Coen Brothers movies

[peterbirks]

 With "Hail Caesar" about to be released, Mark Kermode has come up with his top five Coen Brothers films. They were:

5: Miller's Crossing

4: No Country For Old Men

3: Blood Simple

2: Barton Fink

1: Fargo

Films that missed out (in order of predicted disagreement)

The Big Lebowski

A Serious Man

Inside Llewyn Davis

Raising Arizona

The Hudsucker Proxy

O Brother Where Art Thou

I think I would agree with three of Kermode's top five (but not in the same order. NCFOM and Blood Simple I would leave out simply because I think that A Serious Man is horribly underrated, and that Inside Llewyn Davis has Carey Mulligan.

NCFOM has magnificent cinematography and a superb performance from Javer Bardem, but I think it's narrative is a bit weak.

So my top five is:

5: Inside Llewyn Davis

4: A Serious Man

3: Barton Fink

2: Fargo

1: Miller's Crossing

Comments

The Aadvark Snorts

[(Anonymous)]

I must be the most peculiar Coen Brothers fan out here. I've been trying to catch everything they release since I first saw Blood Simple on its original cinema release. And I keep missing the sodding things.

My list would therefore, predictably, be incomplete, but I have to say that I didn't much like Raising Arizona (despite thinking that Holly Hunter is a fine, underrated actress). I didn't really come to terms with Miller's Crossing, either. And Barton Fink didn't quite grab me, despite a wonderful performance by Turturro. (I may be confused, but didn't Robert Altman cover basically the same ground at the same time?)
I am coming to the vague conclusion that any Coen Brothers film with Mrs Coen (the incomparable Frances McDormand) is a sure-fire boffo hit. The other ones? Always very watchable. Always intelligent. But something is usually missing.
Presumably Ms McDormand.

Re: The Aadvark Snorts

[real_aardvark]

You are peculiar, full stop.

[(Anonymous)]

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[(Anonymous)]

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[(Anonymous)]

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[art_vandelay]

Looks like some old fart can't let go of empire.

https://twitter.com/peterjbirks/status/713821704620023810

The Irish News was a Protestant, Unionist rag. Hardly impartial journalism.

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Empire and Home Rule

[(Anonymous)]

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[(Anonymous)]

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