Directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen • 2007 • United States
Starring Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin
A deadly game of chance and destiny plays out against the stark backdrop of early-1980s West Texas in Joel and Ethan Coen’s powerful adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s novel. When he happens upon more than two million dollars from a drug deal turned desert massacre, a retired welder and Vietnam veteran (Josh Brolin) sets into motion a wave of senseless, inexorable violence as he’s stalked across the plains by a soul-weary sheriff (Tommy Lee Jones) and a psychopathic hit man (Javier Bardem). Winner of four Academy Awards—including Best Picture, and Best Supporting Actor for the indelibly disturbing Bardem—this darkly deadpan borderlands noir keeps both the tension and the existential unease mounting through each cruelly ironic twist of fate.
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The Big Lebowski
Directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen • 1998 • United States
Starring Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne MooreWith its ultraquotable dialogue and unforgettable characters who have imprinted themselves onto pop culture, this outrageously entertaining comedy has taken its place as one of the def...
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Raising Arizona
Directed by Joel Coen • 1987 • United States
Starring Nicolas Cage, Holly Hunter, John GoodmanThe delightfully sophomoric sophomore feature from the Coen brothers stars Nicolas Cage as a dim-bulb bandit whose solution to the infertility of his ex-cop wife (Holly Hunter) is to babynap one fourth...
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Miller’s Crossing
Directed by Joel Coen • 1990 • United States
Starring John Turturro, Gabriel Byrne, Albert FinneyA Roaring Twenties gangster saga that only the Coen brothers could concoct, MILLER’S CROSSING marries the hard-boiled sensibility of classic noir fiction with the filmmakers’ trademark savory dialog...
