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Ethan Coen and Joel Coen: Collected Screenplays 1

Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink

By: Ethan Coen,Joel Coen

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Ethan Coen and Joel Coen: Collected Screenplays 1

Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink

By: Ethan Coen,Joel Coen

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 of a New York playwright trying to make it in 1940s Hollywood--is a masterful culmination of these themes.

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0571210961

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9780571210961

The Coen Brothers

Interviews

By: Joel Coen,Ethan Coen

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The Coen Brothers

Interviews

By: Joel Coen,Ethan Coen

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

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1578068894

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9781578068890

A Serious Man

By: Ethan Coen,Joel Coen

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A Serious Man

By: Ethan Coen,Joel Coen

Script for the motion picture, A serious man.

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Macmillan

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0571255329

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9780571255320

Inside Llewyn Davis: The Screenplay

By: Joel Coen,Ethan Coen

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Inside Llewyn Davis: The Screenplay

By: Joel Coen,Ethan Coen

(Book). Quintessential Coen brothers fare but different. Inside Llewyn Davis has a certain kinship with Les Miserables . In it almost all the principal actors Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, Justin Timberlake sing. While not quite a musical, Inside Llewyn Davis is built around full-length performances of folk songs that were heard in the grubby cafes of the Village in a year when Bob Dylan, who kind of, sort of shows up in the movie, had just appeared on the scene. Bob Dylan, Paul Clayton, the Rev. Reverend Gary Davis, Joni Mitchell, Tom Paxton and myriad other singers of the era are invoked in the film. Its story bounces through actual places like Gerde's, the Gaslight Cafe and the Gate of Horn in Chicago without explicitly portraying real artists or folk music powers like the impresario Albert Grossman. Working with the producer Scott Rudin, their collaborator on both True Grit and No Country for Old Men , the Coen Brothers shot the film in New York City and elsewhere last year and finished the movie at their own pace. They could have rushed it into the Oscar season but chose to bide their time. T Bone Burnett, who provided the old time music of O Brother, Where Art Thou? , also produced the music for Inside Llewyn Davis . Mr. Burnett has helped to re-create the brief flowering of a folk scene that in the early '60s made Washington Square and its environs an unlikely crossroads for musical influences from Appalachia, the Deep South, the Far West, New England almost anywhere but New York's neighborhoods, from which some of its heartiest practitioners, and Llewyn Davis, arrived.

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Opus Books

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1480370649

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9781480370647

Burn After Reading

By: Ethan Coen,Joel Coen

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Burn After Reading

By: Ethan Coen,Joel Coen

Joel and Ethan Coen take on the spy thriller genre and reinvent it in their unique voice.

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0571245226

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Ethan Coen and Joel Coen: Collected Screenplays 1

Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink

By: Ethan Coen,Joel Coen

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Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink

By: Ethan Coen,Joel Coen

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Raising Arizona

By: Joel Coen,Ethan Coen

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Raising Arizona

By: Joel Coen,Ethan Coen

It's easy to see why Raising Arizona is one of the best and most beloved films that Ethan and Joel Coen have yet to create. The cultish humor, original characters, fresh cinematography, catchy soundtrack, and zany yet well-structured plot to be found in this film are all Coen brothers trademarks. Nicholas Cage plays a veteran criminal who marries a prison guard named Edwina (Holly Hunter). Because he and his wife cannot conceive, our convict-hero kidnaps, with only the most earnest intentions, one of the famous "Arizona Quintuplets." A hellacious bounty-hunting biker and two old pals who have just escaped from the pen make it very hard for the couple to raise their child properly. This is a movie—and a screenplay—marked by breathless chases, improbable scenes, and hilarious dialogue throughout.

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0312022700

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The Coen Brothers

Interviews

By: Joel Coen,Ethan Coen

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The Coen Brothers

Interviews

By: Joel Coen,Ethan Coen

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

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1578068894

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Hail Caesar!

