Articles tagged "joel and ethan coen"

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Joel and Ethan Coen get ‘Serious’ with their latest movie

by Colin Covert [Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT)]

[2.Oct.09] :. MINNEAPOLIS — Since their debut with “Blood Simple” in 1984, Oscar winners Joel and Ethan Coen have created an innovative, iconoclastic, idiosyncratic body of work that reflects...

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Burn After Reading (2008)

by Bill Gibron

[21.Dec.08] :. The Coen Brothers remains the most predicable unpredictable artists in Hollywood. You can be guaranteed that the minute you think you have them pegged - post-modern nostalgists, retro Hollywood...

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Q&A with ‘No Country for Old Men’ makers Joel and Ethan Coen

by Colin Covert [Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT)]

[9.Nov.07] :. Joel and Ethan Coen are in almost constant motion. Three days after completing photography in New York City on their upcoming spy comedy “Burn After Reading,” in the lull before beginning...

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Coen brothers revisit Unstoppable Evil archetype

by Michael Phillips [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[22.May.07] :. CANNES, France - Among the many slices dividing the gargantuan fruit tart known as the Cannes Film Festival, the most unpredictably gooey is the Marche du Film. It claims the title of the...

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Film Review

Blood Simple, The Directors’ Cut (1984/2000)

by Tobias Peterson

Though shot on a shoestring budget by first-time feature filmmakers, the movie encapsulates all that has come to typify the Coen brothers' style: engaging narrative, inventive direction, and the juxtaposition of grim violence with moments of sublime, sometimes surreal, human behavior.

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