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Written and Directed by Joel and Ethan Coen...
...surface, this looks like The Ransom of Red Chief in one more modern movie variation. A couple of emotional nomads pull off a kidnaping, then work like thumb-tied demons to return the booty. But even the surface of a Coen brothers picture looks unlike any other. These two young guys from Minneapolis -- Joel, 32, who directs and writes, and Ethan, 29, who writes and produces -- proved with their debut film, the gory melodrama Blood Simple, that they are shrewd filmmakers who can give a skewed spin to a hoary genre. Compared with their new effort, though, Blood Simple...
...from Dashiell Hammett) works terse, elegant variations on a theme as old as the Fall; it subverts the film noir genre in order to revitalize it; it offers the satisfactions and surprises of a conniving visual style. Most important, it displays the whirligig wit of two young men--Joel Coen, 30, a graduate of New York University film school, and his brother Ethan, 27--in a debut film as scarifyingly assured as any since Orson Welles was just this wide...
...President Reagan is calling on scientists to develop technological marvels for defense at the same time he is slashing Government programs that help future scientists further their studies. Scientific advancement never occurs magically. It is a product of education, a fact the President ignores. Mark V. Boennighausen John J. Coen University of Notre Dame Notre Dame...
Photography posed its own special problems. The flying stork-steed that appears on page 53, designed by Artist Mari Kaestle in foam rubber and feathers, was attached to an especially sturdy metal stand so pregnant Model Lori Coen could perch in perfect security. As for the cover image itself, after gallantly twirling and bouncing through two studio sessions, Jaclyn Smith warned Photographer Raúl Vega-facetiously, of course...