The extent to which I thoroughly enjoy and absolutely
love Miller’s Crossing can hardly be
put into words. It is by far my favorite Coen brothers film even if I don’t
think it their greatest achievement. But I get a thrill every time I watch it,
and that’s about ten or a dozen times over a period of nearly twenty years. I
think Miller’s Crossing arrived on my
radar at a particularly impressionable time in my development as a cinephile.
It was pre-Fargo and so prior to the
Coens being almost household names. I was also just very recently enamored with
Quentin Tarantino, although had yet to discover Sam Raimi. I don’t even think I
knew about the Coens as filmmakers yet. Raising
Arizona had played on TV and I’d seen it, but I had no idea who was
responsible. There was no IMDb in my world yet.
