Friday, December 28, 2012

First Up In Spotting The Christmas Moment: The Man Who Wasn't There



This is one of the most underrated Coen Brothers films, it is also one of the strangest, but that fact gets buried a bit in it's veneer of extreme seriousness and the fact that it is a modern film in black and white.  The strange little alien sub-plot is worth "the price of entry" so to speak.  And, it has a Christmas moment too.  A Christmas party at the department store Nirdlinger's Department Store.  It's not nearly as festive an occasion as one might find at department store scene in movies such A Christmas Story, which sports a charming strangeness.  Clip can be found here.

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