Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Using their great ability with comic dialogue, the Coens exaggerate and subvert familiar western tropes to gleeful comic effect.
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is a six-part Western anthology film, a series of tales about the American frontier told through the unique and incomparable voices of Joel and Ethan Coen. Each chapter tells a distinct story about the American West.
Genre
Drama,
Comedy,
Musical,
Western
Runtime
133
Language
English
Director
Ethan Coen,
Joel Coen
Cast
Tim Blake Nelson,
Clancy Brown,
David Krumholtz,
James Franco,
Stephen Root,
Liam Neeson,
Tom Waits,
Sam Dillon,
Zoe Kazan,
Jonjo O'Neill,
Brendan Gleeson,
Saul Rubinek,
Tyne Daly,
Chelcie Ross
FEATURED REVIEW
Glenn Kenny, RogerEbert.com
I’m not one of those reviewers who likes a particular type of Coen Brothers movie more than another. As much as I revered the filmmakers’ knotty, relatively somber “Inside Llewyn Davis,” I didn’t sit through “Hail Caesar” grumbling that I’d have preferred a more serious work. It’s hard to pin down ...
Played at
Monica Film Center 2.01.19 - 2.21.19
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