Blood Simple
Raising Arizona
No Country for Old Men
Fargo
Miller's Crossing
The Big Lebowski
O Brother Where Art Thou
Burn After Reading
True Grit
“Witness” with Harrison Ford; great movie thriller/love story set in Amish country.
I’m saving this thread. What a list of great movies to watch. As a retiree, my new bucket list; a feast for the eyes.
Yes to the Coen brothers list. True Grit is on my top ten list. It walks the drama/comedy tightrope as well as any film I’ve ever seen. Hailee Steinfeld, a fourteen year old actor playing a 14 year old girl, deserved her Oscar nomination for the way she bullied Rooster Cogburn/Jeff Bridges into submission, as old Rooster discovers the daughter he never had and never knew he missed until he encountered Maddie Ross. I have several times suggested it to teachers as a great coming of age story. The coming of age genre is overloaded with stories about discovering the opposite sex, but of course “coming of age” = becoming an adult. The best ones, IMHO, don’t deal with the boy girl thing. In this case, Maddie charms Rooster into submission with her relentless determination and ends up shooting the bad guy she was after. True Grit indeed. Should be taught in all the schools as an antidote to woke.