Coen brothers

The brothers Joel David ( born November 29, 1954 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States) and Ethan Jesse Coen (* September 21, 1957 ibid ) are Oscar-winning American film directors, producers and screenwriters. They made the first time in 1984 with Blood Simple, a homage to the film noir, on the U.S. Sundance Film Festival talked about, which won the grand prize. Barton Fink was awarded the Palme d'Or, directed and Best Actor Award at Cannes. Since then they have established themselves with movies like The Big Lebowski or O Brother, Where Art Thou? as an oblique storyteller away from the Hollywood mainstream.

Joel is married to actress Frances McDormand since 1984, with the film editor Tricia Cooke Ethan.

Life and work

The Coen brothers grew up in St. Louis Park, a suburb of Minneapolis, in a Jewish environment. Her parents, Edward and Rena Coen, were professors, the father in economics at the University of Minnesota and the mother in the field of art history at St. Cloud University. This coming from a Jewish American family of academics, created in 2009 movie A Serious Man refers in loose form.

Joel Coen saved as a child by lawn mowing money for a Super -8 camera together. Thus, the two brothers made together with a neighbor boy (Mark Zimering, called in the films " Zeimers " ) movies from the television after.

After graduating from Simon 's Rock College in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Joel took part in a public film program at New York University, where he turned as a thirty-minute thesis film called Soundings. Ethan went after he had also completed his brother the Simon's Rock College, at Princeton University, where he studied philosophy. His thesis was entitled: "Two Views of Wittgenstein 's Later Philosophy" ( " Two views of Wittgenstein's philosophical late work ").

After graduating from New York University, Joel worked as a production assistant in a number of films and music videos. He developed a talent for film editing and met Sam Raimi, who was looking for an assistant for his film The Evil Dead.

Ethan Coen has published numerous short stories first published in magazines including The New Yorker, Playboy, and Vanity Fair, and later in the short story collection "The Gates of Eden " (Eng. " trap door to paradise ").

In 2010 a the Coen brothers True Grit, a film adaptation of the novel Western starring Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon and Josh Brolin finished in the lead roles, the Berlinale opened in 2011 with the 10 February 2011.

On May 17, 2013, the film Inside Llewyn Davis celebrated with Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan and John Goodman at the film festival in Cannes premiere.

Repeated collaborations

The brothers write each together the screenplays for their films, directing and participating in the production. They also work as an editor on the film under the pseudonym Roderick Jaynes section. The auteurs working together commonly with ten times Oscar-nominated cinematographer Roger Deakins, who writes mostly music Carter Burwell.

Even with some actors Ethan and Joel have worked in several ways:

Steve Buscemi ( Miller 's Crossing, Barton Fink, Hudsucker - Der große Sprung, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, Paris, je t'aime )
George Clooney (O Brother, Where Art Thou, A (un) Cruelty, Burn After Reading - Who here burn your fingers? )
John Goodman ( Raising Arizona, Barton Fink, Hudsucker - Der große Sprung, The Big Lebowski, O Brother, Where Art Thou, Inside Llewyn Davis? )
Richard Jenkins ( The Man Who Was not There, The (un) Cruelty, Burn After Reading - burn your fingers? )
Frances McDormand ( Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Miller 's Crossing, Barton Fink, Fargo, The Man Who Was not There, Burn After Reading - burn your fingers? )
Jon Polito ( Miller 's Crossing, Barton Fink, Hudsucker - Der große Sprung, The Big Lebowski, The Man Who Was not There)
John Turturro ( Miller 's Crossing, Barton Fink, The Big Lebowski, O Brother, Where Art Thou? )