By: Joel Coen,Ethan Coen

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Hail Caesar!

By: Joel Coen,Ethan Coen

Hail,Caesar! is the story of Eddie Mannix, tireless pursuer of the interests of fictional Capitol Pictures, circa 1951. He is the ultimate studio fixer and---since the studio is his world---the ultimate earthly one. There is no star scandal he cannot cover up, no studio misstep he cannot repair, no sin he cannot make right. His powers are tested, though, when production on the studio's most expensive picture ever---biblical epic Hail,Caesar!---is halted by the kidnapping of its star. The kidnappers are a mysterious gaggle seeking not just ransom but the destruction of everything Eddie Mannix lives for, and everything he lives by. . .

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Faber & Faber

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0571331238

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9780571331239

A Serious Man

By: Ethan Coen,Joel Coen

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A Serious Man

By: Ethan Coen,Joel Coen

Script for the motion picture, A serious man.

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0571255329

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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

By: Joel Coen,Ethan Coen

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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

By: Joel Coen,Ethan Coen

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is an American western anthology film written, directed, and produced by the Coen brothers. It stars Tim Blake Nelson, Liam Neeson, James Franco, Zoe Kazan, Tyne Daly, and Tom Waits. It premiered at the 75th Venice International Film Festival on August 31, 2018, where it won the Golden Osella Award for Best Screenplay and is scheduled to be released November 16 on Netflix after a theatrical run. Six chapters each present a different story from the wild frontier. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs tells the story of a sharp-shooting songster. In Near Algodones, a wannabe bank robber gets his due and then some. Meal Ticket is a gothic tale about two weary travelling performers. All Gold Canyon is a story about a prospector mining for gold, while a woman finds an unexpected promise of love, along with a dose of life's cruel irony, on a wagon train across the prairies in The Gal Who Got Rattled. Finally, ghostly laughs haunt The Mortal Remains as a Lady rains judgment upon a motley crew of strangers undertaking a final carriage ride.

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Faber & Faber

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0571353320

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9780571353323

If You Can Talk, You Can Write

A Proven Program to Get You Writing & Keep You Writing

By: Joel Saltzman

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If You Can Talk, You Can Write

A Proven Program to Get You Writing & Keep You Writing

By: Joel Saltzman

When we talk, we tell stories and present ideas—rarely with much anxiety. But think about writing something and panic sets in. Overcome this crippling response by learning how to “talk” on paper. Joel Saltzman tells it like it is—with compassion, humor, and the “uncommon wisdom” of famous writers, artists, and musicians. Based on his popular workshop for the UCLA Writers’ Program, this is a program with proven results. You’ll discover how to: >Conquer the killer P’s—Perfectionism, Paralysis, and Procrastination. >Silence your inner critic. (“Shut up, already. I’m trying to write!”) >Stop worrying about the “rules” of grammar. >Get inspired when you don’t feel inspired. >Write with conviction, not apology! This best selling book gives you the daring and freedom to “talk” on paper without worrying whether it’s good or bad or what it’s going to “be”—the kind of writing that’s creative, energetic and, most of all, truly your own.

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SCB Distributors

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1931657114

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9781931657112

The Dardenne Brothers’ Cinematic Parables

Integrating Theology, Philosophy, and Film

By: Joel Mayward

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The Dardenne Brothers’ Cinematic Parables

