coen brothers
07/31/2007
No Country for Old Men
I think that when, the Coen Brothers are on their game, they're as good as any filmmakers on the planet. And novelist Cormac McCarthy is, to me, as close to a national treasure as we've got these days. (If you don't believe, just read his most recent novel, The Road.) So when the Coens' most recent film, an adaptation of McCarthy's Western neo-noir No Country for Old Men, received rave reviews after its Cannes premiere, I got excited.
Then, when I saw this trailer, I got really, really excited. Let's hope that in 2007, Oscar season actually means some great films, and not just "prestige" mini-major hype jobs. Based on some of the trailers that have surfaced in the past month or so (most notably There Will Be Blood), my hopes are kind of high.
For now.
