Tag: Joel Coen
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: Fargo, 1996
We excitedly countdown to the 72nd Festival de Cannes with a different prize winning film each day. Fargo, 1996 Prix de la mise en scène…
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….
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…
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…
100 Not Nominated For Oscars – Part 19
It is common law for many, many popular films, those loved by the moving-going public, and even professional film critics, to not make it big…
