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60 of 177 · most liked firstOne of the greatest American character actors. He could carry a whole movie (Blood Simple) but he could also deliver bonus after bonus in a quick scene. Watch what he does in one minute with Tim Hutton in Ordinary People, filling in his creepy character and Hutton's universe in a few brief lines.
neutral · AI labelView post →1984 STOP MAKING SENSE (Demme) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️½ Starts with a lone man, a mic, and a guitar, expands into pure coordinated perfection communal musical joy. Jonathan Demme captures the live wire act in cinematic fashion, puts the *movie* into "concert movie." Also notable: Paris, Texas; Blood Simple
neutral · AI labelView post →🗓️ 41 years ago, on JAN 18, 1985 the psychological crime thriller "Blood Simple" (1984) was released in US theaters! This brilliant movie was directed by the brothers Coen! #BloodSimple #16mmInferno
neutral · AI labelView post →Japanese poster for the Coen Brothers' debut film BLOOD SIMPLE (1984) Starring Frances McDormand - BOTD in 1957
neutral · AI labelView post →Picking a random film from my collection to show off for no real reason! Year 2, Day #63 "Blood Simple" (Ethan Coen and Joel Coen/1984) Tremendous debut film from the Coen brothers. This is one you really need to see if you have not already. So go on and check it out!
positive · AI labelView post →Happy 71st birthday to film composer Carter Burwell. A fascinating artist: he began in 1979 as an animator and computer scientist, pursuing a musical career in parallel. Starting with BLOOD SIMPLE in 1984, he has scored most of the Coen Brothers' films, and many, many more. #moviesky #filmsky #botd
neutral · AI labelView post →On this day (22nd February) in 1992, the Scala Cinema was showing Blood Simple (1984), Raising Arizona (1987) and Miller’s Crossing (1990) as a Coen Brothers triple bill.
neutral · AI labelView post →On this day (14th September) in 1984, the Scala Cinema was showing a preview of Blood Simple (1984). From what I can determine, this coincided with the film being shown at the Deauville Film Festival in France, but before the New York Film Festival (October) and its official release in 1985.
neutral · AI labelView post →#NowWatching #SundayCinema Blood Simple 1984 from The Coen Brothers. A #FirstWatch for me bur I'm minus hearing aids and operating on 3 hours sleep. Let's see 😬 John Getz 🤝 Have i seen a Coen Brothers movie 🤔🤔
neutral · AI labelView post →fucked up that BLOOD SIMPLE is the coen brothers’ first time making a movie. like ah man yeah it’s so easy to just make a movie as good as this, just trying it out for the first time 🙏
positive · AI labelView post →"...Macy had seen their earlier film, Blood Simple, and was instantly impressed by their script for Fargo. Speaking via Zoom from Los Angeles, he says: “Their dialogue is up there with Dave Mamet’s dialogue. It’s scintillating. It’s beautiful. It’s got metre and rhythm and poetry to it..."
neutral · AI labelView post →This guy ruled. He kinda owned Blood Simple, the Coens' first movie. Always made things he was in better.
positive · AI labelView post →Blood Simple (1984) Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen Cast: Holly Hunter, Frances McDormand, Barry Sonnenfeld, M. Emmet Walsh, Dan Hedaya Watch Review wp / wd
neutral · AI labelView post →Blood Simple Alien Blade Runner Superman II Payback now, the X-Files Movie
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm surprised I don't hear much about HARD EIGHT from PTAheads. You'd think BOOGIE NIGHTS was his debut for as little as this straightline simmerjob gets discussed. Perfect casting, groovin' score, and an assured, unpretentious confidence. Wanna program this as a double feature with BLOOD SIMPLE.
neutral · AI labelView post →BLOOD SIMPLE is on Virgin's UHD channel; a stunning neo-noir from when the world was new and it looks glorious. The Coens are film world titans aren't they?
positive · AI labelView post →Blood Simple was really good and stressful! "the worst to ever do it" rang through my head for most of the movie (though I know I'd fuck it up just as badly in their spot) Really fun/cool villain too. I also enjoyed the use of sfx as diegetic music and generally how the score played with the actions
positive · AI labelView post →My essay on BLOOD SIMPLE is in the new issue of @southwestreview.bsky.social with gorgeous art by @briannaduggan.bsky.social. I’m talking to hero and pal @meganabbott.bsky.social about the film today at 2 at the Texas Theatre before we screen it as part of SwR’s second annual Frontera Fest.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Oscar nominated Hell or High Water is currently on iPlayer. Directed by David MacKenzie with a script by Taylor Sheridan, and starring Jeff Bridges, a heist movie with an ambiguous moral message. Do give it a watch, if you like No Country for Old Men, Blood Simple or Fargo.
