[quote]jjackkrash wrote:
[quote]Big Kahuna wrote:
[quote]drunkpig wrote:
[quote]Big Kahuna wrote:
[quote]drunkpig wrote:
[quote]Big Kahuna wrote:
I feel like I manage to unknowingly turn every thread into a film debate, I should try to stop doing this kind of thing…[/quote]
Meh. Unless it’s a Guy Ritchie film, or something by the Cohen Brothers, or Mike Judge - I’m quite ambivalent when it comes to who made what. [/quote]
Speaking of The Coen Brothers, I saw “A Serious Man” not that long ago. It’s very under the radar, should get far more exposure than it does. I actually think it might be among their best (which is a tough act to decide on when you really look through all the films).
I also look forward to their newest, “Inside Llewyn Davis”, I’ve heard incredibly good things.[/quote]
Yes. “A Serious Man”. Excellent film. Suicidally depressing.
“Barton Fink” has to rank very close to the top of my favorite Coen Brothers films. But as you say - picking a true favorite from their catalog is extremely tough to do.
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I love Barton Fink, Turturro and Goodman go so well together, it’s no surprise they kept casting them. Very bizarre film, I like that they decided on that kind of thing early on, strange and creepy but still incredibly humorous.[/quote]
Raising Arizona, hands down. You get more for your money in the pre-credits intro than you get out of most other feature length films. Next is O’Brother Where Art Thou, IMO.
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I think if I had to pick a few, in no particular order, it would be:
No Country For Old Men, Fargo and Raising Arizona.
No Country For Old Men because I love their take on Anton Chigurh.
Fargo because I think the calamity of the plot and the distinction between the reckless, violent characters and the chirpy Canadian police chief is pure genius. Also William H Macy was the perfect choice for the paranoid, slimy plotter.
And Raising Arizona because it gives me hope for Nicolas Cage’s acting career, there is no one I want to succeed more than Nicolas Cage.