"Fargo" begins with an absolutely dead-on familiarity with smalltown life in the frigid winter landscape of Minnesota and North Dakota. Then it rotates its story through satire, comedy, suspense and violence, until it emerges as one of the best films I've ever seen. To watch it is to experience steadily mounting delight, as you realize the filmmakers have taken enormous risks, gotten away ...
Fargo movie review & film summary (1996)
Fargo. Roger Ebert April 05, 2001. Tweet. Marge Gunderson (Frances McDormand) in "Fargo." Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. The telephone rings at 3 a.m. and a pregnant woman puts on her police uniform to go out into the Minnesota winter and investigate a homicide. "Eggs," her sleepy husband says. He'll make her eggs.
Siskel & Ebert's Enthusiastic Review for FARGO (1996)
Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert both named Fargo the best film of 1996. It was also Ebert's fourth favorite of the 1990s. In his original review, Ebert called it...
Scorsese and Ebert's 'Fargo' Review Is the Best Thing ...
Aug 06, 2019. Watch Martin Scorsese and Ebert give this Coen Brothers classic two thumbs up. As movie fans go, they don't get much bigger or more knowledgable than Martin Scorsese and the late, great film critic Roger Ebert. And, 23 years ago, the two paired up to talk about one of our favorite movies ever, Fargo .
FX's Fargo Gets Back on Its Feet In Its Assured Fifth Season
FX's Fargo Gets Back on Its Feet In Its Assured Fifth Season. "This is a true story.". This opening text, in both Joel and Ethan Coen 's Midwestern crime classic " Fargo " and the newest season of FX's anthology series inspired by it, is a lie—a cheeky way to lend the neo-noir mayhem that ensues a kind of arch, true-crime fidelity.
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N ow rereleased for its 25th anniversary, Ethan and Joel Coen's perfectly flavoured comedy-thriller Fargo has become an established classic noir. Or maybe noir-blanc, a tale of criminal ...
Fargo (1996)
Fargo is the ultimate Coen Brothers movie, a brilliant tragedy, and restores my faith in Roger Ebert as he places this movie in as his fourth favorite movie of the '90s. 360 out of 507 found this helpful.
Fargo (1996)
Fargo: Directed by Joel Coen, Ethan Coen. With William H. Macy, Steve Buscemi, Peter Stormare, Kristin Rudrüd. Minnesota car salesman Jerry Lundegaard's inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen's bungling and the persistent police work of the quite pregnant Marge Gunderson.
Fargo
Fargo - Metacritic. Summary Jerry Lundegaard (William H. Macy) is a car salesman in Minneapolis who has landed himself deep into debt. Desperate for money, he hires two inept crooks to kidnap his own wife in the hope that her wealthy father will pay the ransom, giving him enough cash to pay off his associates and clear his debts. Crime. Thriller.
Fargo (1996)
Uniquely fascinating. Frances McDormand enjoys the comedic role of her career. In the darkly humorous Fargo, iconoclastic filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen manage the precarious balancing act of respecting genre conventions and simultaneously pushing them to an almost surrealistic extreme. Very funny stuff.
'Fargo' Review: Movie (1996)
On March 8, 1996, the Coen brothers unleashed Fargo in limited theaters stateside. The film went on to earn seven nominations at the 69th Academy Awards, claiming honors for actress Frances ...
7 Reasons Why "Fargo" is a Masterpiece of Crime Cinema
In the end, there are only so many basic plots in cinema. The distinction of a good project is how it handles the plot, and what the film does with it. "Fargo", on one level, is the kind of 'true crime' story that has come to dominate movies and especially TV in the decades since Truman Capote published 1966's "In Cold Blood".
Fargo (1996 film)
Fargo is a 1996 black comedy crime film written, directed, produced and edited by Joel and Ethan Coen. Frances McDormand stars as Marge Gunderson, a pregnant Minnesota police chief investigating a triple homicide that takes place after a desperate car salesman (William H. Macy) hires two criminals (Steve Buscemi and Peter Stormare) to kidnap his wife in order to extort a hefty ransom from her ...
