Un cacciatore si imbatte nel teatro di una sparatoria tra trafficanti di droga: l'impossessarsi di una valigia con due milioni di dollari segnerà la sua vita; sulla sue tracce la polizia ed una serie di killer, tra i quali spicca un lucidissimo psicopatico.
Sullo sfondo - ma neanche tanto - il continuo disgregarsi della società, visto attraverso gli occhi del vecchio sceriffo (Tommy Lee Jones) che forse è più parte del problema che parte della soluzione, nonostante gli piaccia credere il contrario.
Pregevole la regia e la fotografia, tutti ottimi gli interpreti, a partire dall'eccezionale Javier Bardem che mette in scena un killer del tutto dedito a quello che più che un lavoro è una missione.
Non è un paese per vecchi è un ottimo film? Sì, senza dubbio.
È un capolavoro assoluto? Probabilmente no.
Meritava i suoi Oscar? Probabile, anche se forse non è stata poi una annata indimenticabile (e l'esclusione di La Promessa dell'Assassino grida vendetta).
Voto: 8+.
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Bardem, Javier
Nome di battesimo: Bardem, Javier Ángel Encinas
Data di nascita: 1 March 1969
Altezza: 6' (1.83 m)
Ultimi lavori:
- Killing Pablo (2009) .... Pablo Escobar [attore]
- Nine (2009) .... Guido Contini (attached) [attore]
- Tetro (2009) .... (rumored) [attore]
- Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008) .... [attore]
- Invisibles (2007) .... (producer) [produttore]
- Love in the Time of Cholera (2007) .... Florentino Ariza [attore]
- No Country for Old Men (2007) .... Anton Chigurh [attore]
- Goya's Ghosts (2006) .... Brother Lorenzo [attore]
- Collateral (2004) .... Felix [attore]
- Mar adentro (2004/I) .... Ramón Sampedro [attore]
Biografia:
Javier Bardem is the youngest member of a family of actors that has been making films since the early days of Spanish cinema.He got his start in the family business at age six when he appeared in his first feature, "El Pícaro" (The Scoundrel). During his teenage years he acted in several TV series, played rugby for theSpanish National Team, and toured the country with an independent theatrical group. Javier's early film role as a sexy stud in the black comedy_Jamón, jamón (1992)_ (Ham Ham) propelled him to instant popularity and threatened to typecast him as nothing morethan a brawny sex symbol. Determined to avert a beefcake image, he refused similar subsequent roles and has gone on to win acclaim for his ability to appear almost unrecognizable from film to film. With over 25 movies and numerous awards under his belt, it is Javier's stirring, passionate performance as the persecuted Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas in Before Night Falls (2000) that will longbe remembered as his breakthrough role. He received five Best Actor awards and a Best Actor Oscar nomination for his portrayal of a strong-willed man who survived censorship, imprisonment, and homosexual intolerance for the privilege to write freely, only to commit suicide at age 47 in New York, ending a battle with AIDS.
Trivia random: Has four Goya Awards (the Spanish equivalent of the Oscar).
Citazione random: The only thing I can do is act, but it's not something I even feel comfortable doing. It costs me a lot, because I'm a shy person, even if I don't look it.