neutral · AI labelView post →Delightfully light and bouncy score on this from Carter Burwell, which is a world away from the moody piano tones and synth atmosphere of the Coen's first film Blood Simple. Hell, the films are worlds apart and still somehow both equally brilliant. #TheFilmCrowd
positive · AI labelView post →Won't make it through all of BLOOD SIMPLE but it is a remarkable film. #tcmparty
positive · AI labelView post →#MarchMovieChallenge #Moviesky 3/2 Movie set in Texas Blood Simple (1985 wide release) - Coen bros
neutral · AI labelView post →#FebruaryMovieChallenge #Moviesky 2/17 - VW Beetle in a movie Blood Simple (1984) D: Coen brothers M Emmett Walsh plays the private dick who drives beetle
neutral · AI labelView post →I watched the Coen Bros’ first film Blood Simple (1984) today. How does this feel even bleaker than No Country For Old Men?
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight's movie was Blood Simple. I enjoyed the intricate web of misunderstandings as the Coens set up all the details really well. The biggest lesson? Hang some curtains in your windows!
positive · AI labelView post →A lot of Joel's ideas and creative flourishes in Blood Simple carried right on through to Garfield: The Movie
neutral · AI labelView post →If someone wanted to know what "Neo Noir" is, show them "Blood Simple." Because it takes the key traditions of classic Film Noir and updates them to (then) contemporary times. #BloodSimple #TCMParty
positive · AI labelView post →#NowWatching or rather rewatching Blood Simple. I know this technically probably isn’t a horror movie, but M. Emmet Walsh is terrifying in this. Absolutely fantastic movie! 😃😃🖤 #MutantFam #FilmSky
positive · AI labelView post →Alas, we don’t get NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN in Canada tonight. We’re getting Honeysuckle Rose instead. So I’m off. BLOOD SIMPLE later is another terrific film of course. Have a great night everyone, hope you enjoyed LONE STAR. #TCMParty
positive · AI labelView post →Rewatched Blood Simple today—hadn't seen it since we caught it at Film Forum in 2016 (!). So damn good. "All of the violence and death in Blood Simple derives from miscommunication. This accounts for the film’s tone, an unusual synthesis of horror and farce" www.criterion.com/current/post...
positive · AI labelView post →Blank Check Pod is starting the Cohen Brothers tomorrow. Tonight's movie is Blood Simple (1984) 🍿
neutral · AI labelView post →I have this same first-year of film school opinion about Bottlerocket, Clerks, Blood Simple... the small budget, first films often feel like you're getting the most distilled version of the artist/comic
positive · AI labelView post →Corgis in the Movies: On this day in 1984, "Blood Simple," the first film by Joel and Ethan Coen, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. It featured a very young Frances McDormand. #CorgisInTheMovies
neutral · AI labelView post →Omg you’re right, they really do! Despite that, I had vastly different reactions to each Coen Bros movie. Fargo and Big Lebowski were fun, but for some reason I HATED Blood Simple. Iirc the only thing I liked about it was the giant half-circle window in the loft at the end.
negative · AI labelView post →Frances McDormand made her screen debut in the offbeat noir thriller BLOOD SIMPLE. With a Carter Burwell score and an unforgettable performance from M. Emmet Walsh, see the movie that started the Coen canon in our series Declaration of Independents! www.ifccenter.com/films/blood-...
neutral · AI labelView post →A Coen brothers movie, ironically, pairs very well with OBAA -- Blood Simple. By the film's end, not a single character as any idea why anything happened to them.
neutral · AI labelView post →Blood Simple (1984) the Coen brothers first film is sweaty, neon noir. It's gorgeously shot (and lit!), driven by irony, everyone missing bits of essential information and plays out like a bleak cosmic joke that only a dying man and the audience understand. M. Emmet Walsh and Dan Hedaya are great 🍿
positive · AI labelView post →2025 MOVIE THREAD LETS GO!!! Blood Simple Extremely technically proficient that’s dripping with what makes the Coen brothers great: complicated characters, complicated plot, and thematically fascinating. That being said, it’s not the most memorable film I’ve ever seen, but it isn’t bad by any means.
