films of the past decade to…
Rewind – 2007 in Film: No Country for Old Men
The quiet wind is the first sound heard, and then the wide plains open before our eyes as the sun rises over the blackness of…
Festival de Cannes 72 Countdown: Barton Fink, 1991
We excitedly countdown to the 72nd Festival de Cannes with a different prize winning film each day. Barton Fink, 1991 Palme d’Or – Joel Coen,…
For Your Consideration: The Ballad of Buster Scruggs for Best Adapted Screenplay
As a piece of narrative writing, Joel and Ethan Coen’s The Ballad of Buster Scruggs ranks as one of their most challenging and provocative works….
Review: The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
We are introduced to a book which opens to a story, and as the film progresses, the pages turn to a new story, then another,…
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…
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…
