The actor: Javier Bardem The character: Anton Chigurh The film: No Country for Old Men The line: “If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?” You’re counting right. Three quotes from No Country for Old Men, which makes it, by this measure, the “most quotable” American movie of… Read More Top 100 American Movie Quotes of the 21st Century: #6
The actor: Javier Bardem The character: Anton Chigurh The film: No Country for Old Men The line: “What’s the most you ever lost on a coin toss?” I maintain that No Country for Old Men is significantly less bleak than people want to believe it is. What matters in this movie, much more than Anton… Read More Top 100 American Movie Quotes of the 21st Century: #19
Dir. Joel and Ethan Coen. Starring Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Tommy Lee Jones There’s a compulsion to see No Country as a sort of relentlessly nihilistic story, and I smell what those people are stepping in. There is an awful lot of collateral damage in this picture, well beyond the people who enter a dangerous line of… Read More No Country for Old Men (2007)
The following is from my series of Oscar Best Picture rankings, as well as my strongly worded suggestions for what should have won from among the nominees. For an introduction to the project, click here. For a way to vote on some Oscar-related ideas, click here. If I’ve written a review on any of the… Read More Better than the Oscars: 10-6
The following is part of an overview of the top 100 American narrative fiction feature films, from my perspective. For an introduction to the project and an index of other entries in the series, click here. For a list of more than 800 films which I considered for the top 450 and my eligibility qualifications, click here.… Read More Better than AFI’s Top 100: 50-46
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