Ethan Coen
Ethan Coen
Joel David Coenand Ethan Jesse Coen, collectively referred to as the Coen brothers, are American filmmakers. Their films span many genres and styles, which they frequently subvert or parody. Their films include Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink, The Hudsucker Proxy, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, No Country for Old Men, Burn After Reading, True Grit, and Hail, Caesar!...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth21 September 1957
CitySt. Louis Park, MN
CountryUnited States of America
Dave Van Ronk, for those who don't know him - probably most don't know - was a folk singer. He's kind of the biggest person on the scene in 1961 in the folk revival in Greenwich Village, biggest person on the scene until Bob Dylan showed up.
Radio actually works better. It helps to reduce the celebrity factor, where people can't get past the actor to separate the parts, especially when you have some actors doing multiple characters. In fact, some people we talked to actually told us that the play worked better for them when they closed their eyes in the theater.
It's more interesting for me as an audience member to see a movie about a loser.
I mean, Joel talks to the actors more than I do and I probably do production stuff a little more than he does.
We haven't had to defend anything to anybody.
I have never had feeling in my toes. My uncle, Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, once told me in confidence he had the same syndrome, leading me to believe it is genetic.
We wouldn't have done it if we didn't think we could have fun with it.