The Coens have certainly done their homework: their movie is a brilliant reading of Hammett.

NEWYORKER: Miller��s Crossing

The Coens treat this emblematic figure of thirties culture with merciless contempt.

NEWYORKER: Barton Fink

"Thank you to the Coens for being crazy enough to think that I could do that, and to put one of the most horrible haircuts in history over my head, " he said.

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