Integrating Theology, Philosophy, and Film

By: Joel Mayward

The Dardenne Brothers’ Cinematic Parables examines the work of Belgian filmmakers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, who have been celebrated for their powerfully affecting social realist films. Though the Dardenne brothers’ films rarely mention religion or God, they have received wide recognition for their moral complexity and spiritual resonance. This book brings the Dardennes’ filmography into consideration with theological aesthetics, Christian ethics, phenomenological film theory, and continental philosophy. The author explores the brothers’ nine major films—beginning with The Promise (1996) and culminating in Young Ahmed (2019)—through the hermeneutics of philosopher Paul Ricoeur. By using Ricoeur’s description of "parable" as a "narrative-metaphor" which generates an existential limit-experience, Joel Mayward crafts an innovative Ricoeurian hermeneutic for making theological interpretations of cinema. Drawing upon resources from three disciplinary spheres—theology, philosophy, and film studies—in a dynamic interweaving approach, Mayward proposes that the Dardennes create postsecular cinematic parables which evoke theological and ethical responses in audiences’ imaginations through the brothers’ distinctive filmmaking style, what is termed "transcendent realism." The book ultimately demonstrates how the Dardenne brothers are truly doing, not merely depicting, theology and ethics through the cinematic form—it presents film as theology, what Mayward refers to as "theocinematics." This is valuable reading for scholars of theology, philosophy, and film studies, as well as film critics and cinephiles interested in the cinema of the Dardenne brothers.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000686787

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9781000686784

Intolerable Cruelty

By: F. J. Lauria,Frank Lauria,Robert Ramsey,Matthew Stone,Ethan Coen,Joel Coen

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Intolerable Cruelty

By: F. J. Lauria,Frank Lauria,Robert Ramsey,Matthew Stone,Ethan Coen,Joel Coen

The new Coen Brothers/Universal film starring George Clooney and Catherine Zeta-Jones tells the story of a hotshot divorce attorney who gets more than he bargained for when he falls for a client's gold-digging wife. Set for release on October 10. Original.

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Pocket Star

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074347063X

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9780743470636

Screenwriters on Screen-Writing

The Best in the Business Discuss Their Craft

By: Joel Engel

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Screenwriters on Screen-Writing

The Best in the Business Discuss Their Craft

By: Joel Engel

Before any lights, camera, or action, there's the script -- arguably the most important single element in filmmaking, and Screenwriters on Screen-Writing introduces the men and women responsible for the screenplays that have produced some of the most successful and acclaimed films in Hollywood history. In each interview, not only do the writers explore the craft and technique of creating a filmic blueprint, but they recount the colorful tales of coming up in the ranks of the movie business and of bringing their stories to the screen, in a way that only natural-born storytellers such as themselves can. These and other screenwriters have garnered the attention of the movie-going population not only with their words, but with headlines announcing the sales of their scripts for hundreds of thousands and sometimes millions of dollars. Anyone interested in writing, making, or learning about movies will enjoy reading this fascinating behind-the-scenes compendium that brings together some of the most prominent and talented screenwriters in modern-day filmmaking.

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Hachette Books

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1401305571

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9781401305574

The Big Lebowski

By: Ethan Coen,Joel Coen

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The Big Lebowski

By: Ethan Coen,Joel Coen

The Big Lebowski begins with a case of mistaken identity which escalates when Jeffrey Lebowski-alias The Dude-attempts to seek recompense for the despoliation of his ratty-ass little rug, and then finds himself entangled in a kidnapping caper as a bagman-a situation that goes from bad to worse due to the interference of his hapless bowling partners. In this film the Coen brothers have taken on the preoccupations of Raymond Chandler, but have given them a postmodern spin, while at the same time leaving Philip Marlowe's ethos intact as The Dude wanders through the fractured world of nineties L.A. trying to do the right thing. Like the award winning Fargo, The Big Lebowski is suffused with a droll humor and a verbal felicity that is as delightful as it is startling.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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0571193358

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9780571193356

Hail Caesar!

By: Joel Coen,Ethan Coen

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Hail Caesar!

By: Joel Coen,Ethan Coen

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Faber & Faber

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0571331238

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Raising Arizona

By: Joel Coen,Ethan Coen

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Raising Arizona

By: Joel Coen,Ethan Coen

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0312022700

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Barton Fink ; Miller's Crossing

By: Joel Coen,Ethan Coen

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Barton Fink ; Miller's Crossing

By: Joel Coen,Ethan Coen

Barton Fink: Cast gender - mostly males; number - 19 males, 5 females (total 24); size - large; ages - adults. Set in Hollywood in the 40s, this story is a deeply dark, yet comic satire about creative egos, flashy movie moguls, travelling salesman, and a nasty case of writer's block.

