Ranking The Coen Brothers
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- Jake ranks the films of Joel and Ethan Coen.
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My ranking of the Coen Brothers
1-Joel
2-Ethan
Agreed
Ethan directed Drive Away Dolls and I lost all faith in him
@@smittyjjensin558I was shocked at how bad it was
@@smittyjjensin558 It played like a Coen Bros rip off movie
I don’t trust anyone who doesn’t let themselves go to the gleeful silliness of The Hudsucker Proxy
Beautiful movie
I liked Proxy more when I realized it’s just a Rami movie.
For fucking real!!!
exactly - im so mad at myself for not seeing it until now!
Nerd! ❤
Garfield is my favourite Cohen movie
HAHA! That's Joel Cohen.
He's my favourite Coen brother
Roy Cohn?
You should do David Lynch. That man’s filmography is so diverse in genre and themes that no two rankings will be the same.
He has like 3 films worth mentioning though.
That'd be fun - still need to see Inland Empire, and maybe another.
@@jamesevans2507 nah man eraserhead, elephant man, blue velvet, fire walk with me, lost highway, and Mulholland drive are all classics
Oh Brother Where Art Thou is totally worth a rew rewatches. It grows on you over time, definitely one of my favorites but will never top Lebowski, Fargo, or No Country
Ranking O Brother that low is criminal. It is their best film behind No Country.
Buster Scrugs Fun fact: they just stumbled across Tom Waits when scouting location and just filmed him living his life
Akira Kurosawa ranked would be insane
after watching all 30 I can confirm it would get so emotional and so “I love all of his movies” by the end. However Jake only has one of his movies as 5 stars on Letterboxd so it would be a foregone conclusion
will take a while haha. So many i still need to see and i dont want to rush
@womancarryingman Don't skip Dersu Uzala, it's a meditative masterpiece about man and the wilderness.
I recently rewatched The big lebowski for like the 100th time. Every time, there is something new, jokes are funnier and so on. Thanks for the video!
I finally got round to True Grit recently and it was a revelation! Thoroughly brilliant. Hayley Steinfeld absolutely holds her own sharing the screen with superstars. It’s 100% her film and she nails the Cohen vibe perfectly.
Of their films that I've seen, my own ranking would go:
1. No Country For Old Men
2. Fargo
3. The Big Lebowski
4. Barton Fink
5. Raising Arizona
6. Burn After Reading
7. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
8. Hail, Caesar!
Also Werner Herzog would be an interesting director to rank. His films are often riddled with production hell stories that would make for a fantastic video
P.T Anderson would the logical follow-on for ranking.
He already did that. Check out the director rankings playlist on his channel.
Wait, a film noir that uses Beethoven as its score sounds like it would be my favorite movie ever, and I’ve never heard of The Man Who Wasn’t There before! Thanks for the tip, MCT!!
I love that you put Raising Arizona so high. I feel like its the most underappreciated Coen movie.
That film cannot be underappriciated. Its praised on every level
A director that's worth ranking would be Satoshi Kon. It's a short 4 film filmography that is a set of anime films that seem so different from all of the others.
Also his show Paranoia Agent. Honestly speaking better than most of his films
A ranking would be incomplete without Paranoia Agent, though. A brief one season anime that‘s honestly one of the most powerful pieces of art I‘ve ever seen!
Big Lebowski will always be my favorite one. It’s my favorite movie of all time. I can half explain why, half can’t.
Same thing for me
Ok nobody cares
‘My love for crime fiction and pulp fiction’ freeze frame and fade in the poster for Pulp Fiction. Tarantino ranking confirmed?
I'm very interested to see his Tarantino ranking, especially because there's no agreed upon ranking of his films, except Pulp Fiction somewhere in the top 3
@@VasudevAnandcva It’s what I’d like to see next, I’m still in that phase he talked about loving The Coens (and Tarantino.)
What’s your ranking? My top three without order are Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs and Django.
@@youpeoplearevampires Well my top 3 without order (because tbh I just go back and forth on the order of them) are Django, Pulp Fiction and Once Upon A Time in Hollywood. Both our top rankings share two places in common!
@@VasudevAnandcva I had to pause halfway through once upon a time in hollywood, I’ve heard things about Manson but I never got there, just didn’t pick it back up after that. I’ll rewatch now
The Big Lebowski is one of the funniest things I've ever watched, but where it REALLY shines for me is how emotional the ending is. I love how this entire mystery slowly reveals itself to be a meaningless joke, and in the end the only thing that really matters was The Dude and his two friends, and it feels like Donny's death is the thing that reminded them of that considering how Dude's demeanor changes in the final. Also Walter finally giving a genuine apology after being so stubborn throughout the whole movie is just the best. Makes me tear up when I watch it.
