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Latest News Updates The official website for The Sunset Limited on HBO, featuring videos, images, synopsis, and schedule information.Strong reveiws for tonight’s HBO premiere of Cormac McCarthy’s Sunset Limited starring Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L.Latest News Updates The official website for The Sunset Limited on HBO, featuring... more
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Brett Erlich and Ellen Fox join forces with bloggers, comedians, students and citizen critics to review "The Road."
The Rotten Tomatoes Show is a movie review show that airs on Thursday nights at 10:30 e/p on Current TV. From reviews of the newest releases to commentary on cult favorites and movie trends, each episode of The Rotten Tomatoes Show is a fast-paced, comedic journey through the week in cinema.
For more from the Rotten Tomatoes Show: http://rottentomatoesshow.com
For more about movies from Current: http://current.com/moviesBrett Erlich and Ellen Fox join forces with bloggers, comedians, students and citizen... more
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“The Road” is the antithesis to “2012.” While for Roland Emmerich the End of the World is nothing more than a special effects orgy where humanity is nothing more than thousands of pixels crushed by thousands of pixels, John Hillcoat’s adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s novel is a decidedly more somber affair. It is more interested on exploring the consequences of any disaster (apocalyptic or otherwise) on our humanity (or what’s left of it). It’s shot in grey, monotonous tones. Flashbacks provide the only glimpses of color and even they convey a melancholic, depressing feeling.
To get the full take on the film "The Road," click here:
http://www.cafemagazine.com/index.php/reviews/110-0911/515-the-road-to-nowhere“The Road” is the antithesis to “2012.” While for Roland... more
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The Rotten Tomatoes Show is a movie review show that airs on Thursday nights at 10:30 e/p on Current TV. From reviews of the newest releases to commentary on cult favorites and movie trends, each episode of The Rotten Tomatoes Show is a fast-paced, comedic journey through the week in cinema.
For more from the Rotten Tomatoes Show: http://rottentomatoesshow.com
For more about movies from Current: http://current.com/moviesThe Rotten Tomatoes Show is a movie review show that airs on Thursday nights at 10:30... more
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Dimension and the Weinstein brothers will finally open John Hillcoat’s filmed version of Cormac McCarthy’s novel The Road on November 25. We’ve seen one trailer already, but that one was out back in May. Now there’s a new trailer just one month before the film opens. Check it out after the break.
http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/10/30/the-road-trailer-2/Dimension and the Weinstein brothers will finally open John Hillcoat’s filmed... more
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With two anticipated autumn releases around the corner based off of widely acclaimed books Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones from the Alice Seabold novel and the adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road one is likely to hear a dire warning regarding those films: The book is always better than the movie. Is that true? Is “The Lovely Bones” and “The Road” guaranteed mediocrity due
to the nature of adapting the film from a novel?
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One thing that becomes fairly obvious when first examining the statement is that it is a prime candidate for being over-used due to its simplicity, generalization, and the unfortunate belief by some that literature is a more intellectual endeavor than film. As someone that has read between three and five thousand books and has watched between three and five thousand movies, I find the truth derived from comparing the two mediums simply boils down to taste from one moment to the next.
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The first fact that stands out comes after examining various Best Films of All Time lists. For our purposes we will use the easily accessed IMDb Top 250. It might surprise one who is a buttress for the book over movie belief that 23 of the top 51 movies on the IMDb 250 are based on novels or short stories. Before the thought even occurs that maybe these movies are genre fanboy films (varying opinion on “The Lord Of The Rings” trilogy, for instance), let’s list a few examples so we can move past that:
The Godfather
Shawshank Redeptionthe godfather posters 238x300 Is The Book Always Better Than The Movie?
Shindler’s List
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
Goodfellas
City Of God
Rear Window
Psycho
Silence Of The Lambs
Forrest Gump
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Film also has the unfortunate side effect of sometimes showing the weakness of a book. That effect is often confused with inferiority whereas it is actually the different presentation that allows one to assimilate the circumstances differently. One who believes that the films, “The Da Vinci Code” and “Angels & Demons” are trite and contrived suddenly because the screenwriters dropped the ball are mistaken. The two films based off of Dan Brown’s massive sellers only accentuate the weakness of the written contrived plotting and sensationalistic triteness. Those that bemoan soulless Hollywood need to look no farther than Brown to find its literary equal. Michael Crichton and Thomas Harris are two others that composed empty work where Hollywood’s only fault was that there was an immense amount of money to be made.
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The full argument at the link. Comments welcome!With two anticipated autumn releases around the corner based off of widely acclaimed... more
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DJ Matt Werner’s exclusive interview with modern classical music composer Fr. Bruno Clifton, OP. Originally broadcast on Fresh Air: The Alternative on March 24, 2009.
In the interview and hour-long feature, Matt and Fr. Bruno Clifton discuss Fr. Bruno’s latest compositions for the New Edinburgh Orchestra, including “In the jars, dark liquid,” which is one of the three pieces he’s composing, inspired by Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy. Also discussed and played are Fr. Bruno’s other compositions, including “Letters for string quartet,” “Four Last Things IV,” and his “Stations of the Cross” piece, for which he plays the organ. Fr. Bruno talks about his musical training, having his work performed on BBC4, and how he integrates his passion for music with his vocation of being a Dominican friar.
For more interviews with musicians, please visit http://mattswriting.comDJ Matt Werner’s exclusive interview with modern classical music composer Fr.... more
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A few weeks ago I read what I believe is the most important environmental book ever written. It is not Silent Spring, Small Is Beautiful or even Walden. It contains no graphs, no tables, no facts, figures, warnings, predictions or even arguments. Nor does it carry a single dreary sentence, which, sadly, distinguishes it from most environmental literature. It is a novel, first published a year ago, and it will change the way you see the world.
Cormac McCarthy's book The Road considers what would happen if the world lost its biosphere, and the only living creatures were humans, hunting for food among the dead wood and soot. Some years before the action begins, the protagonist hears the last birds passing over, "their half-muted crankings miles above where they circled the earth as senselessly as insects trooping the rim of a bowl". McCarthy makes no claim that this is likely to occur, but merely speculates about the consequences.A few weeks ago I read what I believe is the most important environmental book ever... more
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The trailer for the new Coen Brothers adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's book is up. It looks super-scary. And Kelly Macdonald looks super-cute. Wait, I didn't mean to type that.The trailer for the new Coen Brothers adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's book is up.... more
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