Philosophy of film with the Coens.
(DVD)

Title from container.

Wide screen.

Director, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen.

Fargo: Frances McDormand, William H. Macy, Steve Buscemi, Harve Presnell, Peter Stormare.

Inside Llewyn Davis: Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, John Goodman, Garrett Hedlund, F. Murray Abraham.

Burn after reading: George Clooney, Frances McDormand, John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton, Richard Jenkins.

Blood simple: John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya, Samm-Art Williams, M. Emmet Walsh.

Fargo: A midwestern policewoman investigates a series of brutal and interconnected crimes. Steadily, she tightens the net on the killers and their accomplices in a kidnapping scheme gone wildly wrong.

Inside Llewyn Davis: Follows a week in the life of a young folk singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961. He is at a crossroads. Guitar in tow, huddled against the unforgiving New York winter, he is struggling to make it as a musician against seemingly insurmountable obstacles, some of them of his own making.

Burn after reading: Osbourne Cox is a CIA analyst who quits his job after being demoted. He decides to write a memoir about his life in the CIA. His wife, Katie, wants a divorce and, based on the advice of her divorce lawyer, she downloads many of his personal and financial files onto a disc. Katie's lover is Treasury agent Harry Pfarrer. The disc eventually finds its way to Hardbodies, a workout gym. An employee of the gym, Chad Feldheimer obtains the disc and ascertains that it contains classified government information. Along with his fellow employee, Linda Litzke, he intends to use the disc to blackmail Osbourne. When blackmailing him fails, Linda decides to take the information to the Russian embassy. At the embassy, she hands the disc over to the Russians, promising that she will give them more information. Linda and Chad don't have any more information, so they decide to break into Cox's house. This brings about a series of events that no one foresees.

Blood simple: "Joel and Ethan Coen's career-long darkly comic road trip through misfit America began with this razor-sharp, hard-boiled neonoir set somewhere in Texas, where a sleazy bar owner releases a torrent of violence with one murderous thought ... Blood Simple reinvented the film noir for a new generation, marking the arrival of a filmmaking ensemble that would transform the American independent cinema scene.

Rating: R.

DVD, wide screen.

English dialogue.