The Universe of the Coen Brothers

Having finally caught up with - and very much enjoyed - Hail, Caesar this article about the universe of the Coen Brothers was fascinating:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/aug/22/coen-brothers-universe-john-turturro-big-lebowski-jesus-quintana

Hail, Caesar is definitely a film for our Film Club. And I still need to catch up with the TV version of Fargo.

Best Films of the 21st Century - so far...

This is brilliant: a survey of the best films since 2000:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/aug/23/mulholland-drive-david-lynch-21st-century-top-films-bbc-poll?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+main+NEW+H+categories&utm_term=187164&subid=105500&CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2_footer

I've yet to check how many I have seen, but it will be an excellent source of inspiration for our Film Society.

Donald Trump is fictional...

I loved this piece in the Guardian which identified several cinematic foreshadowings of the great man [irony]:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2016/aug/02/films-donald-trump-citizen-kane-gangs-of-new-york

Apart from Bill the Butcher, Charles Foster Kane, Howard Beale and Greg Stillson I can also see an echo of Trump in the character of Yorrick Kaine, a fictional escapee from the Bookworld,  in Something Rotten by Jasper Fforde.