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LFF 2018: The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs & The Old Man & The Gun







The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs

dir. Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, USA, 2018


For the first twenty minutes or so of The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs - the Coen brothers' anthology film of six tales of the American frontier (with colour plates) - I was in absolute heaven. Tim Blake Nelson's titular cowboy, as adept at singin' as he is at gunslingin', rattles off the kind of classic Coens dialogue that

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