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    Revisiting Match Cut Directors Consensus - Joel and Ethan Coen

    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.



    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
    Sure why not?

    STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI (Rian Johnson) - 9
    STRONGER (David Gordon Green) - 6
    THE DISASTER ARTIST (James Franco) - 7
    THE FLORIDA PROJECT (Sean Baker) - 9
    LADY BIRD (Greta Gerwig) - 8


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    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
    Sure why not?

    STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI (Rian Johnson) - 9
    STRONGER (David Gordon Green) - 6
    THE DISASTER ARTIST (James Franco) - 7
    THE FLORIDA PROJECT (Sean Baker) - 9
    LADY BIRD (Greta Gerwig) - 8


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    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

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    Fargo - 8
    Barton Fink - 8.5
    Miller's Crossing - 7
    Blood Simple - 7
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    O Brother Where Art Thou? - 8.5
    The Big Lebowski - 10
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    The Big Lebowski 6
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    Burn After Reading
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    O Brother Where Art Thou? - 9
    The Big Lebowski - 9
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    The Hudsucker Proxy - 7
    Barton Fink - 10
    Miller's Crossing - 7
    Raising Arizona - 8.5
    Blood Simple - 7

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    Burn After Reading - 6
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    O Brother Where Art Thou? - 6
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    Burn After Reading (2008) 8.0
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    O Brother Where Art Thou? (2000) 7.5
    The Big Lebowski (1998) 7.5
    Fargo (1996) 8.0
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    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.

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    The Man Who Wasn't There: 6.5
    O Brother Where Art Thou?: 6.5
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    Barton Fink: 5.5
    Raising Arizona: 8.0

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    The Big Lebowski - 9
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    The Big Lebowski - 8.5
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    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
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    I've seen all of their movies, but it's been far too long for most of them.

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    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
    The Princess and the Pilot - B-
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    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
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    Barton Fink probably deserves a rewatch, but I recall finding the experience unpleasant.

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    I notice a disturbing lack of enthusiasm for The Man Who Wasn't There.

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    In other disturbing news, you've apparently never seen Raising Arizona

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    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

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