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6 unusual facts about Coen brothers


Ben Barenholtz

He supported the Coen brothers directorial debut through several titles such as, Blood Simple, Barton Fink (Awarded at the Academy Awards and Cannes Film Festival's Golden Palm & Cannes Film Festival's Best Director award), and Miller's crossing (San Sebastián International Film's Best Director award).

Chris Gorak

He changed his career to film and worked as art director for directors like David Fincher, the Coen brothers, and Terry Gilliam.

Duncan Shepherd

Among contemporary directors, Shepherd praises perhaps the Coen brothers and Clint Eastwood the highest.

Lee Yoon-ki

Other influences are Robert Altman’s earlier works, Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, and other American independent films from the 70s and 80s, including the Coen brothersBlood Simple.

Mackenzie Lintz

Lintz first auditioned for the role of Mattie Ross in the remake of True Grit by the Coen brothers.

Tricia Cooke

Tricia Cooke has worked as an editor or associate editor on many of the Coen brothers' films.


A Simple Noodle Story

It is a remake of Blood Simple, the 1984 debut of the Coen brothers, whose films Zhang Yimou lists as among his favorites.

Bronx Community College

The Meister Hall building at BCC by architect Marcel Breuer was featured as a Russian Embassy in the 2008 film Burn After Reading by the Coen brothers.

Burlyman Entertainment

According to visual effects supervisor, John Gaeta, the title is a reference to a film they all loved; the Coen brothers' Barton Fink.

Dom Irrera

His film work includes a featured role in Robert Townsend's Hollywood Shuffle, a cameo in the Coen Brothers film The Big Lebowski, The Fourth Tenor, starring old pal Rodney Dangerfield, and he played himself in the Rodney Dangerfield / Dom DeLuise film The Godson.

Dudeism

Dudeism is a philosophy and lifestyle inspired by the modern-day fictional character Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski, as portrayed by Jeff Bridges in the Coen Brothers' 1998 film The Big Lebowski.

Glück das mir verblieb

The song was used in the Coen brothers film The Big Lebowski, and included on the film's soundtrack.

Homer Alone

The scene where Marge is booked in prison references the Coen brothers film Raising Arizona.

I See the Rain

The Marmalade's original recording also featured in a major clothing chain worldwide advertisement campaign in 2002 featuring Dennis Hopper and Christina Ricci “The Gap - Two White Shirts (version 2)”, directed by the Coen brothers

Kenny Hughes

Kenneth Hughes has worked with a wide range of recognized names such as Madonna, Meryl Streep, Michael Bay, Christopher Columbus, Tracey Ullman, Julie Taymor, Jim Carrey, the Bee Gees, Robert Zemeckis, Matthew Ralston, Coen Brothers, the ISO dance company, the Diavalo Dance Theater, the Rogue Go-Go Dance Company, Zubin Mehta, Mika Kaurismäki, Amy Brenneman, Val Kilmer and others.

Skip Lievsay

Skip Lievsay is a New York-based supervising sound editor, re-recording mixer and sound designer for film and television, Lievsay has worked with filmmakers and directors including the Coen brothers, Martin Scorsese, Spike Lee, Jonathan Demme and Robert Altman.

Terribly Happy

This film has been compared, in concept, to two films by the Coen brothers: Blood Simple (1985) and No Country for Old Men (2007).

Vinayak Chakravorty

He counts Charles Chaplin, Satyajit Ray, Woody Allen, Krzysztof Kieslowski and the Coen Brothers as directors whose works he loves to watch again and again.

Warren Keith

Among other films, Keith has acted in four films by the Coen brothers; he played an FBI Agent in the Coen brother's film Raising Arizona and the fastidious funeral director in The Big Lebowski.


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