The ending is both so funny yet sincere which I love
Lol don't exaggerate, that's not even the point
@@arthureich9075 What part of what I said was wrong? Is it not a sincere ending?
@@R15Sammy it's not suppose to make anyone cry lmao, watch more movies
I am the walrus
My favorite Cohen brothers film is obviously their 2014 masterpiece “Blood Meridian” from a parallel dimension.
DOG you need to go back and watch o’ Brother after reading as I lay dying. Film in general feels very bathed in Faulkner. Owe it to yourself to rewatch
dang you convinced me now
David Cronenberg and Brian De Palma. And Michael Mann…I’d especially like to hear your thoughts on Thief.
all three of them I have a LOT to watch, would be fun.
My favourite films of the Coen Brothers are as follows:
1. A Serious Man
2. A toss between which one among the following out-of-context dialogue from their corresponding movies I find funnier:
'We Thought You Was A Toad!' and 'Where's its scrotum, Llewyn?'
1. Fargo
2. No Country For Old Men
3. O Brother Where Art Thou?
4. The Big Lebowski
5. Barton Fink
6. True Grit
7. Inside Llewyn Davis
8. Raising Arizona
9. A Serious Man
10. Blood Simple
11. Miller’s Crossing
12. The Man Who Wasn’t There
13. The Hudsucker Proxy
14. Burn After Reading
15. Hail Caesar!
16. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
17. The Ladykillers
18. Intolerable Cruelty
I have a similar ranking, but Buster Scruggs would be higher. Damn, they make great films!
Great list
I absolutely love Miller’s Crossing and Hudsucker Proxy. They are my favourites
There are so many that I would love to see.... Wong Kar Wai, David Lynch, Edward Yang, Antonioni,Satyajit Ray and Mike Leigh especially.
Oh brother where art thou low? You will be hearing from my representatives.
Great list. No Country is definitely my favorite of theirs too, it’s one of the very first films I’d ever seen that really got me into film as an actual art form as opposed to just a form of entertainment. I was probably way too young when I first watched it but it still really left an impression on me. Not to mention the fact that it was also my first exposure to Cormac McCarthy which is obviously a giant plus.
Are there any directors you and Nadia could do together? It would be interesting to see how your lists compare. Love the video as usual!
Was thinking ladykillers was gonna be numero uno
A serious man is a comedy. Life can be messed up and it can always get worse
I didn't know that I needed this list
I love these ranking videos!!
Great list! I really enjoy these directors ranking videos. A Spielberg ranking would be really fun to watch. Also I know James Wan isn’t everyone’s favorite director but I really like all his films, so I’d enjoy a James wan filmography ranking also.
A Serious Man is one of my favourite movies of all time. That film, emotionally, hit close to home when I first saw it.
I haven't done a full re-watch, but based on my memories of these films, I think my ranking would be very different. No Country for Old Men is probably the best, but after that, for me it would be Fargo, A Serious Man, Burn After Reading, and Blood Simple. I think Burn After Reading deserves a lot more praise. As far as I'm concerned it's pretty much a perfect comedy. And the decision not to show the conclusion, but instead to have JK Simmons and David Rasche holding an absurd conversation about what happened, is genius and totally hilarious.
Edit: I admit I probably need to reassess Raising Arizona, Hudsucker Proxy, and The Big Lebowski.
DUDE! I was so waiting for this
amazing video, man
Before watching, I thought taking 23 minutes to rank two brothers sounded a bit thin, but after watching, I'm really happy that you did a full 11-minute dissertation on each Coen brother. They deserve it. Fiercely disagree with putting Ethan over Joel though
The Ladykillers is WILDLY underrated; doesn't deserve anywhere near the hate that it gets.
Fargo is my favorite. And then all the others can be in number two.
You could do De Palma or Friedkin next, they've got really interesting filmographies.
O Brother is perhaps my 2nd favourite after No Country. You need to rewatch it. It's based off Homer's Odyssey, thats why it feels like vignettes - but it all ties together at the end in a quietly brilliant way.
At the beginning of my own journey into a real love of cinema, the Coens were the first filmmakers I dove deep into. They were the first of the great directors whose filmography I went all the way through.
