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TIFF’s Joel & Ethan Coen – Tall Tales Review: Fargo (1996)

The statue of Paul Bunyan located in Brainerd, Minnesota looms large throughout Fargo. It marks the entrance to the small town, and it casts a sort of eerie feel over many of the lingering shots of it....

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TIFF’s Joel & Ethan Coen – Tall Tales Review: No Country for Old Men (2007) –...

No Country for Old Men, at the risk of sounding predictable, is one of the Coen Brothers’s great achievements – dark, lurid, mysterious, but not without their usual strokes of humor. Only this time,...

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TIFF’s Joel & Ethan Coen – Tall Tales Review: Blood Simple (1984) – NP Approved

Film-noir characters always had the right moves no matter what the circumstances were. They lurked in shadows to conceal their faces in the stark inky blacks of black and white photography, fell into...

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TIFF’s Joel & Ethan Coen – Tall Tales Review: O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)

O Brother, Where Art Thou? is one of the Coen brothers’ funniest and nearly forgotten films. The reason it was forgotten so quickly is that the soundtrack became so popular that people forgot that it...

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TIFF’s Joel & Ethan Coen – Tall Tales Review: Raising Arizona (1987)

The Coen Brothers’ second feature, Raising Arizona, is probably their most outwardly zany film. It seems everything is a little bit crazy, from Nicolas Cage’s constant dumbfounded looks to the demon...

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TIFF’s Joel & Ethan Coen – Tall Tales Review: Miller’s Crossing (1990) – NP...

A fedora blows into a wooded crossroads, surrounded by a bed of delicate flora and grass that sways in the wind like wisps of baby's hair in the afternoon sun. A sudden gust of wind carries the fedora...

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TIFF’s Joel & Ethan Coen – Tall Tales Review: Barton Fink (1991)

Through the Coen Brothers’ vigilant style of punctuating the psychological with precise camera movements, Barton Fink (1991) generates a striking portrayal of inner turmoil. Feelings of anguish and...

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TIFF’s Joel & Ethan Coen – Tall Tales Review: The Big Lebowski (1998) – NP...

Joel and Ethan Coen are masters at creating characters. Their genius lies in how they drive those characters by making them frolic randomly across the screen. The Big Lebowski was made during a really...

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TIFF’s Joel & Ethan Coen – Tall Tales Review: A Serious Man (2009) – NP Approved

The Coen brothers have a real skill for surprise, zigging when everyone expects them to zag.  Take their run of films from the mid to late 2000’s.  After the underwhelming one-two punch of Intolerable...

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TIFF’s Joel & Ethan Coen – Tall Tales Review: True Grit (2010)

A funny thing happened on the way to me reviewing True Grit. As I sat down to rewatch it I had firmly in my mind my initial critical impression from seeing it in theaters several years ago. That...

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Review: Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)

Ten minutes into Inside Llewyn Davis we are captivated by Joel and Ethan Coen’s technique: those controlled compositions, steady tonal rhythms, and wisdom regarding the script are divine (divine...

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TIFF’s Joel & Ethan Coen – Tall Tales Review: Fargo (1996)

The statue of Paul Bunyan located in Brainerd, Minnesota looms large throughout Fargo. It marks the entrance to the small town, and it casts a sort of eerie feel over many of the lingering shots of it....

View Article

TIFF’s Joel & Ethan Coen – Tall Tales Review: No Country for Old Men (2007) –...

No Country for Old Men, at the risk of sounding predictable, is one of the Coen Brothers’s great achievements – dark, lurid, mysterious, but not without their usual strokes of humor. Only this time,...

View Article


TIFF’s Joel & Ethan Coen – Tall Tales Review: Blood Simple (1984) – NP Approved

Film-noir characters always had the right moves no matter what the circumstances were. They lurked in shadows to conceal their faces in the stark inky blacks of black and white photography, fell into...

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TIFF’s Joel & Ethan Coen – Tall Tales Review: O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)

O Brother, Where Art Thou? is one of the Coen brothers’ funniest and nearly forgotten films. The reason it was forgotten so quickly is that the soundtrack became so popular that people forgot that it...

View Article


TIFF’s Joel & Ethan Coen – Tall Tales Review: Raising Arizona (1987)

The Coen Brothers’ second feature, Raising Arizona, is probably their most outwardly zany film. It seems everything is a little bit crazy, from Nicolas Cage’s constant dumbfounded looks to the demon...

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TIFF’s Joel & Ethan Coen – Tall Tales Review: Miller’s Crossing (1990) – NP...

A fedora blows into a wooded crossroads, surrounded by a bed of delicate flora and grass that sways in the wind like wisps of baby's hair in the afternoon sun. A sudden gust of wind carries the fedora...

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