Best Coen Brothers Films

[L.A.P.]

The Coen Brothers are probably one of the greatest directors of our time and I would say that my personal favorite I would say is definitely Barton Fink.

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[Aloysius]

I enjoyed No Country For Old Men.

[Political_Chucky]

Christopher Nolan is also another great director. I just saw Inception a few hours ago.

But I haven't seen any coen movies besides no country for old men...what are some others?

[L.A.P.]

Christopher Nolan is also another great director. I just saw Inception a few hours ago.

But I haven't seen any coen movies besides no country for old men...what are some others?

Christopher Nolan is also a great director especially his early work, my favorite by him is Memento (besides The Dark Knight).

Burn After Reading was my first movie I saw by them, The Big Lebowski is their comedic classic as it should be, Barton Fink is my personal favorite and I think it is underrated and when I first saw it I thought this was their magus opus. I haven't seen Fargo yet but that's supposed to be their magus opus.

[RED DAVE]

Let's not forget Miller's Crossing.

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[L.A.P.]

Let's not forget Miller's Crossing.

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Haven't seen it yet.

[Os Cangaceiros]

I've seen:

Blood Simple
Miller's Crossing
Fargo
Raising Arizona
Barton Fink
O Brother Where Art Thou
The Ladykillers
The Big Lebowski
No Country For Old Men
True Grit
The Hudsucker Proxy

Yeah. I've seen quite a few. I've liked pretty much all of them, except for The Ladykillers.

[NGNM85]

The Big Lebowski is the absolute best, hands-down. It's one of my top-five favorite films of all time.

[southernmissfan]

The Big Lebowski is the absolute best, hands-down. It's one of my top-five favorite films of all time.

I completely agree. It's one of those films that never gets old. Every time you watch it you discover something new.

[Diello]

Barton Fink is outrageously good.

[Sensible Socialist]

A Serious Man was a great dark comedy. It has one of the greatest movie villians (Sy Ableman) of all time.

[NGNM85]

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[Dóchas]

Probably the best corn brothers films I've seen are

Fargo
No country for old men
The big lebowski
Burn after reading (not as good as the other but still typical coen brothers style)

They really are incredible directors. You can tell it's a coen brothers film without out even checking they just have a brilliantly unique style... Love em!

[Niccolò Rossi]

I love the Coen Brothers.

My favourite by far, and one of their films given the least attention, is A Serious Man (2009).

Nic.

[Rss]

The Big Lebowski. There's just no contest in my opinion.

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[Admiral Swagmeister G-Funk]

The Big Lebowski is one of my favourite all time movies. O' Brother, Where art Though? Was brilliant too. Fargo, No Country For Old Men and Miller's Crossing are great films also. I love the Coen Brothers, some of my favourite filmmakers.

[brigadista]

only 2 i like are
the big lebowski and
a serious man
dont really understand the others i have seen but i want to see no country for old men

[DuracellBunny97]

To me, Fargo is by far the best, with The Big Lebowski in second, however I haven't seen Barton Fink

[Vanguard1917]

Fargo was excellent. Brilliantly casted, and a seemingly endless list of great characters.

True Grit is also meant to be very good (i believe good copies are available on the internet nudge wink).

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[Formaldehyde and Seek]

O' Brother Where Art Thou was my favorite by far.

[Bardo]

The Big Lebowski and O' Brother are my favorites. Classic, classic films.

[Rusty Shackleford]

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i <3 the big lebowski.

Barton Fink was excellent too.

Fargo was awesome

<3 No Country for Old Men

Raising Arizona was great

and so on.


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[Lyev]

I didn't like Burn After Reading much.

[Jimmie Higgins]

I used to like the Cohen Brothers, now I think I hate them. Raising Arizona, Big Lebowski, O Brother Where Art Thou are some of my fav films never the less and most of their movies have a really cinematic and excellently crafted set-piece somewhere in there.

Strike that, I don't hate them, I think they are masters at setting up either suspense or comedy scenes. Really up there with Hitchcock and Polanski and the other great directors when it comes to that. But they are also really misanthropic in outlook and view humanity as a bunch of idiots so often I'm left with a bad taste in my mouth. That's why I prefer their comedies to their thrillers because their idiot characters are silly and that usually also makes them a little more sympathetic that the tragically dumb characters of their thrillers.

[maskerade]

Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.

Don't fuck with the Jesus.

The Big Lebowski is the best movie ever made. It actually gets better each time you watch it...

Off to occupy various administrational buildings with some thai stick

[Jimmie Higgins]

I didn't like Burn After Reading much.Watching Piranha 3-D in 2-D at a drive-in theater in a convertible during a rainstorm would be more enjoyable than watching that again. And even Burn After Reading would be more entertaining than watching their awful remake of that Peter Sellers movie staring Tom Hanks.

Edit: also love Maude Lebowski. "My art has been commended as being strongly vaginal which bothers some men. The word itself makes some men uncomfortable. Vagina." "ten thousand bones... or clams... or whatever you call them"

Johnson? Marmot. Where's the money Lebowski. We takes the money!

"these men are nihilists, there's nothing to be afraid of"

[ComradeOm]

Miller's Crossing is criminally underrated

[Os Cangaceiros]

I watched A Serious Man last night. It was good. It basically just featured the main character getting fucked by life for an entire film.

[praxis1966]

I dunno if you'd call me an authority, but I have actually seen the entirety of the Coen brothers' catalog (including Blood Simple, which most people forget about), so there's that, lol. I really don't like comparing their comedies and thrillers, so I'll just say that No Country for Old Men was my favorite of their thrillers, O Brother Where Art Thou was my favorite of their comedies. That's in no way meant to disparage A Serious Man, Fargo, or The Big Lebowski... Those are all up there.

Anyway, I'd encourage everybody here to go see True Grit if they haven't already. Now, I know some people will say the Coens sold out by doing a remake. But, it's not so much a remake as a revisiting. It's much closer to the book than the John Wayne original. I personally thought that Bridges and Steinfeld gave Oscar-worthy performances... Besides, the banter between Bridges and Damon in and of itself is worth the price of admission alone. Think O Brother Where Art Thou meets No Country for Old Men meets Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man.

[ed miliband]

I watched The Man Who Wasn't There last night and it was pretty good.

I guess The Big Lebowski though.

[Lyev]

Watching Piranha 3-D in 2-D at a drive-in theater in a convertible during a rainstorm would be more enjoyable than watching that again. And even Burn After Reading would be more entertaining than watching their awful remake of that Peter Sellers movie staring Tom Hanks.Ah I am glad someone else thinks so. It's a shame really, because it was kind of a waste of a good cast (f.e. John Malkovich). And it's interesting that you described them as misanthropic - I think sympathy or some kind of connection to the characters is what Burn After Reading lacked. The farce element of it was sort of cumbersome and over-the-top, too. The stupidity of Brad Pitt's character becomes really boring after a while.