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National Board of Review Awards 2009
18 hours ago | Alternative Film Guide | See recent Alternative Film Guide news »
2009 National Board of Review Awards 2009 National Board of Review Award winners: Dec. 3, 2009 The winners of the National Board of Review awards will be announced tomorrow, Dec. 3. It’s really hard to predict who or what will win, as the Nbr has gone both very mainstream (Finding Neverland) and somewhat offbeat (Letters from Iwo Jima) in the recent past, but it’s worth noting that in the last 10 years, nine of the winning best pictures have gone on to get an Academy Award nomination in that category; of these, three won Oscars (Slumdog Millionaire, No Country for Old Men, American Beauty). Also, last year, three of the Nbr’s four acting winners went on to earn Oscar nods: Anne [...] »
- Michelle Hutton
Win Cormac McCarthy's Typewriter
2 December 2009 7:22 AM, PST | Pastemagazine.com | See recent PasteMagazine news »
Cormac McCarthy has a charmingly old-school method for penning his Putlitzer Prize-winning work, considering the ever-more-digital age in which it’s published. It all happens on a rickety, old Olivetti typewriter, one that he bought in the fall of 1958 for $50 at a pawnshop in Knoxville, Tenn. That’s right, No Country For Old Men, The Road, Blood Meridian, All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing were all clacked out like gunshots on the very same machine.... »
This Week In DVD: December 1st
1 December 2009 2:15 PM, PST | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
Rob Hunter loves movies. He also loves working as a documentary filmmaker who follows Asian girls around to document their love lives. These two joys come together in the form of cash money payments that he receives every week and immediately uses to buy more DVDs. So join us each week as he takes a look at new DVD releases and gives his highly unqualified opinion as to which titles are worth BUYing, which are better off as RENTals, and which should be AVOIDed at all costs. Click on any of the titles below to magically head over to Amazon.com and pick up the DVD. And don't forget to check out Neil Miller's hilariously titled This Week In Blu-ray column for reviews on the latest high definition Blu-ray releases! Best Laid Plans Pitch: Reese Witherspoon and Josh Brolin discover the true definition of the term 'blood money'... Why Buy? This »
- Rob Hunter
Coloring Outside the Lines
1 December 2009 7:18 AM, PST | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »
Sometimes, there's no pleasing critics and cinephiles -- they'll dreamily wish someone like Turkish arthouse force Nuri Bilge Ceylan would break his introspective paradigm and make a genre film, and then when he does, kinda, with "Three Monkeys," everyone compliments it tamely with canned praise. "Suspenseful!" was a common pullquote, though "pulpy" was a term I didn't expect to see but did, in the New York Times.
Pulpy? Ceylan's movie is as elliptical and internalized and visually elusive as anything by Hou, but it's as if actually having a story to tell automatically takes you down a notch or two. And the flavor of the tale defines what the film is for most critics, living as we do in a world still oversaturated in the aura of noir.
The trap of having a film about crime and fate labeled "neo-noir" may well be inescapable, even if the story per se »
- Michael Atkinson
'The Road' - We interview Viggo Mortensen.
30 November 2009 10:09 PM, PST | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »
A good father in a dangerous world. Viggo Mortensen on finding hope in ‘The Road.’ An admirer. That's how actor Viggo Mortensen describes his feelings about “The Road” author Cormac McCarthy. Some actors focus solely on their performances and let the filmmakers worry about script adaptations and whether original authors will be happy with the resulting films. Mortensen, an accomplished writer and photographer as well as an actor, is different. The 51-year-old New York City native wants director John Hillcoat’s adaptation of “The Road” and his lead performance in it to be something McCarthy will celebrate. For Mortensen, it’s about one writer respecting the work of another. “I had read everything Cormac had written including “No Country for Old Men”,” Mortensen says, speaking earlier this fall at the Toronto International Film Festival. “I put off The Road. I was just being stubborn. I knew I would get around »
Why I love the world's worst film critic | Stuart McGurk
30 November 2009 6:32 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
With a calling card of 'celluloid excrement' – which he's applied to films from The Road to Fantastic Mr Fox and Watchmen – Fiore Mastracci is a critic so dreadful he's bordering on genius
A confession: I'm obsessed with a film critic. His name is Fiore Mastracci, and he's the worst film critic in the world. You know how some people are so bad they're good? Not Fiore. He's so bad, he's flipped all the way around, bypassed good, gone into bad again, come out the other end and dipped into genius.
