Notes on…

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs(2018)

Dir. Directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen


Many have suggested that the Coens “know what they’re doing” w/r/t their depiction of Indigenous peoples. If this is the case, then... what are they doing? And why? And how is it different than if they didn’t “know”?

Will Sloan

Vignettes weaving together the stories of six individuals in the old West at the end of the Civil War. Following the tales of a sharp-shooting songster, a wannabe bank robber, two weary traveling performers, a lone gold prospector, a woman traveling the West to an uncertain future, and a motley crew of strangers undertaking a carriage ride.