Posted on Tuesday, August 3rd, 2021 by Joshua Meyer
In news that is sure to send cinephiles sinking to their knees, shouting “No!” to the heavens, writer-director
Ethan Coen appears to be done making movies…for now, at least.
Let’s all take a deep breath and try to process this rationally. The news comes thirdhand from a reliable source: specifically, composer
Carter Burwell, a frequent collaborator of Ethan and his brother, Joel Coen‘s, whose long filmmaking partnership together has produced such modern classics as
Fargo and
Now, we have some clarification about what led Ethan to sit out
The Tragedy of
Are the Coen Brothers done making movies together?
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Blood, blizzards, and the true(ish) story behind Fargo
The mischevious Coen brothers ran rings around their audiences for decades, before revealing a woman blitzed in a woodchipper inspired Fargo
You betcha! Frances McDormand as Marge in Fargo
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It’s 25 years since Fargo – “a homespun murder story”, as it was then billed – premiered in Cannes. We think of it now as quintessential Coen Brothers, and part of the pantheon of great American crime movies. Belatedly, it spawned the spin-off TV series on FX in 2014, which has run by now to four seasons and counting.
If you asked the average filmgoer to put on a Minnesotan accent, there’s a sizeable chance they’d attempt an impression of Marge Gunderson, Frances McDormand’s pregnant cop, with her litany of “you betcha”s and “real good then”s and “oh yaah”s. Thanks to Marge and every one of its finely etched characters, Fargo is part of the cultural furniture at this point – as enshrin