Joel Coen
20 titles · american independent
Fate, idiocy and precise craft. The Coen sensibility puts modestly competent people into schemes far beyond them and films the consequences with immaculate design and comic detachment.
Signature
- Meticulous framing paired with absurd incident.
- Regional dialect and idiom as comedy and characterisation.
- Crime plans that unravel through ordinary incompetence.
- Cosmic indifference played for laughs and for dread.
The Big Lebowski
Fargo
True Grit
Burn After Reading
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Hail, Caesar!
Inside Llewyn Davis
A Serious Man
Raising Arizona
Barton Fink
Miller's Crossing
The Man Who Wasn't There
The Ladykillers
Intolerable Cruelty
Blood Simple
The Hudsucker Proxy
The Tragedy of Macbeth
Paris Je T'aime
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