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	Coen Brothers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The brothers work so closely and share such a strong vision of what their films are to be that actors say that they can approach either brother with a question and get the same answer.
		Their parents, Edward and Rena Coen, were both professors, their father specializing in economics at the University of Minnesota and their mother in art history at St.
		The Coen brothers' earlier films (with the exception of Miller's Crossing) made extensive use of wide-angle lenses, which are the preferred lenses of their first cinematographer, Barry Sonnenfeld.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Coen_Brothers (2238 words)

	Joel and Ethan Coen
		The Coens subvert the myth of the suffering playwright with their depiction of Barton Fink as a pompous and self-absorbed author who is out of touch with the very people he claims to write for, and about.
		When the Coen brothers draw on their vast intertextual web of references in order to inform their films, as is the case in The Hudsucker Proxy, they are often accused of elitism; of alienating their audience by servicing only their own penchant for in-jokes and obscure allusions.
		The Coen brothers' wonderful ear for dialogue, rigid attention to regional re-constructions, inventive approach to the past, in addition to their professional skill and adroit technique has resulted in some of the most enjoyable (and critically worthy) contemporary films.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/directors/03/coens.html (4389 words)

	Coen Brothers
		The Coen brothers may be visually rich, but they take care to craft the intricate, painstakingly realistic dialogue, often in dialect.
		The brothers work together equally on all of the jobs but say that they want to spread their names out as not to "…totally dominate the credits." and scare some viewers off.
		The Coen brothers are the most original and talented independent directors in the last half of this century.
	www.wdog.com /sarah/coen_brothers.htm (3263 words)

	O Brother, Where Art Thou?
		O Brother is several films in one: a tale of three desperadoes on the lam in rural Mississippi; a blues and country musical; and, allegedly at least, a rewrite of Homer's Odyssey.
		The Coen brothers are presenting a concert at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee, US (the site of the original Grand Ole Opry) featuring a lot of famous country/bluegrass performers from the soundtrack of "O Brother Where Art Thou" including Emmylou Harris, Gilian Welch, Alison Krauss, John Hartford, and many more.
		The Coen brothers' next project is all set to get under way, a 1930's set crime caper about a chain gang which escapes from prison and legs it across Middle America with the law in hot pursuit.
	x-stream.fortunecity.com /fleetst/71/tothe.htm (8448 words)

	Coen (brothers) - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Coen (brothers) - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Brothers, Joyce Diane Bauer, born in 1928, American psychologist, author, and media personality.
		Joyce Diane Bauer Brothers was born in New York...
	encarta.msn.com /Coen_(brothers).html (205 words)

	Joel and Ethan Coen: A Bibliography of Materials in the UC Berkeley Libraries
		The Coen brothers express their surprise at the success of "Fargo", coming after the box-office flop of"The Hudsucker proxy", and comment on the nature of independent cinema.
		The Coens show a wry, teasing affection for the community in which they grew up, and the film is almost warm in its depiction of this Siberian-looking patch of the United States.
		The aim of this paper is to examine how the Coen brothers' and Jarmusch's choice of the musical field as a territory for their reconstructions of the South enables them to collate distinct artistic domains and genres in their representations of "border incidents" between stories, legends and history.
	www.lib.berkeley.edu /MRC/coenbib.html (4455 words)

	ArtandCulture Artist: Coen Brothers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Coens revel in their skewed brand of genre pastiche, literary homages, and wealth of twisted characters.
		When hitting their best grooves, the Coens’ singular brew of irony, ingenuity, and intoxicating wit bubbles to vivid, satiric life with visual aplomb and top-notch, original writing.
		If the Coen brothers are supposed to be slightly cultish in their creations, it only makes sense that they're going to attract a cultish following.
	www.artandculture.com /cgi-bin/WebObjects/ACLive.woa/wa/artist?id=69 (466 words)

