The first movie that blew the Coen brothers’ minds: “You can’t help but sit up and take notice”
“The eye-opener.”
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The hardest role the Coen brothers ever had to cast: “We thought we’d written the uncastable”
They were approaching breaking point.
Roger Ebert was left cold by this Coen brothers classic: “Uncertain and unsatisfied”
This surreal masterpiece threw Ebert for a loop
When the Coen brothers and Nicolas Cage clashed on-set: “They have an autocratic nature”
Cage and the Coens were like chalk and cheese
Francis Ford Coppola picks his favourite Coen brothers movie: “Totally off the wall”
Coppola loves this blackly hilarious espionage farce
The domino effect that led Matt Damon to the Coen brothers: “I was dying to work with them”
Damon’s path to the Coens was long and winding
Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon auditioned for ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’: “I was so bad”
It could have catapulted him to Hollywood.
The only superhero movie of the Coen brothers’ career: “They were instrumental early on”
Hell, they even cameo in the film