There's a moment early in the new season premiere of the FX crime drama Fargo when a parole officer recalls how he met his fiancée, a slick hustler named Nikki Swango (played by Mary Elizabeth Winstead). As the episode flashes back to Nikki at a police station, getting booked and photographed, fans of filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen might experience some deja vu. The situation, the way it's shot, and even the way the crook gets yanked around by the authorities – it's all right out of the Coens' 1987 comedy Raising Arizona.
- 4/20/2017
- Rollingstone.com
Quick question: At any given point during the first five minutes of Fargo's Season Three premiere – "The Law of Vacant Places" – did anybody else worry that FX was accidentally airing the wrong show?
After a trippy opening shot looks like a leftover from Noah Hawley's other FX runaway-hit show Legion, we're dropped into East Berlin circa 1988, for a scene that could easily be an outtake from The Americans (albeit with more deadpan comedy and less espionage). For a little while, we're about as far from Minnesota as we can get.
After a trippy opening shot looks like a leftover from Noah Hawley's other FX runaway-hit show Legion, we're dropped into East Berlin circa 1988, for a scene that could easily be an outtake from The Americans (albeit with more deadpan comedy and less espionage). For a little while, we're about as far from Minnesota as we can get.
- 4/20/2017
- Rollingstone.com
Early on in the excellent new Fargo season, a down-and-out Minnesota chump makes a clumsy yet furious demand: "Are you gonna do what's right here, or are you gonna do what's right?" Bold prediction: Nobody here is going anywhere near what's right. The hotly awaited third chapter of Noah Hawley's groundbreaking FX anthology crime thriller is another snow noir in the Midwestern wastelands, full of cripplingly polite crooks just one you-betcha away from getting clubbed over the head. Everybody smells easy money – which means everybody is a target.
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- 4/17/2017
- Rollingstone.com
FX’s latest promos for the third installment of the TV spinoff series “Fargo” features a scene that calls to mind one of the Coen Brothers’ most iconic characters. While the series doesn’t directly borrow from the original film of the same name, it’s hard to deny Sheriff Gloria Burgle’s striking resemblance to Frances McDormand’s character, Marge Gunderson, in the 1996 classic.
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Played by Carrie Coon, this has mainly to do with the fact that Sheriff Burgle is shown driving down a snowy deserted highway much like the one we first see McDormand on in the original film.
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Played by Carrie Coon, this has mainly to do with the fact that Sheriff Burgle is shown driving down a snowy deserted highway much like the one we first see McDormand on in the original film.
Continue reading Carrie Coon & Ewan McGregor Get Minnesota Nice In New Teasers For ‘Fargo’ at The Playlist.
- 3/10/2017
- by Tess Bonn
- The Playlist
Joel and Ethan Coen, despite the fact that they are a duo, are a singular force in modern cinematic history. That is to say, if you’ll forgive the grammatical confusion, there is only one Coen Brothers. Their outstanding 1996 film is equally singular, despite the fact that there is now a fantastic TV series that shares both its title and geographical setting: FX’s Fargo.
The similarities between the two works stand out enough to give the unacquainted observer a reasonable amount of pause. We’re in a period of film and television history where direct remakes are going out of fashion, but fresh takes on older stories are becoming more and more in vogue, whether they’re the evil Maleficent, the troubled Norman Bates or the up and coming Commissioner Gordon. The surge in this type of adapted storytelling gives rise to a certain skepticism that would caution against...
The similarities between the two works stand out enough to give the unacquainted observer a reasonable amount of pause. We’re in a period of film and television history where direct remakes are going out of fashion, but fresh takes on older stories are becoming more and more in vogue, whether they’re the evil Maleficent, the troubled Norman Bates or the up and coming Commissioner Gordon. The surge in this type of adapted storytelling gives rise to a certain skepticism that would caution against...
