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The Road

A collection of 3 posts
On Movies & Media

"The Road": A Meaningful Nightmare

My review of John Hillcoat's film The Road is still in progress, but I've written an article about the story, how people respond to it... and how such dark, troubling visions like this one can be meaningful and even—dare I say it?—redemptive. This is
23 Nov 2009 1 min read
On Movies & Media

End of "The Road" (in Pittsburgh, Anyway)

Working on his adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's The Road, John Hillcoat has wrapped up filming in Pittsburgh and is moving on to Lake Erie, New Orleans, Mount St. Helens, and the Oregon coast. Growing up in Canada in the 1970s, the native Australian worried nuclear war was inevitable.
28 Apr 2008
On Books & Writing

Cormac McCarthy: Now an Oprah Author

Oprah just picked The Road. Wow. That's gutsy. The Road is a dark, dark, dark post-apocalyptic work, from all that I've read about it. (Check out Adam Walter's reaction.) I just finished reading McCarthy's No Country for Old Men, which is the
28 Mar 2007 1 min read
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