Sparky

i was pretty disappointed with A Serious Man

but everything else was great.

TheCunningStunt

My favourite is a toss up between Fargo and No Country For Old Men.

I think Fargo just edges it though.

boo boo

I still need to see Blood Simple, Millers Crossing, Man Who Wasn't There, Burn After Reading and Serious Man. But yeah, they're way up there among my favorites.

Raising Arizona is their best film IMO. No Country, Barton Fink, No Country, Fargo and Big Lebowski are also way up there for me.

Only films of theirs I don't really like are Intolerable Cruelty and Ladykillers.

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TheCunningStunt

Their latest project has the potential to be great. although it's a western type. Been there, done that. Why don't they do something different? But meh, we'll see.

joderu95

1. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
2. Fargo
3. The Big Lebowski
4. No Country For Old Men
5. Raising Arizona
6. The Man Who Wasn't There
7. Burn After Reading
8. The Hudsucker Proxy
9. Miller's Crossing
10. Intolerable Cruelty

And I'm guessing A Serious Man would be there if I'd seen it.

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Nine Black Poppies

Same. And given that, I think I'd go something like this:

1. Barton Fink
2. Fargo
3. The Big Lebowski
4. Raising Arizona
5. No Country for Old Men
6. Miller's Crossing
7. Blood Simple
8. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
9. A Serious Man
10. The Man Who Wasn't There
11. The Hudsucker Proxy
12. Burn After Reading
13. Intolerable Cruelty
14. The Ladykillers

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Janszoon

They've never done a western.

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Nine Black Poppies

NCfOM is a western, though. A modern/revisionist one, yeah--kind of a hybrid thriller, but I'd still consider it a western.

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Janszoon

Considering that westerns as a genre are largely defined by taking place during a particular time period, I would say no, No Country For Old Men is not a western. For that matter, the plot doesn't particularly resemble a western either.

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boo boo

Are you kidding?

The mood and narrative is totally like a western, and it is set in Texas, a place where a lot of people still have a cowboy mentality, which the 3 main characters in the film all have.

I mean, Chigruh is just your traditional mysterous badass that's typical of many westerns, Tom Bell is your kind hearted sheriff trying to do right and Moss is a conflicted guy who does some questionable things in the persuit of a better life and is in way over his head.

They're modern takes on old archtypes that go back to Ford, Leone, Peckinpah and all those guys. The coens themselve cite Peckinpah as a major influence in particular.

No Country takes conventions of the western genre, puts them in a modern context and adds a more existential and nihilistic perspective and a less romanticized point of view, similar to what Peckinpah and Leone did in their own era. I think of it as a modern western (or 80s western to be more specific), in the same way that Firefly, Cowboy Bebop and Trigun are furtistic sci fi westerns.

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