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Hail, Caesar! – A playful but unrealised Coen Brothers romp

Posted on May 17, 2016 by observationblogger — Leave a comment

I finally saw the Coen Brothers’ latest Hail, Caesar! (click for IMDB overview). It’s very playful, multilayered, satirical and witty as you would expect from the highly original Coen duo. Stylistically and comedically it felt reminiscent of a Mel Brook’s…

Bridge of Spies 2015

Posted on October 22, 2015 by observationblogger — Leave a comment

While it is indeed a political drama about the cold war, I just didn’t expect it to be so entertaining. It felt more reminiscent of an Indiana Jones adventure, as James Donovan travels to Berlin at the time the wall…

Tagged with: Bridge of Spies, Coen brothers, Cold War, Tom hanks. Steven Spielberg
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Inside Llewyn Davis – The Coen Brothers

Posted on February 8, 2014 by observationblogger — 6 Comments

Inside Llewyn Davis is about a folk singer trying, but not very successfully to make it ‘big’ in the early 1960s Greenwich Village. Llewyn is a lost man trapped inside a beastly world where its unremittingly bad karma pounds down…

Tagged with: cat, Coen brothers, Inside Llewyn Davis, oscars
Posted in Movies and TV, Music

Barton Fink (Coen Brothers) – A Screenplay Masterpiece

Posted on December 24, 2013 by observationblogger — Leave a comment

Such is the allure of watching engrossing and dynamic characters like those in Barton Fink, the Coen Brothers 1991 cinematic gem, that if I had my time all over again I would focus every ounce of my efforts on screenwriting.…

Tagged with: Barton Fink, Big Lebowski, Coen brothers, Hollywood, Inside Llewyn Davis, John Goodman
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