: About Me

The great comedic screenwriter and eventual director, Preston Sturges, created some of the funniest and socially conscious films of the 1940's. Whether or not Sturges' films were deliberately aware and intending to address such issues as the Depression, poverty, and class politics is debatable, but what is not debatable is the fact that Sturges possessed a unique gift for writing characters and stories that are interesting, funny, and endearing. Along the same vein in more recent times are writer and director Joel and Ethan Coen, better known as the Coen Brothers. I see them as carrying th...