Directed by Joel Coen • 1991 • United States
Starring John Turturro, John Goodman, Judy Davis
The Coen brothers’ darkly surreal journey through 1940s Hollywood casts John Turturro as the titular, Clifford Odets–esque New York playwright who moves to LA to work as a screenwriter for Capitol Pictures and finds himself sucked into the nightmare side of the dream factory as he contends with creative block and a series of increasingly hallucinatory and disturbing events. Winner of the Palme d’Or, Best Director, and Best Actor awards at Cannes, this enigmatic black-comic odyssey moves through a series of audacious narrative and tonal shifts that only the Coens could orchestrate with such assuredness.
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A Serious Man
Directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen • 2009 • United States
Starring Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Fred MelamedThe Coen brothers’ acerbic, anxiety-inducing portrait of a man in crisis features a sensational performance from Michael Stuhlbarg as a 1960s Jewish physics professor at a Minnesota...
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True Grit
Directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen • 2010 • United States
Starring Jeff Bridges, Hailee Steinfeld, Josh BrolinOriginally filmed in 1969 as a John Wayne vehicle, Charles Portis’s classic western novel gets a truer, grittier adaptation courtesy of the Coen brothers. Jeff Bridges is marvelously ...
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The Hudsucker Proxy
Directed by Joel Coen • 1994 • United States
Starring Tim Robbins, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Paul NewmanThe Coen brothers’ sparky satire of corporate greed is an irresistibly inventive take on the Preston Sturges/Frank Capra–style screwball comedy constructed with clockwork precision. When the foun...
