Joel and Ethan Coen’s fourth feature film, Barton Fink was written in less than a month as a palette cleanser during the difficult scripting process for their third effort, Miller’s Crossing. That the film seems so preoccupied with the inner life of a man struggling to scribe Read More …
Hail, Caesar! is two movies that are really one movie: the Coen Brothers film Hail, Caesar! that you the viewer are watching, and Capitol Pictures’ troubled prestige picture Hail, Caesar!. The blurred line between the film and the golden age of Hollywood film-within-a-film is immediate and obvious, placed Read More …
By Robby Karol Miller’s Crossing has always ranked neck-and-neck with The Big Lebowski as my favorite Coen Brothers film. And I think part of that is how both of them take a sideways approach to two of my favorite writers, Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. If The Big Read More …
There’s never been a better excuse to watch as many noir films as humanly possible than the cinephile community’s current favorite portmanteau. Deadshirt has decided to throw in with a month of essays highlighting some of our favorite works in the pantheon for Noirvember… We’ve been Read More …