Extortion is the name of the game in this 21st century homage to vintage film noir. At the center is Billy Bob Thornton’s dead-on, deadpan portrait of malaise and yearning in 1940s small-town California. Shot on color negative film (by the Coens’ 10-time cinematographer Roger Deakins), then printed in incandescent, stunning black-and-white, the film garnered the Coens their third Best Director award from the Cannes Film Festival. 2001, 35mm, 116 minutes.
The Man Who Wasn’t There
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