Joel Coen
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PERSONAL DATA OF JOEL COEN
Age: 66 years old
Born in: St. Louis Park, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Born on: 11/29/1954
JOEL COEN BIOGRAPHY
Born in 1954 in Minneapolis, from an educated family of the good bourgeoisie, Joel Daniel Coen from an early age he has fun with his brother and friends to remake films seen at the cinema in super8. Of the two, he is the only one to study cinema. In 1980 he collaborated in the editing of The House of Sam Raimi, and in 1984 he made his film debut with Blood Simple, noir with horror veins set in Texas. Frances McDormand – whom she marries the same year and with whom she adopts her son Pedro – makes her debut with this film, which wins the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and the Independent Spirit Award. Until 2004, when the rules of the category will allow both brothers to be recognized as co-authors of their works, it is Joel who signs the direction and receives the awards, while as editors they will continue to use the fictitious name of Roderick Jaynes.
In 1984 he is co-author of the screenplay de The two craziest criminals in the world of Sam Raimi and in 1987 he wrote and directed Arizona Junior with Nicolas Cage is Holly Hunter, a bizarre and very funny film where one of the many fetish actors of the Coen house appears for the first time, John Goodman. In 1990 it was the turn of the gangster movie Crossroads of death, full of references to the books of Dashiell Hammett and the aesthetics of the most violent noir. The following year it comes out Barton Fink, a writer-inspired masterpiece Clifford Odets, who unanimously won the Palme d’Or at Cannes, the prize for best director and the one for best actor, the fido John Turturro. It is also the first film photographed by Roger Deakins, after the first director of photography of the Coen, Barry Sonnenfeld, becomes a director.
In 1994, always with his brother and Sam Raimi – co-author of the script and second unit director – tackles a high-budget studio film, Mr. Hula Hoop, with Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tim Robbins is Paul Newman. Funny and touching revival of themes and faces of a cinema that made America great, from the films of Preston Sturges is Frank Capra to screwball comedies with brilliant and frenetic dialogues by Howard Hawks, did not have the deserved success of audiences and critics.
The redemption takes place in 1996 with Fargo, set in the snowy expanses of Minnesota, Oscar for Best Screenplay, for Best Actress in a Leading Role, Frances McDormand, and Director Award at the Cannes Film Festival. This much-loved noir about the banality of evil will be revived in a successful TV series produced by Coen and started in 2014.
After this exploit comes a real cult movie, The Big Lebowski, with a rich cast on which it dominates Jeff Bridges, who embodies a gorgeous and bizarre individual like The Dude (improperly translated into Italian with Dude). It is a film that remains in the hearts of fans for the inimitable dream sequences, the characters on the verge of madness and the soundtrack and which even gives life in America to an annual and traveling Lebowski Fest. Two years later Where are you brother?, a curious reinterpretation of the Odyssey in the deep South of the United States in the era of the Great Depression, is in competition at the Cannes Film Festival. The film is the first collaboration with George Clooney and the first chapter of the so-called “idiot trilogy”.
In 2001 there is another reinterpretation of noir, that of the classics in black and white: with The man who wasn’t there, with an extraordinary Billy Bob Thornton. Joel wins the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival for Best Direction ex aequo with David Lynch.
This series of elegant, fun and original films is surprisingly followed by a predictable and mediocre screwball comedy, First I’ll marry you then I’ll ruin you, with George Clooney, Billy Bob Thornton is Catherine Zeta-Jones. It doesn’t go much better with the remake of one of the most famous British comedies, The homicide lady, played in 1955 by Alec Guinness is Peter Sellers. The Ladykillers delivers the action from London to Mississippi, with Tom Hanks instead of Guinness. The Cannes festival is generous, where the Coens are at home and where, perhaps precisely because it is the first film signed by both both as producers and directors, wins the Jury Prize.
In 2007 comes the very faithful adaptation of a novel by Cormac McCarthy, It is not a country for old people with Josh Brolin. In the story, set in West Texas in the 1980s, themes already addressed in the past return: chance as the spring of human action and inescapable destiny. The strong point is the interpretation of Javier Bardem as the psycho killer Chigurh. It is a film that thrills critics and yields Joel (and Ethan) to him Oscar for direction, film and non-original screenplay, it’s at Bardem that of not protagonist.
After this gloomy triumph, the fun and surreal atmospheres typical of the Coen brand return with the final episode of the idiot trilogy, Burn After Reading, which tells the encounter between the world of espionage and that of fitness. The role of the perfect idiot goes to Brad Pitt while Clooney has a character of rare dislike.
It follows A Serious Man, an extremely personal low-budget film, which explores Jewish roots and childhood in Minnesota in the late 1960s. Splendid interpreter of a kind of modern Job is Michael Sthulbarg. Others two Oscar nominations, for film and screenplay. In 2010 it was the turn of the remake of the classic western The Grit, where is it Jeff Bridges takes over the role of John Wayne. This time there are three Oscar nominations: film, non-original screenplay and direction (for the latter the Golden Globe). In 2013 it comes out About Davis, which recounts a week in the life of a folk singer in Greenwich Village in 1961. In competition at Cannes, he wins the Grand Jury Prize. In 2016 Hail, Caesar!, from an old subject, opens the Berlin Film Festival out of competition. They return to the cast Josh Brolin is George Clooney once again, for them, in the role of an imbecile. The umpteenth Oscar nomination Joel’s (and Ethan’s) is for the original screenplay de The bridge of spies of Steven Spielberg. Among the films written for others too Gambit is Unbroken. Of the two brothers is also the script of Suburbicon, directed by his friend George Clooney.
JOEL COEN’S MOST RECENT FILMS
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Role: Film director
Year: 2018
Hail, Caesar! (Hail Caesar)
Role: Film director
Year: 2016
About Davis (Inside Llewyn Davis)
Role: Film director
Year: 2013
True Grit
Role: Film director
Year: 2010 Go to the complete Filmography
JOEL COEN’S MOST RECURRING GENRES
Comedy: 40% …
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