Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Fun with the Coen Brothers



For the month of January the Art and Music Center is sponsoring the Thursday at Noon Film Series with the theme "Dark Humor for Dark Days: the Movies of the Coen Brothers." This Thurday,  January 14th, "Fargo" will be shown, followed consecutively by "The Big Lebowski," and  "O Brother, Where Art Thou." The Library has a number of books about the Coen Brothers and the movies they've written and directed. SFPL also has some screenplays - in library parlance - called motion picture plays.

Criticism and Interpretation
The brothers Grim : the films of Ethan and Joel Coen / Erica Rowell.
Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2007.

Joel and Ethan Coen / R. Barton Palmer.
Urbana and Chicago : University of Illinois Press, c2004.

The philosophy of the Coen Brothers / edited by Mark T. Conard.
Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c2009.

About individual movies
The big Lebowski : an illustrated, annotated history of the greatest cult film of all time / by Jenny M. Jones.
Minneapolis, MN : Voyageur Press, 2012.

Big Lebowski : the making of a Coen brothers film / edited by Tricia Cooke ; text by William Preston Robertson ; illustrations by John Todd Anderson and Rafael Sañudo.
New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2015]

Screenplays
Blood simple : an original screenplay / by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
New York : St. Martin's Press, 1988.

Fargo / Ethan Coen and Joel Coen.
London : Faber and Faber, 2000.

Inside Llewyn Davis : the screenplay / by Ethan Coen and Joel Coen ; with lyrics and interview with
with T. Bone Burnett ; introduction by music historian Elijah Wald.
New York : Opus, 2014.

Ethan Coen & Joel Coen : collected screenplays / Joel and Ethan Coen
London : Faber and Faber, 2002-
Includes: Blood simple ; Raising Arizona ; Miller's crossing ; Barton Fink

A serious man / Ethan Coen and Joel Coen.
London ; New York : Faber and Faber, 2009

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