BackThe Coen Brothers
Interviews (book in English)
- Type
- Interviews
- Subject
- Director > Coen Brothers
- Coen Brothers, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, director, interviews
- Publishing Date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University Press of Mississippi
- Collection
- Conversations with Filmmakers
- Language
- English
Dimensions
- Physical desc.
- Paperback • 246 pages • ? €
5.75 x 9 inches (14.5 x 23 cm) - ISBN-10
ISBN-13 - 1-57806-889-4
978-1-57806-889-0 - User Ratings
(0 vote)Average rating:
0 rating 
= We can do without0 rating 
= Good book0 rating 
= Excellent book0 rating 
= Unique / a referenceYour rating: -
Book Presentation:
Joel and Ethan Coen (b. 1954, 1957) started their careers in obscurity on a shoestring budget cajoled from family and friends in Minneapolis. Working entirely outside the studio system, the Coen brothers scored an unlikely first success in 1984 with their postmodern noir film Blood Simple. Two decades and nearly a dozen movies later, the Coens are now among the best-known writer/directors in Hollywood, turning out major studio releases featuring such stars as George Clooney, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Tom Hanks.
The Coens' films all share a distinctive, quirky ambience that critics have come to identify as “that Coen brothers feeling.” Tricky moving camera work, frequent use of the voiceover, homages to directors and cinematic genres, a fascination with unexpected and off-kilter violence, and omnipresent black humor are all defining elements of the Coens' cinematic world.
From such highly stylized movies as Barton Fink and The Man Who Wasn't There to more mainstream but dark comedies such as Raising Arizona, Intolerable Cruelty, and O Brother, Where Art Thou?, the Coens are equally at home with existential despair and comic exuberance and are known for scripts packed with an obvious love for language. This collection of their most important interviews spans twenty years and is the most comprehensive published on the brothers.
See the publisher website: University Press of Mississippi
> On a related topic:
Oh Brothers ! (2022)
Sur la piste des frères Coen
by Marc Cerisuelo and Claire Debru
Subject: Director > Coen Brothers, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Joel & Ethan Coen (2012)
Principes d'incertitude
Collective
Subject: Director > Coen Brothers, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
L'Amérique des frères Coen (2012)
Subject: Director > Coen Brothers, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Le Cinéma des frères Coen (2001)
Subject: Director > Coen Brothers, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Note: A book on a slightly gray background is a book that is no longer currently published or that may be difficult to find in bookstores. The shown price is that of the book at its release, the price on the second-hand market may be very different.
A book on a beige background is a book published in a language other than French.