CROSSROADS CINEMA: ‘THE BIG LEBOWSKI’

“This is a very complicated case … You know, a lotta ins, a lotta outs, a lotta what-have-yous … a lotta strands to keep in my head, man.” The Dude (Jeff Bridges) attempts to unravel the mystery at the heart of The Big Lebowski. If Miller’s Crossing, still the Coen brothers’ masterpiece, is a somber imagining of Dashiell Hammett’s The Glass Key, their seventh film is a farcical take on Raymond Chandler’s The High Window.