	Review \| The Coen Brothers by Ronald Bergan
		The brothers Coen -- like their work -- do not inspire ambivalence.
		After the brothers relent and agree to cooperate with Bergan -- a pretty good story in itself -- the author is told that he will be contacting them through one Alan J. Schoolcraft, who Bergan immediately suspected wasn't a real person.
		We not only get a clear, sensitive, yet candid view of the mercurial brothers and their lives, but also a critical look at the films the pair have produced and directed and the places where those films connect with each other as well as their creators.
	www.januarymagazine.com /biography/coenbrothers.html (573 words)

	USATODAY.com - Raising 'Ladykillers': Coens hit remake trail with black comedy update (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Leave it to the Coens, though, to call it a remake while infusing it with so much of their own warped, absurdist humor and macabre yet funny imagery that it feels entirely original.
		The Coens took the "bones of the plot" and ran with it, transplanting The Ladykillers from London to the Deep South and creating a more active heroine than the porcelain-teacup widow of the original.
		The Coens have always equally shared writing, directing and producing, but The Ladykillers is the first of their 11 films on which they share all three credits.
	www.usatoday.com /life/movies/news/2004-03-23-coen-brothers_x.htm (1010 words)

	The Coen Brothers
		The Coen's first film was made on a tiny budget in 1983.
		This is the Coen's most well known film and their crowning achievement.
		The Coen's latest film tells the story of the Jeff 'The Dude' Lebowski and the series of events he gets involved in after a man urinates on his rug.
	website.lineone.net /~bunkie/coen.htm (657 words)

	Metroactive Movies \| 'O Brother, Where Art Thou?'
		This may be a dumb film at times, but the Coen brothers remember something that's usually forgotten: how some populist, reformist movements of the last century sometimes had a nativist, racist streak.
		The Coens, however, never really match these musical myths with the story of Ulysses and his odyssey.
		Throughout all their films, the Coen brothers have struck an uneasy balance between mocking and celebrating rural folk.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/12.28.00/ohbrother-0052.html (828 words)

	Miller's Crossing: The Coen Brothers
		Director Joel Coen received much critical praise for his handling of the stylish crime drama "Blood Simple", which marked his directorial debut, and Raising Arizona, a comedy about an unconventional couple whose obsessive desire for a child leads them to redefine the rules of parenthood.
		Ethan and his brother previously collaborated on the screenplays for Blood Simple and Raising Arizona, on which they also functioned as producer and director, respectively.
		After a film noir and madcap comedy, the Coens were again, according to Ethan, making "a conscious effort not to repeat ourselves" when they understood the writing of Miller's Crossing.
	www.geocities.com /mikemckiernan/mccoens.html (705 words)

	Coen Brothers
		This was the first collaboration from the brothers Coen, made on a limited budget, with strong central performances and a plot which twists upon itself to delicious effect.
		Partly inspiring the Coen's latest outing this is Sturges (a lasting influence on the brothers) at his most satirically comic and exuberantly anarchic.
		The Coens' most recent film is a glorious mix of road movie, musical and Preston Sturges-type screwball comedy (the title is an allusion to the film Joel McCrae wants to make in Sullivans Travels).
	www.keswickfilmclub.org /festival/01/coen.htm (356 words)

	Optimus Prime Films \| Directors \| Coen Brothers
		I felt it was a little boring at the time, but there were some great Coen moments.
		The Coens have so much going on in their films that you can't possibly catch it all in the first viewing.
		They are now officially my favorite filmmakers, as they have yet to dissapoint me. With each film they continue to stroke my intellect with their delectable offerings.
	optimusfilms.20m.com /directors/cb (652 words)

	Apple - Pro/Film - Joel and Ethan Coen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Making their screen debut in 1984 with the noir-ish thriller “Blood Simple” — a story, Ethan once described as “ordinary people doing bad things to each other in the dark” — the Coen Brothers have since produced a body of work known for its fl comedy, sarcastic wit and, often, harsh brutality.
		The Coens’ wry humor pops up everywhere — not only in their darkest films, but also in interviews, Ethan Coen’s published stories, even in their film credits.
		Roderick Jaynes appears as the film editor in many of the brothers’ films; in truth, Jaynes is a purely fictional British film editor who supposedly hates their work.
	www.apple.com /pro/film/coen (1053 words)