- 4/16/2014
- by Darren Ruecker
- We Got This Covered
"I mean, the guy is a fucking Komodo dragon, but he has the bangs of Ken Burns?" The whole table laughs, and Billy Bob Thornton smiles, knowing he's just nailed it. The subject is a hired killer; specifically, the horrible, Moe Howard-ish bowl haircut that this professional hit man sports. Sitting across from Thornton in a Midtown conference room, Colin Hanks stares up at the ceiling and then adds "He's like a human ficus plant. Put the guy in a corner, and you wouldn't even notice him."
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- 4/15/2014
- Rollingstone.com
Because he's a generous guy, Joss Whedon is giving us another movie besides "The Avengers" this year. This week we're getting "The Cabin in the Woods," Whedon's take, with cowriter-director Drew Goddard, on the title horror subgenre that subverts expectations ... and then some.
Before you take a trip down the rabbit hole of this terror/sci-fi hybrid, we suggest boning up on the essentials, where the standards were set. Seclusion + nature - good sense ÷ gore = all the protagonists of these films.
1. 'Evil Dead II' (1987)
The Sistine Chapel of cabin in the woods movies will swallow your soul with its cheeky blend of hyperkinetic gore effects and broad "splatstick" humor. The big-chinned one, Bruce Campbell, is back as Ash, but this time he's less soft and sensitive and more a macho mugging machine, complete with chainsaw appendage used to cut through the monsters unleashed during a romantic getaway. Future...
Before you take a trip down the rabbit hole of this terror/sci-fi hybrid, we suggest boning up on the essentials, where the standards were set. Seclusion + nature - good sense ÷ gore = all the protagonists of these films.
1. 'Evil Dead II' (1987)
The Sistine Chapel of cabin in the woods movies will swallow your soul with its cheeky blend of hyperkinetic gore effects and broad "splatstick" humor. The big-chinned one, Bruce Campbell, is back as Ash, but this time he's less soft and sensitive and more a macho mugging machine, complete with chainsaw appendage used to cut through the monsters unleashed during a romantic getaway. Future...
- 4/13/2012
- by Max Evry
- NextMovie
Chicago – Few directors have ever kickstarted their career more confidently than Joel and Ethan Coen. And they did it with such an array of genre and subject matter from the gritty noir of “Blood Simple” to the subversive comedy of “Raising Arizona” to the gangster epic “Miller’s Crossing” to the heavily-symbolic drama “Barton Fink” to the whimsical charmer “The Hudsucker Proxy” and head-first into one of the best movies ever made — “Fargo.” Four of their first six films have been collected in the “Coen Brothers Collection” and while Fox was, very sadly, only able to send over one of them individually, we didn’t want this stellar collection to go unmentioned.
The “Coen Brothers Collection” would be worth the purchase price if any single one of the films in it were removed. In other words, all four of these flicks are So good that you could take any one...
The “Coen Brothers Collection” would be worth the purchase price if any single one of the films in it were removed. In other words, all four of these flicks are So good that you could take any one...
- 9/7/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Fargo (1996) I guess that was your accomplice in the wood chipper. Synopsis Facing a mountain of debt, Minneapolis car salesman Jerry Lundegaard (William H. Macy) hires thugs Carl Showalter (Steve Buscemi) and Gaear Grimsrud (Peter Stormare) to kidnap his wife Jean (Kristin Rudrüd) and ransom her for money from his wealthy father-in-law Wade (Harve Presnell). When Carl and Gaear leave three bodies in their wake on the car ride to their hideout in Brainerd, Minnesota, the pregnant local police chief Marge Gunderson (Frances McDormand) gets involved in the case. Why We Love It When he first reviewed it in 1996, Roger Ebert wrote “films like Fargo are why I love the movies.” I couldn’t say it any better myself. The crowning achievement in the illustrious careers of Joel and Ethan Coen, it’s the movie that most fully displays their preternatural knack for blending insightful character depictions with a keen sense of the ways genre work. It...
- 12/2/2009
- by Robert Levin
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
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