Ethan and Joel Coen US filmmakers
The Coen brothers are current American filmmakers who work together, co-writing, producing and directing their feature films. They have achieved that special quality as mainstream filmmakers; their work is both critically-acclaimed and successful at the box office.
Their films are always quirky, with plots that can take wild divergences and take unexpected turns. The most outstanding quality in their work is their creation of CHARACTER; Coen brothers characters are often uniquely strange yet, at the same time, very normal and commonly human.
Although very different, all the Coen films feature their unique touch and are recognisably their work. This makes them film AUTEURS. In addition, the Coens have often taken well-established GENRES (such as the gangster film, or the western) and instilled in them a freshness.
Our study of the Coen brothers' work will help us understand them as ARTISTS of the cinema, and emphasise these elements of AUTEUR and GENRE, two important aspects of Cinema Studies.
Their films are always quirky, with plots that can take wild divergences and take unexpected turns. The most outstanding quality in their work is their creation of CHARACTER; Coen brothers characters are often uniquely strange yet, at the same time, very normal and commonly human.
Although very different, all the Coen films feature their unique touch and are recognisably their work. This makes them film AUTEURS. In addition, the Coens have often taken well-established GENRES (such as the gangster film, or the western) and instilled in them a freshness.
Our study of the Coen brothers' work will help us understand them as ARTISTS of the cinema, and emphasise these elements of AUTEUR and GENRE, two important aspects of Cinema Studies.
Some Coen Brothers films
2013 Inside Llewyn Davis
2010 True Grit
2009 A Serious Man
2008 Burn After Reading
2007 No Country for Old Men
2005 Romance & Cigarettes
2004 The Ladykillers
2003 Bad Santa
2001 The Man Who Wasn't There
2000 Down from the Mountain (Documentary)
2000 O Brother, Where Art Thou?
1998 The Big Lebowski
1996 Fargo
1994 The Hudsucker Proxy
1991 Barton Fink
1990 Miller's Crossing
1987 Raising Arizona
1984 Blood Simple
2010 True Grit
2009 A Serious Man
2008 Burn After Reading
2007 No Country for Old Men
2005 Romance & Cigarettes
2004 The Ladykillers
2003 Bad Santa
2001 The Man Who Wasn't There
2000 Down from the Mountain (Documentary)
2000 O Brother, Where Art Thou?
1998 The Big Lebowski
1996 Fargo
1994 The Hudsucker Proxy
1991 Barton Fink
1990 Miller's Crossing
1987 Raising Arizona
1984 Blood Simple
Still from Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? (Coen, USA, 2000)