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| Joel
Coen and Ethan Coen |
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/ Screenwriter / Producer / Editor |
| Joel 1954 -
| Ethan 1957 - |
| Joel Born November 29,
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA | Ethan Born September 21,
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA |
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Key
Production Countries: USA, UK, France |
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Key Genres:
Comedy, Crime, Crime Comedy, Black Comedy, Screwball Comedy, Crime
Thriller |
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Key
Collaborators: Carter Burwell (Composer), Roger Deakins
(Cinematographer), Frances McDormand (Leading Character Player), Dennis Gassner
(Production Designer), Steve Buscemi (Leading Character Player), John Goodman
(Leading Player), Jon Polito
(Character Player), John Turturro
(Leading Character Player), George Clooney (Leading Player), Holly
Hunter (Leading Character Player) |
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Highly Recommended:
Blood Simple (1984), Raising Arizona (1987),
Miller's
Crossing (1990), Barton Fink (1991), Fargo (1995), The Man Who Wasn't There (2001), No Country for Old Men (2007) |
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Recommended:
The Hudsucker Proxy (1994), The Big
Lebowski (1998), O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) |
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Links:
[
IMDB: Joel ] [
IMDB: Ethan ]
[
TCMDB: Joel ] [
TCMDB: Ethan ] [
All-Movie
Guide: Joel ] [
All-Movie
Guide: Ethan ] [
Senses
of Cinema: Great Directors ] [
Film Reference ]
[
Cinepad Interview ] [
You
Know for Kids!: The Movies of the Coen Brothers ] [
Coenesque ]
[
Guardian
Article (2004) ] |
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Books:
[
The Philosophy of the Coen Brothers ] [
The Brothers Grim: The Films of Ethan and Joel Coen ] [
The Dude Abides: The Gospel According to the Coen Brothers ] [
Coen Brothers (Virgin Film Series) ] [
The Brothers Coen: Unique Characters of Violence ] [
The Coen Brothers (Ronald Bergan) ]
[
The
Coen Brothers: The Story of Two American Filmmakers ] [
Brothers
Coen: Joel and Ethan Coen ] [
The
Films of Joel and Ethan Coen ] [
Joel and Ethan Coen (Contemporary Film Directors) ] [
Joel & Ethan Coen: Blood Siblings (Ultrascreen Series) ] [
Joel and Ethan Coen ] [
The Coen Brothers: Interviews (Conversations With Filmmakers Series) ] |
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DVD's:
[
Amazon
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1,000
Greatest Films:
Blood Simple (1984), Raising Arizona (1987), Miller's
Crossing (1990), Barton Fink (1991), Fargo (1995), The Big Lebowski (1998) |
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21st Century's Most Acclaimed Films:
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), The Man Who Wasn't There (2001),
No Country for Old Men (2007), A Serious Man (2009) |
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"For all
the visual flair and deft performances on display in their
films, the Coens' greatest virtue lies in writing. In terms of
pacy stories, witty dialogue and the creation of a coherent,
plausible fantasy world peopled by vivid characters, their
ability to work original and entertaining variations on a genre
bodes well for the future." -
Geoff
Andrew (The Film Handbook, 1989) |
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"I am
still unresolved, I liked Fargo nearly as much as its
many fans, but then Lebowski felt too cute by half, like
a film watching itself, more intent on being droll than life. Is
it just my shortcoming, or is there something in fraternal
support that means they need never feel alone? I can't shake the
feeling of one dude showing the picture to the other, and then
chuckling together." -
David
Thomson, (The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, 2002) |
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"The
Coens appear to have abandoned for good the stylized realism and
Aristotelian narrative that made Blood Simple such a
success. But in an era that has witnessed the commercial success
of cartoonish anti-naturalism (Dick Tracy, the Batman
films), their concern with striking visual and aural effects may
provide the basis for a long career, though difficult films like
Barton Fink, despite critical acclaim, will never gain a
wider audience." -
R.
Barton Palmer (The St. James Film Directors Encyclopedia, 1998) |
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"Generally
we work with our own material, so why would they want us to do
it but then get their hands in it? It's different when the
studio is doing some teen film. It's a studio product, and maybe
in that case the director is driven crazy. But we don't do those
kinds of movies." - Joel Coen |
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"I mean,
Joel talks to the actors more than I do and I probably do
production stuff a little more than he does." -
Ethan Coen |
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