EPISODES

Episode 132 – Raising Arizona

The Magic Lantern
June 1, 2020
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Episode 132 – Raising Arizona

What a treat it is to come back again and again to Raising Arizona (Coen, 1987). I have seen the film at least 20 times, and I laugh just as hard at each viewing. The Coen Brothers (Joel as director, along with Ethan as co-writer) have crafted a surreal, insane,…

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Episode 008 – No Country for Old Men

The Magic Lantern
November 9, 2015
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Episode 008 – No Country for Old Men

There aren’t many films more personal to me than Joel and Ethan Coen’s No Country for Old Men (2007). I grew up at the foot of the Wichita Mountains in Oklahoma, so I am intimately familiar with this scrub brush landscape and these hard-bitten, laconic plainsfolk. They are my people.…

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