“The Dude abides …”

Just how cool can a movie be? The Big Lebowski after 10 years still never fails to make me laugh, nearly make me cry, and generally leave me with a warm fuzzy feeling and a resting heartbeat to slowdance to. I seem to have kept the gaps between viewings each time just about long enough that there are still surprises, scenes I adore but always forget about; it feels so fresh like only last week I was watching it for the first time, not nearly a decade.

I’m sure I must’ve written about it before in all that time, and maybe I wrote this too, but though it’s been squeezed through a hash-smoke filled funnel, the story is very “Big Sleep” and the like, the title of course reflecting that. Roger Deakins’ photography is so shiny, I don’t even know if you hear a single bowling shoe squeak on the alley floor but somehow you hear it anyway. The slo-mo, the music, the dream sequence and porno, there’s just so much here to enjoy for at least another 10 years and beyond. Absolutely one of my favourite Coen movies, and the perfect post-Oscar chillout movie, particularly of course this year.