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Personal life Joel Coen and Ethan Coen grew up in St Louis Park Minnesota a suburb of Minneapolis in a Jewish household Their parents Edward and Rena Coen were professors their father an economist at the University of Minnesota and their mother an art historian at St Cloud State University When they were children Joel saved money from mowing lawns to buy a Vivitar Super 8 camera Together the brothers remade movies they saw on television with a neighborhood kid Mark Zimering citation needed Zeimers as the star Their first attempt was a romp titled Henry Kissinger Man on the Go Cornel Wilde s The Naked Prey 1966 became their Zeimers in Zambia which also featured Ethan as a native with a spear The brothers graduated from Saint Louis Park High School in 1973 and 1975 They both also graduated from Bard College at Simon s Rock in Great Barrington Massachusetts Joel then spent four years in the undergraduate film program at New York University where he made a 30 minute thesis film called Soundings The film depicted a woman engaged in sex with her deaf boyfriend while verbally fantasizing about having sex with her boyfriend s best friend who is listening in the next room Ethan went on to Princeton University and earned an undergraduate degree in philosophy in 1979 His senior thesis was a 41 page essay Two Views of Wittgenstein s Later Philosophy In the late 1970s both brothers lived in the Weinstein dormitory at 5 11 University Place an NYU dorm noted for housing such creatives as Ralph Bakshi Rick Rubin and film makers Chris Columbus and Dan Goldman Joel has been married to actress Frances McDormand since 1984 They adopted a son from Paraguay named Pedro McDormand Coen Frances and all her siblings were adopted themselves McDormand has acted in six of the Coen Brothers films including a minor appearance in Miller s Crossing a supporting role in Raising Arizona lead roles in Blood Simple and The Man Who Wasn t There her Academy Award winning role in Fargo and her latest starring role in Burn After Reading Ethan is married to film editor Tricia Cooke Both couples live in New York City Career The 1980s After graduating from NYU Joel worked as a production assistant on a variety of industrial films and music videos He developed a talent for film editing and met Sam Raimi who was looking for an assistant editor on his first feature film The Evil Dead 1981 In 1984 the brothers wrote and directed Blood Simple their first film together Set in Texas the film tells the tale of a shifty sleazy bar owner who hires a private detective to kill his wife and her lover Within this film are considerable elements that point toward their future direction their own subverted homages to genre movies in this case noir and horror and clever plot twists layered over a simplistic story their darkly inventive and twisted sense of humor and their mastery of atmosphere The film starred Frances McDormand who would go on to feature in many of the Coen brothers films and marry Joel Coen Upon release the film received much praise and won awards for Joel s direction at both the Sundance and Independent Spirit awards M Emmet Walsh also won Best Male Actor at the 1986 Independent Spirit awards for his portrayal of Slimy Detective Visser The next Coen brothers project to hit the big screen was 1985 s Crimewave directed by Sam Raimi The film was written by the brothers and Sam Raimi with whom Joel had worked on The Evil Dead The next film written and directed by the brothers was the 1987 hit Raising Arizona The film is the story of the unlikely married couple ex convict H I played by Nicolas Cage and ex cop Ed played by Holly Hunter who long for a baby but are unable to conceive Fortune smiles on them when a local furniture tycoon played by Trey Wilson appears on television with his five newly born quintuplets that he jokes are more than we can handle Seeing this as the answer to all their prayers H I and Ed steal one of the quintuplets and start to bring up the child as their own The film featured an all star cast including Frances McDormand John Goodman William Forsythe Sam McMurray and Randall Tex Cobb Raising Arizona was much more accessible to the mass market with wacky slapstick comedy easing the action along amongst a somewhat darker humor The 1990s Miller s Crossing was released in 1990 a straight ahead homage to the gangster movie genre and in many ways a remake of The Glass Key one of the Ladd and Lake films of the 1940s Starring Albert Finney Gabriel Byrne and future Coen brothers staple John Turturro the film is set during the prohibition era of the 1930s and tells the tale of feuding mobs and gangster capers The film was praised for its dialogue and characterization Typical of the brothers oeuvre are the touches of dark humor and plot twists that were already becoming recurring features of their work The Coen brothers reputation was seemingly enhanced with every subsequent release but it took a massive leap forward with their next movie 1991s Barton Fink Barton Fink is set in 1941 and is the story of a New York playwright the eponymous Barton Fink played by John Turturro who moves to Los Angeles to write a B movie He settles down in his hotel apartment to commence the writing but all too soon gets writer s block and allows himself to receive some inspiration from the amiable man in the room next door played by John Goodman together with some industry associates Inspiration comes from the strangest places and the hotel is definitely unusual and a magnet for the bizarre Barton Fink was a critical success garnering Oscar nominations plus winning three major awards at 1991 Cannes Film Festival including the Palme d Or Golden Palm Barton Fink was the first of the brothers films to use Director of Photography Roger Deakins a key figure in the brothers circle over the following 15 years In 1994 with their stock at an all time high the brothers were able to attempt their first big budget feature film The Hudsucker Proxy co written with Sam Raimi The story revolves around a man who is made the head of a massive corporation with the expectation that he will ruin the company so that the board can buy it for next to nothing instead he ends up inventing the hula hoop and becomes both a success and a personality overnight The critics were lukewarm about the Coens work while Roger Deakins was universally praised for his skill as Director of Photography The film was generally criticized for being a pastiche too far citation needed Most critics viewed the film as having nothing new to say due to its constant references and homages to classic movies of the 1930s and 40s Many were disappointed by the Coens first attempt at the big league Perhaps more significantly the film proved to be a massive commercial