Fargo
Siskel and Ebert Movie Reviews. Original movie reviews untainted by time! Home; Public Television Years. Opening Soon at a Theater Near You - 1975; Opening Soon at a Theater Near You - 1976; ... Fargo #Disney2000 Best Of. Ebert & Scorsese: Best Films of the 1990s
Fargo Review
Fargo Review. A desperate businessman hires two hoods to kidnap his wife, in order to grab the ransom money for himself. However, when small-town sherrif Marge Gunderson starts to investigate, his ...
FX's "Fargo" is All About the Art of the Spin
There's a moment in the second episode of the brilliant new season of FX's " Fargo " in which the villainous V.M. Varga ( David Thewlis) looks at two flies caught in his spider's web and essentially laughs at the very idea that there is a way for them to extricate themselves. To varying extents, this has been the theme of every season ...
Please explain why Fargo (1996) is so special? : r/movies
It's entirely about how searching for monetary wealth can sap away your humanity while just taking us on a leisurely stroll through a terrific cavalcade of characters. Marge's speech to Peter Stormare's character at the end sums it all up. "There's more to life than a little money, ya know.
FARGO (1996)
So sorry for the bad video quality here guys. But no way in hell am I shooting these videos twice. Good thing the audio is more important here than the visua...
FX's Fargo Returns with an Ambitious But Underdeveloped ...
Set in 1950 in Kansas City, Missouri, "Fargo" (the 11-episode season of which begins on Sept. 27 on FX), begins under the guise of a history report. 16-year-old Ethelrida Pearl Smutny (E'myri Crutchfield), a straight-A student at school who suffers regular paddling from the principal ("The moment our feet touched American soil, we were already criminals" she says to explain how often ...
Review: 'Fargo' delivers the Sioux Falls Massacre in ...
December 7, 2015. My review of tonight's penultimate "Fargo" of season 2 coming up just as soon as I show you what a South Dakota necktie looks like…. "It's just a flying saucer, Ed ...
'Downtown Owl' review: '80s period piece doesn't know what it wants to
Stage 6 Films presents a film directed by Lily Rabe and Hamish Linklater and written by Linklater, based on a novel by Chuck Klosterman. Running time: 88 minutes. Rated R (for language, some drug ...
Movie reviews and ratings by Film Critic Roger Ebert
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Argo movie review & film summary (2012)
The extraction of the six Americans remained top secret for 18 years. They all returned safely to America. "Argo," needless to say, was never filmed. Ben Affleck not only stars in but also directs, and "Argo," the real movie about the fake movie, is both spellbinding and surprisingly funny. Many of the laughs come from the Hollywood guys played ...
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"Fargo" begins with an absolutely dead-on familiarity with smalltown life in the frigid winter landscape of Minnesota and North Dakota. Then it rotates its story through satire, comedy, suspense and violence, until it emerges as one of the best films I've ever seen. To watch it is to experience steadily mounting delight, as you realize the filmmakers have taken enormous risks, gotten away ...
Fargo. Roger Ebert April 05, 2001. Tweet. Marge Gunderson (Frances McDormand) in "Fargo." Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. The telephone rings at 3 a.m. and a pregnant woman puts on her police uniform to go out into the Minnesota winter and investigate a homicide. "Eggs," her sleepy husband says. He'll make her eggs.
Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert both named Fargo the best film of 1996. It was also Ebert's fourth favorite of the 1990s. In his original review, Ebert called it...
Aug 06, 2019. Watch Martin Scorsese and Ebert give this Coen Brothers classic two thumbs up. As movie fans go, they don't get much bigger or more knowledgable than Martin Scorsese and the late, great film critic Roger Ebert. And, 23 years ago, the two paired up to talk about one of our favorite movies ever, Fargo .
FX's Fargo Gets Back on Its Feet In Its Assured Fifth Season. "This is a true story.". This opening text, in both Joel and Ethan Coen 's Midwestern crime classic " Fargo " and the newest season of FX's anthology series inspired by it, is a lie—a cheeky way to lend the neo-noir mayhem that ensues a kind of arch, true-crime fidelity.
N ow rereleased for its 25th anniversary, Ethan and Joel Coen's perfectly flavoured comedy-thriller Fargo has become an established classic noir. Or maybe noir-blanc, a tale of criminal ...
