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.
fit
No Country for Old Men
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
Blood SimpleRaising ArizonaMiller's CrossingBarton FinkThe Hudsucker ProxyFargoThe Big LebowskiO Brother, Where Art Thou?The Man Who Wasn't ThereIntolerable CrueltyThe LadykillersParis Je T'aimeNo Country for Old MenBurn After ReadingA Serious ManTrue GritInside Llewyn DavisHail, Caesar!The Ballad of Buster ScruggsThe Tragedy of Macbeth