neutral · AI labelView post →Favorite film for each year of the 1980s: 1980: The Shining 1981: The Road Warrior 1982: The Thing 1983: Videodrome 1984: Blood Simple 1985: Brasil 1986: Blue Velvet 1987: Evil Dead II and Raising Arizona in a tie 1988: Who Framed Rodger Rabbit 1989: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
neutral · AI labelView post →@caseyexplosion.bsky.social has referenced the Coens and I can definitely see the comparison there, which is really funny because the film I'd most compare Adios to (Blood Simple) is my least favorite Coen film. I do have a project that's very Fargo, though.
negative · AI labelView post →Love it! Blood Simple is another great film by them.
positive · AI labelView post →You should check out the film they made before, Arizona, Blood Simple. Great movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →46. Blood Simple (1984) It's SO WEIRD that a movie like this was immediately followed by a movie like Raising Arizona. And yet you can see AAAAAAAALL of the DNA of every Coen Bros. movie ever in this!!! It's such a QUIET movie, and a DARK movie, it's awesome how much of a literal heartbeat it has.
positive · AI labelView post →A coen bros/evil dead connection: the short film that was created to get Coens’ first film Blood Simple funded made starred Bruce Campbell and featured the Oldsmobile from the evil dead movies
neutral · AI labelView post →I am not enjoying the idea of US foreign and military policy being run as if it were some Coen Brothers movie. Especially when it's more like 'Blood Simple' than 'Raising Arizona' in its idiot plotting...
neutral · AI labelView post →I believe the first Coen Brothers film "Blood Simple" doesn't get the respect it deserves. It's really one of their best works. A films noir in living color. "What I know is Texas. And down here, you're on your own." youtu.be/XA9LNlsGah8?...
positive · AI labelView post →Lots, but my three biggest "holy sh*t!" moments in a first-run movie theater were Diva (Jean-Jacques Beineix, 1981) The Thin Blue Line (Errol Morris, 1988) and Blood Simple (Joel & Ethan Coen, 1984) At that last one, I left the theater, bought another ticket, and watched it straight through again
positive · AI labelView post →Whenever my father saw a movie that he thought was perfect cinema like Blood Simple, he would sit me down so I could watch it. Forget the fact that I was 10 freaking years old at the time.
positive · AI labelView post →My ★★★★ review of Blood Simple (1984) on @letterboxd.social: boxd.it/cJpcdR
positive · AI labelView post →Coffin Moon I love a gritty, grimy horror story set in the '70s, and this one delivers. A unique take on vampires. It kind of felt like if the Coen Brothers who made Blood Simple also made a vampire movie, if that makes sense.
neutral · AI labelView post →Same same same. Trying to be an Art Understander if I can’t be an Art Maker right now. Found the original script for Blood Simple and I’m going to read it side-by-side with the movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →I agree that Blood Simple is a perfect movie tho
positive · AI labelView post →This "Blood Simple" proof of concept trailer the Coens made to get funding for the movie before they webt out and shot it is so cool! www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTHC...
neutral · AI labelView post →Ain't seen #BloodSimple in a minute. Might have to dig it out. SUCH a good movie. #ActionMatinee
positive · AI labelView post →#nw BLOOD SIMPLE (1984) A first time watch that will mark my 550th logged film on @letterboxd.social for 2024!
neutral · AI labelView post →#Cincinnati- we have events! Today @ 7:30: BLOOD SIMPLE (1986) Deep Dive w Joe Horine Tomorrow @ 7:30: DARUMA Wednesday @ 7:30: ARREBATO (1979) w Outer Cinema Wednesday @ 8: BATMAN & ROBIN (1997) Wisenheimer Live! w Improv Cincinnati Friday @ 7:30: BLOOD RAGE (1987) w Secret Base Cinema
neutral · AI labelView post →Blood Simple is a great fucking movie
positive · AI labelView post →Yep. So many good picks. Their very first movie Blood Simple is an absolutely brilliant movie that few have seen
positive · AI labelView post →Is Blood Simple the only film where John Getz is remotely likable?
neutral · AI labelView post →Like to have seen his face when he drove off the dead end. #HyberbolicMovies #HashTagGames #Movies #Stills #BloodSimple
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