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Many a detail on THE ROAD, and a few photos too, from an Esquire writer who has seen it!!!
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... from last October, and kindly sent along a link to Esquire's extensive write-up on THE ROAD , featuring a great deal of praise. I think their headline speaks volumes. According to Esquire, only about four media outlets have seen the full finished film as yet--I hate and envy you all. Looks great from where I'm sitting. What do you think? -- Capone ...
Early Buzz: Esquire Calls The Road “The Most Important Movie of the Year”
/Film —
... Read the entire review on Esquire.com.The film stars Academy Award nominee Viggo Mortensen, Academy Award winners Robert Duvall and Charlize Theron, Guy Pearce and 12-year-old Kodi Smit McPhee. The Road tells the story of a man (Mortensen) and his young son (Smit-McPhee) traveling through a desperate, post-apocalyptic world. The flap jacket on the book describes the setting as “burned America”. ...
Esquire leads us to The Road
Awards Daily —
... Thanks to good buddy Craig Kennedy for letting us know Esquire has seen The Road, and calls it “the Most Important Movie of the Year.” The feature article runs 3300 words, so there’s plenty to feed those of us subsisting on mere morsels for months. ...
Esquire Paints Dark, Beautiful Picture of John Hillcoat’s ‘The Road’
Film School Rejects —
... With this love for the novel comes a tense approach, critically, to any cinematic adaptation. And while a recent article from Tom Chiarella at Esquire does many things to put my mind at ease about Hillcoat’s adaptation, I’m not exactly sold yet. Sold, no. Excited beyond description, perhaps, but not completely sold. ...
First Official "The Road" Review Out, Anticipation Rising
Movies —
... I really have to keep my expectations in check because this movie's release delays only serve to get me even antsier to see it, but the first official review of The Road, courtesy of Esquire magazine, is certainly not helping. The publication is bold enough to call it the "Most Important Movie of the Year." ...
Is 'The Road' "The Most Important Movie of the Year"?
Get The Big Picture —
... And what does "important" mean, exactly? To me, I would think Avatar might be a candidate, because anyone who's seen a frame of James Cameron's new 3-D sci-fi bible swears it's going to completely change filmmaking, a 21st century Citizen Kane. But Esquire says the most important movie of the year is the upcoming adaptation of ...
Dimension Delivers the First Trailer for 'The Road'
RopeofSilicon.com —
... Tom Chiarella at Esquire already saw the film and wrote up a piece with a headline reading "The Road is the Most Important Movie of the Year," which is a blatant grab at reads and it obviously worked judging by the 380 DIGGs it received to date. However, after watching the trailer I will say this film looks like it will be okay, but it doesn't seem to represent what McCarthy's book was all about. Perhaps this was made merely to get people into theaters and the film will be far more bleak than what is shown here (which is what I actually ...
"Most Important Film Of the Year"?
Hollywood Elsewhere —
"Most Important Film Of the Year"? Read Tom Chiarella 's Esquire rave , watch the trailer, think it over, respond. If it's as good as all that -- not, as Chiarella implies, in an audience-film way but in a formidable-but-tough film lover's way -- why didn't Harvey bring it to Cannes? I would have. If I could afford it.
The Road Trailer Starring Viggo Mortensen
Film Junk —
... to say that I was impressed, and it made me want to read the book as soon as possible because I don’t think I can wait until October to see the movie. However, there were some things that didn’t sit well with me, in particular, the very obvious digital backdrops. If they really want this to be one of the most gritty and dark post-apocalyptic movies to date, I’m hoping they’ll find a way to keep that stuff to a minimum. The good news is, Tom Chiarella over at Esquire recently called The Road “the most important movie of the ...
Cannes: Winners and Losers
Thompson On Hollywood —
... There’s good advance word on John Hillcoat's adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road starring Viggo Mortensen and Charlize Theron, but it looks like a narrow niche up-market film. While the Weinsteins may get what they want: ...
Denis, Rivette, and Moore!: Venice Lineup Announced
Film Experience Blog —
... who, wouldn't you know it, travels to Lourdes in the hope of a miracle. Bad Lieutenant: Port Of New Orleans dir. Werner Herzog Nicolas Cage stars as a wild flailing police lieutenant who totters on the edge of sanity... as directed by Werner Herzog. This will either be a horrible disaster or a fantastic disaster, or a total masterpiece. It'll certainly be something. The Road dir. John Hillcoat Remember back when Esquire called this the most important film of the year? We'll soon see. Ahasin ...
"Road" war
Some Came Running —
... lets Hillcoat off the hook early in the review when he says the films shows "clear signs of being test-screened and futzed to death," and that may well mean that the version I saw in January now exists only in my memory. Which would be a shame. But for all that, I imagine that the film has to retain some of the imagery I found so impressive, the tone of which is well-conveyed by the still at the top of this post. It's worth noting in this context, then, what Esquire's Tom Chiarella wrote about it all the way back in May (violating a number of what they call ...
Life after ''The Road''
Reeling —
... The Road after it screened at Toronto and Telluride last month. This is not the kind of movie that would fare well when viewed during the exhausting crunch of a film festival. I don't agree with that over-the-top rave that ran in ...
