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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... Perkins: A Haunted Life The Great Theatres of London The United Artists Story ... Isms: Understanding Cinema François Truffaut Interviews Eyewitness Companion Guide to Film THE G0EN BROTHERS Second Edition WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY.
... Perkins: A Haunted Life The Great Theatres of London The United Artists Story ... Isms: Understanding Cinema François Truffaut Interviews Eyewitness Companion Guide to Film THE G0EN BROTHERS Second Edition WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY.
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... cinema history, and they paid homage to the writers and directors that had influenced them. But their work was no mere pastiche or superficial acknowledgement of their predecessors. They had, in Ezra Pound's terms, “made new.” When they ...
... cinema history, and they paid homage to the writers and directors that had influenced them. But their work was no mere pastiche or superficial acknowledgement of their predecessors. They had, in Ezra Pound's terms, “made new.” When they ...
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... cinema. They were not content to use the tools of conventional narrative but sought to explore the supremacy of the image. In film after film, they found the appropriate visual style for the subject. Each of their films had a different ...
... cinema. They were not content to use the tools of conventional narrative but sought to explore the supremacy of the image. In film after film, they found the appropriate visual style for the subject. Each of their films had a different ...
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... Cinema in Brighton, Sussex, England. We have just watched Miller's Crossing as part of the Brighton Festival. Joel and Ethan are being interviewed on stage after a screening. Although I knew already from having met a number of film ...
... Cinema in Brighton, Sussex, England. We have just watched Miller's Crossing as part of the Brighton Festival. Joel and Ethan are being interviewed on stage after a screening. Although I knew already from having met a number of film ...
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... Cinema! Twin brothers John and Roy Boulting interchanged as producer and director, and Albert and David Maysles made their Direct Cinema documentaries together. At another extreme are twin brothers Mike and George Kutcha, camp, low ...
... Cinema! Twin brothers John and Roy Boulting interchanged as producer and director, and Albert and David Maysles made their Direct Cinema documentaries together. At another extreme are twin brothers Mike and George Kutcha, camp, low ...
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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