Blood Simple
This end-of-year cycle invites audiences to discover select 35mm prints from in our collection, creating dynamic contrasts in eras, styles, and cultures from one film to the next.
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize - U.S. Dramatic, 1985 Sundance Film Festival
A bar owner suspects his wife of having an extramarital affair with one of his bartenders. He hires an unscrupulous private detective to get to the bottom of it. Things quickly get out of hand in this first film by the Coen brothers, a curious, gritty film noir with a grotesque edge.
Coen brothers
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, collectively known as the Coen brothers, are an American filmmaking duo. Their films span many genres and styles, which they frequently subvert or parody. Their most acclaimed works include Blood Simple (1984), Raising Arizona (1987), Miller's Crossing (1990), Barton Fink (1991), Fargo (1996), The Big Lebowski (1998), No Country for Old Men (2007), A Serious Man (2009) and Inside Llewyn Davis (2013). Those last three films have been ranked in the BBC's 2016 poll of the greatest motion pictures since 2000. In 1998, the American Film Institute (AFI) ranked Fargo among the 100 greatest American movies ever made. Many of their films are distinctly American, often examining the culture of the American South and American West in both modern and historical contexts.
