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FARGO The J Man assumes the critics were either fearful of exposing the film's odious hate message (why they would be fearful is a topic better left for another day), or were blinded by the *humor* and arty cinematic techniques. Fargo begins with the statement that the movie is a "True Story." While moviegoers may believe this implies there was a real-life crime which inspired the film, the truth is that Fargo is the filmmakers' twisted "True Story" of the White race in the New World. Fargo is a perverted allegory meant to portray all the *crimes* of the White race in North America. members.aol.com /rootbeer68/far.html   (956 words)

Fargo (1996) An anomaly of categorization, the contemporary masterpiece is a film noir (with stark white vistas and backdrops), a satirical comedy, a suspenseful crime drama, and a violent mystery thriller. Although the film is named Fargo, the location of the initial scene in North Dakota, most of the film's action is set in Minnesota (the towns of Brainerd and Minneapolis) and on the road to and from Fargo, during approximately a week of time in late January and early February. The film opens with a memorable white-out, blinding blizzard in the 'dead' of winter, causing the screen to be drenched in the white of the vast, snow-covered landscape without recognizable landmarks. www.greatestfilms.org /fargo.html   (1822 words)

Fargo-Latest Classic Movie Reviews-Spout Although the credits for Fargo state that the film is loosely based on real events, the story is entirely fictional, the claim being just an ironic jibe on the part of the Coens. Fargo is one of those films that everyone seems to love. Fargo never seems to make up its mind if it wants to be an absurdist comedy or a stylized crime drama, and that's a big part of its charm: somehow it manages to be both at the same time. www.spout.com /films/93104/default.aspx   (1365 words)

Bright Lights Film Journal | The Shining and Fargo Ullman that Wendy is "a confirmed ghost story and horror film addict." Such addicts (starting with Stephen King) have found fault with Kubrick's The Shining (1980), for treating the horror genre ambivalently and being unable to frighten the audience. In this film's final scene, Nicholson, playing a French officer and veteran of the Napoleonic Wars, lay beneath a tree with a woman in his arms, he kisses her long and hard, suddenly she transforms into a rotting corpse. Perhaps, the film's grossest incongruity, and a motif that becomes the spiritual heart of the film's disjunction, is the way most of the characters infamously speak: English with a Swedish accent. www.brightlightsfilm.com /42/shining.htm   (3658 words)

Fargo (film) - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia The film begins with him driving to Fargo to meet two men, whom he got in touch with through a work assosciate. His plan is to quell his financial difficulites by hiring these two guys, Carl (Buscemi), and Grimsrud (Stomare)to kidnap his wife so then can demand a ransom from her rich father, which Jerry can take a piece of and use to pay off his debts. Grimsrud is caught by Marge, and despite his toughness throughout the film, (he murdered five people) runs from a impossibly pregnant female police officer. uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Fargo_(film)   (710 words)

FARGO (MGM) + FARGO - SPECIAL EDITION DVD Not only is Fargo the Coens' most straightforwardly-told film, lacking their typical stylistic flourishes, but its cautionary tale highlights the dangers of permitting life to become more complicated than necessary. In stark contrast to this behavior is that of the film's heroine, Police Chief Marge Gunderson (Frances McDormand). I first saw the film in a theater full of Wisconsin college students who laughed loudly and derisively at the depiction of their northern neighbors, and the experience was off-putting. filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/fargo.htm   (1686 words)

Death in the snow | Features | guardian.co.uk Film The cops say the dead Japanese woman was looking for the $1m she saw buried in the film Fargo. As any fan of the Coen brothers' 1996 comic film noir knows, most of Fargo is actually set in and around a gentle American small town called Brainerd, Minnesota, proud home of the mythical mighty lumberjack Paul Bunyan. The next time he thought about her was when the detectives called from Detroit Lakes, over the state line in Minnesota, to say that a Japanese girl had been found dead in their woods, with his card in her wallet. film.guardian.co.uk /features/featurepages/0,4120,970908,00.html   (2926 words)

Fargo Fargo was being bathed in bright sunshine on a clear day. By the way, we knew we were going to Fargo at the beginning of March. A fairly average film, except it was shot in North Dakota, which kept the audience a little more forgiving. www.therestorers.com /html/fargo.html   (1988 words)

MPR: "Fargo" the movie turns 10 Traffic in downtown Fargo was a little heavier than normal as people turned out early to find a prime place to watch from their car. Fargo, N.D. The last hours before the opening of the Fargo Film Festival are always hectic. Margie Bailey, the executive director of the Fargo Theatre seemed to have a phone permanently attached to her ear. minnesota.publicradio.org /display/web/2006/03/01/fargoanniversary/?rsssource=1   (862 words)

