No Country for Old Men

Cormac McCarthy And 11 Other Novelists Who Wrote For The Movies

The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 01.20.2012

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Author Cormac McCarthy's novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, routinely hit the top of the bestseller lists and have been made into Academy Award-winni...

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VIDEOS: Hero Swag: 14 Of Film's Most Stylish Characters

Posted 01.03.2012

Read More: Leroy Wallace, Mia Farrow, Samuel L. Jackson, Chinatown, Glenn Ford, Academy Awards, Malcolm McDowell, Pulp Fiction, No Country for Old Men, Ryan Gosling, Faye Dunaway, Rosemary's Baby, A Clockwork Orange, Movies, Cinema, Video, Rebel WIthout a Cause, Reggae, Wes Anderson, Alain Delon, Fritz Lang, Jayne-Mansfield, The Royal Tenenbaums, James Dean, Tetsuya Watari, Rockers, Drive, Gwyneth Paltrow, Film, Le Samourai, The Girl Can't Help It, Javier Bardem, Foxy Brown, Tokyo Drifter, Pam Grier, The-Big-Heat, Anton Chigurh, Arts News

From the slick noir of Melvillie's Le Samourai to Drive's homage to new wave, style can be just as important to films as narrative itself—sometimes ...

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Major Oscar Winners Making Giant TV Leap

Posted 12.05.2011

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From Zooey Deschanel and Christina Ricci to Dustin Hoffman, Ashton Kutcher and Jeff Daniels, TV has taken in an unusual number of established movie st...

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Coen Brothers' Next Movie Revealed

Posted 11.01.2011

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In 2009, the Coen Brothers' "A Serious Man" introduced audiences to an uptight, uncertain man spiraling through a midlife crisis in 1960s Minnesota. F...

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If All Books Were as Violent as Cormac McCarthy Books

Dave Astor | Posted 10.17.2011

Read More: The Road, Jane Eyre, Beloved, Little Women, Waiting to Exhale, Blood Meridian, Sexism, No Country for Old Men, Violence, Racism, Goodnight Moon, Life of Pi, All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy, Dr. Seuss, U.S.-Mexican Border, Drug Wars, Books News

Yup, it would be quite a literary world if all books contained as much mayhem as Cormac McCarthy novels.

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Most Evil Book Villains: Readers Reveal Their Favorites

Posted 07.18.2011

Read More: Moby Dick, East of Eden, Best Book Villains, Iago, No Country for Old Men, Wuthering Heights, Book Villains, Harry Potter, Frankenstein, Lord Voldemort, American Psycho, Othello, Oliver Twist, Captain Ahab, Books News

Yesterday, Random House (@randomhouse) tweeted, "The #NY rain is making us feel slightly evil, which brings us to ask. Who is your favorite villain in...

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Attention, Oscar Whiners: Get Over It!

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

OK, that's it - I'm officially tuning out all further Academy Award whining, prognosticating, analyzing, deconstructing and every other kind of Oscar ...

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HuffPost Review: Biutiful

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

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With the deeply soulful performance by Javier Bardem in the central role, director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu has created a story that captures the human dilemma at both its most simple and its most complex.

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GUESS WHO?

Posted 05.25.2011

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Javier Bardem is a rock of a handsome man now, but this clip of him as a little kid will melt your heart. Appearing on 'The Tonight Show,' on Wednesd...

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Movie Review: True Grit

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

While both the 1969 and the Coens bothers' remake are relatively faithful to the novel, the Coens more closely captures a sense of rough justice, and that even heroes have feet of clay.

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Interview: Oscar Alumni Joel & Ethan Coen Make A Serious Man No Laughing Matter

Brad Balfour | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Coen brothers had "Jewish technical advisors, helping with language and liturgical stuff" in their movie A Serious Man, as well as "a raft of translators for the Yiddish."

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Are the Oscars Broken?

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

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I have to ask myself: if I were caught up in the bubble and swirl of the Oscars Campaign in Hollywood, would I actually find it rather thrilling? Or would I want to gag even more?

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In the tank for Scorsese?

