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The Important Cinema Club

#173 - The Unfunny Coen Brothers

The Important Cinema Club

Justin Decloux and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.7576 Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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We discuss the films of The Coen Brothers and watch THE LADYKILLERS, BURN AFTER READING and INTOLERABLE CRUELTY. This week on the Patreon episode we watched The Taking of Pelham One Two Three. Become a Patreon subscriber for $5 a month and get an exclusive episode every week! www.patreon.com/theimportantcinemaclub If you have any questions or comments, feel free to drop us a line at importantcinemaclubpodcast@gmail.com

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0:00.0

Hello, my name is Justin Kluor. I'm here today with Will Sloan.

0:07.7

And today, we're talking about the funniest filmmakers around, the Cohen brothers.

0:13.6

My God, it's been over 170 episodes. How are we now only getting to these guys, the

0:20.7

entry level, the filmmakers that every self-described

0:24.7

cinephile comes to love? Too popular, I think. Yeah. Do you ever feel passionately about the Cohen

0:31.0

brothers? Because I, you know, I saw Raising Arizona, and I loved it. And every other Cohen Brothers

0:37.2

movie that I saw following that,

0:39.5

I liked most of them, but my one thought was like, man, none of these are raising Arizona.

0:43.3

That's funny. You know, I mean, it's weird because, you know, I've seen the Big Lebowski

0:47.8

probably 10 times. I've seen many of their movies multiple times. They've made seven or

0:52.4

eight movies that I think are masterpieces. And so I do like them a lot, but I also don't feel like any particular personal relationship with them. But yeah, what I was going to say is that other than raising Arizona, it's very rare. I'm like, I'm going to reach for this Cohen brother film as my comfort food in the way that I hear people talk about Big Lobowski. I mean, I'd have to say that Blood Simple, when I made Impossible Horror, that was one of our main points of reference. But it's also not a film that I'm like, ah, love it. Seen it a hundred times. Well, I do think they're like some of the best filmmakers working, but I also think like, it's like chocolate or pizza. It's or Alfred Hitchcock, you know, These are things where it's like, yeah, yeah.

1:27.9

All the edible things. It's like, we all agree that these things are great. But it's like,

1:33.2

it's not mine, right? You know, I was really a Cohen Brothers and Barry Sonafeld kind of guy.

1:38.2

Once he left the fold. Once they started working with Deacons and started to rock that

1:41.8

color correction. Yeah, too beautiful. Yeah,

1:44.9

it was with, um, oh, brother, where artzow, which was famous for being the first, uh, digital intermediate where they color corrected in the computer. I'm like, oh, no, no, thank you. I'm just kidding. Roder Deacons makes a beautiful image. Now, for this episode, we were trying to think of what's a fun way we can approach this very familiar topic.

2:03.3

And we decided we were trying to think of what's a fun way we can approach

2:02.0

this very familiar topic. And we decided we're going to talk about Fargo. Yeah, no country for

2:07.1

old men, as you can tell from the clickbaity headline, we watch the movies that people consider

2:12.0

their worst. Which even that is not a particularly unique angle. I mean, every day on Twitter, somebody is ranking the Cohen Brothers movies.

2:20.9

Somewhere, there's a contrarian argument for every one of the movies that they've done that's considered bad.

2:26.3

So how about we start with what people consider their worst, the Lady Killers,

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