Joel Coen and Ethan Coen

Joel Coen was born in 1954 and Ethan in 1957 in St. Louis Park, in the suburbs of Minneapolis, to a father who was a professor of economics and a mother who was an art historian. As children, they made films on Super 8. Joel studied film at New York University and became an assistant editor on low-budget horror films; Ethan left Princeton in 1979 with a philosophy thesis. They write together, financed their first film by approaching private investors, mostly in Minnesota, and shot it in Texas. The credits long gave direction to the elder brother and production to the younger.

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• CinemaMiller's CrossingJoel Coen and Ethan Coen · 1990Cinema