The Brothers Coen

This weekend has been a uniquely Coen experience. On friday we watched The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada which is obviously trying desperately to be a Coen brothers film and failed slightly.

Then we went to see No Country For Old Men the Coen’s latest outing, which truely puts them back on the neo-noir map as a stonking force to be reckoned with. If it wasn’t only January I would be proclaiming I had found my film of the year. No Country eclipses anything released in 2007 and will be a very hard flick to beat in the coming 344 days.

Finally I found Barton Fink in Morrisons for £2.50 and couldn’t resist. It’s a great bit of filmmaking, surreal and confusing at times as well as brilliantly scripted. The dialogue is just amazing. I can’t say it’s the best story they’ve ever told but it’s definitely worth checking out.

So here’s the weekend run down:

19th January – No Country for Old Men.

20th January – Barton Fink

20th January – Four Eyed Monsters

And yes… I’m still 5 behind… don’t look at me like that.

K

~ by K on January 21, 2008.