Coen Brothers Film Festival at American Center, 24, Kasturba Gandhi Marg > 11th, 12th & 13th December 2014

Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)

Please carry a valid original photo identity card

Venue : American Center, 24, Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi - 110001

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Area : Kasturba Gandhi Marg Event

Event Description : The Embassy of the United States of America, in collaboration with Cinedarbaar is celebrating "Coen Brothers Film Festival".

The festival will be showcasing the finest works of director-producer duo Ethan Coen and Joel Coen , the most visionary and idiosyncratic filmmakers of the late 20th century.

From their Oscar winning “Fargo” to critically acclaimed "Barton Fink", the box office winners "Raising Arizona" and “Inside Llewyn Davis” to the classic "The Big Lebowski" are among the few movies that will be screened in the festival. The Coen brothers are known to be specific to particular regions and communities, Raising Arizona, a comedy cult classic; it paints a very particular picture of the inhabitants of the American South-West. The Big Lebowski (1998) gains much of its absurdist comedy from its depiction of the very absurd Los Angeles community.
The three day festival is an accolade to Ethan and Joel Coen for their remarkable contribution to cinema over the decade and their unique perspective of realms of various genres, adopting appropriate methods of realization to reflect these representational frameworks. The dialogue in their films is a prominent factor in the organization and maintenance of these generic constructions and in the fulfilment of specific stylistic strategies. The Coens have been drawn to two seemingly irresolvable modes of expression: ethnographic regionalism and artificial fabrication. It is between these two extremes that the remainder of their films can be mapped.

The interactive sessions after each screening will discuss about direction aesthetics and thematic of the movies. Working with his brother Ethan, screenwriter/director Joel Coen has specialty of combining thoughtful eccentricity, wry humor, arch irony, and often brutal violence, the films of the Coen brothers have become synonymous with a style of filmmaking that pays tribute to classic American movie genres -- especially film noir -- while sustaining a firmly postmodern feel. Beginning with Blood Simple, their brutal, stylish 1984 debut, the brothers have amassed a body of work that has established them as two of the most compelling figures in American and world cinemas.
Along with the interactive sessions, quizzes will also be held and winners take home American Center goodies. The entry to the festival is free and open for general public. Please carry an original valid photo ID to enter the American Center.

Schedule : 
December 11, 2014
06:00 pm

Raising Arizona (1987), 94 Min
When a childless couple of an ex-con and an ex-cop decide to help themselves to one of another family's quintupelets, their lives get more complicated than they anticipated.


December 12, 2014
03:00 pm
Barton Fink. (1991), 116 Min
A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.

06:00 pm
Fargo. (1996), 98 Min
Jerry Lundegaard's inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen's bungling and the persistent police work of the quite pregnant Marge Gunderson.

December 13, 2014
12:00 pm
The Big Lebowski. (1998), 117 Min
"The Dude" Lebowski, mistaken for a millionaire Lebowski, seeks restitution for his ruined rug and enlists his bowling buddies to help get it.

3:00 pm
No Country for Old Men. (2007),  122 Min
Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon a drug deal gone wrong and more than two million dollars in cash near the Rio Grande.

06:00 pm
Inside Llewyn Davis. (2013), 104 Min
A week in the life of a young singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961.

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