Tag: Coen Brothers
A Melancholy Pursuit on the Road to Nowhere – Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
“Pursue your dream at all costs” is the opiate of the millennial age, a fraudulent battle cry that more often than not ends in defeat. And so it is for folk singer Llewyn Davis, the Coen brothers’ poster boy for disillusionment.
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…
Would That it Were So Simple – Hail Caesar! (2016)
This time around, the brothers are the Boy Scouts who prank by soaping the windows of an institution and then set fire to a bag of dog poop at the front gate. They appear to be on a lark, having some harmless fun, until a stomping-out of the flames reveals the contents of the bag.
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…
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…
