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“The Counsellor”, Ridley Scott and Cormac McCarthy’s collaboration, releases its first trailer
While writer Cormac McCarthy has been known by many for his novels, it wasn’t until 2000’s All the Pretty Horses that film fans began to take note of his work. 2007’s No Country For Old Men, the Coen Brothers’ adaptation of his novel, however, was McCarthy’s breakthrough in Hollywood, and fans of both his film […] More
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London Film Festival ’09: The Road
The Road Directed by John Hillcoat For fans of Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Road, the novel’s journey from page to screen has been almost as harrowing as the one endured by the book’s protagonists. Delayed by over a year due to unspecified wrangling within the temple of Miramax, this grim, biblical parable is finally seeing the light of day […] More
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TIFF ’09: Short Takes
Trash Humpers Directed by Harmony Korine Anyone who enjoyed Korine’s previous feature, the funny, surreal Mister Lonely, may have been looking forward to what he was to do next in anticipation of a further expansion into pseudo-accessible territory. Instead, Korine decided to jump off the arthouse deep end with Trash Humpers, a reasonably well-executed conceptual […] More