2009: I Try to be A SERIOUS MAN

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Best Picture This

Mike Cavaliere & Brian McMillan

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Join Mike and Brian as they reevaluate the top films and Academy Awards nominees from 1999-2009 (plus a whole lot of bonuses), talk trivia and top fives, and address the big question: "Would you keep or kick the Academy's picks for Best Picture?" All that and more on Best Picture This -- where it's always Oscar season!

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2009: I Try to be A SERIOUS MAN

Best Picture This

32 minutes 23 seconds

2 years ago

2009: I Try to be A SERIOUS MAN

There's no such thing as an uninteresting Coen brothers' movie, and 2009's Best Picture-nominated "A Serious Man" continues that tradition, offering plenty of philosophical meat to chew on through its exploration of faith and meaning.

In this episode, Mike and Brian return to their conversation about nihilism's place in the Coen brothers' worldview, they talk fables, causality vs. randomness, bleakness as black comedy, and the role of absurdity in the Coens' work, before deciding whether or not this film will make their top fives of the year.

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