failure making back only 3 million of its 25 million budget Following the commercial failure of The Hudsucker Proxy the brothers returned to more familiar ground in 1996 with the noir thriller Fargo Set in the Coen brothers home state of Minnesota Fargo in neighboring North Dakota appears in only a couple of early scenes the movie tells the tale of Jerry Lundegaard William H Macy a man with a money problem who works in his father in law s car showroom Jerry is anxious to get hold of some money to move up in the world and hatches a plan to have his wife kidnapped so that his wealthy father in law will pay the ransom that he can split with the kidnappers Inevitably his plan goes wrong when the bungling kidnappers deviate from the agreed non violent plan and local cop Marge Gunderson Frances McDormand starts to investigate the whole affair A critical and commercial success with particular praise for its dialogue and McDormand s performance the film received several awards including a BAFTA award and Cannes award for direction and two Oscars one for Best Original Screenplay and a Best Actress Oscar for McDormand The Coens next film would build upon this success and in 1998 The Big Lebowski was released With its story about The Dude an LA slacker played by Jeff Bridges used as an unwitting pawn in a fake kidnapping plot with his bowling buddies Steve Buscemi and John Goodman the Coens had hit on a film that would provide a mainstream accessibility that they had not enjoyed since Raising Arizona Despite a lukewarm reception from the critics at the time the film is now regarded as a cult classic The 2000s Buoyed by the success of both Fargo and The Big Lebowski the Coen brothers next film O Brother Where Art Thou 2000 was another critical success The title was borrowed from the 1941 Preston Sturges film Sullivan s Travels whose lead character movie director John Sullivan had planned to make a film with that title Based loosely on Homer s Odyssey complete with a cyclops sirens et al the story is set in Mississippi in the 1930s and follows a trio of escaped convicts who have absconded from a chain gang and who journey home in an attempt to recover the loot from a bank heist that the leader has buried But they have no idea what the journey is that they are undertaking The film also highlighted the comic abilities of George Clooney who starred as the oddball lead character of Ulysses Everett McGill assisted by his sidekicks played by Tim Blake Nelson and John Turturro The film s bluegrass and old time soundtrack offbeat humor and yet again stunning cinematography made it a critical and commercial hit The soundtrack CD became even more successful than the film spawning a concert a concert DVD of its own Down from the Mountain that coincided with a resurgence in interest in American folk music With Javier Bardem at the Cannes Film Festival The Coen brothers produced another noirish thriller in 2001 The Man Who Wasn t There Set in late 1940s California the film tells the tale of a laconic chain smoking barber played by Billy Bob Thornton who in an effort to get some money together to invest in a dry cleaning business decides to blackmail his wife s boss who is also her lover The film s twists and turns and dark humor were typical of Coen films but here the slow build of the thriller its dead end roads look meant that the film was more for the purists rather than casual audiences Intolerable Cruelty was released in 2003 and starred George Clooney and Catherine Zeta Jones The film was a throwback to the romantic comedies of the 1940s with a story based around Miles Massey a hot shot divorce lawyer and a beautiful divorcee whom Massey had managed to stop getting any money from her divorce She sets out on a course to get even with him while he becomes smitten with her Intolerable Cruelty divided the critics some applauding the romantic screwball comedy elements of the movie others enquiring as to why the Coens would wish to supply us with their take on this genre In 2004 the Coen brothers made The Ladykillers a remake of the Ealing Studios classic The story revolves around a professor played by Tom Hanks who puts together a team to rob a casino They rent a room in an elderly woman s house to execute the heist When the woman discovers the plot however the gang decides to murder her to ensure her silence This is easier said than done The Coens received some of the most lukewarm reviews of their career with this movie much criticism surmised that while the Coens have managed to make films in which a genre can be homaged or pastiched successfully a relatively faithful reworking of an individual classic did not give them enough creative leeway to place a complete trademark touch on their work No Country for Old Men released in November 2007 was based on the 2005 novel by the author Cormac McCarthy The film tells the tale of everyman and Vietnam Veteran Llewelyn Moss Josh Brolin living on the Texas Mexico border who stumbles upon two million dollars in drug money that he decides to pocket He then has to go on the run to avoid those looking to recover the money including a sinister killer named Anton Chigurh Javier Bardem who confounds both Llewelyn and local sheriff Ed Tom Bell Tommy Lee Jones This plot line is a return to the dark noir themes and also marks a notable departure including a lack of regular Coen actors with the exception of Stephen Root The film has received nearly universal critical praise garnering a 94 Fresh rating at Rotten Tomatoes The film won four Academy Awards including Best Picture Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay all of which were received by the Coens as well as Best Supporting Actor received by Bardem The Coens as Roderick Jaynes were also nominated for Best Editor but lost It was the first time since 1961 Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise for West Side Story that two directors had received the honor of Best Director at the same time In January 2008 Ethan Coen s play Almost An Evening premiered Off Broadway at the Atlantic Theater Company Stage 2 and opened to mostly enthusiastic reviews The initial run closed on February 10 2008 but was moved to a new theatre for a commercial Off Broadway run The commercial run began in March 2008 and ran until June 1 2008 at the Bleecker Street Theatre in New York City produced by The Atlantic Theater Company and Art Meets Commerce In May 2009 the Atlantic Theater Company produced Coen s Offices as part of their mainstage season at the Linda Gross Theater Burn After Reading a dark comedy starring Brad Pitt and George Clooney was released September 12 2008 it portrays a collision course between gyms spies and internet dating In its box office debut it hit number one

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