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November 15

Art After Hours | 5:30pm
Art as Discourse: Deloss McGraw
McGraw recalls being influenced in his early artistic studies by Oklahoma artists DJ Lafon and John Hadley, whose paintings both have a pictorial language.

Fred Films | 7pm
Blood Simple (USA/1984/dir. by Joel Coen) 99 minutes
Blood Simple marked the debut of the Coen Brothers (although Joel received directing credit while Ethan got producing credit, both brothers in fact co-wrote, directed, and produced the film). This auspicious first film established the Coen's interest in reinvigorating old Hollywood genres. One of the cleverest of the 1980s neo-noirs, Blood Simple 's twisty plot concerns lovers Ray (John Getz) and Abby (Frances McDormand), Abby's husband and Ray's employer Julian Marty (Dan Hedaya) and a private detective hired by Marty to spy on Abby (M. Emmett Walsh). "If there ever was a movie-brat debut," writes J. Hoberman, "it's the Coens' aggressively stylish mixture of showboat formalism and insouciant nose-thumbing."

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