These four early works by the internationally lauded filmmaking team deal with the subject for which they are best known: corruption and crime in situations that combine the real and the surreal with the hilarious. Of the scripts included here, Barton Fink--an intense look at the psychological ruin [...]
This is the screenplay to another offbeat movie by the Academy Award-winning Coen brothers. As a result of a case of mistaken identity, Jeffrey Lebowski - alias The Dude - finds himself entangled in a kidnapping caper as a bag man - a situation that goes from bad to even worse due to the interferenc[...]
One of a hand-picked selection of some of the most popular and cult-worthy titles on Faber and Faber's extensive list of film scripts.[...]
Chronicles a struggling young folk singer, played by Oscar Isaacs, who arrives in Manhattan in 1961 and tries to navigate the treacherous waters of the Greenwich Village coffeehouse scene, as well as having to deal with a disaffected girlfriend, his father's dementia, the suicide of his musical part[...]
(Book). Includes the complete script, lryics and stills Interview with executive music producer T. Bone Burnett Introduction by muic historian Elijah Wald Quintessential Coen brothers fare but different. Inside Llewyn Davis has a certain kinship with Les Miserables . In it, almost all the principal [...]
With landmark films such as Fargo, O Brother Where art Thou?, Blood Simple, and Raising Arizona, the Coen brothers have achieved both critical and commercial success. Proving the existence of a viable market for "small" films that are also intellectually rewarding, their work has exploded generic co[...]
From one of the most inventive and celebrated filmmakers of the twentieth century, and co-creator of such classics as "Fargo," "No Country for Old Men," and "True Grit," a collection of poems that offers humor and insight into an artist who has always pushed the boundaries of his craft.
Ethan Co[...]
I samband med premiären av Intolerable Cruelty, där bröderna Coen återigen gett charmtrollet George Clooney en av huvudrollerna, träffar Cyril Hellman den amerikanska independentfilmens kungar i hemstaden New York. (Ursprungligen publicerad i Svenska Dagbladet, 23 oktober 2003) Pervers, dep[...]