	Fametracker :: The Fame Audit :: The Coen Brothers
		And yet, the fact is that none of the Coens' pre-Fargo movies is stereotypically "artsy." Most of their movies, in fact, are influenced either by '40s noir films (Blood Simple, Miller's Crossing) or by screwball comedies (Raising Arizona, The Hudsucker Proxy).
		Because they've made most of their movies outside the Hollywood studio system, they've been lumped in with snootier filmmakers, but their films are actually, for the most part, very crowd-pleasin' and -- theoretically, at least -- accessible to all sorts of audiences.
		Joel and Ethan Coen may not be as famous as Francis Ford Coppola or Ridley Scott, but we reckon that -- since they had nothing to do with movies like Jack or Hannibal -- Joel and Ethan Coen are probably fine with that, and probably also sleep a lot better at night.
	www.fametracker.com /fame_audit/coen_brothers.php (890 words)

	Coen Brothers - "You Know, For Kids!" the movies of the Coen brothers
		Also, as I've said many times before, this is a website for you so, if you think you have anything to contribute please, please, please let me know and I'll get it up here so you can share it with like minded people.
		I'm talking about all those exam papers that are written about the Coen's movies, your reviews and articles.
		It is a pdf document so you will need Adobe Acrobat to view it, which you can download for free here.
	www.youknow-forkids.com (282 words)

	IGN: Featured Filmmakers: Joel and Ethan Coen
		After becoming acquainted with Sam Raimi while working on The Evil Dead, the Brothers Coen were soon to make their impact upon the big screen with a startling fresh noir debut, Blood Simple, which demonstrates quite clearly the cinematic voice of the two siblings.
		Next came O Brother, Where Art Thou – a tongue-in-cheek deconstruction of Homer’s Odyssey that also doubles as a sepia-toned portrait of a bygone cinematic era.
		O Brother, Where Art Thou: The Coens’ retelling of Homer’s Odyssey – through the prism of the Depression-era south – is a perfect little film.
	movies.ign.com /articles/315/315580p1.html (918 words)

	The Coen Brothers Biography (Filmmakers) — Infoplease.com
		The Coen Brothers are a filmmaking duo known mostly for quirky dark comedies, including
		The Coen Brothers have had their ups and downs at the box office, but they have a loyal audience and a reputation as thoughtful movie makers.
		The Coen Brothers: Interviews (Conversations With Filmmakers Series) (William Rodney Allen and Ethan Coen)
	www.infoplease.com /biography/var/coenbrothers.html (304 words)

	The Coen Brothers Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Coen Brothers, Ethan and Joel, are well known for their quirky characters and cruel but somehow funny story lines.
		Fargo from 1996 brought mainstream attention to the Coen Brothers.
		The brothers are known in the movie business as "the two-headed director." Joel Coen is married to actress Frances McDormand, a great lead actress in her own right and had the lead in Fargo.
	www.lomovie.com /boxed_sets/comedy/movies_798.html (627 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Coen Brothers Collection: DVD: Jeff Bridges,Tim Robbins,John Turturro,John Getz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		This version was prepared by the Coens themselves in 1998, as they felt the original was not very well edited.
		Blood Simple was the Coens' first picture, and it's a mediocre film with a relatively engaging plot centred on adultery and murder.
		The twisting plot keeps you on your toes, and the film is full of wonderful comedic performances - not least from Coen Brothers regular John Goodman - and the atmospheric visuals are perfect.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Coen-Brothers-Collection-Jeff-Bridges/dp/B0002W19S8 (1553 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Film \| Features \| John Patterson on the Coen brothers' worrying loss of form
		This winning streak lasted through O Brother Where Art Thou and (again, only for me) culminated in their most austere, ecstatically stylised and inward-looking movie, The Man Who Wasn't There.
		Having lived so far in an hermetically sealed creative hothouse, the Coens have invited other writers, or at least other influences, into their hitherto private lab.
		I bet they tore it down to the floorboards and rebuilt it, but the results still suggested that someone else's worm was in the Coen apple.
	film.guardian.co.uk /features/featurepages/0,4120,1242328,00.html (494 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Coen brothers 'get Cannes slot'
		The Coen brothers' latest film, The Ladykillers, is to have its European premiere at the Cannes film festival in May, reports ScreenDaily.
		It will be Hanks' first film at Cannes, although it is the Coen brothers' sixth movie in competition at the event.
		The Coen brothers have shifted the setting to southern USA and have cast Irma P Hall as the landlady - this time a staunchly religious woman.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/entertainment/3512490.stm (316 words)

