In conversation with Dr. Russell Kilbourn, Associate Professor, Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University

From such cult hits as Raising Arizona (1987) and The Big Lebowski (1998) to major critical darlings Fargo (1996), No Country for Old Men (2007), and Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), Ethan and Joel Coen have cultivated a bleakly comical, instantly recognizable voice in modern American cinema. In The Coen Brothers: This Book Really Ties the Films Together, film critic Adam Nayman carefully sifts through their complex cinematic universe in an effort to plot, as he puts it, “some Grand Unified Theory of Coen-ness.” 

Adam Nayman is a contributing editor for Cinema Scope and writes on film for The Ringer, Sight and Sound, Reverse Shot, and Little White Lies. He has written books on Showgirls and the films of Ben Wheatley, and lectures on cinema and journalism at the University of Toronto and Ryerson University.  Find Adam on Twitter @brofromanother

Copies of The Coen Brothers: This Book Really Ties the Films Together will be available for purchase from Open Sesame 

Don't miss the following FREE screenings of Coen Brothers' films every Saturday at 2pm during the month of January:

Saturday Jan. 5:  FARGO

Saturday Jan. 12: BURN AFTER READING

Saturday Jan. 19: INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS 

Saturday Jan. 26: A SERIOUS MAN