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Articles tagged "no country for old men" Column: Field StudiesBlood Meridian: The Last of the Trueby 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.  NewsJavier Bardem, living the impossible lifeby Stephen Becker [The Dallas Morning News (MCT)][15.Aug.08] :. On film, Javier Bardem is a direct guy. In his Oscar-winning turn in “No Country for Old Men,” he shows no hesitation in shooting people in the head with a cattle gun. And in Woody...  NewsHow to play at being a villain: Bardem, Ledger reignite media interest in craft of actingby Joe Williams [St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MCT)][14.Aug.08] :. The verdict is nearly unanimous: As the Joker in “The Dark Knight,” Heath Ledger gives a great performance. But what exactly does that mean? As we watch a movie, the mysterious alchemy...  News‘No Country for Old Men’ wins best picture, director Oscarsby Rene Rodriguez [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)][25.Feb.08] :. “No Country For Old Men,” the adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s novel that uses a botched drug deal as a metaphor for the fateful consequences to a society that forgets the value of a...  NewsThere will be confusion: Deliberately vague films leave critic coldby Christopher Kelly [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)][24.Feb.08] :. Walking out of a press screening of Paul Thomas Anderson’s “There Will Be Blood” in early November, I turned to a fellow critic in the hopes that he might explain a plot point that...  NewsJoel and Ethan Coen’s ‘No Country for Old Men’ is favored for the Oscarby John Anderson [Newsday (MCT)][22.Feb.08] :. LOS ANGELES - On a Sunday night this past January, as the filmmaking brothers Ethan and Joel Coen were picking up one of several New York Film Critics Circle Awards for “No Country for Old... No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthyby 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. A Gallery of Good Works: The Best Films of 2007by PopMatters Staff[11.Jan.08] :. From Julian Schnabel's artsy The Diving Bell and the Butterfly to the legendary Coen Brothers splendid adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men, PopMatters counts down the 30 best films of 2007. Performance Art: The Best Acting of 2007 - Maleby PopMatters Staff[9.Jan.08] :. From the tender and eerie precision of Sam Riley's depiction of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis in Control to yet another superlative performance by Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood, PopMatters highlights the best male actors of 2007. Sex and violence are not always gratuitous, directors sayby Duane Dudek [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (MCT)][12.Nov.07] :. What has more sex and violence than an episode of “The Jerry Springer Show”? The multiplex. You can pass through any neighborhood in America and not know what goes on behind the closed... Q&A with ‘No Country for Old Men’ makers Joel and Ethan Coenby Colin Covert [Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT)][9.Nov.07] :. Joel and Ethan Coen are in almost constant motion. Three days after completing photography in New York City on their upcoming spy comedy “Burn After Reading,” in the lull before beginning... PopMatters PickFilm ReviewNo Country for Old Menby Cynthia Fuchs[9.Nov.07] :. The desolate landscape and moral layout evoke old Westerns, but the film, based on Cormac McCarthy's novel, also reconsiders the genre's conventions, comparing now and "the old times." |
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