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Coen, Ethan
Data di nascita: 21 September 1957
Altezza: 5' 8" (1.73 m)
Coniuge: Tricia Cooke::(2 October 1993 - present)
Ultimi lavori:
- Gambit (2009) .... (screenplay) [scrittore]
- Hail Caesar (2009) .... (writer) [scrittore]
- Suburbicon (2009) .... (producer) [produttore]
- Burn After Reading (2008) .... (producer) [produttore]
- Chacun son cinéma ou Ce petit coup au coeur quand la lumière s'éteint et que le film commence (2007) .... (segment "World Cinema") [regista]
- No Country for Old Men (2007) .... (producer) [produttore]
- Paris, je t'aime (2006) .... (segment "Tuileries") [scrittore]
- Romance & Cigarettes (2005) .... (executive producer) [produttore]
- The Ladykillers (2004) .... (producer) [produttore]
- Bad Santa (2003) .... (executive producer) [produttore]
Trivia random: As of 2008 joined (along with his brother Joel) the prestigious group of individuals to have won Oscars for writing, directing and producing in the same year, for the film 'No Country for Old Men'. The others are Peter Jackson for 'Lord of the Rings: The Return of the Kind', James L Brooks for 'Terms of Endearment', Frances Ford Coppola for 'The Godfather: Part 2', Billy Wilder for 'The Apartment' and Leo McCarey for 'Going my Way'. James Cameron also won three Oscars for 'Titanic' but they were for directing, producing and editing.
Citazione random: We aren't the grandfathers of any movement. In the 1980s, the so-called indie film movement was a media creation. What I found irritating is that 'independent' became an encomium. If it was independent, it was supposed to be good, and studio films were bad. Obviously, there are bad independent films and good studio films.
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Jones, Tommy Lee
Data di nascita: 15 September 1946
Altezza: 6' (1.83 m)
Coniuge: Dawn Jones::(19 March 2001 - present), Kimberlea Gayle Cloughley::(30 May 1981 - 1996) (divorced) 2 children, Kate Lardner::(1971 - 1978) (divorced)
Ultimi lavori:
- In the Electric Mist (2008) .... Dave Robicheaux [attore]
- In the Valley of Elah (2007) .... Hank Deerfield [attore]
- No Country for Old Men (2007) .... Ed Tom Bell [attore]
- A Prairie Home Companion (2006) .... Axeman [attore]
- Man of the House (2005/I) .... (executive producer) [produttore]
- The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005) .... (producer) [produttore]
- The Hunted (2003) .... L.T. Bonham [attore]
- The Missing (2003/I) .... Samuel Jones/Chaa-duu-ba-its-iidan [attore]
- Men in Black II (2002) .... Kevin Brown, Agent Kay [attore]
- Rules of Engagement (2000) .... Col. Hayes 'Hodge' Hodges [attore]
Biografia:
Born in San Saba, Texas, the son of Clyde C. and Lucille Marie (Scott) Jones, Tommy Lee Jones worked in underwater construction and on an oil rig. He attended St. Mark's School of Texas, a prestigious prep school for boys in Dallas, on a scholarship, and went to Harvard on another scholarship.He roomed with future Vice President Al Gore and played offensive guard in the famous 29-29 Harvard-Yale football game of '68 known as "The Tie." He received a B.A. in English literature and graduated cum laude from Harvard in 1969. Following college, he moved to New York and began his theatrical career on Broadway in "A Patriot for Me" (1969). In 1970, he made his film debut in Love Story (1970). While living in New York, he continued to appear in various plays, both on- and off-Broadway: "Fortune and Men's Eyes" (1969); "Four on a Garden" (1971); "Blue Boys" (1972); "Ulysses in Nighttown" (1974). During this time, he also appeared on a daytime soap opera, "One Life to Live" (1968) as Dr. Mark Toland from 1971-75. He moved with wife Kate Lardner, granddaughter of short-story writer/columnist Ring Lardner, and her two children from a previous marriage, to Los Angeles. There he began to get some roles on television: "Charlie's Angels" (1976) (pilot episode); Smash-Up on Interstate 5 (1976) (TV); and The Amazing Howard Hughes (1977) (TV). While working on the movie Back Roads (1981), he met and fell in love with Kimberlea Cloughley, whom he later married. More roles in television--both on network and cable--stage and film garnered him a reputation as a strong, explosive, thoughtful actor who could handle supporting as well as leading roles. He made his directorial debut in The Good Old Boys (1995) (TV) on TNT. In addition to directing and starring in the film, he co-wrote the teleplay (with J.T. Allen). The film, based on Elmer Kelton's novel, is set in west Texas where Jones has strong family ties. Consequently, this story of a cowboy facing the end of an era has special meaning for him.
