This collection of their most important interviews spans twenty years and is the most comprehensive yet published on the film-making brothers Working entirely outside the studio system, the Coen brothers scored an unlikely first success in 1984 with their postmodern noir film Blood Simple. Two decades and nearly a dozen movies later, the Coens are now among the best-known writer/directors in Hollywood. This collection of their most important interviews spans twenty years and is the most comprehensive published on the brothers. Introduction ix Chronology xxv Filmography xxvii Bloodlines 3(14) Hal Hinson Invasion of the Baby Snatchers 17(8) David Edelstein Interview with Joel and Ethan Coen 25(11) Michel Ciment Hubert Niogret Shot by Shot 36(5) Steven Levy A Hat Blown by the Wind 41(5) Jean-Pierre Coursodon A Rock on the Beach 46(9) Michel Ciment Hubert Niogret That Barton Fink Feeling: An Interview with the Brothers Coen 55(7) Jim Emerson Inside the Coen Heads 62(10) Tad Friend Closer to Life than the Conventions of Cinema 72(9) Michel Ciment Hubert Niogret This Is a True Story 81(3) David Bennun Making It Clear: The Coen Brothers 84(3) Gary Susman The Coens Speak (Reluctantly) 87(3) Doug Stone Coen Job 90(3) Ray Pride The Brothers Grim 93(7) Andy Lowe The Logic of Soft Drugs 100(9) Michel Ciment Hubert Niogret Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, and The Big Lebowski 109(4) Karen Jaehne The Coen Brothers 113(6) David Bennun Gates of Ethan 119(8) Nicholas Patterson Double Vision 127(6) Jonathan Romney Brothers in Arms 133(4) Jim Ridlfy Joel and Ethan Coen 137(5) Nathan Rabin Filmmaker Ethan Coen 142(7) Terry Gross Pictures That Do the Talking 149(11) Andrew Pulver Joel and Ethan Coen 160(3) Gerald Peary Joel and Ethan Coen 163(25) Kristine McKenna Interview with Joel Coen 188(6) Smriti Mundhra Stealing the Show: Tom Hanks and the Coen Brothers Gang Up to Remake The Ladykillers 194(5) Dixie Reid My Father Lived in Croydon 199(4) Peter Bradshaw Index 203