Coen Brothers

Joel and Ethan Coen represent a Baby Boom generation of film directors who know their film history and love to revisit older genres such as film noir in movies including "Blood Simple" (1984). Collaborating on the script, direction and editing for all their films, the Coen Brothers have a great creative partnership. Their cinematic sensibility tends to be darkly comic, but they also can be outright silly in such films as "Raising Arizona" (1987). In this podcast episode, HCC film professors Marie Westhaver and Mike Giuliano discuss that impressive filmography. Their personal favorites include "Fargo" (1996) and "O Brother Where Art Thou?" (2000).