Fargo is the ultimate Coen Brothers movie, a brilliant tragedy, and restores my faith in Roger Ebert as he places this movie in as his fourth favorite movie of the '90s. 360 out of 507 found this helpful.
Fargo: Directed by Joel Coen, Ethan Coen. With William H. Macy, Steve Buscemi, Peter Stormare, Kristin Rudrüd. Minnesota car salesman Jerry Lundegaard's inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen's bungling and the persistent police work of the quite pregnant Marge Gunderson.
Fargo - Metacritic. Summary Jerry Lundegaard (William H. Macy) is a car salesman in Minneapolis who has landed himself deep into debt. Desperate for money, he hires two inept crooks to kidnap his own wife in the hope that her wealthy father will pay the ransom, giving him enough cash to pay off his associates and clear his debts. Crime. Thriller.
Uniquely fascinating. Frances McDormand enjoys the comedic role of her career. In the darkly humorous Fargo, iconoclastic filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen manage the precarious balancing act of respecting genre conventions and simultaneously pushing them to an almost surrealistic extreme. Very funny stuff.
On March 8, 1996, the Coen brothers unleashed Fargo in limited theaters stateside. The film went on to earn seven nominations at the 69th Academy Awards, claiming honors for actress Frances ...
In the end, there are only so many basic plots in cinema. The distinction of a good project is how it handles the plot, and what the film does with it. "Fargo", on one level, is the kind of 'true crime' story that has come to dominate movies and especially TV in the decades since Truman Capote published 1966's "In Cold Blood".
Fargo is a 1996 black comedy crime film written, directed, produced and edited by Joel and Ethan Coen. Frances McDormand stars as Marge Gunderson, a pregnant Minnesota police chief investigating a triple homicide that takes place after a desperate car salesman (William H. Macy) hires two criminals (Steve Buscemi and Peter Stormare) to kidnap his wife in order to extort a hefty ransom from her ...
Siskel and Ebert Movie Reviews. Original movie reviews untainted by time! Home; Public Television Years. Opening Soon at a Theater Near You - 1975; Opening Soon at a Theater Near You - 1976; ... Fargo #Disney2000 Best Of. Ebert & Scorsese: Best Films of the 1990s
Fargo Review. A desperate businessman hires two hoods to kidnap his wife, in order to grab the ransom money for himself. However, when small-town sherrif Marge Gunderson starts to investigate, his ...
There's a moment in the second episode of the brilliant new season of FX's " Fargo " in which the villainous V.M. Varga ( David Thewlis) looks at two flies caught in his spider's web and essentially laughs at the very idea that there is a way for them to extricate themselves. To varying extents, this has been the theme of every season ...
It's entirely about how searching for monetary wealth can sap away your humanity while just taking us on a leisurely stroll through a terrific cavalcade of characters. Marge's speech to Peter Stormare's character at the end sums it all up. "There's more to life than a little money, ya know.
So sorry for the bad video quality here guys. But no way in hell am I shooting these videos twice. Good thing the audio is more important here than the visua...
Set in 1950 in Kansas City, Missouri, "Fargo" (the 11-episode season of which begins on Sept. 27 on FX), begins under the guise of a history report. 16-year-old Ethelrida Pearl Smutny (E'myri Crutchfield), a straight-A student at school who suffers regular paddling from the principal ("The moment our feet touched American soil, we were already criminals" she says to explain how often ...
December 7, 2015. My review of tonight's penultimate "Fargo" of season 2 coming up just as soon as I show you what a South Dakota necktie looks like…. "It's just a flying saucer, Ed ...
Stage 6 Films presents a film directed by Lily Rabe and Hamish Linklater and written by Linklater, based on a novel by Chuck Klosterman. Running time: 88 minutes. Rated R (for language, some drug ...
Roger Ebert.com is the ultimate destination for movie lovers, featuring reviews and ratings by the legendary film critic Roger Ebert and his colleagues. Discover the best films of all genres, eras, and countries, and learn more about the art and craft of cinema.
The extraction of the six Americans remained top secret for 18 years. They all returned safely to America. "Argo," needless to say, was never filmed. Ben Affleck not only stars in but also directs, and "Argo," the real movie about the fake movie, is both spellbinding and surprisingly funny. Many of the laughs come from the Hollywood guys played ...