Miller's Crossing is the slickest and most marvelously directed of the Coen efforts, but the script is inferior to other of their movies, especially Fargo. The principal pleasure is watching Albert Finney (not a small one, I will admit)....
...RLR sounds enticing, perhaps I will give it a try...
...There are other brother teams worth mentioning. The Hughes brothers did South Central, which was a very good urban drama, followed by Dead Presidents, which sagged a bit, but was good. Of course, the Tavianis, best known for Night of the Shooting Stars, about an Italian town put through travails in WWII, and also responsible for a good flick called Good Morning, Babylon, about Italian immigrants who make it to the emerging Hollywood, are well known. My favorite of their movies stars Marcello Mastroianni as a member of the haute bourgeoisie who had become a revolutionary but became disillusioned, but somehow could not shake his revolutionary ties... |
