Monday, January 19, 2009

Favorite Coen Brothers Movies

1. O Brother, Where Art Thou?

2. Fargo

3. Miller's Crossing (An homage, darkly satiric, alternately violent and hilarious look at gangster movies from the 1930's. Beautiful cinamatography)

4. Burn After Reading (Inspired by the Alec Guinness movie from 1959: Our Man In Havana ?)

5. No Country For Old Men

6. The Ladykillers (Remake of the Alec Guinness movie from the fifties; The Ladykillers)

Agatha Christie #1

It is interesting that in And Then There Were None one person kills ten people and himself.

In Murder On The Orient Express twelve people (the number of people on a jury) stab and kill one person.

And Then There Were None (also known as Ten Little Indians) takes place on an island off the Devon Coast in Southern England, as does the P.D. James novel The Lighthouse.