Road to redemption?
James Drew has the chance to talk with John Hillcoat, the director of The Road (2009), during his visit to Brussels.
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And what rough beast? ‘Not with a bang, but a whimper’ – that was how poet and playwright T.S. Eliot once declared that the world would end, and there is no doubt that the most powerful cinematic evocations of Armageddon have made this concept their central tenet. As with Michael Haneke’s Le temps du loup (The Time [...] [photopress:Apple_1.jpg,thumb,alignleft] Saddle up A chance to enjoy an entertaining (if conventional) Western… It has a habit of coming back ’atcha, does the Western – while other genres have a tendency to become moribund over time, such as the traditional musical or the traditional vampire flick, the Old West is a tradition that a variety of directors have [...] [photopress:history_1.jpg,thumb,alignleft] All his own work? Carl Fogaty: Any last words before I blow your brains out, you miserable prick? It’s all, ahem, ‘Viggo’ for the mo – but one can but hope that a discussion of what is perhaps the best [...] Classic Cronenberg He can seemingly do no wrong; Canadian David Cronenberg, responsible for some of the finest examples of films that really do hit you where you live, has crossed the Atlantic to the UK for his first effort ever to be filmed completely outside his home country. |
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