Articles tagged "cormac mccarthy"

Featured: Front Page Feature

Hitting ‘The Road’ with Director John Hillcoat

by Matt Mazur

[23.Nov.09] :. Director John Hillcoat talks to PopMatters about the hazards of being intimidated by legends, the funny side of cannibalism and Viggo Mortensen's sweet tooth as his adaptation of the seminal apocalyptic novel The Road hits theaters.

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The Road dir. John Hillcoat (trailer)

by Eleanore Catolico

[23.Sep.09] :. An adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Road will be released on October 16th in theaters. The film stars Viggo Mortenson, Robert Duvall, Charlize Theron,...

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Column: Field Studies

Blood Meridian: The Last of the True

by Andrew Gilstrap

[8.Jun.09] :. Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian has been called unfilmable, but that doesn't stop Ben Nichols from getting ahead of the game and crafting a worthy soundtrack.

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Books Review

Nobody Move by Denis Johnson

by Christopher Guerin

[29.May.09] :. About to get his knees broken, Jimmy grabs Gambol’s gun and shoots him in the leg when, of course, he should have shot him in the head.

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Books Review

No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

by Michael Patrick Brady

[11.Jan.08] :. Though the novel and film versions of McCarthy's story share the same long, desolate stretch of road, they provide differing ways of encountering and interpreting the signs along the way.

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The Road by Cormac McCarthy

by Chris Barsanti

[18.Sep.06] :. McCarthy takes a style that's always had a tilt towards the gothic and gives it free reign as he follows a father and son diligently struggling across a blasted and dead countryside that seems to have once been America.