No Country for Old Men

...a meek physics professor at a Midwestern university, finds to his horror that his life is collapsing. As in the Coens' Oscar-winning No Country For Old Men, it's a tale of cosmic injustice, but this time it's God - or fate, if you don't...

In this article: A Serious Man, God, Coen brothers, Legal advice, Cattle, Physics, and Oscar

...simple portrait of a family in crisis, distinguished by a sharp script and terrific ensemble cast. Following the unbearable tension of No Country For Old Men and the frippery of Burn After Reading, this new picture finds the Coens in a...

In this article: A Serious Man, Coen brothers, The Big Lebowski, and Richard Kind

Junking the campy screwball comedy of Burn After Reading (2008), and exploring even darker terrain than that in the Oscar-winning No Country For Old Men (2007), it's their first film not to be wattaged or turbo-powered by established...

In this article: A Serious Man, Coen brothers, Physics, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, Trademark, and Dog

...having only watched it on DVD. I slip into the nearby Popular Dry Goods, note an ad from a company boasting that its clothes were featured in No Country for Old Men, then excitedly ask whether the theater is still open and whether it's really...

In this article: Easy Rider, Jack Nicholson, Billy Bob Thornton, Las Vegas, Deep South, and Cormac McCarthy

...recently screened at the Rome and London film festivals The result is a change of pace from their last two features, Oscar-winning thriller No Country for Old Men and anarchic farce Burn After Reading. It also seems a more personal work...

In this article: Ethan Coen, A Serious Man, Rome, Physics, God, Oscar, Burn After Reading, and True Grit

...Walter Mosely, Stanley Crouch, and A. M. Holmes were on hand at the SL afterparty to greet novelist Cormac McCarthy, author of No Country for Old Men, the book on which last year's Best Picture winner was based. Similarly, expect to...

In this article: The Road, Cormac McCarthy, John Hillcoat, Bob Weinstein, Robert Duvall, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Viggo Mortensen, Charlize Theron, and Katrina

...station. Coming this week at the movies and on TV BIG SCREEN A Serious Man (R) -- Iconoclastic directors Joel and Ethan Coen ( No Country for Old Men, Fargo ) get personal with this comedy, loosely based on their middle-class Jewish...

In this article: Ken Ober, Remote Control, Barack Obama, Amelia Earhart, Mogadishu, and Somalia

...man's capacity for violence: from All the Pretty Horses, where the hero must come to terms with his own ability to inflict harm, to No Country for Old Men, where the arrival of an utterly amoral killer heralds the decline of an honourable way...

In this article: Cormac McCarthy, The Road, All the Pretty Horses, and God

Navigation - link to other main sections from here The week's audio books: November 14, 2009 No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger This week I travelled hopefully through both Cormac...

In this article: Audrey Niffenegger, Cormac McCarthy, Random House, James Joyce, London, and Texas

...recommendations for movies to see this weekend A Serious Man The newest Coen brothers film combines the spiritual desolation of "No Country for Old Men" with the black comedy of "Burn After Reading." It's an unusual and effective...

In this article: Burn After Reading, Brian Clough, Mick LaSalle, Coen brothers, Physics, Empire, Michael Sheen, and Timothy Spall