Directed by the Coen Brothers The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is about death, even as it starts as a broad comedy and certainly as it transitions into a surreal drama. It's a Coen Brothers' comedy in the mostly in the style of Raising Arizona, The Hudsucker Proxy, and Intolerable Cruelty. Also O Brother, Where Art Thou? and Hail, Caesar! These … Continue reading The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)
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Last Year at Marienbad (1961)
Directed by Alain Resnais The world of Last Year at Marienbad is constructed before our eyes. Like with Charlie Kauffman's Synecdoche, New York (2008) we watch the environment unravel and expand as the movie unfolds. It's near impossible to tell what is "real" or fabricated because for us to know that we would have to understand the … Continue reading Last Year at Marienbad (1961)