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0571129250

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9780571129256

O Brother, where Art Thou?

By: Ethan Coen,Joel Coen

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O Brother, where Art Thou?

By: Ethan Coen,Joel Coen

Joel and Ethan Coen are among America's best-loved and most lauded independent filmmakers. With their latest work, O Brother, Where Art Though?, The Oscar-winning team returns to the period-piece films of their earlier career (Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink, The Hudsucker Proxy) and showcase once-again their pitch-perfect ear for hilarious and outrageous dialogue, as well as their penchant for the fantastic. Based on Homer's Odyssey, the movie stars George Clooney as Ulysses Everett McGill, along with Coen-mainstay John Turturro, and Tim Blake Nelson as fugitives from a chain gang who embark on a mystical and musical journey through 1930s Mississippi. History and allegory are expertly entwined as, along the way, the three escapees encounter a blind prophet, are tempted by sirens, do battle with a Cyclops (in the form of a one-eyed Klansman), fall in with George "Baby Face" Nelson on a bank heist, and cut a blues record with a young guitar prodigy who bears a striking resemblance to the real-life Robert Johnson.

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0571205186

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9780571205189

Blood Simple

The Screenplay

By: Joel Coen,Ethan Coen

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Blood Simple

The Screenplay

By: Joel Coen,Ethan Coen

Director Joel Coen's and producer Ethan Coen's Blood Simple (1984, River Road Prods/Circle Releasing/Palace) is a contemporary noir thriller set in Texas. A taut, convoluted plot and imaginative direction made the independent release a word-of-mouth hit and established the Coen brothers' reputation for originality. Actors John Getz, Frances McDormand, and Dan Hedaya appear in the story in which a woman commits adultery, and her enraged husband hires a killer for revenge. Blackmail, violence, and mistaken assumptions lead to an edgy, exhilarating climax.

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St. Martin's Griffin

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0312021682

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9780312021689

The Man who Wasn't There

By: Ethan Coen,Joel Coen

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The Man who Wasn't There

By: Ethan Coen,Joel Coen

Revised shooting script.

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Faber & Faber

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0571212506

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9780571212507

Fargo

By: Ethan Coen,Joel Coen

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Fargo

By: Ethan Coen,Joel Coen

Set in the midst of the bleak midwinter snow drifts of the American Midwest, Fargo is a story of murder and mayhem. Jerry Lundegaard plots the kidnapping of his wife to rescue his precarious financial situation, but events career out of control when one of the perpetrators he has hired to do the job goes haywire. In a senseless universe, it falls to Marge Gunderson (chief of the Brainerd Police Department and the moral centre of the film) to set things to rights. Like the Coen brothers' auspicious debut feature Blood Simple, Fargo concerns itself with dirty deeds done for money, but the grimness of the tales is alleviated by the laconic humour with which the characters greet their fates. The intricacy of the plotting is executed with brillance, yet the writing also reveals humanity at its core. Fargo was honoured with the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay of 1996.

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0571202446

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9780571202447

Burn After Reading

By: Ethan Coen,Joel Coen

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Burn After Reading

By: Ethan Coen,Joel Coen

Joel and Ethan Coen take on the spy thriller genre and reinvent it in their unique voice.

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Macmillan

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0571245226

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9780571245222

The Ladykillers

By: Ethan Coen,Joel Coen

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The Ladykillers

By: Ethan Coen,Joel Coen

An eccentric, if not charming Southern professor and his crew pose as a band in order to rob a casino, all under the nose of his unsuspecting landlady, a sharp old woman.

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0571225977

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