He used to be my little secret. But no longer. His latest brilliant (ie awful) review – about Cormac McCarthy adaptation The Road – has hit the Twitterverse. He calls it "excrement on celluloid". He lambasts child actor Kodi Smit-McPhee for having a double-barrelled surname ("Why? Because we were going to be confused by all the other Kodi McPhees in Tinsel Town? »
Josh Brolin to Eliminate Mexican 'Cartel'
30 November 2009 1:32 AM, PST | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
Ghosts of Cité Soleil's Asger Leth can count his lucky charms. He has had the fortune of having only one directing nod to his credit with the docu film and landing a major Hollywood production, but has managed to grab a top tier acting talent, not once - but twice. - Ghosts of Cité Soleil's Asger Leth can count his lucky charms. He has had the fortune of having only one directing nod to his credit with the docu film and landing a major Hollywood production, but has managed to grab a top tier acting talent, not once - but twice. I wouldn't be a surprised if Sean Penn had made a mention, but Josh Brolin is taking the lead role which was originally assigned to his Milk co-star Penn. The trades report that Brolin has become a go-to guy for cowboy hat wearing, southern States/desert habituals »
- Ioncinema.com Staff
IndieWIRE Critic's Poll: What are A Serious Man's Oscar Chances?
30 November 2009 1:32 AM, PST | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
Have Joel and Ethan Coen followed up No Country for Old Men with another Oscar winner? A clear favorite (I've got my hand up) among the film critics and bloggers polled by IndieWIRE, A Serious Man might have a big and bright future ahead of it and as Eugene points out, "the Coens latest took top honors as Toronto’s best narrative film, finding a place on nearly every single ballot. - Have Joel and Ethan Coen followed up No Country for Old Men with another Oscar winner? A clear favorite (I've got my hand up) among the film critics and bloggers polled by IndieWIRE, A Serious Man might have a big and bright future ahead of it and as Eugene points out, "the Coens latest took top honors as Toronto’s best narrative film, finding a place on nearly every single ballot. Other category winners include: Erik Gandini »
- Ioncinema.com Staff
A Serious Man and the odd movie out
29 November 2009 1:30 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
A Serious Man may be getting rave reviews – but it's like nothing the Coens have made before. Joe Queenan on weird one-offs and the directors who make them
About halfway through the very funny, very disturbing, very ethnic new film A Serious Man, the modern-day Job who is the serious man in question climbs up on to the roof of his ghastly 1960s Minneapolis suburban home and tries to adjust the antenna to improve his TV reception. Beleaguered on all fronts – conjugally, professionally, medically – Larry Gopnik, a dorky physics professor who may be about to lose his job and is very likely to lose his family, is a bright, principled Jewish man whose children have begged him to fix the antenna so they can watch F Troop, an idiotic 1960s comedy. Many of Larry's travails unfold as songs from Jefferson Airplane's seminal 1967 LP Surrealistic Pillow play in the background. »
- Joe Queenan
'The Road' Explores the Knife-Edge of Human Entropy
28 November 2009 12:00 AM, PST | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »
The post-apocalyptic drama The Road begins with shots of barking dogs, blooming flowers, and nuzzling horses, but it is soon revealed that these everyday pleasures are fading memories for its protagonists. With a palette of grays and browns, it quickly shifts to the leafless trees and broken ground of a wasteland that has only barely survived an unnamed catastrophe. The world smolders when it doesn't all-out burn, and the vestiges of humanity struggle to survive and retain the things that made them human.
