The Coen Brothers, Second EditionSimon and Schuster, 2016 M01 5 - 360 pages Brought completely up to date, this insightful biography remains "a must for any self-respecting Coen fan" (Screentrade). This fully updated edition of the first biography of the Coen Brothers includes their complete work so far, from Blood Simple to Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), with a reassessment of their remarkable career as a whole. Joel and Ethan Coen have pulled off the ultimate balancing act. Despite having their movies financed and distributed by major studios, they have managed to remain true independents, rejecting commercial clichés and never giving up on their own fiercely idiosyncratic vision. While doing so, they have established themselves among the world's leading filmmakers. From their startling debut, Blood Simple (1984), all of their movies reveal a distinctive stamp: a flamboyant visual style, richly conceived characters, crisp dialogue, and brilliant casting. They have revitalized old Hollywood genres such as noir, screwball, and the western, giving them a contemporary sensibility. In this biography, Ronald Bergan traces the brothers' Jewish roots, their beginnings as film geeks in suburban Minneapolis, their battle to get their first feature made and released, through their early features and the movies of their maturity. He gives blow-by-blow accounts of the making of each movie. New chapters cover all those released since O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), with which the first edition of this book ended. |
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... Blood Simple in 1984, they immediately established their credentials as the true descendants of the masters of the American film noir of the 1940s, and showed how profoundly they were imbued with the spirit of the hard-boiled school of ...
... Blood Simple in 1984, they immediately established their credentials as the true descendants of the masters of the American film noir of the 1940s, and showed how profoundly they were imbued with the spirit of the hard-boiled school of ...
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... Blood Simple was the beginning of a perfect comic partnership—Joel displaying his pomposity and outraged dignity, and Ethan innocently unaware of the havoc his idiocy causes. In their T-shirts, jeans, and sneakers, they were vagrants ...
... Blood Simple was the beginning of a perfect comic partnership—Joel displaying his pomposity and outraged dignity, and Ethan innocently unaware of the havoc his idiocy causes. In their T-shirts, jeans, and sneakers, they were vagrants ...
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... Blood Simple, gangster Johnny Casper (Jon Polito) in Miller's Crossing, and John Goodman. In Liberty (1929), Stan and Ollie are back in prison but quickly make a break for it and somehow find themselves on the top of a partly built ...
... Blood Simple, gangster Johnny Casper (Jon Polito) in Miller's Crossing, and John Goodman. In Liberty (1929), Stan and Ollie are back in prison but quickly make a break for it and somehow find themselves on the top of a partly built ...
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... Blood Simple, yet to find a distributor, had excited audiences at film festivals around the USA.
... Blood Simple, yet to find a distributor, had excited audiences at film festivals around the USA.
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... Blood Simple in 1984, their elders David Lynch (Eraserhead), John Waters (Pink Flamingos), John Carpenter (Dark Star), and David Cronenberg (Scanners) had already entered the kingdom of indiedom. But in 1984, the year John Cassavetes ...
... Blood Simple in 1984, their elders David Lynch (Eraserhead), John Waters (Pink Flamingos), John Carpenter (Dark Star), and David Cronenberg (Scanners) had already entered the kingdom of indiedom. But in 1984, the year John Cassavetes ...
Contents
The Brothers Geek | |
First Blood | |
Hi Stakes VI Double Crossing | |
Hollywood Nuts | |
Yah Yah | |
Cool Dudes | |
Odd Odyssey | |
James M Coen | |
Intolerable Hollywood Bowel Syndrome | |
Blood Complex | |
A Comedy of Errors | |
A Good | |
CapraCoen | |
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