Check this out. An awesome 3 minute montage of iconic Coen moments.

Thanks to Stephen Glitheroe for the tip off.

Jesus Quintanta/Bernie Bernbaum/Barton Fink himself, John Turturro, has, as I’m sure you’re aware by now, directed his third movie, Romance & Cigarettes which is executive produced by the Coen brothers. You can read an interview he did at the NFT in London at the link on the right. There are a few mentions of the Coen brothers, such as the fact that it was their idea for Turturro to cast James Gandolfini in the movie..

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You know how sometimes you’re sent a link which leads to another link, then another and another? Well, I happened across the website of photographer, Kevin Westenberg in this manner. Imagine my surprise then when I found that he had photographed the Coen brothers. Hopefully he won’t mind me sticking the piccies up here for you guys to see… IMAGE ONE IMAGE TWO There’s also one of Joel’s wife Frances McDormand.

A slow, slow news time so I thought I’d mention that in, yet another, poll in Empire magazine, this time “the 200 things that rocked Empire’s world” in it’s 16 year (200 issue) life, the Coen brothers made it in at the dizzying height of number 7!

Anyone reading this on a Mac might be interested to know that an artist by the name of Aurélien Le Roux has created sytlised icons of movie directors in what he calls his Masters of Cinema series. Part 4 of said series contains the Coen brothers. I don’t have a Mac so I can’t use them but for those who can follow the link on the right. If, like me you have only a PC here’s the Coen icon…

Thanks to “finishdish” for the nod – InterfaceLIFT

Did you ever wonder what it would be like to work for the Coen brothers? Well, now you can find out! I have posted up an article written by one Alex Belth who served as Assistant Editior on The Big Lebowski for one whole year. He wrote the article, originally for Projections #8, but has kindly allowed me to add it to You Know, For Kids! You can read it by following the link below. Enjoy.

Strikes and Gutters: A Year With the Coen Brothers

I’m a bit late on this one but I only found out today (thanks Joseph), but the Coen brothers made an appearance at the Soho Apple Store in New York on Tuesday 10th May (yeah, I know) to discuss their usage of Apple’s Final Cut Pro to edit both Intolerable Cruelty and The Ladykillers. You can also read a great article about the Coen brother’s use of said software HERE and see a (dodgy) photo from the event HERE. Thanks to Joseph Kinney for the heads-up.

The Big Lebowski Collector’s/Special Edition DVD now has a release date- 18th October for the Region 1 version. It is set to be sold in seperate widescreen and fullscreen (pan and scan) versions, with the widescreen version also available as some kind of “giftbox”. I don’t know if this is a box set of Coen movies or a box set particular to Lebowski. I’m hoping the latter… more as I get it.

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