Amid bands of roving cannibals, an unnamed father (Viggo Mortensen, Eastern Promises) and his son (Kodi Smit-McPhee, Romulus, My Father) have left their home behind and are traveling toward the coast with hopes that the warmer weather and proximity to the ocean will provide a haven. The Man remembers the world before, but The Boy was born to The Man's wife (Charlize Theron, Hancock) after the apocalypse. »
Podcast: John Hillcoat (The Road)
27 November 2009 11:59 PM, PST | GreenCine Daily | See recent GreenCine Daily news »
No stranger to mining lyricism from bleak landscapes, The Proposition director John Hillcoat (here working with screenwriter Joe Penhall) has poignantly visualized the burnt-out, grey wasteland of The Road—the 2006 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Cormac McCarthy, author of No Country for Old Men:
"John Hillcoat's The Road is an honorable adaptation of a piece of pulp fiction disguised as high art; it has more directness and more integrity than its source material … Viggo Mortensen plays a father—he is referred to only as the Man—wandering a post-apocalyptic world with his son, the Boy (Kodi Smit-McPhee). This is a world in which the unthinkable has happened, although it's never specified exactly what the unthinkable is: All we see are the effects. All animals have apparently died, and plant life is on the way out, too. Cities and towns lay abandoned and crumbled. And the roads, once so carefully »
John Hillcoat’s Road Trip
26 November 2009 10:53 AM, PST | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
When John Hillcoat, director of the postapocalyptic saga The Road, sits down to talk to Fangoria, he has just come from seeing off Cormac McCarthy, author of the source novel, who was in town for the film’s premiere. So it would seem McCarthy is happy with the screen adaptation (Now Playing in theatres from Dimension).
“Oh yeah, he’s very pleased,” Hillcoat says, acknowledging the challenge of translating McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning prose into cinematic terms. “It’s such rich material; it’s very visual and dynamic. You’ll never get the poetry of the language, because it’s a different medium, but the story and the dialogue are brilliant, and the obstacles that the characters are up against is what makes it very special.”
There are plenty of obstacles for the movie’s hero, known only as The Man and played by The Lord Of The Rings’ Viggo Mortensen, »
- no-reply@fangoria.com (Michael Gingold)
Clip joint: gangs
26 November 2009 6:41 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
This week on Clip Joint, AJBee tries to rouse the rabble as he turns the spotlight on cinema's best gangs
In a world that's falling apart – or even just coming apart at the seams a little – we all need others to cling to for support. Strength comes in numbers, but also in togetherness. In cinema we can see that tribal feeling from 2001: A Space Odyssey's prehistoric man to the gangs of 60s Glasgow, or 80s Brighton. The protruding foreheads remain, only the accents alter.
Gangs provide a sense of belonging and identity, as well as protection from foes. They can also exclude, as so many high school-set teen flicks testify. We wrap our modern tribal behaviour in colours and call it sport, which begat other kinds of gangs, too often lionised in modern British cinema. But gang culture is common to every echelon of society, from the streets »
First Official Pics From ‘Jonah Hex’ & ‘The Losers’
25 November 2009 4:59 PM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
For some reason, this week has been filled with new photos from some highly anticipated movies: we’ve already had an amazing new Iron Man 2 image; our first image from Shrek Forever After; and a look at a toy figure of the new Freddy Krueger from the Nightmare on Elm Street remake.
To continue today’s trend, some new images have been released for two comic book adaptations, the dark Western, Jonah Hex, and the Special Forces team movie, The Losers. Both are definitely on my most anticipated list, so it’s nice to see some new pics from them – in fact, as far as we know they are the first official ones from each movie.
Jonah Hex is a dark and gritty Western comic book adaptation directed by Jimmy Hayward (Horton Hears a Who!) and starring Josh Brolin, Megan Fox and John Malkovich. It’s based »
- Ross Miller
Review: ‘The Road’ – Shannon’s Take
25 November 2009 3:30 PM, PST | The Flickcast | See recent The Flickcast news »
The Road is the film adaptation of the Pulitzer winning novel written by Cormac McCarthy, who also wrote No Country For Old Men and All The Pretty Horses. Our fascination with what a post-apocalyptic world might be like has been fodder for countless books, television shows, and movies. When I was in college, I was required to read George R. Stewart’s novel Earth Abides. Excruciatingly detailed, the book gave me anxiety attacks for months, as it told the story of a grad student looking for other people who may have survived a plague that wipes out the entire population.
As he traverses the land, the minute changes that he observes in the landscape and appearance of the United States are painstakingly recorded. More recently, The History Channel presented Life After People, which depicts what changes would occur to the earth’s ecological systems and the infrastructure we leave in our wake. »
- Shannon Hood
Director John Hillcoat Interview for "The Road"
25 November 2009 11:01 AM, PST | Manny the Movie Guy | See recent Manny the Movie Guy news »
I enjoyed "The Road" based on Cormac McCarthy's ("No Country for Old Men") novel. Read my review of "The Road" right here.
