Synching up with the beloved Blank Check podcast's deep dive into the entire Coen Brothers filmography, Riverside Studios bring you a selection of the inimitable directing duo's early works, with showdates timed to coincide with the relevant podcast release date!
Get 20% off the adult price if you buy two or more tickets in the same order for any of the films:
Jul 27 - Miller's Crossing
Aug 3 - Barton Fink
Aug 17 - Fargo
FARGO (1996)
Fargo received seven Oscar nominations at the 69th Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Supporting Actor for Macy, winning two: Best Actress for McDormand and Best Original Screenplay for the Coens.
The Coen brothers' unique visual style and quirky sense of humour are superbly put to work in this blackly comic kidnap drama. In a cold and snowy Minnesota in 1987, debt-ridden car salesman Jerry (William H. Macy) hires two thugs to kidnap his wife and collect a ransom from her rich father. When the hapless pair shoot a state trooper and two innocent bystanders, the local Police Chief's (Frances McDormand, in an Oscar-winning role) leads keep coming back to the suspicious-looking Jerry.
Creating an array of intriguing characters, the Coens' script is a triumph of understated humour that earned them an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.
About Blank Check:
Not just another bad movie podcast, Blank Check with Griffin & David reviews directors' complete filmographies episode to episode. Specifically, the auteurs whose early successes afforded them the rare ‘blank check’ from Hollywood to produce passion projects. Each new miniseries, hosts Griffin Newman and David Sims delve into the works of film’s most outsized personalities in painstakingly hilarious detail.
£100/year gets you: 6 free cinema tickets, 10% off all tickets at Riverside, 10% off our various bars & bakery, free popcorn every cinema visit, no booking fees, AND MUCH MORE