And my god, will they always have that special place in my heart. I can agree also that their films just get better with time and age.
no one writes comedy the way Coens do. They're so unique in that particular satire, that what makes them so great
Would be interested in you discussing Fincher, Villenueve, Carpenter and Tarantino.
The fact that No Country closes with two children arguing over money that just fell into their lap after Anton’s crash, is such a perfectly thematic, sad statement about greed. A microcosm of the themes and plot of the whole movie.
I always think about that moment too but more about how Chigurh, who represents all that crime that can’t be measured (to paraphrase the sheriff), immediately offers the one kid money for the shirt, and the kid is immediately like, “You can have my shirt.” I always took that as a small glimmer of hope that there is some altruism and goodness in the future. Such a rich, rich movie.
Hi Jake - I just discovered the channel and will be back! Thanks for a great Coens retrospective. I'll let go your low ranking of O Brother, Where Art Thou? as I get it - horses for courses. (It's one of my firm favourites, though.) Delighted to see you give The Hudsucker Proxy its due! Such a funny, witty film. And you're right to avoid their Ladykillers remake - stick with the Ealing original. Later!
Great list! The Coen Brothers are my favorite filmmakers, and I love that they have made so many masterpieces that no two people will have the same ranking. I personally don't believe they have a bad film (although The Ladykillers is close)
My ranking:
1. Inside Llewyn Davis - Perfect/10
2. The Big Lebowski - Perfect /10
3. No Country For Old Men - Perfect/10
4. The Man Who Wasn't There - 9.5/10
5. Miller's Crossing - 9.5/10
6. Fargo - 9.5/10
7. Blood Simple - 9/10
8. Barton Fink - 9/10
9. Raising Arizona - 8.5/10
10. Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? - 8.5/10
11. True Grit - 8.5/10
12. Burn After Reading - 8/10
13. The Tragedy of Macbeth - 8/10
14. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs - 8/10
15. The Hudsucker Proxy - 7.5/10
16. A Serious Man - 7.5/10
17. Drive-Away Dolls - 7.5/10
18. Hail, Caesar! - 7/10
19. Intolerable Cruelty - 6.5/10
20. The Ladykillers - 5.5/10
Kelly Reichardt or Jim Jarmusch!
I really enjoyed this one. Would Love to see a Wong Kar Wai ranking.
i’d love to see a Michael Mann ranking :)
I'm a huge Coen Brothers fan and I disagree with some of this list, but I like how you're able to articulate why you're ranking them where you're ranking them. A Serious Man is probably the only one I disagree with in a big way.
A Serious Man is one of their best for me, it's very dark and pretty funny, and balances both of those tones perfectly. It's about examining things too closely in a time of crisis and losing your faith in the process, and questioning what is and isn't certain -- even the things you thought you already knew were certain. The main character argues with a student about how he's doing poorly in class, the student tells him "I understand the math, I understand (Schrodingers Cat)". He explains that the math he's teaching is the real thing, the cat is just a fable to understand the math, but admits that even he (the math expert) doesn't understand the cat. And then the entire movie he's losing his faith and doing poorly in life, and the rabbis (the faith experts) he consults are telling him nothing but fables to try to restore his faith. Plus the Uncertainty Principle which ties into that, along with Jefferson Airplane's refrain of "when the truth is found to be lies, and all the joy within you dies", everything is tied together really neatly. Give it another watch, it's a phenomenal movie.
Also, definitely don't bother watching The Ladykillers, it doesn't even feel like a Coen Brothers movie, which at least Intolerable Cruelty does even if it doesn't work at all.
If you haven’t already, ranking Wes Anderson would be fun!
I love your ranking videos
I will say that I wish more people went to see Macbeth when it was on the big screen, the cinematography was excellent!
A Serious Man is so hilariously underrated
The Big Lebowski is one of those perfect movies out there. It's that good
I have a soft spot for The Ladykillers. it's not at all my favorite, but I love the over the top black humor of it and it's something of a go to movie for background noise comfort watches.
I know his filmography is far too prolific to rank all of his movies; but, perhaps you could do a top ten from one of my favorite directors, the great John Ford.
The title makes it sound like he’s ranking the specific brothers against each other
Your discussion of Barton Fink made me curious about your writing process. Have you ever thought of making a video about your process and what you have written?
Lol... not even 4 minutes in, and I don't need to go any further. That's a wrap.