Now, here's my interview with the director. We talked about:
*** His involvement with the film
*** Adapting Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel
*** The film's excellent production design by Chris Kennedy
*** The love story between a father and a son
*** Why he expanded the role of The Woman (Charlize Theron)
Here's more info on "The Road" courtesy of Yahoo Movies:
Cast and Credits
Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Robert Duvall, Guy Pearce, Molly Parker
Directed by: John Hillcoat
Produced by: Todd Wagner, Mark Cuban, Marc Butan
An epic post-apocalyptic tale of the survival of a father and his young son as they journey across a barren America that was destroyed by a mysterious cataclysm. It imagines a future in which men are pushed to the worst and the »
- Manny
From No Country For Old Men To No Movie For Faith Audiences? I Don't Think So
25 November 2009 10:44 AM, PST | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
The Road, a sobering film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Cormac McCarthy, author of No Country for Old Men and All The Pretty Horses, is a national Thanksgiving holiday theatrical release, opening today. Unlike other recent doomsday movies that build toward a cataclysmic event marking the end of civilization as we know it, this motion picture focuses on the relationship between a father and son struggling to survive the dangers of a post-apocalyptic world. The Audacity of Hope became a focal point of last year's presidential race. The Road, however, goes beyond audacity to authenticity, as its dark vision of chaos and calamity is infiltrated by a ray of hope. The world has ended, all potential and purpose seems to be destroyed and only the very faintest traces of life remain. Yet the story that unfolds in... »
- Larry Ross
Oppressively Bleak ‘The Road’ Buries Great Viggo Mortensen Performance
25 November 2009 10:18 AM, PST | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – The long-delayed and highly-anticipated adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road” has moments of stark beauty and a typically fantastic lead performance from Viggo Mortensen, but the film ultimately misses its mark as a whole piece, coming off numbing its bleak, repetitive view of the end of the world instead of inspiring emotionally or creatively.
Rating: 2.5/5.0
In works like “All the Pretty Horses,” “No Country For Old Men,” and “The Road,” author Cormac McCarthy has made his opinion of the human race crystal clear. We are headed for our end days as a time of decency among human beings has gone away. His highly-acclaimed novel “The Road” was the ultimate in bleak nihilism, giving readers a glimpse of how difficult it will be to hold on to any shred of humanity if we continue down our current path.
Read Brian Tallerico’s full review of “The Road” in our reviews section. »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
The Road Movie Review
25 November 2009 2:59 AM, PST | Atomic Popcorn | See recent Atomic Popcorn news »
After No Country for Old Men, I wasn’t sure what to expect from a film based on a Cormac McCarthy book. I enjoyed No Country, for the most part, but like a lot of people, I felt somewhat alienated by the ending. I’ve always been a fan of stories where the character(s) are forced to survive by their own wits in a disastrous situation, such as being stranded on a desert island or lost in the mountains. The Road is about the Earth slowly becoming uninhabitable as a result of a meteor.
The Road, however, is a bit more straightforward. Viggo Mortensen is the lead character, a nameless father, who leads his son towards a warm, southern refuge that may or may not exist. Everywhere they go carries the possibility of running into roving gangs of cannibals. There is absolutely no food to be found »
- Jon
Movie Review: The Road (2009)
25 November 2009 12:48 AM, PST | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Robert Duvall, Kodi Smit-McPhee and Viggo Mortensen in The Road
Photo: Dimension Films Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" is a book I can't recommend often enough and if you have a free afternoon, pick it up and give it a read. Trust me, it won't take you any longer than that as a destroyed and ashen world is brought to desperate life as a father and son make their way to the coast in hopes of something... anything.
Once it was announced John Hillcoat, the director of the underappreciated Australian western The Proposition, was set to direct an adaptation of McCarthy's work on the heels of the Coen brothers' successful adaptation of "No Country for Old Men", my interest was piqued. I rushed out, picked up a copy and finished at three in the morning. Remembering the brutal reality of The Proposition I couldn't imagine a better director to bring »
- Brad Brevet
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