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Love the movie, but wouldn't call it a "lesser known" one for the Coens.
They swept Cannes with it in 1991 and it was nominated for three Oscars.

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true... but up against all other Coen Bros films, it's somehow the least likely to come up in conversation aside from Hudsucker Proxy i'd say.

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I loved Rampage, but I haven't seen it since in was in theaters.

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Its pretty lesser known to me anyhow. Being a huge Coen brothers fan (We are Minnesotans, I was born there and I grew up there.) Anyhow, I have heard of it once maybe and I have never seen it so Barton Fink goes on my 'must see' list. Thanks for mentioning it TheySentYou! Totally OT but any Minnesotan that sees Fargo knows that a Minnesotan had to be involved in making that movie because they got the Minnesota stuff (accents, etc.) 100% DEAD ON. :)

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Another I have not seen... is Hudsucker Proxy a good one?
I am gonna have to go look but I am pretty sure Barton Fink and Hudsucker are
pretty much the only Coen brothers films I have never seen. Well True Grit is another but I have that pre-ordered on BD already...John Wayne's True Grit is my very favorite John Wayne movie.

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The Hudsucker Proxy was one I was going to list. I love that movie. "You know, for kids!"

The other one I would list is David Mamet's The Spanish Prisoner. One of my favorite movies ever.

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"Sure, sure."

I know some critics say it's not one of the Coen's best films, but I love it too. The dialogue just crackles, the performances are wonderfully over-the-top, the visuals and set design are marvelously evocative. The 1950s as a surreal landscape.

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Wes Craven - The Serpent and the Rainbow

One of the best horror movies I've ever seen.

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Hard Eight by Paul Thomas Anderson
Falling Down by Joel Schumacher

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After reading about Barton Fink here in this thread I bought it on dvd and just finished watching it. So was the whole movie just Barton's imagination or what? I guess I just didn't get it. And the bird dropping dead into the ocean? I am lost. lol!

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Anyone? I know I can go Google it up and will do so if I don't get an answer this time. thanks :)

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Roman Polanski's Death and the Maiden

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Coen Bros - Miller's Crossing. Something a little different if you like Gangster movies

Alfred Hitchcock - The Lady Vanishes

Akira Kurosawa - Ikiru

Terry Gilliam - The Fisher King

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Ikiru's my favorite Kurasawa. Fisher King's wonderful, too!

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I'm sure these have been mentioned, but I'll throw them out there"

Scorsese - King of Comedy, Bringing Out the Dead

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Talk Radio - Oliver Stone

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Damn, I can't believe I didn't post to this thread when it originally ran.

John Ford - JUDGE PRIEST (1934), period comedy with Will Rogers and Stepin Fetchit

Akira Kurosawa - NO REGRETS FOR OUR YOUTH (1946) with Setsuko Hara

Frank Capra - FLIGHT (1929), RAIN OR SHINE (1930), FORBIDDEN (1932), LADY FOR A DAY (1933)

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Lots of great choices in this thread - really pushes my love for film even more.

Billy Wilder - Five Graves to Cairo - Mentioned by another poster and it is sad this does not get a mention from most people when his later dull films get all the acclaim. The opening scene alone is a masterpiece.

Alfred Hitchcock - Number 17 - Virtually unheard of yet unquestionably his best film. All of Hitch's early British films urinate from a great height on his American period.

Frank Capra - The Bitter Tea of General Yen - See it then thank me.

Lewis Milestone - The General Died at Dawn.

Terence Fisher - To the Public Danger

William Wellman - Wild Boys of the Road

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Yes, that's certainly lesser known. -rolleyes-

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:jawdrop: Bottom 5.