Why haven’t the Coen Brothers worked together for seven years?
“He borrowed the lawnmower, brought it back and never cleaned the blades. This is bullsh*t!” jokes Ethan Coen . Joel and Ethan Coen’s last movie together was the Netflix multi-story feature, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, which for the latter was an epic project to shoot up there with the scope of True Grit and No Country for Old Men.
Actually, life is what happens when two brothers are making their own projects, separately. Actually, Ethan Coen nearly retired from the craft while Joel Coen continued on making movies like The Tragedy of Macbeth starring Denzel Washington. However, Ethan was then pulled back into filmmaking by his spouse and longtime Coen editor Tricia Cooke with the documentary Jerry Lee Lewis: