With A Serious Man coming out, I'd thought it would be good to fire up the ole' consensus thread on the greatest contemporary filmmakers.
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A Serious Man
Burn After Reading
No Country for Old Men
The Ladykillers
Intolerable Cruelty
The Man Who Wasn't There
O Brother Where Art Thou?
The Big Lebowski
Fargo
The Hudsucker Proxy
Barton Fink
Miller's Crossing
Raising Arizona
Blood Simple
Burn After Reading - 8.5
No Country for Old Men - 10
The Ladykillers - 7
Intolerable Cruelty - 7.5
The Man Who Wasn't There - 8.5
O Brother Where Art Thou? - 9
The Big Lebowski - 10
Fargo - 10
The Hudsucker Proxy - 10
Barton Fink - 10
Miller's Crossing - 10
Raising Arizona - 10
Blood Simple - 8.5
Blood Simple - 8
Raising Arizona - 4
Miller's Crossing - 8
Barton Fink - 9
The Hudsucker Proxy - 5
Fargo - 10
The Big Lebowski - 9
O Brother Where Art Thou? - 6
The Man Who Wasn't There - 7
The Ladykillers - 3
No Country for Old Men - 9
Burn After Reading - 6
No Country for Old Men - 8.5
The Ladykillers - 5
The Man Who Wasn't There - 8
The Big Lebowski - 8.5
Fargo - 8
Barton Fink - 8.5
Miller's Crossing - 7
Blood Simple - 7
Burn After Reading - 8
No Country for Old Men - 10
The Ladykillers - 6
Intolerable Cruelty - 8
The Man Who Wasn't There - 9
O Brother Where Art Thou? - 8.5
The Big Lebowski - 10
Fargo - 9
The Hudsucker Proxy - 9
Barton Fink - 8.5
Miller's Crossing - 10
Raising Arizona - 8
Blood Simple - 8
Burn After Reading 7
No Country for Old Men 9.5
The Ladykillers 7
Intolerable Cruelty 6
The Man Who Wasn't There 7
O Brother Where Art Thou? 8
The Big Lebowski 6
Fargo 9
Miller's Crossing 8
Raising Arizona 5
Blood Simple 8
Burn After Reading
No Country for Old Men - 10
The Ladykillers - 7
Intolerable Cruelty - 8
The Man Who Wasn't There - 7
O Brother Where Art Thou? - 9
The Big Lebowski - 9
Fargo - 10
The Hudsucker Proxy - 7
Barton Fink - 10
Miller's Crossing - 7
Raising Arizona - 8.5
Blood Simple - 7
They have yet to make a movie I don't like.
Burn After Reading - 6
No Country for Old Men - 10
The Man Who Wasn't There - 7
O Brother Where Art Thou? - 6
The Big Lebowski - 6
Fargo - 9
The Hudsucker Proxy - 6
Barton Fink - 7
Miller's Crossing - 8
Raising Arizona - 8
Blood Simple - 9
Blood Simple - 6.5
Raising Arizona - 9.5
Miller's Crossing - 10
Barton Fink - 7.5
Hudsucker Proxy - 8
Fargo - 7
The Big Lebowski - 9.5
O Brother, Where Art Thou? - 7.5
The Man Who Wasn't There - 7
Intolerable Cruelty - 5
The Ladykillers - 6
No Country For Old Men - 7.5
Burn After Reading - 7
Burn After Reading (2008) 8.0
No Country for Old Men (2007) 8.5
Intolerable Cruelty (2003) 7.0
The Man Who Wasn't There (2001) 6.0
O Brother Where Art Thou? (2000) 7.5
The Big Lebowski (1998) 7.5
Fargo (1996) 8.0
The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) 5.5
Barton Fink (1991) 6.5
Miller's Crossing (1990) 9.0
Raising Arizona (1987) 8.5
Blood Simple (1984) 8.0
Burn After Reading - 7.5
No Country for Old Men - 8.5
Intolerable Cruelty - 5
The Man Who Wasn't There - 8
O Brother Where Art Thou? - 5.5
The Big Lebowski - 9.5
Fargo - 9
The Hudsucker Proxy - 7
Barton Fink - 8.5
Miller's Crossing - 7
Raising Arizona - 7
Blood Simple - 9
I'll be giving a few of these rewatches in the coming weeks.
No Country for Old Men 9.0
O Brother Where Art Thou? 8.0
The Big Lebowski 4.5
Fargo 9.5 <-- their best film (i've seen)
I need to see Burn After Reading
A Serious Man: 7.0
Burn After Reading: 8.0
No Country for Old Men: 7.5
The Ladykillers: 2.0
Intolerable Cruelty: 6.0
The Man Who Wasn't There: 6.5
O Brother Where Art Thou?: 6.5
The Big Lebowski: 9.0
Fargo: 8.0
Barton Fink: 5.5
Raising Arizona: 8.0
I like them more than these grades individually represent.
Burn After Reading - 8
No Country for Old Men - 8.5
The Ladykillers - 7
Intolerable Cruelty - 5.5
The Man who Wasn't There - 6.5
O Brother, Where Art Thou? - 7
The Big Lebowski - 9
Fargo - 7.5
The Hudsucker Proxy - 7
Barton Fink - 8
Miller's Crossing - 8
Raising Arizona - 9
Blood Simple - 8
Blood Simple - 7
Miller's Crossing - 9
Barton Fink - 10
The Hudsucker Proxy - 10
Fargo - 9
The Big Lebowski - 10
O Brother Where Art Thou? - 9
The Man Who Wasn't There - 10
Intolerable Cruelty - 5
The Ladykillers - 4
No Country for Old Men - 9
Burn After Reading - 8
Burn After Reading - 9
No Country for Old Men - 8.5
The Ladykillers - 5.5
Intolerable Cruelty - 6.5
The Man Who Wasn't There - 9
O Brother Where Art Thou? - 8
The Big Lebowski - 8.5
Fargo - 10
The Hudsucker Proxy - 8.5
Barton Fink - 8
Miller's Crossing - 9
Raising Arizona - 10
Blood Simple - 8.5
Rating/ranking the Coens is a tradition over at Icine, heh. And I really must see more, as I've liked everything I've viewed from them so far:
Burn After Reading-9.5
No Country for Old Men-10.0
O Brother Where Art Thou?-9.0
The Big Lebowski-10.0
Fargo-10.0
Blood Simple-10.0
On the 100 scale (last time I checked, anyways) only Fargo and The Big Lebowski get 100's. Blood Simple and No Country for Old Men come close, though.
Raising Arizona - 9
Fargo - 10
The Big Lebowski - 10
No Country for Old Men - 10
Burn After Reading - 8
I've seen all of their movies, but it's been far too long for most of them.
Burn After Reading - 7
No Country for Old Men - 7.5
The Ladykillers - 4
Intolerable Cruelty - 4
The Man Who Wasn't There - 6.5
O Brother Where Art Thou? - 7
The Big Lebowski - 8
Fargo - 9
The Hudsucker Proxy - 4.5
Barton Fink - 7.5
Miller's Crossing - 8
Raising Arizona - 9
Blood Simple - 7
Blood Simple - 8
Raising Arizona - 9.5
Miller's Crossing - 7.5
Barton Fink - 5.5
The Hudsucker Proxy - 7.5
Fargo - 10
The Big Lebowski - 8.5
O Brother, Where Art Thou? - 8
The Man Who Wasn't There - 7
The Ladykillers - 7
No Country for Old Men - 9.5
Burn After Reading - 8
A Serious Man - 8
Barton Fink probably deserves a rewatch, but I recall finding the experience unpleasant.
Has A Serious Man not been released outside of Minnesota?
Burn After Reading- 7.5
No Country for Old Men- 6
The Ladykillers- 5
Intolerable Cruelty- 8.5
The Man Who Wasn't There- 8.5
O Brother Where Art Thou?- 9
The Big Lebowski- 10
Fargo- 8
The Hudsucker Proxy- 8
Barton Fink- 7.5
Miller's Crossing- 10
Raising Arizona- 8
Blood Simple- 9
Easily my favorite stateside directors, although I haven't been too impressed with their last couple of films, which have been kind of distancing.
Burn After Reading - 7
No Country for Old Men - 9
The Man Who Wasn't There - 6
The Big Lebowski - 6
Fargo - 8
Barton Fink - 10
Miller's Crossing - 8
Raising Arizona - 9
I notice a disturbing lack of enthusiasm for The Man Who Wasn't There.
In other disturbing news, you've apparently never seen Raising Arizona
Burn After Reading (2008) 8.0
No Country for Old Men (2007) 9.0
The Ladykillers - 5.0
Intolerable Cruelty (2003) 4.0
The Man Who Wasn't There (2001) 7.0
O Brother Where Art Thou? (2000) 5.5
The Big Lebowski (1998) 10.0
Fargo (1996) 10.0
The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) 5.0
Barton Fink (1991) 7.5
Miller's Crossing (1990) 8.0
Raising Arizona (1987) 7.0
Blood Simple (1984) 8.0
Seeing A Serious Man tonight.