- Hardcover: 248 pages
- Publisher: ORION
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0752818147
- ISBN-13: 978-0752818146
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16.4 x 3.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 621 g
- Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #898,939 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Wasted Writing Effort and a Waste of Your Time,
By Dwayne Burball (Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Coen Brothers (Paperback)
The author of this book obviously feels he's as witty as the Coens. I hate to break it to him, but he's not. To make up for underachievement in this area, he fills the book with unneeded "editorial" comments on the films themselves. Why does the author feel he needs to criticize Jon Polito's performance in Miller's Crossing, and why does he think we'd care? It simply feels the author is stretching for lack of material, since he probably didn't get much cooperation from the filmmakers themselves. I attempted to make it through the entire book but kept putting it down out of frustration with the author. Don't waste your time with this one.
3.0 out of 5 stars
What can one say?,
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This review is from: Coen Brothers (Paperback)
This book is supposed to be the first authorized biography about the Coens, but to be completely honest it's not much of a biography. The book reads more like a review of the Coens and each of their films. Much of the biographical information is interesting just for the simple fact that the brothers are so elusive that anything regarding their past and how they first funded their films is a gem not to be discarded. However, most of the book is divided into chapters that review and critique each of the Coen's films. Now, I didn't mind this, but a biography is not a collection of film reviews. It seems to me that the author (though possibly a fan) just didn't feel like writing this book especially since the brothers seemed so reluctant that he was writing it. Or true to Coen style, maybe that's how they intended the book to turn out (either knowingly or unknowingly to the author). Overall, an interesting, but slow read worth the time if your a film buff.
1.0 out of 5 stars
A shameless pilferage of a much superior book!,
By Happy Walter "daycare provider" (Sacramento, CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Coen Brothers (Paperback)
This volume is nothing more than an excercise in contract fulfillment on the part of a desperate author. The subjects of the work clearly did not participate. And for anyone who has read the much superior book on the Coens by William Preston Robertson, "The Big Lebowski: The Making of a Coen Brothers Film," Bergan liberally draws from Robertson's work without crediting the source! It's not plagarism outright, since Bergan "paraphrases" what he lifts, but it is certainly bush league for an author of Bergan's apparent stature. As one small example, Bergan's chronology of the Coen's teenage film efforts whilst growing up in Minnesota is a tedious, blow-by-blow (uncredited) retelling of Robertson's account that utterly lacks the humor and verve of Robertson's writing, and seems to take at face value Robertson's obvious exaggeration and irony! Don't waste your time or money with this one. Go to the original source, which is funny and insightful and features something this book does not: numerous interviews with the Coens.
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