Mine is O, Brother Where Art Thou? because it's such a fun watch, it looks amazing, and the soundtrack is fire.
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It really is a lot of fun.
"Do not seek the treasure."
"Hwhaaat?!"
I still listen to the soundtrack it's so good!
My favorite is undoubtedly Hudsucker Proxy. Written with Sam Raimi, super fun screwball comedy. "You know, for kids!"
I think the BEST one is probably Fargo though.
Fargo is the massive outlier for me. Maybe it's because I came from the Midwest, but holy shit I was blown away by it
It's an incredible film. All of the performances are fantastic and it's so starkly beautiful. They've made a lot of good movies but Fargo will always be their masterpiece for me. It's just got a fuckin' vibe that no other movie has.
Think I may have to go watch it now...
It was between True Grit and Fargo for me.
It's amazing in how it constantly builds the stakes to something bad happening throughout while being such a tight narrative. It really is a masterpiece, among the best tragedies.
William H. Macy played such a good in-over-his-head sad sack.
I didn't know Raimi was a cowriter on that one; that's great!
They all lived together in an apartment at one point I think. Frances McDormand too if I remember correctly. Must have been an interesting place.
The Big Lebowski is my favorite
No Country for Old Men. Lebowski and Miller's Crossing are wonderful, but Old Country is a masterpiece.
The Big Lebowski and Fargo.
It's one of O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Raising Arizona, and The Big Lebowski.
I like nearly all of their filmography, but their silly shit is my favorite. Barton Fink is underrated though!
Raising Arizona is the perfect silly/earnest combination; it's my favorite Nicolas Cage movie.
A Serious Man
Raising Arizona.
Upvote for peak Nic Cage. Excellent movie!
Big Lebowski and O, Brother
Not even close imo. Hail, Caesar kinda sucked and was boring imo.
As the director of their own work:
True Grit and it is a really hard choice.
As the writer of someone else’s work:
A Bridge of Spies (Spielberg)
As a producer of someone else’s work:
Bad Santa
Oh, I've never seen Bridge of Spies or Bad Santa. I'll have to change that.
I absolutely loved Joel Coen's Macbeth though, if we're talking other writers.
Oh man, the hard part about picking my favorite Coen Brother movie iis today it is True Grit, tomorrow it is Fargo, the next day it is No Country For Old Men.
Those two are two of the greatest.
I would have loved to have seen the one that never happened. Not quite sure what the problem was:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yiddish_Policemen's_Union
"In the fall of 2012, however, Chabon told Mother Jones that "the Coen brothers wrote a draft of a script and then they seemed to move on," and that the film rights had "lapsed back to me."[23]"
Raising Arizona
O Brother, Where Art Thou? as a very close second.
Miller's Crossing, because I have no heart.