These What Happens When Kafka, Busby Berkeley, and Kenny Rogers Meet in a Bowling Alley “Trying to imagine what a pothead who was slipped a Mickey Finn would dream about, what form it would take, that gave us freedom to do just about ...
In their foreword to this new edition, the authors reflect on Lebowski's cult status and its contemporary resonances as a film about gentle non-conformity and friendship in an increasingly polarized world.
Dean Martin's drunk was called the Dude in Rio Bravo (1959) and Lee Marvin spits the term at Jimmy Stewart throughout The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962). Such regrettable associations reached as far as Hull and Philip Larkin's The ...
34 Stephen Hunter, 'Kill Me Again: The Rise of Nouveau Noir', in Ed Gorman, Martin H. Greenberg and Lee Server (eds), The Big Book of Noir (Carroll and Graf, 1998), p. 143. 35 Raymond Borde and Étienne Chaumeton, A Panorama of American ...
The Big Lebowski begins with a case of mistaken identity which escalates when Jeffrey Lebowski - alias The Dude - attempts to seek recompense for the despoilation of his ratty-ass little rug, and then finds himself entangled in a kidnapping ...
The Big Lebowski
If your answer is instead, “I watch The Big Lebowski,� then this book is for you.
A firsthand account of how this extraordinary cult movie was made by the Oscar-winning Coen brothers.
Now, in a prose style that complements the Coens' filmic one, this book dissects the brothers' latest endeavor, "The Big Lebowski", to reveal how the movie goes from idea to reality, offering a discussion of the Coens' themes, atypical ...
In all, these essays are an essential companion for one of the greatest films ever made, in the parlance of our times.