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\u201cIn their films\u2014especially\xa0Barton Fink,\xa0The Man Who Wasn\u2019t There,\xa0No Country for Old Men,\xa0A\xa0Serious Man, and\xa0Inside Llewyn Davis\u2014there\u2019s always the sense that the deck is stacked against us\xa0and\xa0that we\u2019re the authors of our own misery, a doubly discomfiting, Camusian view that perfectly matches their aesthetic approach, an overwhelming omniscience that results in a kind of bravura melancholy,\u201d Michael Koresky writes in his feature about Joel and Ethan Coen\u2019s\xa0The Ballad of Buster Scruggs\xa0in our September/October issue. This week, Koresky, FSLC Editorial and Creative Director, moderates a special\xa0Film Comment\xa0Podcast featuring three\xa0more\xa0Coeniacs in conversation about the brothers\u2019 dazzling 30-year-plus body of work, from greatest hits to lesser-known ballads: K. Austin Collins, film critic at\xa0Vanity Fair; Aliza Ma, head of programming at Metrograph; and Adam Nayman, Toronto-based critic and author of the new book\xa0The Coen Brothers:\xa0This Book Really Ties the Films Together\xa0(Abrams).\xa0The Ballad of Buster Scruggs screens on October 4 and 9 in the New York Film Festival and opens in November. And look out for our Film Comment Talks during NYFF: the Cinema of Experience on September 29, our Filmmakers Chat on October 7, and our critics' Festival Wrap about festival highlights on October 10.