Ever since their "whip-smart, masterful film noir" debut, as Onion A. V. Club contributor Nathan Rabin described the 1984 film Blood Simple, the Coen brothers have increasingly "cemented their po sition as contemporary cinema's most original and...

R. BARTON PALMER JOEL AND ETHAN COEN University of Illinois, Urbana and Chicago, 2004 Joel and Ethan Coen had, by 1999, worked for fifteen years making award winning, internationally reputed films before anybody came to write a book about them. And now, in...

IT'S TRICKY FOR ANY FILMMAKER to navigate the Hollywood system while keeping dignity, identity and creative freedom intact. But the Coen brothers are remarkably adept at doing so--usually to the mutual benefit of the siblings and the studios that back them. "No...

The movies in competition at the Cannes Film Festival as announced Thursday, listed by director and director's nationality, followed by special out-of-compeition showings. Festival runs May 16-27.___In Competition:"My Blueberry Nights," Wong Kar-wai, China (opening night film)"Auf Der Anderen Seite" ("On the Other Side"), Fatih Akin,...

The New York Film Festival will open with Wes Anderson's "The Darjeeling Limited" and honor the Coen brothers' "No Country for Old Men" as its centerpiece in a particularly American slate for the internationally minded festival.The Film Society of Lincoln Center, which produces the festival,...

In the following review, Pooley discusses the Coens' film production methods.

In the following essay, Handelman provides a behind-the-scenes look at the Coen brothers at work, both on the set and during the writing process.