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Coen brothers receive £625,000 prize -
16 May 2011
-Moviemaking duo Joel and Ethan Coen were awarded a £625,000 prize on Sunday (15May11) during their first visit to Israel.-Officials at Tel Aviv University handed the prestigious Dan David Prize to the Big Lebowski directors in praise of the brothers' "original
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Coen Brothers refused to watch Wayne's True Grit -
24 December 2010
-Moviemaking duo Joel and Ethan Coen deliberately avoided watching John Wayne's iconic movie True Grit while making their own version of the story, to avoid copying the original.-
-America's most famous cowboy won a Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of one-eyed U.S
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Clooney and Coen brothers to team up -
24 November 2005
and Good Night And Good Luck, which will be released next year.-It is also not the first time Clooney and the brothers Joel and Ethan Coen have worked together. They all teamed up in the comedy O Brother, Where Art Thou?-The brothers first offered Clooney a role in
Ethan Coen - what members say
review by A customer from kent
another dissapointing mainstream coen brothers movie 21 June 2005
review by Balham from London
Not quite a Masterpiece? 16 March 2008
review by A customer from Glasgow
Another hit for the Brothers Coen 16 February 2011
Ethan Coen - filmography
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True Grit
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, Jeff Bridges
Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
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Following the murder of her father by hired hand Tom Chaney, 14-year-old farm girl Mattie Ross sets out to capture the killer. To aid her, she hires the toughest U.S. marshal she can find, a man with "true grit," Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn. Mattie insists on accompanying Cogburn, whose drinking, ..read more »
 
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from 46,771 members
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True Grit - Blu-ray
(2010)
Starring: Josh Brolin, Matt Damon, Barry Pepper
Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
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Coen Brothers updating of the classic 1969 western starring Jeff Bridges as U.S. Marshal 'Rooster' Cogburn, originally played by John Wayne. After her father is murdered, 14-year-old Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld) sets out to capture the killer, Tom Chaney (Josh Brolin), with the help of two lawmen ..read more »
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from 16,948 members
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A Serious Man
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Peter Breitmayer, Adam Arkin, Richard Kind
Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
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"A Serious Man" is the story of an ordinary man's search for clarity in a universe where Jefferson Airplane is on the radio and "F-Troop" is on TV. It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him. ..read more »
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from 1,367 member
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Burn After Reading
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Brad Pitt, George Clooney, John Malkovich
Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
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An all-star cast, including George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton and John Malkovich, come together in this outrageous spy comedy about murder, blackmail, sex addiction and physical fitness!
When a disc filled with some of the CIA's most irrelevant secrets gets in the hands ..read more »
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from 97,947 members
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The Ladykillers
(2004)
Starring: Tzi Ma, J.K. Simmons, Irma P. Hall
Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
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Watch now: Unavailable
Coen brothers' remake of the 1955 Ealing comedy classic starring Alec Guiness, displaced from the English suburbs of the original to the American Southern Bible Belt. Tom Hanks stars as Professor Goldthwait Higginson Dorr, a charming and loquacious Southern professor with dubious credentials who ..read more »
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from 30,042 members
Currently unavailable
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The Man Who Wasn't There
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Tony Shalhoub, Michael Badalucco
Director: Joel Coen
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Billy Bob Thornton plays mild-mannered barber Ed Crane in this take on the 1940s film noir from the Coen brothers. Ed suspects that his wife Doris (Frances McDormand) is having an affair with her boss, department store manager Dave Nirdlinger (James Gandolfini). So when he's offered the chance to ..read more »
69%
from 18,595 members
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O Brother, Where Art Thou?
