Death is always the issue-in life, and in the Western. Joel and Ethan Coen's TheBalladofBusterScruggs is a movie of six Western stories. In each, our common destination is approached by a different road. Through each, diverse characters hurry for their final appointment: Oregon Trail-travelers, a gold prospector, a motley crew of stagecoach passengers, a high-plains drifting bank robber, even a singing cowboy. These six stories escort them with a care that either respects, or mocks, the di...

Hail,Caesar! is the story of Eddie Mannix, tireless pursuer of the interests of fictional Capitol Pictures, circa 1951. He is the ultimate studio fixer and---since the studio is his world---the ultimate earthly one. There is no star scandal he cannot cover up, no studio misstep he cannot repair, no sin he cannot make right. His powers are tested, though, when production on the studio's most expensive picture ever---biblical epic Hail,Caesar!---is halted by the kidnapping of its star. The k...

The Big Lebowski begins with a case of mistaken identity which escalates when Jeffrey Lebowski - alias The Dude - attempts to seek recompense for the despoilation of his ratty-ass little rug, and then finds himself entangled in a kidnapping caper as a bagman - a situation that goes from bad to worse due to the interference of his hapless bowling partners.In The Big Lebowski the Coen brothers have taken on the preoccupations of Raymond Chandler, but...

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 since she has fallen in love with one of his more pompous colleagues.His domestic woes accumulate: his unemployable brother Arthury is sleeping on the couch, his son Danny is shirking Hebrew school, and his daughter is filching money from his wallet in order to save up for a nose job. Also, a graduate student seems to be trying to brib...

Inside Llewyn Davis chronicles a struggling young folk singer, played by Oscar Isaacs, who arrives in Manhattan in 1961 and tries to navigate the treacherous waters of the the Greenwich Village coffeehouse scene, as well as having to deal with a disaffected girlfriend, his father's dementia, the suicide of his musical partner, and the loss of his friend's cat...Suffused with the music of the time, the film is an emotional journey inside the soul of Llewyn Davis.

Découvrez le scénario du film Barton FinkBarton Fink est un jeune dramaturge intello new-yorkais qui vient de connaître son premier succès. Il est engagé par un producteur hollywoodien pour écrire un scénario. Mais l'inspiration ne vient pas. On frappe à sa porte ; c'est Charlie, un étrange voisin, qui vient lui proposer son aide...

Découvrez le scénario du film FargoEndetté jusqu'au cou, Jerry Lundegaard organise, avec deux malfrats minables, l'enlèvement de sa propre femme afin d'extorquer une rançon à son beau-père. Les choses se gâtent quand ses complices abattent trois témoins, dont un flic. Marge Gunderson se voit confier l'enquête et remonte jusqu'à Jerry. La machine sanglante commence à s'emballer...

In 1984 Joel and Ethan Coen burst onto the art-house film scene with their neo-noir Blood Simple and ever since then they have sharpened the cutting edge of independent film. Blending black humor and violence with unconventional narrative twists, their acclaimed movies evoke highly charged worlds of passion, absurdity, nightmare realms, and petty human failures, all the while revealing the filmmakers' penchant for visual jokes and bravura technical strokes. Their central characters may be ...

With landmark films such as Fargo, O Brother Where art Thou?, Blood Simple, and Raising Arizona, the Coen brothers have achieved both critical and commercial success. Proving the existence of a viable market for "small" films that are also intellectually rewarding, their work has exploded generic conventions amid rich webs of transtextual references.R. Barton Palmer argues that the Coen oeuvre forms a central element in what might be called postmodernist filmmakin...

The filmmakers who defy convention and validate the legitimacy of the auteur theory are revealed in probing, wide-ranging and provocative interviews that first appeared in Playboy magazine. From foreign masters of direction and style Ingmar Bergman and Federico Fellini to champions of independent film Spike Lee and The Coen Brothers to the godfathers of the gangster movie Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese, the visionaries to constantly push the boundaries of their medium and portray hu...

Filmmaker brothers Joel and Ethan Coen got their start in the independent film business in 1984 with their debut feature Blood Simple, which won the award of Best Dramatic Feature at Sundance in 1985 and was hailed as one of the best films of the year by the National Board of Review. Since their early success, the Coen Brothers have built a name for themselves and gone on to create other big-name movies such as Raising Arizona, Fargo, and The Big Lebowski. This b...

Une fiche de référence sur Barton Fink, un chef-d'oeuvre de Joel et Ethan Coen.Lorsque les frères Coen reçoivent, en 1991, la palme d'or du festival de Cannes pour Barton Fink, ils ont derrière eux une œuvre encore peu abondante mais remarquée, caractérisée par leur goût pour l'insolite, la dérision et l'humour noir.Les grands films méritent le même traitement que les grands livres. Sur le modèle des fiches de lecture, les fiches cinéma d'...