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The Coen Brothers’ BLOOD SIMPLE
Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 1
Fri, Nov 29, 2024 9:30 PM
Night
Owl Cinema
The Coen Brothers’ BLOOD SIMPLE
Friday, November 29th at 9:30 PM
$16 Public | $10 Members
Joel and Ethan Coen’s career-long
darkly comic road trip through misfit America began with this razor-sharp,
hard-boiled neonoir set somewhere in Texas, where a sleazy bar owner releases a
torrent of violence with one murderous thought. Actor M. Emmet Walsh looms over the proceedings as a slippery private eye
with a yellow suit, a cowboy hat, and no moral compass, and Frances McDormand’s cunning debut
performance set her on the road to stardom. The tight scripting and inventive
style that have marked the Coens’ work for decades are all here in their first
film, in which cinematographer Barry
Sonnenfeld abandons black-and-white chiaroscuro for neon signs and jukebox
colors that combine with Carter Burwell’s haunting score to lurid and thrilling
effect. Blending elements from pulp fiction and low-budget horror flicks, Blood
Simple reinvented the film noir for a new generation, marking the
arrival of a filmmaking ensemble that would transform the American independent
cinema scene. (USA, 1984, 95 mins, R,
English | Dir. Joel Coen)
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