Joel And Ethan CoenChaos of the Criminal MindJoel Coen is credited as the director, just like Ethan is credited as the producer. But in reality, they both do double duty on everything. And that inc...

Joel And Ethan CoenBased on a Mostly Not True StoryIn creative writing classes, professors always give you the advice, "Write what you know." And, even though their subject matter can be pretty far...

Ethan Coen/Polygram Filmed Entertainment, Working Title FilmsBad as They Wanna BeThe Coens didn't only write and direct Fargo; they also produced it.* Yep, we've got ourselves a triple threat....

Capture the Stillness When the Coens were making Fargo, they wanted to go for a really authentic look. The film was shot on location in the Twin Cities area, on film (35 mm—digital wasn't a big t...

Norwegian Mystery Carter Burwell, who composed the music for many other Coen Bros. films, wrote the score for Fargo. In particular, his soundtrack features a recurring motif from a Norwegian folk s...

The Coen Brothers have a huge following: they're indie, idiosyncratic (there's that word again) filmmakers that became big enough to transcend being "cult" directors. They're like Quentin Tarantino...