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Kubrick’s Inheritors: Aesthetics, Independence, and Philosophy in the Films of Joel and Ethan Coen

Rodney F. Hill

Rodney F. Hill

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After Kubrick : A Filmmaker’s Legacy

Bloomsbury Academic, 2020

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...Classic “auteur” criticism has had a tough time dealing with Stanley Kubrick, who, unlike Hitchcock, Hawks, Ford, and others, essentially “never made the same film twice.” That is, it is difficult to spot prima facie connections between...

Hail, Caesar! (2016)

Directed by

Joel Coen

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Ethan Coen

Written by

Joel Coen

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Ethan Coen

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...House at Night We are looking – through the rain-pelted windshield of a parked car – at a small, Spanish-style bungalow. The rattle of driving rain does not quite cover the sound from inside the house of drunken female laughter...

Miller’s Crossing (2002)

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Joel Coen

Written by

Joel Coen

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Ethan Coen

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...A Whiskey Tumbler It sits on an oak bar under a glowing green banker’s lamp. Two ice cubes are dropped in. From elsewhere in the room: ManoffI’m talkin’ about friendship. I’m talkin’ about character. I’m talkin’ about – hell, Leo, I ain’t...

The Big Lebowski (1998)

Directed by

Joel Coen

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Ethan Coen

Written by

Joel Coen

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Ethan Coen

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...Ralph’s It is late; the supermarket is all but deserted. We are tracking in on a fortyish man in Bermuda shorts and sunglasses at the dairy case. He is the Dude. His rumpled look and relaxed manner suggest a man in whom casualness runs...

Blood Simple (2002)

Directed by

Joel Coen

Written by

Joel Coen

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Ethan Coen

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...Landscapes An opening voice-over plays against dissolving Texas landscapes – broad, bare, and lifeless. Voice-Over The world is full of complainers. But the fact is, nothing comes with a guarantee. I don’t care if you’re the Pope of Rome,...

Fargo (1996)

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Joen Coen

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Joen Coen

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Ethan Coen

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...Flare to White FADE IN FROM WHITE Slowly the white becomes a barely perceptible image: white particles wave over a white background. A snowfall. A car bursts through the curtain of snow. The car is equipped with a hitch and is towing...

Barton Fink (2002)

Directed by

Joen Coen

Written by

Joen Coen

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Ethan Coen

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...On Barton Fink He is a bespectacled man in his thirties, hale but somewhat bookish. He stands, tuxedoed, in the wings of a theater, looking out at the stage, listening intently to the end of a performance. In the shadows behind him an old...

Intolerable Cruelty (2003)

Directed by

Joel Coen

Written by

Joel Coen

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Ethan Coen

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Robert Ramsey

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Matthew Stone

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...Street A man in shades. His sunglasses and the windshield of the car he drives reflect palm trees flashing by on either side. He is well dressed, in his early forties, with a little rat ponytail. He slows in front of a swank Beverly Hills...

“Kubrick’s Cube”: Stanley Kubrick, Judaism, and His Jewish Heirs

Nathan Abrams

Nathan Abrams

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After Kubrick : A Filmmaker’s Legacy

Bloomsbury Academic, 2020

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...Rarely thought of as a Jewish director (whatever that may mean), Kubrick never denied his ethnicity but neither did he follow any religion. His parents, Jacques and Gertrude (née Perveler), were both Jewish, but they did not practice much...

The Ladykillers (2004)

Directed by

Joel Coen

and

Ethan Coen

Written by

Joel Coen

and

Ethan Coen

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...A Gargoyle We are close on the leering face of a demon carved in stone. Head credits play as we pull slowly back. Our move ends framed low to put the gargoyle against an overcast sky. A large black bird alights upon it as other birds –...