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jeffrey Wells, Pret a Porter, Martin Scorsese, O Brother Where Art Thou, No Country for Old Men, Kundun, Gosford Park, Coen Brothers, Hollywood Elsewhere, Marshall Fine Blog, Intolerable Cruelty, The Players, Fargo, Shutter Island, Nashville, Cookie?S Fortune, Blood Simple, New York Times, Robert Altman, Goodfellas, Burn After Reading, A.O. Scott, A Serious Man, Casino, Bringing Out the Dead, Popeye, Entertainment News

My friend Jeffrey Wells recently ran a link to my review of Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island, which I really liked, on his always interesting website,...

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The Golden Globes a Disappointment: Gervais was Mixed and Lots of Winners Weren't Prepared

Michael Russnow | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Golden Globe awards are often the best of the awards shows, because they're more freewheeling and it appears no one really takes them seriously.

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Miriam Helmick, Delta Woman, May Have Been Inspired By "No Country For For Old Men" In Alleged Murder Attempt

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Grand Junction Murder, Grand Junction, Scott Lee Kimball, Slideshow, Javier Bardem, Miriam Helmick, No Country for Old Men, Denver News

The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel quoted the Mesa County Sheriff's office Monday in reporting that a recent attempted murder in Delta may have been in...

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The Film of Cormac McCarthy's 'The Road' Is About To Open, So I Read the Book. I'm Still Shaking.

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 05.25.2011

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Opening soon: the movie made from the novel of The Road. I saw the preview and was impressed, so I picked up the book. And, to my surprise, it knocked me out.

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The Right Country for Old Men

Dan Dorfman | Posted 05.25.2011

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The last time I caught up with our octogenarian was in the summer of 2007. At the time, Russell made what I thought was a remarkable call, telling me he thought there was a good chance "all hell could break loose."

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Cormac McCarthy's Typewriter Goes To Auction

The New York Times | PATRICIA COHEN | Posted 05.25.2011

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Cormac McCarthy has written more than a dozen novels, several screenplays, two plays, two short stories, countless drafts, letters and more -- and nea...

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The Coen Brothers Get "Serious" with a Comic (and Spiritual) Masterpiece

Cathleen Falsani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Toronto Film Festival, The Coen Brothers, Doubt, Hudsucker Proxy, Miller's Crossing, Suffering, No Country for Old Men, Fargo, Fred Melamed, Joel Coen, Faith, A Serious Man, Ethan Coen, The Big Lebowski, Entertainment News

The Coens have created moral universes in which some of life's essential questions are asked -- if not always answered. It seems there's no question the brothers are afraid to tackle.

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The Coen Brothers' Mean Streak

Mike Miley | Posted 05.25.2011

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The characters in Burn After Reading are short on both brains and good intentions, and the film offers them no sympathy or redemption.

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Tommy Lee Jones Seeks $10M In "No Country For Old Men" Lawsuit

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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SAN ANTONIO (AP) _ Tommy Lee Jones is suing the makers of "No Country for Old Men" for more than $10 million that the Oscar-winning actor claims he is...

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ABC Omits Gay Thank You In Transcript Of "No Country" Best Picture Acceptance Speech

Queerty | Posted 05.25.2011

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No Country For Old Men producer Scott Rudin thanked his boyfriend John Barlow while accepting the best picture Oscar last night. The Academy Awards' o...

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Oscar Town: Marfa, Texas?

AP | MICHAEL GRACZYK | Posted 05.25.2011

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MARFA, Texas — A thousand feet above a wind-swept, drought-browned valley, a man steps out of a late-70s Ford Granada on a deserted two-lane. He...

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Coens Win for 'No Country for Old Men'

AP | DAVID GERMAIN | Posted 05.25.2011

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LOS ANGELES — Joel and Ethan Coen won the top prize from the Directors Guild of America on Saturday for "No Country for Old Men," giving them th...

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The Men Of "No Country For Old Men" Discuss Hit Film

AP | Jake Coyle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Josh Brolin, Javier Bardem, Tommy Lee Jones, No Country for Old Men, Entertainment News

The men of "No Country for Old Men" are having a smoke. Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem and Josh Brolin each light up while, all dressed in dark suits...

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