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson
Director: Joel Coen
Certificate: 
Watch now: Unavailable
The Coen Brothers own unique take on Homer's Odyssey sets the action in 1930s Mississippi, where three clueless convicts escape a chain gang and go in search of buried treasure. This leads to a series of unlikely adventures - involving one-eyed con-men, seductive sirens and Ku Klux Klan lynchings - ..read more »
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from 35,601 members
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The Big Lebowski
(1997)
Starring: Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore
Director: Joel Coen
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The Coen brothers' seventh film is a typically bizarre mix of mistaken identity, hippy philosophy and ten-pin bowling. Jeff 'the Dude' Lebowski (Jeff Bridges) is a bowling buff, laid-back to the point of horizontal, who gets mixed up in a blackmail plot involving a millionaire namesake. Roped into ..read more »
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from 51,542 members
Not currently released
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Barton Fink - Blu-ray
(1991)
Starring: John Turturro, Jon Polito, Judy Davis
Director: Joel Coen
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In this film from the Coen brothers, successful young playwright Barton Fink (John Turturro) goes to Hollywood. He immediately obtains a contract, only to develop writer's block when he discovers he is to write a wrestling movie for a faded 40s star. The Los Angeles heat, his dingy hotel and a ..read more »
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from 159 members
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Miller's Crossing - Blu-ray
(1990)
Starring: John Turturro, J.E. Freeman, Jon Polito
Director: Joel Coen
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A typically oddball take on the gangster movie from cult directors the Coen brothers. Crime boss Leo (Albert Finney) is asked to kill a chiseler who's moving in on someone else's action, only to discover that his target is the brother of his girlfriend. However, his girlfriend is two-timing Leo ..read more »
79%
from 91 members
Not available for rental
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Miller's Crossing
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: John Turturro, J.E. Freeman, Jon Polito
Director: Joel Coen
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Joel and Ethan Coen's third collaboration, the gangster film Miller's Crossing, stars Gabriel Byrne as Tom Reagan, the right-hand man of big-city Irish mob boss Leo (Albert Finney). The film opens with Italian mobster Johnny Caspar (Jon Polito) and his second in command Eddie Dane (J.E. Freeman) ..read more »
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from 19,972 members
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Raising Arizona
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: M. Emmet Walsh, Sam Mc, Randall 'Tex' Cobb
Director: Joel Coen
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Combining influences from Tex Avery cartoons to Sam Raimi horror movies to 1940s B-movies, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen followed up the stylish film noir of their debut, Blood Simple (1984), with this frantic screwball comedy. H.I. Hi McDonnough (Nicholas Cage) is a philosophical but slightly dim ..read more »
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from 18,860 members
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Raising Arizona - Blu-ray
(1987)
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Holly Hunter, Trey Wilson
Director: Joel Coen
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An odd couple (Nicolas Cage and Holly Hunter), are desperate for a child but are both infertile, so they kidnap one of the famous Arizona quintuplets, believing that one wouldn't be missed. This proves not to be the case, and a frenetic chase ensues. The Coen brothers ('Barton Fink', 'The Hudsucker ..read more »
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from 2 members
Due for release on 2nd August 2013
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Crimewave
(1985)
Starring: Antonio Fargas, Richard Bright, Brion James
Director: Sam Raimi
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The Coen brothers team up with horror director Sam Raimi to produce this serial killer spoof. When Detroit pest exterminators Crush and Coddish decide to expand their operation to include the disposal of humans, their best-laid plans soon go awry as the firm's body count escalates out of control.
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from 541 members
Currently unavailable
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Blood Simple
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: John Getz, M. Emmet Walsh, Samm-Art Williams
Director: Joel Coen
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Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
This knowing homage to 40s film noir is the first feature from eccentric movie-making duo the Coen brothers. A Texan bar owner (Dan Hedaya) hires a hitman (M. Emmet Walsh) to kill his wife (Frances McDormand) and her lover (John Getz). The plan backfires when the contract killer, having already ..read more »
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from 13,475 members
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Ethan Coen facts
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...original. While Alec Guinness must be spinning in his grave, lets hope Joel and Ethan Coen can get their act together and make a movie befitting their their past efforts....
