Literature on Screen: “No Country for Old Men”
Fri 29 Dec 2017, 7.30 pm
TPD
From TPD:
In the final week of the Literature on Screen movie month, TPD would like to present the film No Country for Old Men by directors Ethan and Joel Coen (the Coen brothers).
Film notes
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN / US • 2007
R / 122′ / Crime – Drama – Thriller
Directed by Ethan Coen and Joel Coen
No Country for Old Men is a neo-western neo-noir thriller film written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, based on Cormac McCarthy’s novel No Country for Old Men. A cat-and-mouse drama starring Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, and Josh Brolin, it follows a Texas welder and Vietnam veteran in the desert landscape of 1980 West Texas. The film revisits the themes of fate, conscience, and circumstance that the Coen brothers had explored in the films Blood Simple (1984) and Fargo (1996).
No Country for Old Men premiered in competition at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival on May 19. It won four awards at the 80th Academy Awards – Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor (Bardem) and Best Adapted Screenplay. In addition, the film won three British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) including Best Director, and two Golden Globes. The American Film Institute listed it as an AFI Movie of the Year, and the National Board of Review selected the film as the best of 2007.
More critics included No Country for Old Men on their 2007 top ten lists than any other film, and many regard it as the Coen brothers’ masterpiece, as well as one of the best films of the 2000s. [Wikipedia]
Language: English with Vietnamese subtitles
• The film screening is for educational purpose and fundraising for Young Cinema Fund of TPD.
• Requested donation (at the door): from 20,000 VND/audience.
• Doors open at 7 pm and close when the screening room is full.
• Seats are assigned on the first-come-first-served basis.
Follow updates on the event page
Watch the film’s trailer here:
Translated by Hanoi Grapevine
The Centre for Assistance and Development of Movie Talents TPD was established with the purposes of designing and implementing programs to assist and develop movie talents and other activities for the development of Vietnamese cinema.
| The Centre for Assistance and Development of Movie Talents 51 Tran Hung Dao Str (4th floor), Hanoi Tel: 024 3936 6559 Email: [email protected] Website: tpdmovie.com.vn |