	Best Directors - Coen brothers
		Brothers who usually write their own stories, cut and direct them, pretty much flawlessly.
		This is one of the Coen brothers films that I least like.
		Brothers made two versions of this film: fl/white and colour versions, both on same dvd.
	koti.mbnet.fi /moonlord/castle/coen.htm (994 words)

	Coen Brothers Easter Egg : Roderick Jaynes
		Roderick Jaynes is actually a pseudonym for the Coen brother's themselves, made up by Joel and Ethan in '92 because to quote Joel "There were already enough Coens in the credits of our movies."
		When Roderick Jaynes was nominated for an Oscar, the brothers managed to persuade Albert Finney to and attend the ceremony disguised as Roderick Jaynes.
		Would have been great to see the Coen brothers on stage trying pitifully to explain that the guy couldn't come but had asked them to take the Oscar for him
	www.eeggs.com /items/22276.html (212 words)

	Coen Brothers Biography \| Authors and Artist for Young Adults
		Critical reception has never been neutral on the Coen brothers; there seems to be no middle ground.
		Each Biography is written by a biographical expert or professional educator and is a complete resource on the individual.
		Coen Brothers from Authors and Artist for Young Adults.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/coen-brothers-aya (113 words)

	The Coen Brothers (Excerpts) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		To her, Marge was the first woman created by the brother who was a fully rounded character.
		While she was “representative” of the typically Midwestern acceptance of life at face value and tendency to be content, there was also more to her.
		What probably appealed to the brothers was the way Macy could appear to be holding in a volcanic buildup of emotions — so appropriate for the frustrations and angers that Jerry is trying to contain beneath a barely controlled façade.
	www.ecwpress.com /books/coenbrosx.htm (827 words)

	Coen Brothers Films - Arts and Faith
		O Brother undeniably has the best music and may be the most "literate", but, but, but.....
		O Brother is a close second, and Fargo because of the great performances.
		I love every single Coen film (except Intolerable Cruelty which, to be nitpicky, wasn't truly written by them--they did the touch-up draft of the screenplay after it was already written).
	artsandfaith.com /index.php?showtopic=10405 (2084 words)

	Gods of Filmmkaing Joel and Ethan Coen
		In the later years of high school, both brothers were set away to Simon’s Rock College of Bard located just west of Boston, Massachusetts.
		With a technique learned from their friend and peer Sam Raimi, the Coen brothers were able to scrape together enough money to independently produce their first film, Blood Simple.
		Along with filmmakers like Jim Jarmusch, Spike Lee, Sam Raimi, and David Cronenberg, the Coen’s were a major influence on the evolution of independent film.
	www.ambidextrouspics.com /html/joel_and_ethan_coen.html (487 words)

	The films of the Coen brothers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Joel and Ethan Coen are brothers with a lot of unusual talent.
		With the former directing and latter producing (both writing), they have given us a string of films with a unique style unmatched by their contemporaries.
		Here is a chart we've made that cross-references cast and crew members from the various Coen brother's films.
	home.comcast.net /~kelsung/xtra/coen (226 words)

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