By far the best brother duo directors working right now
Burn After Reading goat
my top 5:
1 A Simple Man
2 Burn After Reading
3 Fargo
4 Inside Llewelyn Davis
5 O Brother Where Art Thou?
o Brother would be my third or fourth at least.
🗣️ WERNER HERZOG NEXT 🗣️ (probably just his movies, not documentaries? idk you're the boss)
haha that'd be a ton of work, because I feel like the docs and fictions are one and the same with him. would be fun though
I find Burn After Reading super hilarious. It is such a surreal movie, even the music misdirects you, you keep thinking something significant is gonna happen and it never does. JK Simmons sumps it up at the end pretty well.
My friends and I just went bowling and rewatched the Big Lebowski last night lol
The Hudsucker Proxy and Raising Arizona are my two favorites, I can’t decide which is better. Following closely is No Country for Old Men.
My Ranking:
13. Miller's Crossing
12. Intolerable Cruelty
11. Raising Arizona
10. True Grit
9. Burn After Reading
8. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
7.Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?
6. Fargo
5. Blood Simple
4. Inside Llewyn Davis
3. The Big Lebowski
2. A Serious Man
1. No Country for Old Men
Haven't seen Barton Fink, The Hudsucker Proxy, The Man Who Wasn't There, The Lady Killers, or Hail, Caesar! yet.
I'd recommend you look into the films of Carroll Ballard. It probably wouldn't be that great for a TH-cam ranking since he only directed five films, but Black Stallion, Never Cry Wolf, and Fly Away Home are some of the best films ever made. Other than that, I'd say Tarantino, Carpenter, and Lynch would be the obvious choices, but I'd also recommend looking into John Huston, Hal Ashby, Tom McCarthy, Jim Jarmusch, Philip Kaufman, Curtis Hanson, Gus van Sant, John Cassavetes, and FF and Sofia Coppola. Maybe you could even dive into the rest of Altman's movies. There were some real gems you left out of the last one (Images, The Delinquents).
Thanks for the great content!
Ranking movies from great directors is a cool format but it'd be fun to also rank the ones from lesser liked ones like Bay and Shyamalan
Haven't seen all of them but Fargo's definitely the one that blew me away the most. For some reason No Country didn't really affect me the way I expected it to (maybe because I hyped it up too much), and I remember not liking Hail Caesar much either. But all the half dozen or so others I've seen are phenomenal. Burn After Reading's also definitely super underrated, it really does the In the Loop/The Thick of It sort of satire but with stakes so low it makes the whole thing patently ridiculous. Genuinely one of the funniest movies I've ever seen in my life.
Nobody packs more intelligence, more wit, more detail, more nuance, more visual poetry into every single frame of film than the Coen Brothers. Next to them, most other motion pictures look like amateur 8mm home movies that have been deteriorating in the attic for the last half a century. I'm always invigorated by their work because there's SO MUCH going on, second by second -- and all the elements work in concert, from the writing to the performances to the sound design (!!!) to the framing and cutting... Think of the scuff marks on the floor in "No Country," the hat blowing through the woods in "Miller's Crossing," the unopened box in "Barton Fink," the final "Schrödinger's Cat" seconds of "A Serious Man"... (I'd put those four masterpieces at the top of my ranking -- though I couldn't live without "Fargo," "Big Lebowski," "Llewyn Davis," "Buster Scruggs," "True Grit"...)
P.S. Malkovich's pronunciation of "mem-wah" in "Burn After Reading" is so delicious I will cherish it to my dying day.
P.P.S. Roman Polanski was head of the jury at Cannes when "Barton Fink" won the Palme d'Or. It has such a twisted, Polanski sense of humor. Compare to "The Tenant." They wrote "BF" about writer's block when they got stuck working through the narrative complexities of "Miller's Crossing" (which, by the way, are spelled out for you -- though you don't know it yet -- in Steve Buscemi's brief appearance at the top of the film).
Great video bro
There seemed to be a period in the early 2000s where George Clooney had a lot of clout and tried to boost more subversive filmmakers but then would try to make them more ‘Hollywood’ and mess up what they had. Charlie Kaufman and Confessions of a Dangerous Mind is another example, like Intolerable Cruelty. Soderbergh and Solaris too
My ranking (of ones I’ve seen)
1. Inside Llewyn Davis
2. The Big Lebowski
3. Barton Fink
4. Raising Arizona
5. Fargo
6. No Country For Old Men
7. True Grit
8. O Brother Where Art Thou
9. Burn After Reading
10. A Serious Man
11. Hail, Ceasar
12. The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs
All are at least good, some could benefit from a rewatch. Got a few more to see still
No Country for Old Men and Fargo are my top two, I read the novel first and the language was very different, like McCarthy was framing a shot instead of telling us how it would be to exist there, like a lot of descriptions in Suttree (very good book.)
