The Coen Brothers: Interviews (Conversations with Filmmakers Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1578068894 ISBN 13: 9781578068890

Publisher: University Press of Mississippi, 2006

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Book Description:

Collected interviews with the quirky and distinctive writer/director team of such films as Raising Arizona, Intolerable Cruelty, and Barton Fink

From the Publisher:

These interviews with the writer/directors of Barton Fink, Raising Arizona, Fargo, and O Brother, Where Art Thou?

--- Feature interviews with the team behind some of the most unique, dark, and quirky comedies in American cinema

--- Include interviews from a wide range of sources, including interviews from French and British periodicals

--- Expand the Conversations with Filmmakers Series

About this edition

• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1578068894
• ISBN 13: 9781578068890
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 246
• Editor: Allen William Rodney