Watch A Serious Man

A kidnapping in the snow, a wood chipper and Marge Gunderson; "you betcha".

Alexander Portnoy tells his analyst everything; the novel that scandalised 1969.

A young Hasidic woman flees Brooklyn for Berlin; four episodes from Deborah Feldman's memoir.

The Dude, a rug that tied the room together, and nihilists; the cult film of the 1990s.

The Odyssey in Depression-era Mississippi with a soundtrack that outsold the film.

An ex-con and a policewoman steal one of a furniture magnate's quintuplets; Nicolas Cage in a stocking mask.

A mailroom clerk is made president so the stock will crash; instead he invents the hula hoop.

A divorce lawyer with an unbeatable prenup meets a serial bride; the Coens do screwball.