No Country for Old Men (2007)

 

Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon a drug deal gone wrong and more than two million dollars in cash near the Rio Grande. 

Congenial adaptation of the Cormac McCarthy novel finds the Coen Bros. at the top of their art spinning a dark, sinister and thrilling tale full of excellent scenes, great photography and top performances all around.

Maltin***1/2: "Crackling tale...Creating tension from the first moments onward (and without the use of music), the Coens' adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's novel is a brooding tale of fate set against a stark backdrop...but not without irony and humor. Set on fire by Bardem's Academy Award-winning performance; brilliantly photographed by Roger Deakins." 

 

First Lines: Cormac McCarthy - No Country For Old Men

I sent one boy to the gaschamber at Huntsville.

First Lines: Cormac McCarthy - Cities of the Plains

They stood in the doorway and stomped the rain from their boots and swung their hats and wiped the water from their faces.

First Lines: Cormac McCarthy - The Crossing

When they came south out of Grant County Boyd was not much more than a baby and the newly formed county they'd named Hidalgo was itself little older than the child.

New Stuff: Cormac McCarthy

First Lines: Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West

See the child.

First Lines: Cormac McCarthy - All the Pretty Horses

The candleflame and the image of the candleflame caught in the pierglass twisted and righted when he entered the hall and again when he shut the door.

The Road (2009)

A post-apocalyptic tale of a man and his son trying to survive by any means possible.

Accurately bleak and slowly disturbing vision of a feared future based on Cormac McCarthy's novel.

First Lines: Cormac McCarthy - The Road

When he woke in the woods in the dark and the cold of the night he'd reach out to touch the child sleeping beside him.