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March 2026

  • Actor Richard Kind is making a guest appearance in the West End production of The Producers. For Arts. 
Photo by Linda Nylind. 6/3/2026.

    ‘I’m a big bear. I lumber’: showbiz superstar Richard Kind on delivering performances you can see from space

  • 1996, FARGOFRANCES MCDORMAND 
Character(s): Police Chief Marge Gunderson 
Film 'FARGO' (1996) 
Directed By JOEL COEN, ETHAN COEN (UNCRED) 
08 March 1996 
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    The making of Fargo at 30: ‘Man, you don’t give me this role, I’m gonna shoot your dog’

February 2026

  • Roger Deakins filming Jarhead in 2005.

    ‘People keep reinventing the same damn movie’: cinematographer Roger Deakins on 50 years behind the camera and his fears for film’s future

    This master craftsman’s work has lit up everything from Bond to Blade Runner 2049. But as he publishes his memoir, why does he believe the artform he made his name in is in such decline?

January 2026

  • Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood

    ‘Uncomfortably relatable’: writers on their favourite unlikable movie characters

    With debate still swirling over the unlikable nature of Marty Supreme’s careless protagonist, Guardian writers have picked their all-time love-to-hate leads

November 2025

  • 2008, BURN AFTER READINGGEORGE CLOONEY & FRANCES MCDORMAND 
Character(s): Harry Pfarrer & Linda Litzke 
Film 'BURN AFTER READING' (2008) 
Directed By ETHAN COEN, JOEL COEN 
27 August 2008 
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Entertainment 
Orientation Landscape

    My feelgood movie
    ‘Such a tonic’: why Burn After Reading is my feelgood movie

    The latest in our series of writers remembering their most rewatched comfort film is a tribute to the Coens’ playful star-packed comedy

August 2025

  • four film stills

    Summer box office 2025: what were the big hits and misses?

  • Film Review - Honey Don't!<br>This image released by Focus Features shows Margaret Qualley in a scene from "Honey Don't!" (Focus Features via AP)

    Honey Don’t! review – Ethan Coen returns with another amusing, throwaway queer comedy

June 2025

  • Cyd Charisse and Gene Kelly in the dream ballet from Singin’ in the Rain.

    ‘Completely captivated’: the rousing return of musicals’ dream ballets

    From Oklahoma! and Singin’ in the Rain to The Big Lebowski and Maestro, these showstoppers give a blissful hit of dance. A Rodgers and Hammerstein triple bill at Regent’s Park Open Air theatre reawakens the tradition

January 2025

  • a woman looks to the side, shadows cast across her face

    Blood Simple at 40: how the Coens set the standard for modern noir

    Micro-budget thriller put the brothers on the map, laying the groundwork for a career filled with similarly dark stories of crimes gone wrong

June 2024

  • Civil War, Furiosa, The Fall Guy

    ‘Sexy, sweaty and surprising – with a really big ending’: readers’ best films of 2024 so far

    From jazzy anime to an unfilmable sci-fi epic, a poignant film without dialogue and the silliest LGBTQ+ movie you’ll ever see

March 2024

  • Walsh as private detective Loren Visser in the Coen brothers’ debut film, Blood Simple, in 1984.

    M Emmet Walsh obituary

  • Peter Bradshaw

    M Emmet Walsh was both a mesmerising everyman and an indelible gargoyle. How I’ll miss those poached-egg eyes

    Peter Bradshaw
  • M Emmet Walsh at the premiere of Knives Out in 2019 in California

    M Emmet Walsh, Blade Runner, Blood Simple and Knives Out actor, dies aged 88

  • Margaret Qualley and Geraldine Viswanathan in Drive-Away Dolls seen from below, opening the boot of a car

    Drive-Away Dolls review – Ethan Coen’s lesbian crime caper gets stuck in first gear

  • Drive-Away Dolls review – Ethan Coen’s lesbian road trip is a cheerfully nonsensical caper

  • ‘Women have libidos too!’: Ethan Coen and wife Tricia Cooke on their raunchy new lesbian road movie

February 2024

  • Two young women, one Indian and one white, look together into a silver metal suitcase.

    Drive-Away Dolls review – Ethan Coen sets off in a wild new direction

    The writer-director splits from his brother and joins wife Tricia Cooke for a bawdy and brilliant road trip caper about two lesbian friends caught up in crime

January 2024

  • (L to R) Snoop Dogg as Jaycen "Two Js" Jennings in director Charles Stone III's THE UNDERDOGGS. An Amazon MGM Studios film Photo credit: Jacob Kemp © 2024 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Inc. All Rights Reserved.

    The Underdoggs review – Snoop Dogg turns kids’ team coach in wholesome sports comedy

    Snoop plays a former sports star who takes on losing pee-wee outfit in a charming comedy that has more than a passing resemblance to Bad News Bears

July 2023

  • New York City, 1969.

    ‘Singular, eccentric visions’: Lee Friedlander’s photography​ seen through the eyes of ​​Joel Coen

    The celebrated film-maker saw something of himself in the work of the American photographer. Now he’s curated a new book and exhibition

January 2023

  • Frances McDormand in Laurel Canyon.

    Ranked
    Frances McDormand’s 10 best performances – ranked!

    Shortly to be seen on our screens in Women Talking, the actor is enjoying a fruitful – and Oscar-hauling – career third act, creating work that is empathic, political, and often doesn’t look like acting at all
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