My personal top 5 is:
5)Raising Arizona
4)Miller's Corssing
3)No Country for Old Men
2)Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?
1)Inside Llweyn Davis
Yeah this was my first coen brothers film and the payoff at the very end is amazing
Fargo, Miller's Crossing, No Country For Old Men, and Lebowski are all pretty close for me. They really might be my favorite filmmakers.
I don't know if it counts really but Ballad of Buster Scruggs was incredible as well
I'd go as far as to say they're the best American filmmakers of all time.
Definitely in the conversation along with Kubrick, Speilberg, Tarantino, Scorsese, Coppola, etc.
I'd probably give it to them or Kubrick but I'm pretty far from a film expert haha.
Lol wtf am I talking about, Kubrick wasn't english. Though I know Hitchcock started in England. The 39 steps is pretty good
There was one movie he did called lifeboat but I can't find it anywhere.
Kubrick actually worked in England a lot cause that's where he lived and he hated flying. This video actually shows how they made scenes from Full Metal Jacket at an abandoned industrial site in England and got it almost perfectly accurate, partially because both locations used the same architectural designs by coincidence.
A Serious Man, I honestly think it's probably the best film about being Jewish I've ever seen
A film so Jewish that it makes me uncomfortable to imagine non-Jews watching it
Barton Fink is criminally underrated.
spoiler
John Goodman is my favorite maniac actor
Maaaaaaaaaybe edit out the spoiler?
But other than that, yeah I have to agree. O' Brother and Big Lebowski are the funnest Coen brothers, but images from Barton Fink just really sit in my brain more than any other of their films.
*if you say otherwise you are an antisemite.
Sorry, those are the rules.
Just watched this last night and came to the conclusion that it’s the best Coen Brothers movie. Was shocked to learn that it got somewhat mixed reactions from critics when it was released.
1 Barton Fink 2 Big Lebowsky 3 A serious man
I really love these character study comedies (1 and 3) and The Big Lebowsky is like a funnier version of The Long Goodbye. Also Barton Fink is a completely up his own ass neurotic socialist, a chapo poster from the 40s.
Really glad to see Inside Llewellyn Davis getting the respect it deserves. It came out to sort of mixed reviews and I was baffled.
In reverse order:
No Country for Old Men
Fargo
A
SimpleSerious ManOh Brother Where Art Thou
Inside Llewellyn Davis
