Best Of: The Coen Brothers / Free Climbing Yosemite’s ‘Dawn Wall’

Best Of: The Coen Brothers / Free Climbing Yosemite’s ‘Dawn Wall’

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Filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen (‘Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?,’ ‘No Country for Old Men’) pay homage to old Westerns with their new film, ‘The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.’ The movie is a collection of six stories that often subvert the expectations of the genre.

Rock climbers Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson talk about scaling the 3,000 foot sheer vertical face of Yosemite’s El Capitan that was long thought impossible to ascend. The documentary about their historic climb is ‘The Dawn Wall.‘