Joel David Coen and Ethan Jesse Coen, known informally as the Coen Brothers, are American film directors, screenwriters, producers, and editors. They have directed over 15 films together that are often characterized as being "genre-bending", having covered many genres, including comedy, crime, the Western, horror, thriller, gangster, drama, romance, adventure and features of neo-noir. Their films include Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, No Country for Old Men, Burn After Reading, A Serious Man, True Grit, and Inside Llewyn Davis . The brothers write, direct, and produce their films jointly, although until The Ladykillers, Joel received sole credit for directing and Ethan for producing. They often …show more content…
and police officer Ed, who long for a baby but are unable to conceive. When a local furniture tycoon appears on television with his newly born quintuplets and jokes that they "are more than we can handle", H.I. steals one of the quintuplets to bring up as their own. The film featured Frances McDormand, John Goodman, William Forsythe, Sam McMurray, and Randall "Tex" Cobb. Miller's Crossing, released in 1990, starred Albert Finney, Gabriel Byrne, and John Turturro. The film is about feuding gangsters in the Prohibition era, inspired by Dashiell Hammett's novels Red Harvest and The Glass Key. The following year, they released Barton Fink; set in 1941, in which a New York playwright moves to Los Angeles to write a B-movie. He settles down in his hotel room to commence writing but suffers writer's block until the man next door invades him. Barton Fink was a critical success, earning Oscar nominations and winning three major awards at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival, including the Palme d'Or. It was their first film with cinematographer Roger Deakins, a key collaborator for the next 15
In the film industry, there are directors who merely take someone else’s vision and express it in their own way on film, then there are those who take their own visions and use any means necessary to express their visions on film. The latter of these two types of directors are called auteurs. Not only do auteurs write the scripts from elements that they know and love in life, but they direct, produce, and sometimes act in their films as well. Three prime examples of these auteurs are: Kevin Smith, Spike Lee and Alfred Hitchcock.
The director of this movie is the famous Nicholas Hytner. He has directed many other movies including films like Don Carlo and Center Stage. He had help from a very important writer Arthur Miller. He has written many other works that include Death of a Salesman and Broken Glass. They worked very well together or else this
“With a movie of this scale…it’s double the power.” Van Camp says their differences and similarities as directors: “to sort of keep this huge engine moving, it really helps to have two people, and they are both brilliant and extraordinary in their own way… it’s a win-win all around."
A Few Good Men. Dir. Rob Reiner. Perf. Jack Nicholson, Tom Cruise, and Demi Moore. Columbia Pictures, 1992. Film.
All lives revolve around decisions and instances from ones past. In A River Runs Through It (1992), director Robert Redford uses this idea and applies it to a true story of two brothers from Montana, Norman and Paul Maclean (Craig Sheffer and Brad Pitt, respectively). Based on the autobiographical novel by Norman Maclean himself, River uses Maclean’s metaphysical beliefs about life and nature to present its many themes. Using a longing score, various film devices, and a story line involving themes of youth, loss, and the pitfalls of pride, Robert Redford crafts a film about the beauty of the past.
...rokaw, Rosanne Cash, Wally Lamb, James Mcbride, Anna Quinden, Richard Russo, Scott Turrow, Oprah Winfrey, and Andrew Young. FirstRun Features, 2011. Film.
A League of Their Own. Dir. Penny Marshall. Perf. Tom Hanks, Geena Davis, Rosie O'Donnell, Madonna, Lori Petty. Columbia Pictures, 1992. DVD.
Stanley Kubrick's The Shining. Dir. Stanley Kubrick. Perf. Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, and Danny Lloyd. Warner Home Video, 1980. DVD.
The movie was directed by Steven Spielberg. One of the main producers was Quincy Jones. Quincy Jones was a producer, and he was the musician for the movie. Steven Spielberg was the main producer and the director. The production company was Amblin Entertainment. It was distributed by Warner Bros. The pictures were Edited by Allen Daviau. The release date was December 18, 1985. The running time is 154min or 2 hours and 34 min. The budget was $15million. The box office made $142 million. Also the screenplay was by Menno
The auteur theory states suggest that a film that is the best of the maker, will bear his certain signature and it will display elements that reoccur in more than one film of that specific director.
Valenti, F. Miguel., Les Brown, and Laurie Trotta. More than a Movie: Ethics in Entertainment.
African American representation in the film industry has always been a topic for discussion. Whether talking about character types and roles, the actors being cast or not cast, and the lack of diversity in front of and behind the camera. ‘The contemporary status of race in mainstream American culture is intimately bound to the process of representation within and through the mass media.’ (Rocchio, 2000, p. 4). Any role that was to be played by an African American kept in with the dominant stereotypes of the time of production; incompetent, child like, hyper-sexualised or criminal.
Think about your favorite movie. When watching that movie, was there anything about the style of the movie that makes it your favorite? Have you ever thought about why that movie is just so darn good? The answer is because of the the Auteur. An Auteur is the artists behind the movie. They have and individual style and control over all elements of production, which make their movies exclusively unique. If you could put a finger on who the director of a movie is without even seeing the whole film, then the person that made the movie is most likely an auteur director. They have a unique stamp on each of their movies. This essay will be covering Martin Scorsese, you will soon find out that he is one of the best auteur directors in the film industry. This paper will include, but is not limited to two of his movies, Good Fellas, and The Wolf of Wall Street. We will also cover the details on what makes Martin Scorsese's movies unique, such as the common themes, recurring motifs, and filming practices found in their work. Then on
Baron, F., Brown, M., & Luhrmann, B. (Producers). Luhrmann, B (Director). (2001). Moulin Rouge. United States of America: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment.
Postmodern film directors such as Ridley Scott, Woody Allen, Quentin Tarantino, The Coen Brothers, David Lynch, Christopher Nolan and others, make films that are often highly original, by reproducing the very popular mood of anxiety, fear, uncertainty and cynicism that reflects in the general society.