Word: coens
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Since the mental calendar of filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen is often turned back to the 1940s, Dude is a shambling version of Philip Marlowe, the incomprehensible plot and the all-too-comprehensible visual references homages to the film-noir tradition--as if we needed more. Happily, however, the Coens have established a tradition of their own: deeply weird characters (let John Goodman's great portrait of one of those paranoid know-it-alls who actually know nothing stand for the mad multitude this movie contains) embedded in profoundly banal settings (much of the film is set in a bowling...
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...Florence had been taking fertility pills. And she and Nathan had hit the jackpot. Change the names and up the ante, and the Bobbi McCaughey saga is fully scripted in the Coen Brothers' gem Raising Arizona...
...vogue for southwestern decor and food may be as passe as the vogue for Northwestern rock bands, but New Mexico retains its grip on the national imagination, fighting off contenders like Florida (South Beach! Backyard gators!) and North Dakota (Partial site of a Coen brothers movie!) for the title of America's coolest state. Why is New Mexico still the champ? One word: Roswell...