“No Country for Old Men” Gets the Cinephilia & Beyond Treatment!

No Country for Old Men is a modern classic.  If you agree, then you’re going to want to check out No Country for Old Men: The Coen Brothers and Cormac McCarthy’s Ruthless Examination of Life.

Click on the link and you’ll find…

  • Joel Coen & Ethan Coen’s screenplay for No Country for Old Men
  • Lessons from the ScreenplayNo Country for Old Men—Don’t Underestimate the Audience.
  • Joel and Ethan Coen, Josh Brolin, and Javier Bardem discuss the making of No Country for Old Men.
  • “Just a cameraman”: an interview with Roger Deakins by Lynnea Chapman King
  • Storyboards
  • The making of No Country for Old Men
  • No Country for Old Men: Josh Brolin’s Unauthorized Behind the Scenes
  • The Coen Brothers interview on No Country for Old Men (2007)
  • Rare behind-the-scenes photos
  • and much more!

Sly Stallone Regularly Posting “Rambo 5” Pics

If you’re not following Sylvester Stallone’s Instagram, you should. Sly posts several updates a week and his most recent was the photo above with this…

Every few days until the MOVIE comes out I’m going to post images from the upcoming RAMBO . See if you can follow along with the story using your imagination. All of the images that I post will be in black-and-white, but the film will be in dramatic color… #rambo5

I am more psyched for Rambo 5 than any of the other previous Rambo films. Not because I will think it will be the best, but because I know how good it will be. Can’t wait for Sly to amaze us all once again.

Martin Scorsese’s 131 Essential Films

Martin Scorsese is as much a film lover as a film director.  Colin Ainsworth at Mental Floss has compiled 131 Essential Movies According to Martin Scorsese.   

Of the 131 films on Scorsese’s list, I’ve seen the following 35:

1. Nosferatu (1922)
2. Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (1922) 
3. Metropolis (1927)
4. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
5. Stagecoach (1939)
6. Citizen Kane (1941)
7. Cat People (1942)
8. Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
9. Gilda (1946)
10. Beauty & The Beast (1946)
11. The Lady From Shanghai (1947)
12. T-Men (1947)
13. Raw Deal (1948)
14. The Third Man (1949)
15. Gun Crazy (1950)
16. Night and the City (1950)
17. The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
18. House of Wax (1953)
19. Pickup on South Street (1953)
20. Dial M for Murder (1954)
21. Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
22. The Searchers (1956)
23. Touch of Evil (1958)
24. Vertigo (1958)
25. The Hustler (1961)
26. Cape Fear (1962)
27. Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
28. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
29. Midnight Cowboy (1969)
30. Klute (1971)
31. The Godfather (1972)
32. Apocalypse Now (1979)
33. Heaven’s Gate (1980)
34. Do the Right Thing (1989)
35. The Player (1992)

Obviously, everyone’s mileage will vary but I found it interesting that there are as many films that I loved on the list (Stagecoach, The Searchers, Godfather) as there are films I felt were over-rated (2001: A Space Odyssey, Midnight Cowboy, Klute).