The Viewer Who Knew Just Enough: Point of View in BLOOD SIMPLE
2 Episodes
Observations on Film Art No. 41
With their razor-sharp debut BLOOD SIMPLE, Joel and Ethan Coen introduced the world to their striking sensibility and redefined film noir for a new generation. In this edition of Observations on Film Art, Professor David Bordwell explores how the brothers employ a sophisticated shuffling of viewpoints in order to generate nonstop suspense and surprise and to create a cool, sometimes comic detachment from the story’s increasingly berserk proceedings.
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The Viewer Who Knew Just Enough: Point of View in BLOOD SIMPLE
Episode 1
With their razor-sharp debut BLOOD SIMPLE, Joel and Ethan Coen introduced the world to their striking sensibility and redefined film noir for a new generation. In this edition of Observations on Film Art, Professor David Bordwell explores how the brothers employ a sophisticated shuffling of viewp...
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1:35:39Episode 2Blood Simple
Episode 2
Directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen • 1984 • United States
Starring John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan HedayaJoel and Ethan Coen's career-long darkly comic road trip through misfit America began with this razor-sharp, hard-boiled neonoir set somewhere in Texas, where a sleazy bar owner releases...
