You's Fancy Pants...All o' Yuz (30 Years)

[Guest Lobo]

Released 30 years ago this week, "Miller's Crossing."  Not the best Coen Bros. movie, not the funniest Coen Bros. movie, not my favorite Coen Bros. movie.  

But..."Look in your heart", it is the most beautiful Coen Bros. movie.  And that's saying something.  

Launched a lot of careers, including that of Longhorn Great and Academy Award Winner-Marcia Gay Harden.

Great film to watch over a lazy holiday weekend.  

 

[billfromlaketravis 11566]

25 minutes ago, Lobo said:

Released 30 years ago this week, "Miller's Crossing."  Not the best Coen Bros. movie, not the funniest Coen Bros. movie, not my favorite Coen Bros. movie.  

But..."Look in your heart", it is the most beautiful Coen Bros. movie.  And that's saying something.  

Launched a lot of careers, including that of Longhorn Great and Academy Award Winner-Marcia Gay Harden.

Great film to watch over a lazy holiday weekend.  

 

Available on the Starz app. I know what I'm watching after the Rockets game tonight. 

[TwiceHorn 31667]

Are you giving me the high hat????

[RPM 26419]

The only Coen Brothers film I've not seen start to finish. I've seen bits of the start, middle and ending, but not the whole film start to finish. No reason why. It's just happened.

[C-Man 27315]

So great. I love it. “What’s the rumpus?”

[Al Czervik 1238]

‘I’m talking about.....ethics’ 
 

‘An interesting ethical question’

 

Al’s favorite movie, Marcia Gay Harden mmmmmmmmm..........

 

 

 

 

[mr. sunshine 2834]

22 hours ago, C-Man said:

So great. I love it. “What’s the rumpus?”

My favorite Coen brothers movie and I think it’s damn near perfect. There, I said it 

[C-Man 27315]

My favorite Coen brothers movie and I think it’s damn near perfect. There, I said it 

I can see that. If Fargo and Lebowski weren’t so perfect, I would agree. The Coen Brothers catalogue is unreal. Gabriel Byrne is a bad ass as Tom Reagan. The score and cinematography are outstanding.

[Guest Lobo]

I know this isn't the right way to judge a film, but another reason "Miller's Crossing" is, as I said in the OP, not the best but the most beautiful Coen Brothers film to me...is because it comes on the heels of "Raising Arizona"...which to me, and for all of eternity, will be tied with "The Big Lebowski" for funniest Coen Brothers film of all time. 

Anyway, they do "Raising Arizona" in 1987, they're big coming out was this absurdist, black comedy film, that turned the way you stylistically direct comedies on its head.  And then they hunker down for almost three years to write "Miller's Crossing."  A complete departure from their previous work.  Everything from the color palate, to the scoring/soundtrack, to the dialogue, to the casting methodology for the secondary characters, and it's even the cinematography career peak for Barry Sonnenfield.  The mood in the film is so uncharacteristically flatline for the Coen Brothers.  Despite the volatile arcs, the atmosphere of the movie does not actually change all that much.  However, for the viewer, you are berated down and lifted high so many times...over and over again in such a beautifully subtle way.  It's a story of life that never hits you over the head with it.  But you're as emotionally vested in this movie as any other tale of morality, none of which are as furtively cultivated as "Miller's Crossing."  

If you ever get the chance, watch "Raising Arizona" and "Miller's Crossing" back-to-back, as the Coen Brothers intended.  It's quite a ride.  

[TwiceHorn 31667]

Rewatched this yesterday.

Why was Drop Johnson screaming during the climactic scene with Reagan and The Dane?

In my memory, that was Michaeal Badalucco, the chauffeur, but my memory was inaccurate.

[Beau Vine 54504]

Oh, Daaaaaanny Boy!!