Seeing my version of the characters portrayed so accurate in the way they spoke and their expression on screen is something I want to experience again, and I hope I will do with The Road
Do you have any suggestions for me? I’ve only ever read McCarthy because my time in school was very short. Anything at all.
I love these director(s) ranked videos
If the man who wasn’t there isn’t in top five I riot. PS you don’t need to say. In my opinion This is why I subscribed
Burn After Reading is in my top 5. It gets better each time i see it
My list:
S: No Country, Fargo, Lebowski
A: True Grit, Oh Brother
B: Burn After, Raising Arizona, Llewen Davis
C: Buster Scruggs, Hail Caesar
D: Intolerable Cruelty
You've convinced me to watch the others (instead of just rewatching my top 5).... but maybe not The Ladykillers
The Big Lebowski was the first movie I was compelled to go and watch in the cinema a second time.
Both times on the biggest screen in London Leiceister square Empire. The only other film was Saving Private Ryan though I walked out after the beach landing scene as I didn't actually like the rest of the film.
I haven't recently re-watched many of these films so couldn't say how I would rate them now but I'm happy to see that there's a few newer ones I haven't seen yet that you like.
I listened to the O Brother soundtrack a lot for quite a while and it even got me hearing out Robert Crumb's bluegrass band. Roger Deakins came to our work and told us about the color grading of that film as it was the first time a film was totally digitally graded. You could have mentioned Deakins as he's probably the most famous and revered living cinematographer today and he might have the Cohens to partially thank at least for a little bit of that. And I guess they've also been lucky to have him.
I would love to see you talk about Denis Villeneuve, especially his lesser known movies, like Enemy or Incendies.
Directors worth considering: Villeneuve, Lynch, Soderbergh. Enjoyed the video alot, btw.
Please do a Quentin Tarantino ranking next!!
17. The Ladykillers
16. Hail, Ceasar!
15. Intolerable Cruelty
14. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
13. A Serious Man
12. Blood Simple
11. Raising Arizona
10. Burn After Reading
09. The Man Who Wasn't There
08. Miller's Crossing
07. True Grit
06. The Hudsucker Proxy
05. Inside Llewyn Davis
04. Barton Fink
03. No Country For Old Men
02. Fargo
01. The Big Lebowski
I gotta rewatch The Hudsucker Proxy. Because I watched it one time and I hated it probably my least favorite of the Coens, but now that I see your take on it I wanna see it again
The Big Lebowski is the sort of film that demands to exist, culture requires it, the fabric of reality would unravel without these types of transcendent pieces of art that pin civilization down, the laws of physics determined it's creation long ago.
I find it hard to disagree with your ranking, with one exception. My choice for their best film is Miller's Crossing, for no other reason than it is the one that I want to return to again and again. I just love that film.
I really think you would love the work of Bong Joon Ho. Similar to the Coen brothers, his love for literature is apparent in his films.
oh, this is how i learn about this channel? nice. my fav movie of theirs is plankton farts and dies
A Robert Bresson ranking would be cool
I forgive you for not putting “O Brother” higher. It’s a bit uneven but genuinely hilarious. Love all 3 stooges.
Directors who deserve your attention and study:
Alfred Hitchcock
Stanley Kubrick
David Lynch
Terrence Malick
Francis Ford Coppola
Roman Polanski
David Fincher
Steven Soderbergh
Sam Peckinpah
Dario Argento
Lucio Fulci
Pier Paolo Pasolini
John Carpenter
Sam Raimi
Quentin Tarantino
William Friedkin
Clint Eastwood
Sergio Leone
Akira Kurosawa
Ingmar Bergman
Woody Allen
Paul Thomas Anderson
Sidney Lumet
Lars Von Trier
Brian De Palma
S. Craig Zahler
Too many more to list!
Hudsucker Proxy is one of my favorites---very underrated in their oeuvre.
I like the Ladykillers. I actually went to the theatre to see it two times.
It’s much better than Intolerable Cruelty.
Please create a playlist with this director's rankings videos! You can add it to the descriptions and let people look for more. Did you do Cronenberg? Will love that!
Can you please rank the films of director Charles Laughton next? Thank you.
You should do David Fincher next