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[David Morris]

Big L was great, but so was Raising Arizona, Blood Simple, Barton Fink...

On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 12:44 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> cant see them ever doing anything better than Lebowski (comedy) and No
> Country for Old Men (drama)--the latter I would argue is better than the
> book
>
> the series Fargo (I thought the movie overrated) on American cable TV
> which is produced by the Coens is worthy, too
> rich
>
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 1:55 AM, Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> It’s entirely likely that there’s a much finer design to *Hail, Caesar!*
>> than I’ve credited the Coens here. Maybe on a second viewing, I won’t be
>> bogged down so hard looking for a thread to follow. (Shagginess is hardly a
>> sin though, yes *Lebowski <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVCtkzIXYzQ>*?).
>> And I’ve failed to point out some of the fine performances here—Josh Brolin
>> anchors the film admirably (although half the time he was on the screen, I
>> kept hoping the film would turn into *Inherent Vice*). *Hail, Caesar!*
>> has plenty of great moments, and those moments, like I said, might cohere
>> into something sharper upon a second screening. But right now there’s
>> nothing that compels me toward a second screening any time soon.
>>
>>
>>
>> http://biblioklept.org/2016/02/16/the-coen-brothers-film-hail-caesar-is-less-than-the-sum-of-its-parts/
>>
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