Joel & Ethan Coen Blood Siblings by Paul A. Woods

Joel & Ethan Coen Blood Siblings

Edited by Paul A. Woods

Plexis Publishing, 2000
First edition, first printing
Black and white photographs throughout
Paperback

Condition: Very Good
a little edge and shelf wear with a little rubbing and bumping to edges, corners and covers (see photographs)

“After their 1985 film debut with Blood Simple, the chilling Texan film noir, few spectators were sure whether the Coen brothers were playing it straight or with tongue-in-cheek.  When they followed it in 1987 with Raising Arizona, the bizarre white trash comedy starring Nicolas Cage and Holly Huter, the critic thought they had them pegged: black humourists with an eye for the cinematic set-piece.
Since then, five more distinctive absurdist features have followed: gangster-film noir epic Miller’s Crossing, starring Gabriel Byrne and Albert Finney: Boston Fink, a macabre black comedy set in 1940s Hollywood, with Coen regulars John Turturro and John Goodman: The Hudsucker Proxy, a commercially-disastrous ‘screwball comedy’ with Tim Robbins and Paul Newman; the Oscar-winning Midwestern noir Fargo, featuring stand-out performances from Fraces McDormand and Steve Buscemi; lowlife-comedy-noir hybrid The Big Lebowski, with Jeff Bridges.  All have served to confound admirers and critics alike.”