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Stage-trained character lead often cast as upstanding if somewhat green characters on TV, and as varying degrees of sleazeballs in films, Getz began acting while attending the University of Iowa.

Character Minnesota's most famous filmmaking brothers have delighted and confused America with movies from Blood Simple to their latest A Serious Man .

"Fargo" vs. "Miller's Crossing"? "No Country" vs. "Lebowski"? We put the film geek question to a panel of our faves Compiled by Jed Lipinski Frances McDormand in "Fargo," and Jeff Bridges in "The Big Lebowski" Oct.

This Friday, the Coen brothers latest film A Serious Man opens in Seattle. The Coens have spent twenty-five years building up one of cinema's finest resumes, growing a cult following between critics and fans alike.

MINNEAPOLIS - Since their debut with "Blood Simple" in 1984, Oscar winners Joel and Ethan Coen have created an innovative, iconoclastic, idiosyncratic body of work that reflects their unique sensibilities.

With director, co-writer and brother Joel, writer-producer Ethan Coen was part of the most celebrated brother act in recent entertainment memory.

When the Walker Art Center asked me to identify my favorite Coen brothers movie, it turned out to be a much harder question than it should have been.

For anyone who didn't catch its local premiere run at the Cooper Theatre in 1985, or in revival since, the Coen Brothers' indie-noir debut smash is an artsploitation gore-fest set in a desolate Texas everytown, where a cuckolded bar-owner husband hires a sleazy, Stetsoned private eye to disappear his wife and her lover .

If you think your life is tough, just be grateful Oscar-winning directors Joel and Ethan Coen aren't the masters of your personal universe.

Joel and Ethan Coen on the set of A Serious Man, 2209. Photo: Wilson Webb. MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- The Walker Art Center celebrates the 50th Regis Dialogue and Retrospective with Joel and Ethan Coen: Raising Cain, from September 18-October 17.

It was a while ago when we heard that the superb Blood Simple was being remade, and remade in China, now there's some more information revealed about the film as well as a surprise about the backing, proving that this is going to be something more than a quick release.

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The revolution has begun. After years of American directors poaching from Asian works, and years of lesser known Asian productions blatantly copyright infringing American films , a Chinese director is remaking an American horror film.

It was a while ago when we heard that the superb Blood Simple was being remade, and remade in China, now there's some more information revealed about the film as well as a surprise about the backing, proving that this is going to be something more than a quick release.

As the good-natured, but sharp-minded sheriff on the trail of two murderers in her breakout film, "Fargo" , actress Frances McDormand made a significant mark as an actress, playing one of the more unique, homespun.... As the good-natured, but sharp-minded sheriff on the trail of two murderers in her breakout film, "Fargo" , actress Frances ...

Whether you're a longtime Austinite with many years of "it was much cooler back in the day" to speak of, or you've just moved here to join the beardeoisie , you probably have some film school friends who love the Coen brothers.