I finally got a chance to see Burn After Reading over the holidays. It was, in a word, scrumtralescent. The casting and performances were absolutely first rate.
The Coen Brothers continue to show an incredible range of light, shadow and darkness in their films. While I am a sucker for the more emphatic undercurrents of hope and triumph of the human spirit evident in Hudsucker Proxy or Raising Arizona, I have to say that the undercurrents of frailty, futility and despair in Burn After Reading and No Country For Old Men are also quite compelling.
If I had to rank my top ten favourite Coen Brother's films today, I think I would have to go with:
1- No Country for Old Men
2- Raising Arizona
3- The Hudsucker Proxy
4- Burn After Reading
5- The Big Lebowski
6- O Brother Where Art Thou
7- Fargo
8- Miller's Crossing
9- Blood Simple
Why not a top ten? Everyone does a top ten...
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