Coens

[Thomas Eckhardt]

jbor wrote:

> I agree. I happened to catch their first movie, _Blood Simple_, some years
> back, and have been a big fan ever since.  _The Big Lebowski_ is a classic.
> I even liked _The Hudsucker Proxy_ when I saw it a couple of weeks ago, even
> though it was so stylised.

"Blood Simple" is great. Even better, I believe, is "Fargo", and I'll take this
once more as an opportunity to mention Sam Raimi, who is an old buddy of the
Coens and wrote the script to "Hudsucker's Proxy" (which is, along with "Arizona
Junior", the worst effort of the Coens IMHO), but who has gone on to direct one
of the most underrated movies of the Nineties. Raimi's "A Simple Plan" has often,
for obvious reasons, been compared to the wonderful "Fargo", but I think it is
even better. Also highly recommended.

Thomas