Fargo - Too Good to Be True
After the inexcusable commercial failure of the deliriously stylized (and quite expensive) The Hudsucker Proxy, the Coen Brothers went back home to make a low-budget, "true life" crime film - and ended up with one of the greatest films of all time.
Blood Simple - Death and Texas
Some directors stumble out of the gate and work their way to later greatness. The Coen Brothers came out of the box a near-complete package.
Fall Focus on Directors - Joel & Ethan Coen
We continue our Fall Focus on Directors with a selection of films from Joel and Ethan Coen, screening all this month at Plaza Theatre.
Spielberg at AFI
Steven Spielberg gives a master class in a series of clips from a seminar for film students held shortly after the release of Close Encounters.
Close Encounters: Spielberg Makes Contact
In which Hollywood's Boy Wonder follows up the biggest movie of all time with a more intimate kind of blockbuster, and takes his first step towards more personal filmmaking.