O Brothers, Where's Your Art?; Two Decades After They Made Their First Film, Have We Already Seen the Best of the Coen Canon?
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It's a fact of life: every wunderkind has to grow up some day. And, with the 20th anniversary of their first film this year, time could finally be catching up on the Coen Brothers, the maverick movie-making duo who, for much of their careers, have been regarded as the wonder boys of American cinema.
Ethan and Joel Coen are the inspired minds behind many of the cinematic high points of the past 20 years. Who could forget the sight of John Goodman striding through the flames of the hotel in Barton Fink? Or the thrilling climax of O Brother, Where Art Thou?, when the Soggy Bottom Boys take the stage only to discover that their song is a nationwide hit? Or The Dude's drug-induced Busby Berkeley-style fantasy sequence in The Big Lebowski?See the full content of this document
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O Brothers, Where's Your Art?; Two Decades After They Made Their First Film, Have We Already Seen the Best of the Coen Canon?
With their most recent film, The Ladykillers, out on video and DVD later this month and the release of a prestigious DVD collection of four of their films in the winter, the time is right for a look back at the output of the Coen Brothers. No longer new kids on the movie block, these siblings are approaching middle age, ...
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