Metroactive Arts | Fargo The latest film by Joel and Ethan Coen, Fargo, tells a tale of unambiguous morality in ambiguous, icily humorous terms. Fargo may be the Coens' best film since 1987's Raising Arizona, closing the circle with the earlier film by shooting in a white desert, as opposed to a painted one. Fargo is film blanc, for the locations, as well as for the flatness and lack of inflections in everyone's voice. www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/03.14.96/fargo-9611.html   (1763 words)

Amazon.ca: Fargo: Joel Coen, Larry Brandenburg, Steve Buscemi, Bruce Campbell, Gary Houston, Warren Keith, William H. ... The crime in the Coen Brother's film FARGO has to have been the worst executed crime in the history of cinema. I expected Fargo to be a light hearted comedy that was set in the midwest. Fargo fits into a tiny crack between popcorn flick and truly interesting, and not just because it's based on a true story. www.amazon.ca /Fargo-Joel-Coen/dp/B00009W5CA   (2228 words)

www.fargofilmfestival.org The Fargo Film Festival would like to thank all the volunteers, audience members, panelists, visiting moviemakers, board members, projectionists, theatre staff, and everyone else who helped to make 2008 our most successful and rewarding event yet. Tallchief dancing in her prime forms the corps of the story and this is the reason the film was delayed or on hold for close to three years. As the final film in the trilogy, it deals with the winter season and its effects on humans, animals, and the land. fargofilmfestival.org   (4820 words)

Fargo (1996): William H. Macy, Steve Buscemi, Frances McDormand - PopMatters Film Review Equally conventional are the film's basic plot elements -- murder, betrayal, car salesmen, and wood chippers -- the usual ripped-from-the-headlines stuff that doesn't ask you to suspend too much belief. The crime at the film's center begins with car salesman Jerry Lundergaard (William H. Macy), so desperate for money that he arranges to have his wife Jean (Kristin Rudrud) kidnapped, with the hope that her wealthy father Wade (Harve Presnell) will pay off big time. This is the film's genius, its simultaneous emulation and excavation of true crime's obsession with dull or spectacular minutiae, coupled with a refusal to make such details cohere into master plans and meanings. www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/f/fargo-dvd.shtml   (1645 words)

Joel and Ethan Coen In the films of the Coen brothers the process of story-telling is often laid open to exposition and demonstration. Despite all the criticism of their work—their films are merely about other films, their work smugly proposes the emptiness at the core of art, they hide behind style to avoid moral and ethical issues—the Coen brothers nevertheless set up a connection to history through their pithy investigation into the texts that represent the past. Talk-radio audiences in Minnesota complained that the film ridiculed them and their culture, and McKinney suggested that not only was the dialogue inaccurate in its representation of the true regional dialect but the application of it by the Coens served merely to diminish the characters rather than particularise them. www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/directors/03/coens.html   (4389 words)

Fargo - Fargo Filmmaking It is set in the Upper Midwest (the opening and closing scenes are set in North Dakota and the rest in Minnesota) and tells the tale of a car salesman, who has hired two hit men to kidnap his wife for a ransom of $1,000,000, and the pregnant police chief who investigates the crime. While much of the film was shot in Minnesota, a number of scenes were shot in northeastern North Dakota. A large statue depicting Marge Gunderson was donated by MGM to the Fargo Theatre, and the statue currently resides on the theatre's second floor. fargofilmmaking.wikia.com /wiki/Fargo   (445 words)

Fargo Film Festival - Fargo Filmmaking It was established in 2001 as an important showcase for regional, national, and international films and is held at the Fargo Theatre every March. In November of 1999, a group of film lovers, filmmakers and educators, along with tourism specialists, theatre volunteers and staff members, gathered at the newly restored Fargo Theatre to discuss the possibility of a Fargo Film Festival, as well as the selection of the Fargo Theatre as a site for the 2000 Library of Congress Film Preservation Tour. fargofilmmaking.wikia.com /wiki/Fargo_Film_Festival   (370 words)

Fargo Movie Review, DVD Release - Filmcritic.com Fargo is perhaps the best movie to come down the pike since Pulp Fiction--so good that it earns my seldom-awarded five-star rating. Fargo is one of those rare pictures about which I have nothing negative to say. Every shot of Fargo is executed like it's a piece of art with the Coens' typical style; there is nothing at all wasted in the film, as the Coens make even what would normally be dull establishing scenes fun. www.filmcritic.com /misc/emporium.nsf/84dbbfa4d710144986256c290016f76e/c8ed9730f77dda9a862562ea00730867?OpenDocument   (417 words)

Film Scouts Reviews: Fargo She's the character who grates on our nerves and, since she's a textbook victim, we start suspecting the Coens are up to no good; poor lady gets grabbed right in the middle of her favorite soaps in a terrifying scene. The anti-dramatic white-on-white study in "Fargo" is the Coen Brothers' move to subtlety, a characteristic never before associated with them. Yet "Fargo" is about the strength of insignificant, round people routinely solving problems that we, in our arrogance, deem too complex for them. www.filmscouts.com /scripts/review.cfm?File=fargo   (695 words)

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