That's a tough question. They are so perfect every time out of the gate. For quite some time, Raising AZ was certainly my fave... but then Miller's Crossing came along. And then Barton Fink. And then, of course, The Hudsucker Proxy, which I saw on opening night with Coen purists and we screamed and howled... God I loved that movie.

I suppose geography inspires my one true answer to your question Scott... it was such a powerful thing to see us Midwesterners portrayed on film so accurately in FARGO. Oh, every now and then some Minnesota yahoo or Wisconsin goofball will bellow "Yah no one around here talks like dat, doncha' know, n'so?"

Hmmmm...

Anyway, FARGO will remain tops for me.

But then, of course, A SIMPLE MAN... oh dear... that was a masterpiece as well... a Jewish kid raised in a small northeastern Wisconsin town, that film could almost have been torn out of the pages of my teenage years...

I'm slightly leery of their True Grit remake but I'm sure they'll knock it outta' the park too. They can't seem to make a bad movie... (and I'm including Intolerable Cruelty and The Ladykillers in that list... loved 'em both...)

I like that one. I'll saw it long before I became a parent. So I ought to see it again now.

Funniest movie ever.

I would not say RA is the Cohen's best movie, but it likely my favorite.

Raising Arizona is by far my favorite Coen brothers movie.

It was way ahead of its time. Also, note Barry Sonnenfeld dp'd this. He went on to shoot MEN IN BLACK and ADAMS FAMILY. You can definitely see the shared sensibilities.