At World’s End, Honing a Father-Son Dynamic

Links (8)

Movie Version of ‘The Road’ to Feature World's Only Non-Terrible Child Actor
Published 5/27/2008 at Vulture
... There's only one thing more depressing than a world-destroying apocalypse that turns its survivors into cannibals, and it's seeing a good movie ruined by bad child acting. Luckily, the New York Times assures us today, the film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's The Road will not meet such a fate. Kodi Smit-McPhee, Viggo Mortensen's 11-year-old Australian co-star (who was previously non-annoying in February's also depressing Romulus, My Father), "bowled everyone over when he tested for the part, greatly reducing the anxiety filmmakers feel when ...

A Look at the Ashen World of 'The Road'
Published 5/27/2008 at RopeofSilicon: Latest Headlines
... chilling than anything I read in "The Shining" and the ending is more emotional than I ever could have anticipated. Looking around the Internet if any readers have given it bad marks it's due to McCarthy's lack of punctuation as he seems to despise commas, apostrophes and quotation marks, but as long as you are warned in advance it won't bother you in the least and actually becomes a rather welcomed change. I bring this all up as Charles McGrath has written a new article at the " New York Times " titled "At World's End, Honing a Father-Son Dynamic" looking at the film and ...

Cormac McCarthy's The Road: Omar's Coming, Omar's Coming!
Published 5/27/2008 at Videogum
... There's a good article in the New York Times today about the movie adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's The Road. It turns out that it's very difficult to make it look realistic that the world is covered in the constantly falling ash from a dead sky, but a little less difficult in Pennsylvania. And Viggo Mortensen loves his breakout child actor co-star, Kodi Smit-McPhee. He loves working with him. He thinks of him as a little professional, and he treats him like a professional by kissing his head in the make up trailer while drinking secret wine. Just two ...

Details from 'The Road' Revealed
Published 5/28/2008 by Eric Kohn at Cinematical
Filed under: Drama, Fandom, DIY/Filmmaking, Newsstand Just when it was looking like No Country for Old Men had a monopoly on successful interpretations of Cormac McCarthy's drearily minimalistic prose, production on an adaptation of The Road suggests the possibility of healthy competition. The movie, which recently finished shooting in Pennsylvania and hits theaters in November, remains a wild card until post-production wraps. Nevertheless, if this colorful report from the set in The New York Times offers any indication, The Road appears poised to capture ...

"We're trying to avoid the cliches of apocalypse..."
Published 5/28/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (Simon Crowe) at Mostly Movies
A report from the set of The Road, this fall's Cormac McCarthy adaptation starring Viggo Mortensen. (NY Times) For the crew that has just finished filming the movie version of “The Road” — a joint production of 2929 and Bob Weinstein’s Dimension Films, set to open in November — that meant an upending of the usual rules of making a movie on location. Bad weather was good and good weather bad. “A little fog, a little drizzle — those are the good days,” Mark Forker, the movie’s director of special effects, remarked one morning in late April while the ...

On The Road Again
Published 5/28/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (JA) at my new plaid pants
Over the weekend I watched the 2007 Australian film Romulus, My Father. I had two distinct reasons for giving the modestly-reviewed film two hours of my life: A) I will watch anything that has Eric Bana in it. Anything. And... B) I was curious about this Kodi Smit-McPhee kid, who ...

‘The Wire’ Alumni Watch: It Pays to Be a Player
Published 5/29/2008 at Vulture
... Interestingly, though, that's about it for the cops of The Wire. It's the dealers who've won this first round of post-Wire casting calls. Tuesday's Times paean to The Road's child star, Kodi Smit-McPhee, also included a great moment of Michael K. Williams (Omar) "brilliantly improvising" as a thief. He'll be in five other films in the next two years, including ...

Our repose is brief. Embrace the mystery. Happy belated Father's Day.
Published 6/17/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (Ryland Walker Knight) at Vinyl Is Heavy
... There was this puff piece in the NY Times drumming up interest almost a month ago, which is where this picture comes from. The only other bit of coolness from that story is the casting news, which I guess you shouldn't read if you want to read the book but I was happy to hear about Michael K Williams' role especially since I want him to have a good career. ...