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Title: Joel y Ethan Coen: Aventuras de un falso Gable en Louisiana.(TT: Joel and Ethan Coen: adventures of a present-day Gable in Louisiana.)(Reseña)
Author: Tomás Pérez Turrent
Publication: Siempre! (Refereed)
Date: April 18, 2001
Publisher: Edicional Siempre
Volume: 47Issue: 2496Page: 58

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Bob Dylan, Tippi Hedren, Thomas Friedman, Judy Garland, Bethanie Mattek-Sands, Mardy Fish, Joel et Ethan Coen, Eddie Cochran, Bob Backlund, William O. Douglas, Winona Ryder, Jane Russell, Kenneth Arnold, Jack Conway, Jessica Biel, Richard Widmark, Gig Young, Sinclair Lewis, Keith Ballard, Jessica Lange, Seann William Scott, Gale Sondergaard, Lea Thompson, Warren William, Colin Stuart, Blake Wheeler, Robert Mondavi, James B. Clark, Nora Greenwald, Walter Mondale, Rick Rude, John Madden, Joseph Hennig, Don Lafontaine, Dan Sexton, Michael Forney, Chi Chi Larue, Paul Willson, Walter Jon Williams, Shawn Matthias, Ryan Carter, Lester Del Rey, Sidney Buchman, Bud Brisbois, Sky Lopez, Lee Janzen, Bam Neely, Celeste, David Fischer, Louise Erdrich, Mark Steven Johnson, Mike Ploog, Tom Lehman, Karen L. Nyberg, Bradley Joseph, Dave Arneson, James Laurinaitis, Garrison Keillor, Terry Shane, Ross Webster, Peter Docter, Tim O'brien, Charles Frederick Ingalls, Dave Winfield. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Bob Dylan (né Robert Allen Zimmerman le 24 mai 1941 à Duluth, Minnesota) est un musicien américain qui est une des figures majeures de la musique populaire depuis cinq décennies. Son style musical a évolué au fil des années : rock, folk, country, et blues sont les exemples de la diversité de son œuvre. La famille de Bob Dylan est émigrée d'Europe de l'Est, fuyant les agressions et les pillages contre les juifs. Ses grands parents paternels étaient des juifs d'Odessa. Ils ont immigrés aux États Unis en 1905. Ses grands parents maternels étaient juifs lituaniens et sont arrivés aux États-Unis en 1902. Depuis le début de sa carrière, dans les années 1960, Dylan a, par ses textes et par sa recherche de voies nouv...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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When the head of Hudsucker Industries jumps to his death, the Board of Directors devises a devilish scheme to keep control of the company - appoint as the new President someone who they can push around. Their choice is Norville Barnes - but Norville has a dream of power.Amazon.com Review
Cinematically dazzling, maniacally paced and extraordinarilywitty, The Hudsucker Proxy is in many respects the mostaccomplished of the Cohen brothers' movies. The film is so quicklypaced that it is a real treat to have a copy of the finishedscreenplay. This book will allow you to savor every nuance of thisextraordinarily detailed and tremendously entertaining movie. ... Read more

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Wonderful Background for a Great Movie
I'm biased.

This was one of the best movies of the last century, largely because of the Coen brothers' brilliant use of visual imagery.So, if the visuals are the essence of the film's greatness, why would anybody want to spend time reading the screenplay?

Well, as you'll see from this wonderful book, the writing is also brilliant.The Coens refashioned a lot of the screenplay to fit their vision of the film, so what we see here is literally what is on the screen.I say this to spare those looking for "deleted scenes" any disappointment...despite what's written below.

But it's just wonderful stuff.Strong, spare, funny writing.

Say - what gives??

Great reading, includes "deleted sccenes"
The wonderful words from The Hudsucker Proxy are all here, in a draft of the script that must have been close to final.

Here you can see how the Coen's scripted the unique talking patterns of its characters, complete with the slang or other verbal maulings the characters use in the movie.

There are also stage directions and other things you would only find in a script which helps you see how much they had visualized before the got the actors together.

Finally, there are a couple scenes that were not in the movie, including a very bizzare ending scene with the two taxi drivers from the cafe ("Bromo..."). ... Read more

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Wasted Writing Effort and a Waste of Your Time
The author of this book obviously feels he's as witty as the Coens.I hate to break it to him, but he's not.To make up for underachievement in this area, he fills the book with unneeded "editorial" comments on the films themselves.Why does the author feel he needs to criticize Jon Polito's performance in Miller's Crossing, and why does he think we'd care?It simply feels the author is stretching for lack of material, since he probably didn't get much cooperation from the filmmakers themselves.I attempted to make it through the entire book but kept putting it down out of frustration with the author.Don't waste your time with this one.

