#john hillcoat

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Cormac McCarthy’s The Road has been adapted into a graphic novel by Abrams ComicArts. The 2006 Pulitzer Prize–winning novel was previously turned into a film of the same name in 2009.

Adapted by French cartoonist Manu Larcenet, the 160-page post-apocalyptic tale is available in hardcover and e-book. Preview several pages below.

A nameless father and son try to survive with their humanity intact in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, where Earth’s natural resources have been diminished and some survivors are left to raise others for meat.

Order The Road by Manu Larcenet.

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Special Ops: Lioness (2023) "The Beating" - John Hillcoat

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That was less than a two week turnaround get absolutely outplayed wendigoon you rat bastard

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Happy birthday to Goodnight Lovers, released on this day in 2002 🌙

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The Road (2009)

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The Road, John Hillcoat

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Apparently John Hillcoat (who directed The Road (2006)) is making an adaptation of Blood Meridian.

Interesting to see how it comes out, because I always pegged it as one of those novels that would be almost impossible to make into a movie.

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The Proposition John Hillcoat. 2005

Caves Rangeland Rifts, Corfield QLD 4733, Australia See in map

See in imdb

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"If there is a God up there, he would have turned his back on us by now."

THE ROAD (2009) dir. John Hillcoat

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Special Ops: Lioness

Season 1, “Sacrificial Soldiers”

Director: John Hillcoat

DoP: Paul Cameron

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cackling at a line from one of my favorite neo-westerns – a cop tells an outlaw that he is in fact going to civilize this lawless hellscape, by god, and the outlaw just looks at him and goes "what the fuck are you talking about." and THAT my friends is how you boil down a western to its essence

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MASSIVE ATTACK | THE SPOILS [MV, 2016] LYRICS: HOPE SANDOVAL DIRECTOR: JOHN HILLCOAT STARRING: CATE BLANCHETT

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On June 26, 2010, The Road debuted in Japan.

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FERNANDO SOLANAS, EVAN ENGLISH & JOHN HILLCOAT, FERNANDO BIRRI, Toronto film festival 1988

We all talked about South America a lot in the 1980s, where decades of political tumult had produced no shortage of movies - like Sur, directed by Argentine filmmaker, writer, musician (and very soon, politician) Fernando Solanas, who presented the film at the 1988 Toronto film festival. Solanas co-wrote the manifesto "Toward a Third Cinema", which became very influential in filmmaking on the continent, and he had fled his country in 1976 for Paris after his life was threatened by the new military regime in Argentina.

Solanas came off very much as an elder statesman when I photographed him in one of the clean, well-lit rooms in the old Four Seasons hotel in Yorkville. He had palpable charisma (and great hair), and in hindsight it's easy to see how he would make a great impression when either running for office or presenting his films at Cannes, Venice or Berlin

Sur was a film about life after the military coup d'etat, but it wouldn't be the end of Solanas' troubles with his country's government; he was a critic of Argentina's president, Carlos Menem, and was shot six times in May of 1991, which propelled him to start a political career as a member of several different parties, and he even ran for president in the 2007 general election. Solanas died in 2020 in France during the COVID pandemic.

Writer/producer Evan English and director John Hillcoat arrived at the 1988 film festival with a "buzz" film - their grim prison drama Ghosts of the Civil Dead. It was partially based on the story of Jack Henry Abbott, the criminal who was paroled after a campaign led by writer Norman Mailer, only to murder a man six weeks after being released from prison. The script was co-written by singer Nick Cave, who also starred in the film and wrote the soundtrack, and Cave's participation accounted for a lot of the buzz around the picture.

English and Hillcoat presented themselves for interviews (and photo shoots) as a unified front, and my memory of them is a lot of laconic humour and dry sarcasm. Looking back I photographed them like musicians for a story that might have run in the NME or Melody Maker. The film seems to have been the high point of English' movie career, but Hillcoat (an Australian who spent much of his youth in Hamilton, Ontario) went on to direct movies such as The Road (2009) and Lawless (2012), as well as the HBO biopic miniseries George & Tammy (2022).

Vera historia de la primera fundación de Buenos Aires como también de varias navegaciones de muchas partes desconocidas, islas de reinos, también de muchos peligros, peleas y escaramuzas, tanto por tierra como por mar, que nunca han sido descriptos en otras historias o crónicas, extraídos del libro 'Viajes al río de La Plata', original del soldado alemán Ulrico Schmidl, miembro de la expedición capitaneada por don Pedro de Mendoza, quien publicó por primera vez estas memorias, bien anotadas para utilidad pública en la ciudad de Francfort el año 1567.

That's the full title of an early short film by Argentine director Fernando Birri, but it would usually be referred to as La primera fundación de Buenos Aires. Birri was at the 1988 Toronto film festival with his film A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings (Un señor muy viejo con unas alas enormes in Spanish), based on a short story by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Like many South American filmmakers he was a major ally of the Cuban regime and made two films about Che Guevara, and his first feature Los inundados (1961) won the award for best first film at the Venice Film Festival.

Birri had a playful public image and his films were full of comedy and "magic realism", but I have to admit that many of my photos of him were inspired by the cover of a recent book of photographs by Roman Vishniac, of life in the Jewish communities of the Baltic and Eastern Europe before the genocides of World War Two. One of these shots has ended up being used (uncredited) on academic websites and in obituaries for Birri after he died in 2017. I've noticed that Netflix is about to air a miniseries based on Garcia Marquez' One Hundred Years of Solitude; maybe we'll start talking about South America and "magic realism" again.

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On May 6, 2010, The Road debuted in Hungary.

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The scene from The Proposition (2005) that stayed with me the most.