Fun Fridays – Director’s Favourite Films – The Coen Brothers

Hello Film Doctor friends.

With the Cannes 2013 Grand Prix winner Inside Llewyn Davis finally on wider release in the UK, the Film Doctor team can’t help but turn to Ethan & Joel Coen for this week’s Fun Friday.

Here is a very exhaustive list of their cinematic picks:

• Brother’s Keeper (1992, dir. Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky)

•  Il Bidone (1955, dir. Federico Fellini)

• Salesman  (1968, dir. Albert Maysles, David Maysles)

• The Bad News Bears (1976, dir. Richard Linklater)

• The Fortune  (1975, dir. Mike Nichols)

•  High and Low (1963, dir. Akira Kurosawa)

• Dames  (1934, dir. Ray Enright, Busby Berkeley)

• Separate Tables (1958, dir. Delbert Mann)

• Where Eagles Dare (1968, dir. Brian G. Hutton)

•  Once Upon a Time in the West (1968, dir. Sergio Leone)

• Greaser’s Palace (1972, dir. Robert Downey Sr.)

• Dr. Strangelove: How I Leanerd To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964, dir. Stanley Kubrick)

• Chinatown (1974, dir. Roman Polanski)

• Repulsion (1965, dir. Roman Polanski)

• The Tenant (1976. dir. Roman Polanski)

• Rosemary’s Baby (1968, dir. Roman Polanski)

• The Palm Beach Story (1942, dir. Preston Sturges)

• The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976, dir. Clint Eastwood)

• Doc (1971, dir. Frank Perry)

• The American Friend (1977, dir. Wim Wenders)

• Boeing Boeing (1965, dir. John Rich)

• That Touch Of Mink (1962, dir. Delbert Mann)

• The Chapman Report (1962, dir. George Cukor)

• Detour (1945, dir. Edgar G. Ulmer)

• The Third Man (1949, dir. Carol Reed)

• The Big Sleep (1946, dir. Howard Hawks)

• Advise and Consent (1962, dir. Otto Preminger)

• The Long Goodbye (1973, dir. Robert Altman)

• Mr. Deeds Goes To Town (1936, dir. Frank Capra)