We don’t need no stinking…

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is a film that’s been lurking in my brain since childhood, having been on … More

Everlasting uncertainty

Having watched a lot of Coen Brothers movies lately, I’m starting to see their kind of purposefully aimless plotting as … More

Roger Deakins’s brilliant cinematography has been conspicuous in some of the Coen Brothers’s films—in O Brother, Where Art Thou?, for … More

At the point at which Burn After Reading was released, the Coen Brothers had a certain amount of form, in … More

Of the four films that Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall made together, Dark Passage is undoubtedly the most outlandish, in … More

In Alex Garland’s recent science fiction-series Devs (which is in my opinion as good a piece of SF as has … More

Watching a film like The Big Sleep in 2020 it’s almost impossible to see past its mythology. This was a … More

I guess no-one hits the target every time, creatively speaking: I certainly know I don’t. But after our project to … More

Having recently watched the Coen Brothers’ Intolerable Cruelty, a film whose production is apparently predicated on a chemistry between the … More

It’s an interesting proposition, a romantic comedy starring Hollywood ‘A’-listers, written and directed by the Coen Brothers. What would these … More

‘Here’s looking at you, kid’. ‘Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks … More

O Brother, Where Art Thou? is an altogether more straightforward seeming film than the Coen Brothers’ typical output. Goofy comedies … More

Technique is a weirdly invisible thing in film. Everything a director or an editor does is right there in front … More

Certain themes and techniques recur throughout Joel and Ethan Coen’s films. Convoluted crime stories with arbitrary conclusions in which none … More