The spirituality of the Coen brothers

Toronto Star ^ | 9/12/2009 | Cathleen Falsani

[Saije]

Don't really know about the deeper meaning but Fargo is a great movie.

[spyone]

I loved Barton Fink.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Raising Arizona still cracks me up.

[Salamander]

I loved “O, Brother, Where Art Thou?”

Great soundtrack, too.

[FlingWingFlyer]

That makes two of us. Those guys might be a little strange but they do make some good movies. I've been a Nicolas Cage fan since Raising Arizona.

I think that if you're from Arizona, the movie is even funnier.

[BubbaJunebug]

My brother in law is in that film

[dynachrome]

“Millers Crossing” has even beat out “O Brother, Where art Thou?” as my favorite Coen Bros. movie

Check out their first one, “Blood Simple” for a fun ride!

[Mr. Jazzy]

“Intolerable Cruelty” is funny beyond words... And it has Ms. Zeta Jones and that ain’t bad.

[wardaddy]

I like Coen Bros films...less offensive than most.

[cherry]

“Raising Arizona” is pure genus if you like comedy and what can be said about “Fargo” other than a very dark movie that still made you feel good at the end...and then there’s “Oh Brother”...

[DManA]

Yea great. Can’t talk to anyone outside the area without them laughing and asking me if I’m from Fargo.

[Salamander]

I adore Cage.

He may be..um...”eccentric” but he’s a great talent.

He was perfect in “Knowing”.

[and naturally, I was wild about “Ghost Rider”]

His tour de force of “bizarre”, though, ~has~ to be “Vampire’s Kiss”.

I even loved “Lords of War” despite it not being a movie genre I’m really into.

I may be only person on earth who liked the Coen’s “No Country For Old Men”.

[Salamander]

Wow...I didn’t know they did that flick.

That was one trippy movie.

[Salamander]

“Raising Arizona” is one of the few movies I will watch every time it’s on.

He is just hysterically funny...[and hysterical] in that movie.

[FlingWingFlyer]

IMHO, “Knowing” is an underrated, outstanding movie. I detected some “overtly religious themes” in that one also.

[dynachrome]

Frances McDormand, Nick Hedaya, Charles Durning.

Kind of an early Fargo.

[Saije]

I thought No Country was good too, just saw it recently. Great performances by Josh Brolin and Javier Bardem and Tommy Lee Jones didn’t seem to be phoning it in like he has in most of his recent movies.

[dynachrome]

Whoops. M Emmett Walsh, tha is.

[CrosscutSaw]

I loved Barton Fink

I will show you the life of the mind!!!

[Salamander]

It kept me nailed to my seat which is unusual.

Normally, I’m hitting pause, having a snack, FReeping, playing with the dogs...just generally not watching a movie straight through.

[by the time it was over, I had to race to the bathroom...don’t drink a whole bottle of spring water before watching “Knowing”]....:))

I thought it was “religious”, too.

[and yes, I cried at the end]