Ethan and Joel Cohen

Ethan and Joel Cohen - Masters of Cinema

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Publisher's Synopsis

Equally at home in mainstream and independent cinema, in latterday film noir as well as comedy, The Coen Brothers are unique in the annals of modern movie-making. For the critic, they present an exquisite problem as, in films such as Barton Fink they mock the pretensions of art and load their films with red herrings and deceptively empty motifs, such as the hat in Millers Crossing. Yet despite the disingenuous tone of their interviews, the Coens are clearly masters of the cinematic craft and schooled in film history, as countless allusions in their movies attest. 

In this Cahiers Du Cinema edition Ian Nathan guides us through their ouevre, their successes and their occasional failures (though no one made more interesting failures than The Coens), from the low-budget beginnings of Blood Simple to their greatest hit to date, the relatively "straight" True Grit

Book information

ISBN: 9782866429034
Publisher: Phaidon Press Ltd
Imprint: Phaidon Press Limited
Pub date:
DEWEY: 791.4302330922
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 103
Weight: 360g
Height: 239mm
Width: 199mm
Spine width: 10mm