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10 Coen Brothers Films You Should See

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March 8, 2016

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♦With the Coen Brothers’ latest movie Hail, Caesar! out in the UK now, Tripwire picks its 10 best Coen movies of their career so far…

1. Barton Fink
This dark drama that examines the worst excesses of Hollywood in the 1940s is the Coens at their most ambitious and thought-provoking

2. The Big Lebowski
Comedy noir like Dashiell Hammett on acid with a brilliant performance from Jeff Bridges as Jeff Lebowski aka The Dude.

3. No Country For Old Men
Dark western drama in a modern setting featuring one of the greatest contemporary onscreen villains in the shape of Javier Bardem as Anton Chigurh

4. The Man Who Wasn’t There
Beautifully shot monochrome film noir with a career best turn from Billy Bob Thornton as the protagonist.

5. A Serious Man
A film that asks more questions than its answers about the burden of being Jewish with a memorable central performance from Michael Stuhlbarg as Larry Gopnik.

6. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
A slice of Southern gothic with a trio of likeable central characters and a wonderfully otherworldy setting. This film showed that George Clooney had range.

7. Inside Llewyn Davis
This film brings early sixties New York to life with style and panache with the Coens’ usual trademarks used to good effect here.

8. Miller’s Crossing
A stylised gangster movie with a memorable Gabriel Byrne at its core, which took the well-worn genre and turned it on its head.

9. The Hudsucker Proxy
A love letter to the screwball comedies of the 1940s with exceptional work from Paul Newman and Tim Robbins as the daft stooge who isn’t as stupid as his puppetmasters think he is.

10. Raising Arizona
The first film that really felt like a Coen Brothers movie with a winning performance from Nicolas Cage and a clever and funny script.