Blood Simple (Director's Cut)
by Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
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Actor: Dan Hedaya, Frances McDormand, John Getz, M. Emmet Walsh, Samm-Art WilliamsDirector: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Cinematographer: Barry Sonnenfeld
Editor: Don Wiegmann
Producer: Daniel F. Bacaner
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 96 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-09-18
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Circle Films
Movie Reviews of Blood Simple (Director's Cut)
Movie Review: Blood-y Masterpiece...
Summary: 5 Stars
BLOOD SIMPLE is the film debut of the wonderfully notorious Coen brothers. As such, it is unbelievably well made. It is incredibly out of place for the decade in which it was created. Like DELIVERANCE, A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, or TAXI DRIVER did not match up well w/ the groovy '70s, BLOOD SIMPLE does not fit the glossy, synthetic 1980s! This is a dark, bleak, crime thriller that matches PULP FICTION with it's viciously humorous sensibilities! Frances McDormand (Fargo, Darkman) has never been better. Her Abby just wants to get away from her odious husband (Dan Hedaya). The beauty of the story is what's going on around / because of Abby. She's the center of the whole bloody mess, and she's clueless! Marty (Hedaya) is the perfect slimeball, making it difficult to feel sorry for him, even during his hellish date w/ destiny! Ray (John Getz) is the poor stooge, thinking he's doing Abby's dirty work, oblivious to the fact that she isn't even involved (at least not directly)! Then there's Visser. M. Emmet Walsh would not be my first choice to play a cold-blooded private detective / ammoral hit-man, but he is absolutely right for the part! I can't imagine anyone else pulling it off. In this movie, even the small roles are great! Samm-Art Williams' walk to the jukebox scene is a classic! BLOOD SIMPLE is far ahead of it's time, feeling more like a late '90s offering than the 25yo movie it is. It hasn't aged a bit...
Summary of Blood Simple (Director's Cut)
The debut film of director Joel Coen and his brother-producer Ethan Coen, 1983's Blood Simple is grisly comic noir that marries the feverish toughness of pulp thrillers with the ghoulishness of even pulpier horror. (Imagine the novels of Jim Thompson somehow fused with the comic tabloid Weird Tales, and you get the idea.) The story concerns a Texas bar owner (Dan Hedaya) who hires a seedy private detective (M. Emmett Walsh) to follow his cheating wife (Frances McDormand in her first film appearance), and then kill her and her lover (John Getz). The gumshoe turns the tables on his client, and suddenly a bad situation gets much, much worse, with some violent goings-on that are as elemental as they are shocking. (A scene in which a character who has been buried alive suddenly emerges from his own grave instantly becomes an archetypal nightmare.) Shot by Barry Sonnenfeld before he became an A-list director in Hollywood, Blood Simple established the hyperreal look and feel of the Coens' productions (undoubtedly inspired a bit by filmmaker Sam Raimi, whose The Evil Dead had just been coedited by Joel). Sections of the film have proved to be an endurance test for art-house movie fans, particularly an extended climax that involves one shock after another but ends with a laugh at the absurdity of criminal ambition. This is definitely one of the triumphs of the 1980s and the American independent film scene in general. --Tom KeoghArt House & International DVD Video
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