Trivia random: Jones was also a resident of Midland, Texas, and attended the same high school as the future First Lady Laura Bush.
Citazione random: "I really enjoyed a remark that Howard Hawks once made. He said the most important thing is not to ask an actor to do anything he can't do. Same thing goes for horses."
Salario massimo: $20,000,000+ gross %, per Men in Black II (2002)
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
No Country for Old Men (2007)
Non è un paese per vecchi
Regista: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Scrittore: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller, Crime
Valutazione: 8.6/10 (68565 voti) [#38 nella top250]
Durata: 122 min
Paese: USA
Lingua: English, Spanish
Cast:
- Tommy Lee Jones .... Ed Tom Bell
- Javier Bardem .... Anton Chigurh
- Josh Brolin .... Llewelyn Moss
- Woody Harrelson .... Carson Wells
- Kelly Macdonald .... Carla Jean Moss
- Garret Dillahunt .... Wendell
- Tess Harper .... Loretta Bell
- Barry Corbin .... Ellis
- Stephen Root .... Man who hires Wells
- Rodger Boyce .... El Paso Sheriff
Trama:
In rural Texas, welder and hunter Llewelyn Moss discovers the remains of several drug runners who have all killed each other in an exchange gone violently wrong. Rather than report the discovery to the police, Moss decides to simply take the two million dollars present for himself. This puts the psychopathic killer, Anton Chigurh, on his trail as he dispassionately murders nearly every rival, bystander and even employer in his pursuit of his quarry and the money. As Moss desperately attempts to keep one step ahead, the blood from this hunt begins to flow behind him with relentlessly growing intensity as Chigurh closes in. Meanwhile, the laconic Sherrif Ed Tom Bell blithely oversees the investigation even as he struggles to face the sheer enormity of the crimes he is attempting to thwart.
Trivia random: Is the first movie with two directors since West Side Story (1961) to win the Best Picture Academy Award.
Citazione random: Wendell: You know, there might not have been no money.::Ed Tom Bell: That's possible.::Wendell: But you don't believe it.::Ed Tom Bell: No. Probably I don't.::Wendell: It's a mess, ain't it, sheriff?::Ed Tom Bell: If it ain't, it'll do till the mess gets here.
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Coen, Joel
Nome di battesimo: Coen, Joel Daniel
Data di nascita: 29 November 1954
Altezza: 6' (1.83 m)
Coniuge: Frances McDormand::(1984 - present) 1 child
Ultimi lavori:
- Gambit (2009) .... (screenplay) [scrittore]
- Hail Caesar (2009) .... (writer) [scrittore]
- Suburbicon (2009) .... (producer) [produttore]
- Burn After Reading (2008) .... (producer) [produttore]
- Chacun son cinéma ou Ce petit coup au coeur quand la lumière s'éteint et que le film commence (2007) .... (segment "World Cinema") [regista]
- No Country for Old Men (2007) .... (producer) [produttore]
- Paris, je t'aime (2006) .... (segment "Tuileries") [scrittore]
- Romance & Cigarettes (2005) .... (executive producer) [produttore]
- The Ladykillers (2004) .... (producer) [produttore]
- Bad Santa (2003) .... (executive producer) [produttore]
Trivia random: Born to Edward Coen, an economist at the University of Minnesota, and his wife Rita, an art historian at St. Cloud State University.
Citazione random: Frequently we are writing characters and we are thinking, 'Wouldn't it be interesting to see such and such play this kind of a person', and the character starts to grow out of that as you are writing it. It's a combination of things that you are making up and what you know about the actor.
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
1 commento:
no country for old men is unassumingly clever... tons of unexpected plot twists but it never goes over the top. dumbfounding form a moral angle, but that can be a good thing.
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