What can one say?
This book is supposed to be the first authorized biography about the Coens, but to be completely honest it's not much of a biography. The book reads more like a review of the Coens and each of their films. Much of the biographical information is interesting just for the simple fact that the brothers are so elusive that anything regarding their past and how they first funded their films is a gem not to be discarded. However, most of the book is divided into chapters that review and critique each of the Coen's films. Now, I didn't mind this, but a biography is not a collection of film reviews. It seems to me that the author (though possibly a fan) just didn't feel like writing this book especially since the brothers seemed so reluctant that he was writing it. Or true to Coen style, maybe that's how they intended the book to turn out (either knowingly or unknowingly to the author). Overall, an interesting, but slow read worth the time if your a film buff.

a real "shove in the bottom drawer" book
It's hard to add much to Josh's review, and perhaps I shouldn't, as I put this book down after page 114.I too found myself skipping long (slow) passages and growing tired at the never-ending parrallels drawn between the Coen's work and that of other film-makers.I would have preferred to hear more of what the brothers had to say, rather than the theories and beliefs of their biographer.

If you're after an in-depth study at how the Coen Brothers go about making a movie, buy William Preston Robertson's "The Making of Joel & Ethan Coen's The Big Lebowski".It's a better read by far.

If you LOVE the Coens, you'll LIKE this book
Ronald Bergan, biographer of such film legends as Jean Renoir and Sergei Eisentsein, has been commissioned to write the first offical biography of the brilliant, yet elusive American filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen.Anyone who loves the brothers' work will enjoy this book simply because info on the bros is so hard to come by: they rarely do interviews and stay just far enough outside of the mainstream to avoid tabloid headlines.The book on the whole, unfortunatley, seems to have been rushed.Even the physical look-- from the type face to the occastional type-- seems a bit unporfessional.There were sections about the Coen youth where I, the ultimate admirer/fan, got bored and skipped ahead-- that is almost impressive.Once the author settles into his format, he simply goes through each of the Coens' eight films in order.That gets pretty dull and uninformative, especially if you've read The Making of the Big Lebowski by William Preston Robertson (and if you haven't, do it).The other major problem with Bergan's book is that he too often jumps the line from biographer to critic.While discussing their work, he will 'factually' point out flaws in performances, filming techniques, even script-writing.Aside from this being out of his jurisdiction, his opinions--which are just that-- come off as shallow and unsupported.If you're gonna tell me that the brilliant last line of Raizing Arizona ruins the whole ending, you better have good reasons why!Bergan doesn't.There are few of his critiques that i agreed with, but the point is that he shouldn't be making these judgements at all.But because the Coens have stayed to private, it's great to get your hands on anything that discusses their behind-the-screen struggles and triumphs.Learning how they got funding for Blood Simple was fascinating and inspiring for any film student or independant filmmaker.The brilliance of the Coen brothers is not quite reflected in this somewhat shallow biography, which seems to have been written partly against the will of not only the author, but the subjects as well.The true fan, however, should be able to find enough gems to be worth the price of admission.Ciao. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Letras Libres, published by Editorial Vuelta, S.A. de C.V. on June 1, 2002. The length of the article is 1121 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Un noir metafísico: no se conoce una mala película de los hermanos Coen. Cada una de sus obras garantiza un par de horas de humor, inteligencia narrativa y alta cinematografía. El hombre que no estuvo no es la excepción, afirma Fernanda Solórzano en este paseo por su más reciente producción. (Cine).(TT: Metaphysical noir: the Coen brothers are not acquainted with bad filmmaking. Their oeuvres guarantee moments of humour, intelligent narrative, and excellence in cinematography. Their most recent work, The Man Who Wasn't There, is an exception. (Cinema).)(Reseña)
Author: Fernanda Solórzano
Publication: Letras Libres (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 1, 2002
Publisher: Editorial Vuelta, S.A. de C.V.
Volume: 4Issue: 42Page: 98(2)

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This digital document is an article from Winnipeg Free Press, published by Thomson Gale on December 11, 2007. The length of the article is 477 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: New York film critics say Coens' year's best.(Movies - Articles)
Author: Gale Reference Team
Publication: Winnipeg Free Press (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 11, 2007
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Ocho y Medio. 2003. 160 p.
Crueldad Intolerable está basada en una idea original de Robert Ramsey y Matthew Stone, y en el guión cinematográfico de Ethan y Joel Coen para la nueva película de este último. Ediciones Ocho y Medio lo presenta en castellano, con fotografías en color de la película. ... Read more