Short Cuts

Robert Rodriguez vs. the DGA and Paramount

"...are only allowed in special cases (such as brothers Joel and Ethan Coen), which rarely arise. Currently in preproduction..."

April 16, 2004 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

The Great Escape

Chain Gangs! Cast Aways! Kung Fu! Chocolate! ... It's Time for the Holiday Film Previews

"...O Brother, Where Art Thou?D: Joel Coen; with John Turturro, George Clooney, Tim Blake Nelson...."

Nov. 24, 2000 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

From Script to Screen

"...D: Joel Coen; Scr: Joel and Ethan Coen; Prod: Ethan Coen;..."

Oct. 9, 1998 Screens Feature

The Front Room

Warped A24 drama about an old lady terrorizing her daughter-in-law

"...moments are the work of the inimitable Hunter. When Joel Coen cast her as the three witches in The..."

Sept. 6, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Scanlines

Norma Jean & Marilyn

"...Blood Simple D: Joel Coen; with John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya, Samm-Art..."

March 7, 1997 Screens Feature

Autumn Tale

What Movies Look Like This Fall

"...The Coens, the Wachowskis, the Farrellys: Today's rash of dual fraternal..."

Sept. 21, 2001 Screens Feature by Will Robinson Sheff

Scanlines

The Nine Best Video Releases of 1998

"...D: Joel Coen (1998)..."

Jan. 8, 1999 Screens Feature

Scanlines

Fargo

"...D: Joel Coen; with William H. Macy, Frances McDormand, Steve Buscemi,..."

Jan. 17, 1997 Screens Feature

St. Paddy’s Day, SXSnacks, Sailor Moon, and More Weekend Events

Our recommendations for the waning days of the Fest

"...Following grimy, suspenseful neo-noir Blood Simple, Joel Coen’s second directorial production (and his third writing collaboration..."

March 14, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

Now Streaming in Austin: Blood Simple

Tweet along with us to the Lone Star Noir that gave us the Coens

"...the crime scene. You want to know where the Coen brothers came from, you go back to Blood Simple,..."

April 23, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

2010 Screens Top 10s

"...The Ghost Writer (Robert Harris, Roman Polanski), True Grit (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen) WORST FILM..."

Jan. 7, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

There Will Be Film

"...5) No Country for Old Men The Coen brothers go beyond genre-bending kicks to make a masterstroke..."

Jan. 4, 2008 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

TV Eye

Belinda Acosta frees her inner dork, with big ups for The Lone Gunmen and BattleBots, among others. Also, a partial Oscar ballot.

"...Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, O Brother, Where Art Thou?..."

March 23, 2001 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Scanlines

If These Walls Could Talk

"...D: Joel Coen; with Tim Robbins, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Paul Newman,..."

April 18, 1997 Screens Feature

Reeling in '98

The Austin Chronicle Top Nine Films of 1998

"...Egoyan (The Sweet Hereafter); Steven Soderbergh (Out of Sight) Joel Coen (The Big Lebowski); Atom Egoyan (The Sweet Hereafter);..."

Jan. 8, 1999 Screens Feature

Drive-Away Dolls

Ethan Coen solo effort is screwball without the comedy

"...Directed by: Ethan Coen. Starring: Margaret Qualley, Geraldine Viswanathan, Beanie Feldstein, Pedro Pascal,..."

Feb. 23, 2024 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Great Are the Myths

Edward Norton introduces Leaves of Grass to Austin

"...AC: How influenced are you by the Coen brothers? And how influenced are they by you?..."

Sept. 24, 2010 Screens Feature by Cindy Widner

Screens Top 10s

"...4) 'A SERIOUS MAN' Apart from enjoying the Coens' engagement in ontological questions, this film, more than any..."

Jan. 1, 2010 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Austin Heart Of Film Festival Schedule And Information

"...Bryan Singer's Apt Pupil; and a special tribute to Joel and Ethan Coen featuring a re-edited version of Blood..."

Oct. 2, 1998 Screens Feature

Chronicle Recommends: The Best of Austin

Our recommendations of the finest movies from and about the ATX

"...a horror and a comedy all at once.” The Coen brothers’ only real connection to Texas was Joel’s one..."

Nov. 4, 2018 Screens Post by Chronicle Film Staff

Unbroken

The heroic story of Louis Zamperini, who endured harrowing hardships during World War II, is the subject of Angelina Jolie's second movie.

"...the right emotions, and the screenplay alternately written by Joel and Ethan Coen, Richard LaGravenese, and William Nicholson (based..."

Dec. 26, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Screens Top 10s

"...somebody to give him a lousy break. With the Coens playing God to his Job, it isn't likely. Still,..."

Jan. 1, 2010 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

There Will Be Film

"...4) No Country for Old Men The Coens' movie renders evil disturbingly palpable, inscrutable, and immediate, while..."

Jan. 4, 2008 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Page Two

It has never been a secret that the magic ingredient that makes SXSW work is Austin

"...Irma P. Hall, inducted by Joel and Ethan Coen..."

Feb. 25, 2005 Column by Louis Black

The Zellners' Beautiful Dreamer

The Zellner brothers mine urban legend in Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter

"...blood money buried by Steve Buscemi's character in the Coen brothers' entirely fictional 1996 film Fargo. That film also..."

March 27, 2015 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Film News

Are the Coens coming back to Austin? Plus, Anne Rapp and 'Double Wide,' Jenn Garrison in Italy, and Jacob Vaughan kind of gets hit on by Dave Carradine.

"...The Coens Abide Filmmaking siblings Joel and Ethan Coen (right) are..."

Nov. 18, 2005 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Let Your Love Light Shine

"...fixture in the films of Spike Lee and the Coen brothers. He has now directed (and co-written) his second..."

Aug. 20, 1999 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Digging Deeper Into the Pet Sematary

Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer on their Stephen King adaptation

"...is that, when we first started, aside from the Coen brothers I didn't know of any other co-directors -..."

April 9, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

One of the Good Guys

Is Chris Ohlson the nicest film producer in town, or just the hardest working?

"...Buscemi's character secreted in a snowdrift in the 1996 Coen brothers movie Fargo. The Zellner brothers, who also wrote..."

Jan. 9, 2015 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Marjorie Baumgarten's Top 10 List

"...I'm always grateful for any time spent in the Coen Brothers' world...."

Jan. 3, 2014 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

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