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No Country for Old Men

Monday, July 14th, 2008
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Cormac McCarthy wrote the book and I may have more to say on McCarthy elsewhere. NCFOM was a quite exceptional movie. I think the key to its’ success was that everything was kept very low key, the sort of grandiose scenes one usually assosciates with the West, or Western themes are quite demure. There are some remarkable vistas […]