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- Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) Masterful, and a little infuriating by design, the Coens' dark musical explores the torture of an unfulfilled, unmade creative life—like perhaps no other film.
- Barton Fink (1991) At this point in the list (and maybe even before it), we're discussing top tier Coen pictures, all extraordinary films.
- A Serious Man (2009) A little less than a decade before he killed us with that monologue at the end of Call Me By Your Name, Michael Stuhlbarg gave a tragicomic tour de force in the Coens' mesmerizingly unpleasant spin on the Book of Job.
- Raising Arizona (1987) The Coens' uproarious farce stars Nicolas Cage and Holly Hunter as a couple who help them themselves to one fifth of an affluent family’s quintuplets.
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- 'Where Eagles Dare' (1968) Directed by Brian G. Hutton. Where Eagles Dare is a World War II movie about a small group of elite Allied soldiers, led by Major Smith (Richard Burton) and Lieutenant Schaffer (Clint Eastwood), on a perilous mission deep behind enemy lines in the Bavarian Alps.
- 'Separate Tables' (1958) Directed by Delbert Mann. This character-driven drama revolves around the residents of a quiet British seaside hotel. The film brings together an ensemble cast that includes notable performances from David Niven, Deborah Kerr, Burt Lancaster, Rita Hayworth, and Wendy Hiller.
- 'Dames' (1934) Directed by Busby Berkeley and Ray Enright. Dames is a pre-Code musical comedy about Ezra Ounce (Guy Kibbee), a straight-laced millionaire who becomes swept up in a series of comedic misadventures due to the meddling of his overbearing nephew, Jimmy Higgens (Dick Powell).
- 'High and Low' (1963) Directed by Akira Kurosawa. High and Low is a classic police procedural directed by Akira Kurosawa, which Joel Coen listed as one of his all-time top five movies.
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- No Country For Old Men (2007) The Coen Brothers at their best.
- Fargo (1996) The winner of several awards and accolades. Fargo. Where to Watch. *Availability in US. stream. rent. buy. Director. Joel Coen , Ethan Coen. Release Date.
- The Big Lebowski (1998) Demonstrate the Coen Brothers’ peak influence in filmmaking. The Big Lebowski. R. Where to Watch. *Availability in US. stream. rent. buy. Director.
- Raising Arizona (1987) The pinnacle of comedy within their filmography. Raising Arizona. PG-13. Where to Watch. *Availability in US. stream. rent. buy. Not available.
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- Fargo’ The Coens are at their absolute best in this masterpiece that balances pitch-black comedy with startling violence. Set mostly in Minnesota, “Fargo” starts with a botched kidnapping orchestrated by weaselly car dealer Jerry Lundegaard (William H. Macy) as a way to extract money from his wealthy, condescending father-in-law.
- The Big Lebowski’ A relative commercial and critical disappointment when it was released, “The Big Lebowski” has since amassed a huge cult following that surpasses any other Coens movie, with its own unique subculture.
- No Country for Old Men’ The Coens’ only film to win the Oscar for Best Picture is a fusion of their darkly humorous sensibility with author Cormac McCarthy’s sparse nihilism, making for a movie that is both bleak and profound.
- Inside Llewyn Davis’ Although singer-songwriter Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac) is fictional, there’s such a strong sense of time and place to this melancholy film that it’s easy to assume that he’s an actual figure from the 1960s New York City folk scene.
May 25, 2022 · But precisely where ‘O Brother Where Art Thou?’, ‘Fargo’, ‘The Big Lebowski’ and so many other Coen staples triumph — that is, in counterbalancing the high-stakes drama with a healthy dose of tongue-in-cheek humor — ‘The Ladykillers’ emphatically falls apart.
Jul 11, 2024 · From Blood Simple to No Country for Old Men, the Coen Brothers are a legendary director duo who have created some of the greatest modern films. The Coen Brothers are cultural legends and continue to have an impact on cinema through films such as The Big Lebowski and Fargo.
Jan 26, 2024 · From the just fine to simply divine, EW ranks the Coen brothers' filmography, which has enthralled, bemused, and entertained film fans and critics alike for decades.
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